I love how holodecks lacked an Oh Shit button. What’s an Oh Shit button? It’s a big red button on a piece of dangerous machinery that kills the power and stops everything. When something goes wrong and you say “Oh Shit!” and not the button. I literally trained people thus way. It’s a convenient way to associateb the use of the button with the purpose for it.
Imagine how much safer (and less interesting the shows) would be if you could just run to the door, flip the little lid, and smack the big red button to kill the power to the stupid thing.
just watched the first holodeck episode on TNG and the big problem was that they couldn’t get the arch to appear.
We’re talking about an organization that refuses to retrofit their ships with seatbelts despite who-knows-how-many crew members dying every week from getting tossed out of their chairs in a fight or when anything unexpected happens.
Also… surge protection… just saying.
Or a better form of security than voice recognition… or security cameras!
Security cameras are in fact very vital aspects of a security theater. Sure they won’t stop someone from breaking in, but they’ll definitely allow one to monitor much larger areas than would otherwise be possible.
The caveat is they can’t be ignored and need to be monitored. And given how dumb the ship’s computer is….well. Probably should assign a Vulcan flunky.
I was more thinking of all the times they had to search 3 entire decks of the ship for a lifesign that was feint or deliberately obscured, probably could have found the thing they were looking for inside 5 minutes if they had some damn cameras.
Ah. Yeah. That makes sense.
Also, door alarms. Like modern RFID or NFC door systems are capable of reporting in real time someone swiping a badge- a failed badge swipe (ie if someone is trying to get into someone’s room,) or even a threshold of “x-many failed swiped”- and perhaps more importantly; when a door gets forced open (or is otherwise open when it shouldn’t be. Including held open for “too long”)
The most secured facilities, even just using modern equipment would have lock downs checking biometrics, a badge, and probably some kind of password (and a duress code to use instead of a password,)
“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.
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.
Computers were already doing the “Are you sure you want to do this? Y/N” in 1987 so I just don’t get it.
I always wondered why they didn’t have a backup computer. Or emergency lighting. Or UPS batteries for life support.
And why they tested unproven technologies on the Federation’s flagship with 200 families on board.
They always talked about the Enterprise having one computer, and it did everything from basic information searches to recreating the personality of the engineer that designed the engines for real-time simulation. Like each Holodeck wouldn’t have it’s own entire server rack just for it.
Let me introduce you to ‘rm -rf /’, and variants thereof
What does removing the French language pack have to do with this?
You’re thinking of ‘rm -fr /’, easy mistake
You’re lucky “end program” is two words there Skippy.
this font gave me phyrox plague
Blame Gene Roddenberry, I guess.
