Voyager Tech appropriated for use in TNG?

[KaineMorrison]

I just finished watching Elementary, Dear Data.

I have limited knowledge of the Tech in Voyager, but I seem to recall that the doctor had a device that let him walk around the ship without losing his Holographic Integrity.

Could that same device be used on a Holodeck creation?
Specifically, Dr. Moriarty?

Also, how was Data able to remove the sheet of paper that Dr. Moriarty drew the Enterprise on from the Holodeck? Shouldn't it have disappeared like the 2 Gangsters from Season 1?

 

[Count]

The Doctor's holo emitter works on any hologram, as seen thru voyager in several episodes.

The reason the paper stayed is because unlike Voyager which threw canon and the technical concepts in TNG out the window, originally the holodecks use replicators to manufacture a good lot of the stuff viewed in a holodeck then used holograms to simulate the rest. So the paper taken out of the holodeck (and food originally eaten in the holodeck) was replicated rather than photonic.

 

[Ithekro]

The trouble with the Doctor's holo emitter is that it is 29th century technology (or at least more advanced that 24th century tech when Voyager encounter it....in the 20th century....) Once they get it back to Earth, Starfleet is going to have to get it from the Doctor, and then try to figure out how it works...then duplicate it. All while still dealing with issues of holographic rights for the Doctor and such stuff.

Do we even know if Dr. Moriarty's little pocket holocube thing survived the destruction of the Enterprise-D? Or if it was turned over to Starfleet at some point even?

 

[F. King Daniel]

I just finished watching Elementary, Dear Data.

I have limited knowledge of the Tech in Voyager, but I seem to recall that the doctor had a device that let him walk around the ship without losing his Holographic Integrity.

Could that same device be used on a Holodeck creation?
Specifically, Dr. Moriarty?

It could, but that device was from 500 years into the future and they couldn't duplicate it.

Also, how was Data able to remove the sheet of paper that Dr. Moriarty drew the Enterprise on from the Holodeck? Shouldn't it have disappeared like the 2 Gangsters from Season 1?

That's a well known mistake they made. Technical manuals later tried to cover for it by saying some items were replicated and not holographic.

There's also no explanation why holographic characters could leave the holodeck and only begin to disintegrate after about a minute in "The Big Goodbye" but then later it was changed so that anything crossing the door threshold instantly vanished - as seen with the book in "Elementary, Dear Data" (really, if the tech manual explanation that all small items were replicated held any weight at all, the book wouldn't have vanished either)

 

[LMFAOschwarz]

In Encounter at Farpoint, it was pretty much said that the plants on the holodeck were 'real', which is to say replicated. I see no reason why the paper could not have been, too.

 

[MacLeod]

Just as the water Wes fell into in "Encounter at Farpoint" was real.

 

[The Wormhole]

As I recall, the fact Data could take the paper out of the holodeck was originally meant to be a plot point, but somewhere along the way that got lost and in the final product it's just some mystery that simply gets shoved in the drawer of errors.

Do we even know if Dr. Moriarty's little pocket holocube thing survived the destruction of the Enterprise-D? Or if it was turned over to Starfleet at some point even?

The recently published novel The Light Fantastic by Jeffrey Lang answers this very question.

 

[T'Girl]

Once they get it back to Earth, Starfleet is going to have to get it from the Doctor

Even if you accept the concept of "holo rights," it would be difficult to see the Doctor having any legal claim on the mobile emitter as property.

It would be like him claiming the holo-emitters built into sickbay.

 

[KaineMorrison]

The Doctor's holo emitter works on any hologram, as seen thru voyager in several episodes.

The reason the paper stayed is because unlike Voyager which threw canon and the technical concepts in TNG out the window, originally the holodecks use replicators to manufacture a good lot of the stuff viewed in a holodeck then used holograms to simulate the rest. So the paper taken out of the holodeck (and food originally eaten in the holodeck) was replicated rather than photonic.

Wow, Ok, I never knew that.
LOL... Would thay be able to remove a Building's Door from the Holodeck?

 

[KaineMorrison]

Just as the water Wes fell into in "Encounter at Farpoint" was real.

Ok, thanks. I forgot to include this one in my Original Post.
And the Snowball that was thrown a Picard...