Why don't they have locker rooms in the holodecks?

[jaime]

He's doing a multistage beaming anyway - Ilia is sort of sliding in, with the temperature changing and all. That the product isn't finished until it is... Well, it makes sense. We need some excuse for giving Kirk enough time to reach the scene before Ilia steps out, after all.



If you are leaving your cabin, you might want to remotely shut down certain shower functions you forgot to turn off. Say, it would be handy to have an off switch for your oven right at the front door, and some people actually have that nowadays (although it will obviously be in their mobile phones from now on). And if you are coming from the grocer's to prepare a dinner, you might wish to have an on switch for the oven at the front door, too.

However, how could a control for beaming clothes be useful three meters away from said shower? Do you walk naked to the front door, press the button, and then run like hell, hoping to catch the clothing when it materializes in the shower booth?

Timo Saloniemi

Rewatched the scene. It's definitely Kirk. He uses a panel by the bed to open the shower door (you can see the ilia probe literally washing herself in the shower through the semi opaque door as they enter her quarters...perhaps a memory of what she does when she wakes up) and has a chat, then he presses a button to close the door, and then to make the robe appear, which we see through the door as it appears. There we have it gentlemen, an item of clothing replicated straight onto a crewmember, or beamed on in place.

All of which, ironically, helps the transformations of the Enterprise D in Masks, nearly a century later, almost make sense.

No idea why a sonic shower makes Ilia wet though.