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What would you use the holodeck for?
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Well I hate using the internet for online dating so I doubt I would use the holodeck for sex. I love history so would pretend to be a famous historical figure, say Surak and see what would happen if I encouraged the Vulcans to embrace the party life and give up fighting lol
Playing out sexual fantasies in an uncannily real virtual environment isn’t sex. It’s masturbation.
I do wonder how quickly one would tire of the unrealness of it all. If I had the chance I’d visit the Cavern in the 1960s and see the Beatles performing live, but it wouldn’t be a patch on the real thing. I could use it to swim with dolphins, but I couldn’t strike it from the bucket list.
Adventure games though. Where there’s an end point to the experience, that would be cool.
It would be a great education tool too. I’d take cookery classes in every cuisine imaginable. But is a replicated truffle as good as a real one?
I dunno. The holodeck would probably stifle us all by removing the reward from any experience, and distorting our perception of the real world enough to disengage from it.
I do wonder how quickly one would tire of the unrealness of it all. If I had the chance I’d visit the Cavern in the 1960s and see the Beatles performing live, but it wouldn’t be a patch on the real thing. I could use it to swim with dolphins, but I couldn’t strike it from the bucket list.
Adventure games though. Where there’s an end point to the experience, that would be cool.
It would be a great education tool too. I’d take cookery classes in every cuisine imaginable. But is a replicated truffle as good as a real one?
I dunno. The holodeck would probably stifle us all by removing the reward from any experience, and distorting our perception of the real world enough to disengage from it.
Build the bridge stations in a holodeck. Why stare at a flat view screen when you could be floating in space?
You could project an astrometrics-type environment all around. Or a three-dimensional tactical display*. And over on the left is a 3D holoimage of Admiral Nogura watching every move...
Docking in a starbase would be quite spectacular, too, with wraparound real-time imagery.
* not that our heroes think in 3D except once in TWOK and once in All Good Things...
You could project an astrometrics-type environment all around. Or a three-dimensional tactical display*. And over on the left is a 3D holoimage of Admiral Nogura watching every move...
Docking in a starbase would be quite spectacular, too, with wraparound real-time imagery.
* not that our heroes think in 3D except once in TWOK and once in All Good Things...
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RPGs and Sex RPGs.
Oh, and cooking classes! Can you imagine the freedom to learn how to cook and not have to worry about waste?
Oh, and cooking classes! Can you imagine the freedom to learn how to cook and not have to worry about waste?
Use it to watch other people having sex until you are ready to have sex again.
Never mind the waste. Any ingredients in any quantity, and no washing up!
I think the reality of the holodeck for specific recreations would be rather disappointing. One of my interests is industrial archeology, and I grew up surrounded by heavy industry. To be able to recreate those long lost mills and mines and factories would be amazing, but however lifelike the simulation. It would only be as accurate as the reference material, which is basically maps and incorrectly dated grainy black and white photos. The computer would have to extrapolate buildings and scenery from their footprint on the map.
I think I would try to recreate summers 2001-2006 on the holodeck as well as I can remember them, I think those were among the best times of my life. Why not some childhood memories too.
In 2001 I got a driver's licence and until 2006 healthy fun life.
Unfortunately MS (multiple sclerosis) has since made life not so much fun as it could be.....
In 2001 I got a driver's licence and until 2006 healthy fun life.
Unfortunately MS (multiple sclerosis) has since made life not so much fun as it could be.....
God help me if such a temptation ever presented itself.
Klingon whips and chains, Romulan orgies, mud baths with Green Orion slave girls, Edo love fests, Nude Vulcan tantra massages...
I'm clearly not starfleet material; only the best and the brightest, the crew of the Enterprise, could behave themselves on the Holodeck. Riker may have used the holodeck for sexual purposes after his encounter with Kamala but it was a moment of understandable weakness.
Klingon whips and chains, Romulan orgies, mud baths with Green Orion slave girls, Edo love fests, Nude Vulcan tantra massages...
I'm clearly not starfleet material; only the best and the brightest, the crew of the Enterprise, could behave themselves on the Holodeck. Riker may have used the holodeck for sexual purposes after his encounter with Kamala but it was a moment of understandable weakness.
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I'd use it for a variety of purposes, self-gratification being only one of them. Let's also remember on the sex topic- if you are in there getting shagadelic with a hologram, it's not having sex any more than beating off is having sex.
Now that we've covered the sordid, I'd ALSO use it as a bridge simulator to hone my skills as a Starfleet captain in training, an exercise machine (lots of unarmed combat scenarios, like Worf, where I could train to James Bond levels of lethality), a research tool, and a way to visit places in virtual that I want to see and have never been to, or had been to and wanted to revisit. I'd also use it for gaming, D&D style stuff, and fighting the BoB like O'Brien and Bashir.
Taken the to the next level, why wouldn't the homes of civilians BE holodecks? You could then live in whatever environment you wanted and change the scenery as desired. Wake up in the morning in the forest with the birds chripring around you, then change it to an 'ocean swim' for your morning exercise, followed by breakfast on Risa. Clock in to work virtually, and swap scenes again at knockoff time. Realistically speaking, people would hardly ever have to leave their homes for anything.
Now that we've covered the sordid, I'd ALSO use it as a bridge simulator to hone my skills as a Starfleet captain in training, an exercise machine (lots of unarmed combat scenarios, like Worf, where I could train to James Bond levels of lethality), a research tool, and a way to visit places in virtual that I want to see and have never been to, or had been to and wanted to revisit. I'd also use it for gaming, D&D style stuff, and fighting the BoB like O'Brien and Bashir.
Taken the to the next level, why wouldn't the homes of civilians BE holodecks? You could then live in whatever environment you wanted and change the scenery as desired. Wake up in the morning in the forest with the birds chripring around you, then change it to an 'ocean swim' for your morning exercise, followed by breakfast on Risa. Clock in to work virtually, and swap scenes again at knockoff time. Realistically speaking, people would hardly ever have to leave their homes for anything.
In the A Time to series Picard's therapy room was a holodeck
I'd use it to recreate Moonbase Alpha to hang out with Koenig, Paul, Victor, Sandra, Helena, etc.
And I'd hang out with the Robinsons on board the Jupiter 2. The original, that is.
And I'd hang out with the Robinsons on board the Jupiter 2. The original, that is.
Using the holodeck for sex is probably as embarrassing as having to buy a hooker in this day and age.
So I can't say I'd be into it for pure sexual fantasy past maybe being able to accurately recreate someone I know that I'm attracted to if location separates us, or possibly something akin to what Geordi experienced with the original Enterprise designer that one episode. In either case, I feel I'd still realize they are just substandard copies and wouldn't be able to fully invest. I'd know it was 'fake', if that makes sense. It wouldn't help if I was lonely.
What I'd actually use it for is probably adventure fantasies, which seems to be common among many users. Relive your favorite books, settings, and be an action hero without the real danger. I think everyone has a taste for that.
You could even use it for actual practice if you wanted to take up an art. Like, sword fighting; I'm sure you could spar with the best swordsman ever born or created and really learn it on the holodeck.
So, I guess a combination of recreational vicarious entertainment alongside actual educational use too, for me, at least solo.
Others have mentioned you could use it with friends or a partner, and in those cases, the possibilities are near endless.
So I can't say I'd be into it for pure sexual fantasy past maybe being able to accurately recreate someone I know that I'm attracted to if location separates us, or possibly something akin to what Geordi experienced with the original Enterprise designer that one episode. In either case, I feel I'd still realize they are just substandard copies and wouldn't be able to fully invest. I'd know it was 'fake', if that makes sense. It wouldn't help if I was lonely.
What I'd actually use it for is probably adventure fantasies, which seems to be common among many users. Relive your favorite books, settings, and be an action hero without the real danger. I think everyone has a taste for that.
You could even use it for actual practice if you wanted to take up an art. Like, sword fighting; I'm sure you could spar with the best swordsman ever born or created and really learn it on the holodeck.
So, I guess a combination of recreational vicarious entertainment alongside actual educational use too, for me, at least solo.
Others have mentioned you could use it with friends or a partner, and in those cases, the possibilities are near endless.
Set the holodeck to 1800s France and hang out with Charles Baudelaire
