"Riddles" Tuvok and Neelix go to the Risa water park. Holodeck safeties if they can't swim?

[hxclespaulplayer]

Safeties usually only protect someone from something that would be fatal to anybody, like a bullet through the heart. I went to a water park on vacation and almost drowned because the ride info didn't say anything about having to swim, so how would the holodeck determine it?

 

[Tosk]

Biosigns.

 

[φ of π]

Perhaps the holodeck will do something to the density of the water to make whoever is in it super-buoyant so they can't drown?

Or maybe the holodecks use oxygenated perflurocarbon instead of water, so even if it does go in your lung(s) you can still breathe?

 

[Sophie74656]

Well one, if you're going to a WATER park you should probably know how to swim. And two, if you're starting to drown your bio signs will reflect that and the safeties will activate...I assume.

 

[Jedman67]

I don't think Neelix is safe anywhere with Tuvok

 

[Sophie74656]

I don't think Neelix is safe anywhere with Tuvok

I think they had a great relationship, like Odo and Quark. They bickered and disagreed but underneath they cared for each other.

 

[MacLeod]

I likely wouldn't go to a water park if I couldn't swim. Persoannel responsibility has to come in at some point.

Though perhaps the computer would know from your record that you couldn't swim and would act accordingly.

 

[Kor]

I'm having some difficulty comprehending how it's possible to go to a water park and expect not to swim, unless one were to just sit on the sidelines the whole time and watch everybody else go on the water attractions.

But maybe the holodeck is sophisticated enough to detect when somebody is in a dangerous situation that they can't get out of, and beam them to safety or something.

Kor

 

[Sophie74656]

I would assume that the safety protocals have some kind of sensor for your lifesigns. My guess is if your heart rate goes crazy or something the protocals will freeze the program or something. I would also assume a program that has water in it has specific programming for what to do if someone seems like they are drowning.

 

[urbandefault]

If Tuvix went to a water park, Janeway would drown him.

 

[Prax]

Perhaps the holodeck will do something to the density of the water to make whoever is in it super-buoyant so they can't drown?

Or maybe the holodecks use oxygenated perflurocarbon instead of water, so even if it does go in your lung(s) you can still breathe?

Is that the stuff they used in The Abyss?

 

[φ of π]

I think it was something like that. It is a real thing - that was actually live rat breathing the fluid, not CGI or animatronics.

 

[Nebusj]

By the time someone starts to drown, a holodeck malfunction will activate a transporter site-to-site beam-out that fuses them with a holo-goldfish, turning the victim into a mer-creature able to live in the sea, or to emerge from the holo-water for periods of up to twelve hours if refreshed by an isogravitic hydroxyl beam.

 

[φ of π]

So Flotter was the result of a transporter accident?

 

[Prax]

Speaking of fish and holograms, I believe Captain Picard's fish was a hologram. Basically a wall ornament.

 

[The_Baroness]

So Flotter was the result of a transporter accident?

Flotter was the result of a writing accident....