Old school

[mhalachai]

I'm re-watching season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and all those things I didn't see when I was eight are really apparent now. Like, the Holodeck's sex-doll potential? Yeah. Ew.

Have some unrelated potentially meaningful XKCD

Comments

[joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com]

What I keep seeing about the holodeck is how few people use it for creative purposes. Play the MC in a pre-millenial classic, sure. Get brainwashed, fake-pregnant, and brainwashed by homicidal aliens into the WW2 French Resistance, yeah. Take art lessons from Da Vinci, okay. Try a sex change, try a species change, swim in a star (holodeck safeties ON to the MAX), leapfrog asteroids, hike the Marianas Trench or some alien equivalent, fly, swing a Buster Sword and perform some anime battle physics, play the MC in a non-Western/non-Terran/non-pre-millenial story, save the world from Darkness, go to Disneyworld, test environmental changes a/o terraforming on different planets, ride a talking horse on a rainbow... nah.

[shoebox-rhymes.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA!!! NOW we know why it had such a huge fanbase. has. whatever. lol. i was in junior high watching it, so it totally didn't occur to me either. ::grins::

[ccmom.livejournal.com]

Why do you think they had to "schedule" time in the holodeck? OMG I didn't go there. *laughs*

Loved the comic. Wish I had that scavenger hunt list.

[auradania.livejournal.com]

You *didn't* get that?
I mean, what do you think Deanna was doing with Barclay when she was in her holodeck goddess outfit? (ep: http://www.tv.com/Star+Trek%3A+The+Next+Generation/Hollow+Pursuits/episode/19055/summary.html) I always thought that the better question was, how did she as a therapist think that this was a remotely 'normal' thing that her patient was doing...?

[lanoger.livejournal.com]

DS9 went there fairly often because the holosuits were a private enterprise run by Quark. He was always suggesting someone try Vulcan Love Slave or somesuch.

Okay, I was going to go on about how the Enterprise-D was a serious Starfleet vessel (wessel?) and how Jean Luc ran a tight ship, but I got stuck on the phrasing and my mind broke.

Sorry.