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I'm now convinced that most holodeck malfunctions are the result of end users, who don't know what they're doing, using AI to generate poorly-written software they're ill-equipped to debug or even really understand.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Speak for yourself. The D's holodeck was always fucking up and sending historical villains running amok and whatnot, but Quark's holosuites always worked fine.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yea, cause the Binars fucked with in season 1 specifically to give it the ability to make sapient AIs. Apparently nobody ever did a factory reset after that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Nah, that same upgrade got rolled out industry-wide. Remember Vic Fontaine?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My headcanon is that Dr. Zimmerman received the Moriarty program from Barclay, and discovered from it how to make sentient holograms, which is why holograms started getting sentient more regularly and by design.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you look at Encounter at Farpoint, they're ooh-ing and aah-ing over the thing like they've never seen one before. Meta considerations of exposition for the audience aside, it was clearly a brand-new technology. Considering how rapidly it proliferated and advanced -- Quark was running holosuites within five years, and the EMH mark 1 was online within seven -- it seems to me that the capability for sentience was probably there all along/obvious low-hanging fruit, and the D's holodeck's initial limitations were just an early-adopter thing.

[–] verity_kindle 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The finest crew in Starfleet were unpaid beta testers?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's the "flagship" for the Federation. An exaggerated reflection of the whole in its relative state. Just look as the Enterprise F... just don't blink.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I mean, you could just look at the magnetic catapults on the USS Gerald R. Ford to see how truth-in-television that is!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not at all. Vic was running on Quark's holosuites. They were not owned, serviced or built by the Federation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I didn't say Federation-wide, I said industry-wide.

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