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damzelltrill
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Had something occur to me while re-watching some of the Voyager/Next Gen/DS9 trouble with the holodeck episodes; would your basic holodeck hologram like Vic (ok so he's not normal persay...) still be effected by the holodeck's safety features after being put into an emitter?
A Trill, a Gorn, a Jem'Hadar, Bejoran and a Voth walk into a bar, and the Bartender asks "What is this a Joke?"
"Nope, just my away team" the trill replies before ordering a round for the bar.
"Nope, just my away team" the trill replies before ordering a round for the bar.
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The safety features only deals with combat. It might affect falling, but I am not sure. Spraining your ankle and similar sport injuries are not affected and poisoning would also not be affected by safety features. If Vic while wearing a mobile emitter grabs a phaser, knife, or a hypospray, then there is not much that can be done to stop him from killing unless there are security systems nearby that prevents people using phasers, knives, or poison.
I am profoundly grateful that Babylon 5 made one AND ONLY ONE use of holograms, and they did so by following their own consistent logic in doing so. It's a great moment when some folks at EarthGov discover the hard way that making too good a recreation of Michael Garibaldi was their last fatal mistake. "I imagine that unlike you, they're just targeting military installations. By the way this is a military installation, isn't it?"
What's normal in holograms? What's not? Vic has more programming than some because he's meant for varied interaction, but not as much as the Doctor, who is complex enough to rewrite his own code. (That's what I'd call abnormal... and potentially dangerous.)
Two, actually. Holograms featured in the TV movie 'River of Souls' set in 2263, although these ones were literally just autonomic projections with no personality at all. (It's actually a hilarious subplot in that movie)
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