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- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -1/+33The holodeck was poorly engineered. Firstly, there should be no way to enable making the simulation deadly. Second it should not be tied to the ship's computer so all of those rouge programs couldn't take over everything. There should be a kill switch, and somebody monitoring the session the whole time. They can communicate across the galaxy, get something that can go through a wall so you can ask for help if things go bad. There should also be a policy in place that forbids all of the senior officers from entering at the same time. People criticize Kirk for sending all of his senior officers into deadly situations, but that has nothing on the regular use of the enigma in a death box that is the holodeck.
- badqat, on 06/02/2009, -1/+31The list is missing the finale of ST: Enterprise...what a piece of crap that was.
- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -1/+27A Fistful Of Datas was ***** great you can never have too much Brent Spiner on screen!
- Bobboq, on 06/03/2009, -1/+22REAL HOLOGRAPHIC SIMULATED EVIL LINCOLN IS BACK!!!!!!
- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -4/+22But "A Fistful of Datas" had the most Data per minute of any star trek episode - how can you go wrong with that?
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...................................,<`.._|_,-&``................`\ - Haoie, on 06/03/2009, -1/+15Safety doesn't make for fun viewing.
- palehorse864, on 06/03/2009, -0/+13I loved all the Dixon Hill holodeck episodes, especially when they brought the Dixon Hill simulation back as a convenient escape in First Contact.
- Bloodwine, on 06/03/2009, -0/+13I liked ST:Enterprise, but the finale was lame because it felt more like a ST:TNG episode than ST:Enterprise.
The time-travel season-2 stuff got a little dragged-on and goofy (Star Trek as a whole does a bit too much time travel crap IMO), but overall I liked ST:Enterprise's rough feel and the lower tech of the ship. It was a series of first discoveries and trying to work the kinks out. - gerrylazlo, on 06/03/2009, -0/+12Plus there's no way it wouldn't be running porn fantasies 24/7. In fact no one would ever see the enterprise or it's crew again once it left dock.
- TheUberGamer, on 06/03/2009, -0/+11Didn't "A Fistful of Datas" win an Emmy? I was a sucker for all the holodeck gone awry episodes, ridiculous though they may be.
- palehorse864, on 06/03/2009, -0/+10Did Quark's holosuites ever malfunctioning? I imagine that little Ferengi kept his in tip top shape for fear that a major accident would cut into his profits. I think there were a few sprained wrists, but nothing like the safety protocols coming offline.
- appleofdischord, on 06/03/2009, -4/+13We don't talk about that show.
- jull1234, on 06/03/2009, -0/+9from DS9 season 4 episode "Way of the Warrior"...
Worf: We were like warriors from the ancient sagas. There was nothing we could not do...
O'Brien: Except keep the holodecks working right. - LoadStar, on 06/03/2009, -0/+8Except that wasn't on the Holodeck - that was a world that Q conjured up and sent them to.
- DarthVolta, on 06/03/2009, -0/+6well yeah.. why do you think they always report in as 'red six standing by' and the like?
- jeremymccurdy, on 06/03/2009, -0/+6There were two episodes that were based around Holmes characters, and only one of those had Data as Holmes. Most of the focus was of Moriarty anyway.
- DarkBlueAnt, on 06/03/2009, -5/+11When I first started watching TNG, every episode I saw was about Data as Sherlock Holmes. I was saying, "Why even bother making a show about space if you want to make a show about Sherlock Holmes?"
- carniv0re, on 06/03/2009, -2/+8Given the issues with holodeck issues arising out of emergencies on the ship, wouldn't somebody say it's a bad idea to have them at all? Where's the safety administration that would prevent Holodecks from working unless some kind of really powerful backup systems were developed?
/nerd - Kidddrunkadelic, on 06/03/2009, -0/+6They need to go easy on the replicator use, but the holodecks could run 24/7
- BuckeyeGreg, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5I totally disagree with the SG-1 episode. Like one guy said on the actual sites comments, SG-1 may have been cliche laden in its first few seasons but The Gamekeeper was an entertaining episode.
- Chinzon, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5He couldn't be arsed that day so he made holographic clothes. Solved.
- Pilot85, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5yeah, you'd think they would reconsider holodecks on their ships, after the billionth time it malfunctioned and nearly killed someone.
- TrevorBradley, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5ST:TNG did have one golden moment on the holodeck:
Worf: "Captain, I most protest! I am not a Merry Man!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ICpoWtFFzc
(blissfully short to avoid any other holodeck horribleness) - OLTP, on 06/03/2009, -0/+4No one else remembers VR5?
- bdejong11129, on 06/03/2009, -0/+4I must agree that at least ST Enterprise didn't have half a series based on Holodeck episode like Voyager did.
Remember the Herogen taking over the ship and turning it into a huge war zone that blew apart whole sections of the ship? I think Voyager takes the cake for the sheer number of holodeck mentions in each episode. - wampalord, on 06/03/2009, -0/+4The higher, the fewer
- Bic823, on 06/03/2009, -2/+6There are a lot of google searches for "rouge squadron", did you know that?
- IHaveIssues, on 06/03/2009, -1/+5*rogue*
- Alli3388, on 06/03/2009, -2/+6I don't like any article that criticizes Star Trek TNG. ALL of its episodes are awesome!
- Bloodwine, on 06/04/2009, -0/+4It was more like a ST:TNG episode where Riker had to make a decision, and to help him make up his mind, he'd go into the holodeck and walk around the holographic Enterprise from ST:Enterprise.
In other words, the ST:Enterprise finale was a ST:TNG holodeck episode. - romeyinfc, on 06/03/2009, -0/+3How about all of those stupid Captain Proton & "Fair Haven" or whatever the hell that place was called in Voyager. Those were hours of my life I won't get back
- wolfkeeper, on 06/03/2009, -1/+4It's always portrayed so inaccurately too.
When switched off the walls are always this grey colour, but, given the most likely real use for the room, in real life, after only a few hours the walls would be more like a Jackson Pollock painting; only with white 'paint'. :-P - Chinzon, on 06/03/2009, -0/+3I dunno, "Ship in a Bottle" is quite clever.
- guttersniper, on 06/03/2009, -0/+3What about that one episode of X-Files where Mulder and Scully get sucked into that giant underground fungus that made them hallucinate that they were free?
- marmotjmarmot, on 06/03/2009, -0/+3"Counsellor, I would appreciate some support in this matter!"
"Durango! I'm called Durango!"
"Yes, err... Counsellor Durango, [...]" - inactive, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2SHUT UP THAT WAS A GOOD EPISODE
- stuwanker, on 06/03/2009, -1/+3The Prisoner beat TNG to the lame cowboy virtual reality plot by a couple of decades.
- Suricou, on 06/04/2009, -0/+2Bread and circuses.
Replicators and holodecks. - jeremymccurdy, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2A Fistful Of Datas was ***** awesome. Most of TNG's holodeck episodes were great, they gave us a change of scenery while going in new directions with the characters.
- Chinzon, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2Spare me your space-age technobabble, Atilla the Hun!
- netneutrality, on 06/03/2009, -1/+3Did you ever notice in that episode near the beginning, when Riker switched off and left the holodeck, it changed his uniform back? That ruined the science of it straight away. The Enterprise D holodecks had never previously been shown to be able to change people's clothes. Even in Generations (the one where the ship was finally destroyed) after everyone was forced to leave the holodeck in a hurry they turned up on the bridge still wearing full 19th century navy uniforms.
- Philbert, on 06/03/2009, -2/+4Shouldn't feeling like TNG be an improvement as opposed to lame?
- marmotjmarmot, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2Worst job in the Federation had to be cleaning up the holodeck after Riker had used it.
- yaosio, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2Somebody should tell the idiot that wrote this horrid article that The Gamekeeper was shown in July 1998 while The Matrix was released in March 1999.
- Bobboq, on 06/04/2009, -0/+1My dad got me into ST Enterprise. I was born 85 so i was pretty young for most of it, and that episode was the ***** for me back then. So you are dugg my friend.
- DWatch, on 06/06/2009, -0/+1Stargate Atlantis pulled this crap a while back as well. I can't recall the episode name or even the exact season (I think it was 3rd or 4th), but the episode goes something like this: The control room in Atlantis gets a distress call from an Ancient war ship stranded light years away, abandoned back during the war with the Wraith, eons ago. When the Atlantis team arrives, it finds the ship derelict and drifting. Upon further inspection, there are hundreds of life pods, all filled with members of the crew, in suspended animation, whom all seemed to have survived, but just barely; they are now all too old to be revived, because you apparently age slowly when in suspended animation. But wait, there is a twist, apparently, the pods communicate with each other, in some sort of virtual world, because if they didn't the inhabitants of the pods would get real bored after eons in suspended animation. So, one of the team volunteers to go into the VR world via an empty life pod. Aaaaaaannnnnddd here is where ***** goes downhill.
So, let say you are a fancy, super advanced race, able to build stargate networks across at least two galaxies (that we know of), are able to build incredibly powerfull ships and weapons, some of you can even ascend to the next plane of existence upon death, you can invent ***** like replicators and nanites, virtual worlds (apparently) and you can build cities that fly. Let me emphasize that point: ---- cities that ***** _fly_ (thats right, entire cities), and can fly to other galaxies, no less. So, what wonders of virtual reality awaits the lowly member of the Atlantis team when he enters the VR world?? An exact, down to the last bolt, replica of the very ***** SHIP THEY ARE TRAPPED ON.
Yea. Ok.
And apparently, they have all long forgotten its all a simulation, and are flying this fake ass ship around the galaxy all this time? There are so many lazy plot holes in this episode I had a hard time not laughing at some of them. For instance... why would the Ancients build a ship that had a VR world, were they expecting to spend thousands of years drifting in space? No other episode where an Ancient life pod is uses mentions that the inhabitants were conscience or aware while they are waiting in suspended animation for perhaps years, maybe centuries or eons. What kind of sick torture would that be? And if they took the time to develop the VR world 'just in case' they got stranded.... is a simulation of the ship they would be trapped on really the best they could think of to keep them occupied? Really?
Really?? - Suricou, on 06/04/2009, -0/+1Never mind the holodeck, I want to see more of the veronda bird.
- daone, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1Its been a long time since I've seen Nowhere Man. But I remember that episode being a good example of angorphobia run amok. Its was kind of a for-warning of the future World of Warcraft players and those who live in the virtual world more than the real world.
- Chinzon, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1And it was terrible.
- Hellahulla, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1Did that always break down?
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