What did santa give you?

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yea and you would never leave your house. EVER. cause you could buy sunless suntan lotion and just apply it then people would THINK you were goinng outside. and you could just spend hte rest of your time with supermodels :)
 
I'm all for Holodeck technology, but there IS such a thing as too much. At one point it would simply be an incredibally Mentally and Physically unhealthy thing to do. You would eventually come to the point where you can't tell reality from the holodeck's fantasy.

Supposedly, there's a similar occurance when one plays video games too much...
I can understand people wanting to do all sorts of... unappropriate things to FF characters. I'm sure the characters would respond as they would in the game if someone tried that. (With Tifa, you'd get your jaw kicked off.)

But here's a question: Using PS9 or Holodeck technology, would you rebuild the FF7 characters to be realistic, or would you leave them looking like anime characters?

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i remember that episode :)  if the ff7 characters were left in anime form, cloud's hair could be used as a weapon.
 
But if there is a computer controlling it all it would take would be a hack to get themi all naked and horny :wink:
And the model number is RA-612 but good luck on finding anything, its 25 years old!!
 
I saw the episode too.

Actually, according to a *really* old Star Trek Encyclopedia I got from my grandparents, creating holographic versions of other real people without their consent is considered a "serious invasion of personal privacy".  I think it was also considered a criminal offense, or at least illegal.

As for character responses, well, you forgot about the holodeck's safety protocols, that prevent the user from serious physical harm that would be caused by a holographic object; in Tifa's case, that blow to the jaw wouldn't even faze the sicko.
 
If that was true, explain O'Brian's dislocated shoulder. I doubt he turns off the safties. That requires two command-level officers passcodes.

As for Tifa's action... That's a but of an exaggeration. You'd be kicked and it'd feel like it came off, but it'd definatly be sore.

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Good point.  Perhaps the safety protocols don't after stuff like falling to the ground.  

Now that I think about it, I'm guessin' the safties only come into play when you get hit with an otherwise life-threating injury, like being shot or falling off a really high cliff.  That would explain how he dislocated his shoulder, while not disengaging the safety protocols.
 
Also, wouldnt the ground only be a projected image above the holodeck floor so he would still hit the holodeck floor and injure himself.
 
but wouldn't falling off a cliff only be simulated by blowing air at you to prolong the fall so you wouldn't hit as hard anyway?
 
To make this clear: you can be injured, but not fatally, in a holodeck with the safties on. With the safties off, everything is as dangerous as real life.

Of course in real life you wouldn't become confused by a flying pumpkin in a mansion, or battle a two-headed dragon in an ice cave.

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yeah... damned pumpkins. i keep getting killed.

i thought you couldnt be seriously injured in a holodeck either.
 
dude lay off the pumpkins. I have a bird called pumpkin, and darkness is scared of her, and she could kick clouds ass. i think. she a meanish little bird but she's cool. anyway just cause i have nothing better to do for the next 20 minutes i went out and looked up the holodeck rules, and didn't find anything.as far as i've seen darkness is right you can't be seriously hurt but if you get kick in teh head then you would be sore for like a day. maybe later i'll try again. but now tooooooooo HASTINGS!!! bum bumbumbum
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Hey, has anybody seen that Star Trek: Voyager episode where the Hirogen captured Voyager, and forced them into that holodeck WW2 scenario?

Well, there's this one part where Torres said she got impregnated by one of the holographic characters.

Uh, just how exactly could that work? :-?  I mean, would it be a real life person, or a hologram? :)

Also, what would happen if she went outside the holodeck while she was still pregnant?  I'm guessin' that she would have a miscarage, 'cause half the DNA would dematerialize the instant she left the room.  Well, I suppose maybe it wouldn't, due to the way DNA replicates itself.......

But still, what would she tell her son/daughter?  To paraphrase Monty Python & the Holy Grail, "Your mother was a half-klingon, and your father was a hologram!"
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i saw that :) i think that if she left the holodek, she would return to normal, aside from the brainwash.
 
Mmmmmm...."Monty Python & and the Holy Grail". that was the best movie. anyway i saw that episode. but in that they has the safety protocols off so maybe holographic sperm could actualy exist and contain genecit coding. that'd be cool is tores had had the baby. half-german/half-klingon/half-human hmm thats to many half but you get the idea. and they should have had a species 8472 join the crew or something close that. they didn't have nearly enough 8472 stuff in that show.
 
I saw that episode too, I thought that it was part of the simulation that she was pregnant and was therefore only simulated pregnant and couldnt have a baby.
 
but what about the last episode where the docter was married to that lady and they were planning on having children?  :-?
 
*sigh* It wasn't a real child or a holographic one. It was a cosmetic attachment created by the Doctor under orders by the Hirogen.

As for the doctor and his kid, who knows? He DID have a kid on that one planet that existed like 10 times faster than everything else. The doctor was sent on reconnisance, and accidently got left there for 3 years. During that 3 years, he got married and had a kid. Maybe it was donated Sperm...

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Well, it might be feasible in Torres' case.  If you got pregnant by a holographic character, and stayed in the holodeck long enough for the DNA in the embreyo to copy itself via replication or transcription, then there's a chance that the new copy would be 100% non-holographic, since DNA is generally self-replicating.  

I don't know if I worded that in an-easy-to-understand way, but anyone who has taken either an Anatomy & Physiology, Pre-Med, or college genetics class probably knows what I'm talking about.
 
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