None. The name is just about location. Ships have decks, so things tend to be X-deck.
Difference between Holodeck and Holosuite
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Then why are there two names?
Why do we call automobiles "cars"? Is it a creek or a stream? Ships have all sorts of special nomenclature: deck, hatch. porthole, ect. Holodeck is a ship thing like Sickbay.
People have already said why, but you keep asking for operational differences as though there has to be any. The suites are just that, a number of rooms that go together.
Why are there decks on a starship but levels on DS9? Why do starships have jefferies tubes, but DS9 has conduits?
IIRC, in ST:FC when Picard is going into the Dixon Hill program, he enters a largeish area called a Holosuite which is subdivided into several rooms each of which is called a Holodeck.
Or maybe it's the other way around.
Or maybe it's the other way around.
Well, there do have to be operational differences between the two or else it makes no sense to have two names.
Not really. As I said many things have two names. A holodeck is what it's called on a ship.
Do you prefer Ping Pong or Table Tennis?
Table Tennis. It is the operational name (it describes what the object does). Table Tennis is Tennis played above a table. Ping Pong says nothing about what TT is about?
So what is the operational name of the holodeck/holosuite?
Sure it does. People are willing to may more for things where the name sounds better. That's basic marketing.
If you went to a ball game, and a guy was walking around yelling "Got yer ground pig intestines here! Five dollars! Come and get em!" Nobody would buy it. Call it a hot dog, it's an American tradition.
Why does this bother you when it comes to holosuites?
Why does this bother you when it comes to holosuites?
Why? Because it is an inconsistency that makes no sense and pulls down my enjoyment of Star Trek (of what of it had Holodecks/Holosuites).
Both bother me. Tell, me why do we Americans (to those who understand American culture) have that tradition
In North Korea, they have the operational name of hamburgers (Double Bread With Meat).
Relax. Fortunately this is the only inconsistency in Star Trek.
It's not an inconsistency. The two are different in some way, they have different names. You'll just have to learn to live with it. Or don't, whatever.
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