Which begs the question, "What's next, I wonder?"
It's called "Walk, Don't Run" and presumably has this scene (from the compilation trailer) in it:
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VERY SHORT TREKS...
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It's called "Walk, Don't Run" and presumably has this scene (from the compilation trailer) in it:
very Short Treks by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Great VERY SHORT TREK! Loved it!
Almost every single series had someone on it... except PICARD, though you could count that in there since Riker and Troi were also in it.
Quark giving Garak the idea about faking the evidence to the Romulans? And half off root beer floats? Direct referencing to one of the greatest episodes in the franchise and one of the greatest scenes in DS9 at the same time? Genius!
This was funny and it was philosophical. Are we just a program playing? Merely a ship in a ship in a ship in bottle?
Just brilliant!
Almost every single series had someone on it... except PICARD, though you could count that in there since Riker and Troi were also in it.
Quark giving Garak the idea about faking the evidence to the Romulans? And half off root beer floats? Direct referencing to one of the greatest episodes in the franchise and one of the greatest scenes in DS9 at the same time? Genius!
This was funny and it was philosophical. Are we just a program playing? Merely a ship in a ship in a ship in bottle?
Just brilliant!
So Riker feels more relaxed after seeing Trip get blown to smithereens...
Trip dying on the holodeck is his kink now
He also watches holographic Charles Tucker I and II come to sticky ends as well.
To whom?
I know some old phrases in English but this one I did not know.
Same.Interesting phrase... but I've been an English teacher for 15+ years and I've never come across the expression before.
I thought those were both Christopher "MATH IS FUN!" Bidmead stories, but he did Frontios, not Planet of Fire.Or was such a massive fan of the Doctor Who stories "Castrovalva" and "Planet of Fire" for some reason, as "Recursive" and "Algorithm" sound rather charming together and the random attachment of disparate words is the sort of shipping I certainly don't mind.
Turtles all the way down: I'm surprised so many people DON'T know this. I'm used to being the one out of the loop.
But again: Star Trek being educational!
Best one a little too short.
Despite studying psychology and William James being one of those in the link this story had not come to my attention.
Fascinating example of assumptions of experiences.
Always leave your audience wanting more.
It could have continued with Moriarty laughing maniacally until he's deleted by Seven of Nine, who is nearly gunned down by Dixon Hill, who is spraying bullets at Borg when Kimolu and Matt shut it all down only to find themselves in the water container beamed down to the surface of Ocampa where Kazon are scrambling frantically to collect every drop gushing from the phaser holes put into it seconds before.
I've heard the phrase but did not connect it to the title of this episode.
I wanna say I liked this one the most so far. The whole idea of recursive Matryoshka style holodeck/holosuite programs was cute and it's nice that they got so many Trek actors to reprise their roles as voice actors (even though it was painfully obvious that for each “level” they only got one actor to say something, while the other character had to remain silent). It gets bonus points for Trip saying “it's been a long road” and including Prodigy characters. I guess this was produced before the show got kicked off of Paramount+?
Can someone riddle me the end, though? Why did they put these characters inside one large redshirt? And why specifically those characters? I don't get it.
Can someone riddle me the end, though? Why did they put these characters inside one large redshirt? And why specifically those characters? I don't get it.
Maybe to symbolize the many-headed hydra? You think you've ended the holoprogram, but then two more appear in its wake?
And maybe just to further accentuate the existential horror? Is Trip real? Or is he just part of the monster that is Tripolockrikhura? Is this what happened to him after he was put in that tank during "These Are the Voyages"? Is his mind trapped within every sapient computer from all the series? Is that how he is aware of Saru's state in the 32nd century? Is he part of Zora? Are all the very Short Treks events just vivid dreams of Trip's dislocated mind? Who is the computer talking to, if not itself?
It is a metaphor of a holodeck becoming self aware in the Trek universe and feeling abandonment issues with how people come and go all the time so it's keeping people around in a AI dream to the point where it basically traps the people from being able to leave at the end by merging them into a single being that can't move.
All I'm going to say to that is … I think you guys could write for this show. 
Not sure if that's a compliment or a condemnation! LOL
I'm not familiar with that phrase either.
It's probably one of those very obscure things that gets referenced in whatever niche thing I read it in often enough that I think it's just a normal thing to know.
Like, who DOESN'T know that the Enterprise is NCC-1701?
I had heard the phrase "turtles all the way down" before, but I don't see how that helps you predict that the episode was going to be about recursive holodeck programs featuring characters from most of the Star Trek shows.
