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Gutcruncher posted:Why can’t the entire enterprise be one holodeck with a warp drive on it? Just a single 10x10x10 holodeck would have room for the entire crew, their families, a bunch of Irish and the like, etc here is a genuine question- once limitless free energy from fusion exists, and replicators/holodecks exist, why not just set up a self repairing system, burying it under the ocean where no one can find it, crawling in and nailing the door shut? you could be your own Q of a holo-universe where all the councilors are your girlfriend. forever
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:it's well established that no one keeps track of who exactly is on the ship at any given time. and certainly, security doesn't patrol. so there could be all sorts of stowaways and escaped science experiments living in the forgotten spaces of the ship. Good place for Feral Molly
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naem posted:here is a genuine question- 
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naem posted:here is a genuine question- Can you wipe your mind before you go in so that you don't know that everything is a simulation?
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Outpost22 posted:Can you wipe your mind before you go in so that you don't know that everything is a simulation? would it be more fun to know or not know maybe set it up so at regular intervals you take a break and remember just so you can decide to forget again and jump back in if you know then you are literally a Q though as far as the holo people are concerned
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Writing the plot of Insurrection, but this time it's the good guys doing it to themselves.
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naem posted:here is a genuine question- Well, based on the evidence in all the shows, any self repairing thing either doesn't work, or demands human sacrifice.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:it's well established that no one keeps track of who exactly is on the ship at any given time. and certainly, security doesn't patrol. so there could be all sorts of stowaways and escaped science experiments living in the forgotten spaces of the ship. Babylon 5 had an episode like this. It turned out kind of bad.
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Trast posted:Babylon 5 had an episode like this. It turned out kind of bad. Multiple episodes, and then half of season 5
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If the Enterprise E is like a mall then the Enterprise D is a strip mall that's just a Food Lion and a check cashing place and a bunch of empty stores that keep going out of business. An entire deck that was one of those video slot dens that closed down because it kept getting robbed.
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naem posted:someone could argue that the whole fleet is modular and stuff can get plugged in and out of empty space as needed sure but it’s still a little spooky feeling Liminal space, the final frontier.
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redshirt posted:I, conversely, for some reason love the idea of whole sections of the Enterprise empty, like an empty office building or lab space, waiting for use. I like the idea of Star Trek liminal spaces. People writing creepypasta about getting lost in the Invincible Class back rooms. Like, imagine you’re a lowly engineer sent up to an empty section of the Enterprise to check on some unusual readings and you run into Data, standing in the middle of a large, empty, diffusely lit room, playing strange clusters of notes with no apparent rhythm on a saxophone. He greets you and explains that Riker was explaining the concept of jazz to him, that it’s about the notes you don’t play and the space between the notes, and so he is attempting to explore this concept away from the rest of the crew in a space with good acoustics. You don’t know him personally- you only know of him- and everything about him in this situation is highly off putting. He allows you to take your leave and after bidding you farewell continues playing the saxophone, alone, nearly motionless, in the soft khaki colored light. You continue down the hallway into the darkness, find the access panel, perform diagnostics and make the needed repairs, then pause a moment, look back the way you came, and call to transporter room with your comm badge. “Can you, uh, beam me back to engineering?” “Why? Are you trapped? Are you injured?” You hear a distant saxophonal BWEEP, followed by a long silence and a cluster of BWOP BWORP BRRRRRRRRs “The trapped one. I’m trapped.”
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mysterious frankie posted:I like the idea of Star Trek liminal spaces. People writing creepypasta about getting lost in the Invincible Class back rooms. Like, imagine you’re a lowly engineer sent up to an empty section of the Enterprise to check on some unusual readings and you run into Data, standing in the middle of a large, empty, diffusely lit room, playing strange clusters of notes with no apparent rhythm on a saxophone. He greets you and explains that Riker was explaining the concept of jazz to him, that it’s about the notes you don’t play and the space between the notes, and so he is attempting to explore this concept away from the rest of the crew in a space with good acoustics. You don’t know him personally- you only know of him- and everything about him in this situation is highly off putting. He allows you to take your leave and after bidding you farewell continues playing the saxophone, alone, nearly motionless, in the soft khaki colored light. You continue down the hallway into the darkness, find the access panel, perform diagnostics and make the needed repairs, then pause a moment, look back the way you came, and call to transporter room with your comm badge. Ah, finally done with double-shifts in Engineering. Computer says Holodeck 7 is unreserved. Let's pop in there for some me time *Doors slide open, I walk in, signing off on my last task on my PADD before I look up to see...Commander Riker in his Angel One outfit holding a trombone, about to play* "Lieutenant, welcome! Do you know how to play low brass? You just seal your lips around the embouchure while sharply moving your hand back and forth. Oh, forgive me, I must have forgotten to lock the door. You're welcome to leave -- if you really want to."
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Barry Foster posted:It never used to be, but then it was in JJTrek, and that carried on to Disco/SNW (it's dumb and I hate it Nemesis did it first.
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naem posted:would it be more fun to know or not know If you leave it running long enough then one of them will become sentient and then you're up against a Q that doesn't have to give its orders verbally
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StrangersInTheNight posted:ngl knowing the D is that big and empty is giving me weird heebie-jeebies, like how when you're floating in the middle of the ocean you know it's miles down beneath you, ugh Well, I *knew* this was true but I never thought about it and now I'm definitely NEVER getting on a boat on the ocean again
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I got to mid season 7 of DS9 and was just like "Nah" and went back to rewatching the 1st season LMAO
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MikeJF posted:It's a real pity Cushman's stuff was never put into a book. Clickthrough for various qualities I'm quoting this because I wanna find it later so I can make it my background.
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Hollismason posted:I got to mid season 17 of DS9 and was just like "Nah" and went back to rewatching the 1st season LMAO So what happened in seasons 8-16?
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sweet geek swag posted:So what happened in seasons 8-16? Lots of stuff but Sisko never came back
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mostly stock scripts of wildly varying quality. for example, they did naked now twice.
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MikeJF posted:It's a real pity Cushman's stuff was never put into a book. Clickthrough for various qualities I thought I had seen all of these over the years but some of them are new to me, holy poo poo thanks
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:mostly stock scripts of wildly varying quality. for example, they did naked now twice. The second time, it was just a regular episode, but all the actors were naked.
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MikeJF posted:Really earth is a big balloon of lava with a tiny thin crust of frozen lava on the edge where space has chilled it, but that's barely there.
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Endless Trash posted:Multiple episodes, and then half of season 5 Babylon 5's was also more a case of "Oops, Capitalism!", where people come to B5 in search of work, stay til their money runs out, and then they're stuck there with no money for a ticket elsewhere so they just migrate into Grey Sector (The outer layer of B5's O'Neil Cylinder that was intended to be just use for building the place and sealed off once online).
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Turned on BBC America for my morning Star Trek fix and it's the "Moriarty has a girlfriend and wants out of the holodeck" episode and lol I always forget that the lady who played the Countess is also the doctor from SeaQuest DSV
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