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"Safety Protocols Off"
What the fuck? Why is that an option through a vocal command?! If it's really needed, that should require someone from engineering to make the adjustment and it better be for a damn good reason, not just "I wanna experience real danger". With the amount of issues that come from Holodeck malfunctions, it's insane that Star Fleet allows them at all, especially because they seem to fail quite often in their hands.
Seriously, Quark has a better safety record than Star Fleet when it comes to those. His holodecks have only had ONE major incident (Our Man Bashir) and even then it could be argued that the holodeck saved the crew by injecting their patterns into the program when they would have otherwise been entirely lost. Compare that to the Enterprise or Voyager where they have a Holodeck disaster every other week, often self-inflicted.
Quark had a better safety record because he's not human, and safety is intuitive to most species. Not humans.
Humans are wild hungry barbarian thrill monkeys. Safety protocols on the holodeck were probably at Vulcan insistence after they watched us detonate a warp core inside a sun to see what would happen.
This isn't just in Star Trek either. In Stargate they find a gate orbiting a black hole, nearly destroy the earth, and then later on when we find a species they don't like, we give away those coordinates as a prank. Among others. We used that same gate to cause a supernova somewhere else just to see what would happen.
Computers were already doing the "Are you sure you want to do this? Y/N" in 1987 so I just don't get it.
If it took more than "safety protocols off" then the federation would have never existed due to earth being assimilated/destroyed by the Borg right around the time they discovered warp flight. And if they waited for after that flight, they could assimilate the passing Vulcans, too, though all they'd have to do is warp with the enterprise after taking that over and someone would have come to give them some ships to get started with.
The big question would have been if the new alpha quadrant Borg faction would have joined the OG Delta faction or would have been a rival.
Though I'm not sure why the Borg adaptive shields didn't stop the bullets, since they were energy-based rather than ballistic, and wouldn't have been designed to use phasing to defeat enemy shields.