u know its THRILLER!!

[RobertScorpio]

Of all the things that look like a thrill to do in the trek universe, which one would you like to do the most? Go through the wormhole? be "transported"? experience a ship going into warp? Having sex with an orion slave girl?? what would be your greatest thrill that you could ONLY experience in the STAR TREK future???

Rob

 

[Myasishchev]

Holodeck. Everyone is going to say holodeck, and if they don't, it's because they haven't thought it through.

Or a mind-meld. That would be trippy.

 

[miraclefan]

Michael Jackson's in the 24th Century?

 

[RobertScorpio]

Michael Jackson's in the 24th Century?

I always get complaints that my titles don't make sense..well...I can't think of any more famous use of the world thriller than that song...and lets be honest, we all loved the video when we were younger and he was still a black guy...

Rob

 

[Sovereign_One]

The title made me wonder if there was a You Tube video with Trek fans in costume doing the Thriller dance.

 

[Kaziarl]

Michael Jackson's in the 24th Century?

I always get complaints that my titles don't make sense..well...I can't think of any more famous use of the world thriller than that song...and lets be honest, we all loved the video when we were younger and he was still a black guy...

Rob

America, the only place a young black man can grow up to be an old white woman... God bless the U.S.A.

 

[miraclefan]

Michael Jackson's in the 24th Century?

I always get complaints that my titles don't make sense..well...I can't think of any more famous use of the world thriller than that song...and lets be honest, we all loved the video when we were younger and he was still a black guy...

Rob

He,he, you said ''famous use of the world'' when you should have said WORD. You silly billy!

 

[miraclefan]

America, the only place a young black man can grow up to be an old white woman... God bless the U.S.A.

Ain't that the TRUTH!

 

[JiNX-01]

Horizontal dirty dancing with Trip Tucker.

 

[NCC74894A]

Michael Jackson's in the 24th Century?

If he were, I don't even want to think about what kinds of holodeck programs he'd create...

 

[Myasishchev]

Michael Jackson's in the 24th Century?

If he were, I don't even want to think about what kinds of holodeck programs he'd create...

I think that'd have been a good, if totally infeasible, idea for an episode. Explore the real life limits, or lack thereof, on our freedoms of expression.

 

[miraclefan]

Michael Jackson's in the 24th Century?

If he were, I don't even want to think about what kinds of holodeck programs he'd create...

I think that'd have been a good, if totally infeasible, idea for an episode. Explore the real life limits, or lack thereof, on our freedoms of expression.

THAT would have been a great episode! unfortunatly I doubt it could have been done at the time! Maybe in a future series?

 

[Myasishchev]

^Who knows if we'll ever see a new series set in original continuity, or even set in the redux's universe's 24th century? I for one kind of doubt it.

I mean, I actually have a few substantive ideas, but I doubt I'll get around to fleshing them out for quite some time since they take place around the dozenth installment of the fic I'm working on and I haven't finished the first yet.

(It's definitely not a high concept you'd hang your pilot on.)

 

[Michael]

Michael Jackson's in the 24th Century?

If he were, I don't even want to think about what kinds of holodeck programs he'd create...

I think that'd have been a good, if totally infeasible, idea for an episode. Explore the real life limits, or lack thereof, on our freedoms of expression.

Well, I'd say they somewhat tackled the issue in TNG's Hollow Pursuits and DS9's Meridian. But I don't want to give these episodes too much credit; they barely scratched the surface of all the implications of the holodeck technology.

 

[Myasishchev]

Those were more along the lines of unauthorized use of likeness, a type of invasion of privacy tort. I thought they showed a rather un-evolved sensibility in our 24th century heroes. Who cares what someone does with your face, particularly when it's not publicized? Shall we police the mind of Barclay as well as his holofantasies? If so, do we at least get to wear galoshes?

My concern is more about the other edge of the Federation's penal system, which seems to be based on mental rehabilitation. On one side, it seems far more civilized. On the other, the classification of crime as mental illness may have the converse effect--and turn mental illness effectively into crime, "punishing" by cure behavior that causes no ascertainable harm.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Michael Jackson's in the 24th Century?

Yup, and we all laughed at that hyperbaric chamber he slept in.

 

[NCC74894A]

If he were, I don't even want to think about what kinds of holodeck programs he'd create...

I think that'd have been a good, if totally infeasible, idea for an episode. Explore the real life limits, or lack thereof, on our freedoms of expression.

Well, I'd say they somewhat tackled the issue in TNG's Hollow Pursuits and DS9's Meridian. But I don't want to give these episodes too much credit; they barely scratched the surface of all the implications of the holodeck technology.

Those were more along the lines of unauthorized use of likeness, a type of invasion of privacy tort. I thought they showed a rather un-evolved sensibility in our 24th century heroes. Who cares what someone does with your face, particularly when it's not publicized? Shall we police the mind of Barclay as well as his holofantasies? If so, do we at least get to wear galoshes?

I think what NCC-1701 had in mind by "barely scratched the surface of all the implications of the holodeck technology" was other stuff entirely, like "Wouldn't real-life society break down pretty quickly for any number of reasons, not the least of which being lack of real-life procreation, if people could just live out all their dreams, sex fantasies etc. on the holodeck instead of having to make a go of it in the real universe?" Then again, such themes were already explored way back in "The Cage" (where the Talosians' illusory abilities, albeit telepathic rather than holographic in nature, were blamed for the decline of their civilization).

 

[Myasishchev]

You registry numbers all stick together.

But, yeah, I can agree with that statement. I know I wouldn't leave my room if it were holocapable. I barely leave and all I have is this crappy non-holographic Internet.

 

[Michael]

You registry numbers all stick together.

I don't accept registry numbers without the hyphen. (Just kidding, of course.)

But seriously, Myasishchev understood correctly. I was talking about the (supposed) illegal reproduction of likenesses on the holodeck and how in the universe of Star Trek this isn't really dealt with at all (it's more or less played for laughs, which I find very unbelievable). But NCC74894A makes some good points, too. If the holodeck was real I don't think it would be anything like what we see in Star Trek. I think the bottom line is that the notion of the holodeck isn't really thought out well enough. I mean, Barclay's and Quark's programs were rather harmless, but imagine what a really sick mind would use the holodeck for. I don't think playing Sherlock Holmes and visiting Fair Haven would be the first things people would use the holodeck for.

 

[ambessalion]

an adult rated holodeck :-D heaven