Why not have holographic armies?
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Or reprogram them. IIRC that happened to Voyager's EMH on more than one occasion.
And now they want rights and stuff! 
Energy expenditure? EMP-based weaponry...
Isn't this issue covered in Voyager's Flesh and Blood two-parter?
I'd also add that if you're gonna start using holograms as fighting units, they needn't be "people".
In fact, if using a holographic construct as a weapon, why WOULD you want a humanoid form?
The fighting unit can be programmed as anything imaginable. Why program a holographic soldier when you can have a multi-armed, any size, giant robot phaser machine, whatever.
No need to anthropomorphise at all.
In fact, if using a holographic construct as a weapon, why WOULD you want a humanoid form?
The fighting unit can be programmed as anything imaginable. Why program a holographic soldier when you can have a multi-armed, any size, giant robot phaser machine, whatever.
No need to anthropomorphise at all.
^ Power requirements to keep up a hologram like that, would probably be too great.
Since we have no idea what the power requirements would be.
I would rather have 1 "phaser monster" hologram over 2 humanoid holograms.
Yevetha
Commodore
If the technologicaly stagnant Hirogen could make they dont have to be that huge.
I agree with this.
Are there size limitations when it comes to holographic stuff?
Ist that like the race between cloacking and sensory technology?
how wuold you deploy them outside of a holodeck? mobile emitters? that wouldn't work since even B'Ellanna couldn't replicate its technology.
besides, like people said, EMPs or some other dampening field would render them useless.
besides, like people said, EMPs or some other dampening field would render them useless.
The humanoid form is far more versatile.
Once they've learned what you've been doing with the holographic emitters, they would be practically useless. Anybody could probably come up with a counter tactic. It's one of those things that seems good at first, but once you've figured out the weaknesses, it's just not a very good weapon.
How is a static humanoid form more versatile than a programmable "anything you can need or imagine" shapeshifting hologram?
It will then just boil down to holgrams fighting holograms, machines fighting machines, just numbers being crunched in a CPU. Then both sides realise that it's just a waste of energy, and destructive to the territory that you want to posess. And since it is just software versus software, it's all eminently predictable.
You'd eliminate the physical elements and just game it out in the computer, although to keep it real, to keep score, you'd still levy a toll on the population. Create a couple of thousand suicide booths for each side, and since everyone is so logical about it, get the losers to report for disintegration.
Then after a hundred or so years, some asshat in a goldshirt shows up, talks your computer into killing itself, and you're back at square one.
You'd eliminate the physical elements and just game it out in the computer, although to keep it real, to keep score, you'd still levy a toll on the population. Create a couple of thousand suicide booths for each side, and since everyone is so logical about it, get the losers to report for disintegration.
Then after a hundred or so years, some asshat in a goldshirt shows up, talks your computer into killing itself, and you're back at square one.
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