The holodeck is what you get when the writers of a science fiction series set hundreds of years in the future in a galaxy densely populated with intelligent, space-faring species who have technology to travel hundreds of times the speed of light decide that that concept is too limiting.
Also a great way to reuse some of those existing costumes and sets.
It also lets the actors do something different once in a while. Change of scenery (literally) as well as stretch their skills they may not otherwise get to use in the course of their regular characters.
It also allows you to have your characters do morally questionable or outright criminal acts without them suffering many of the consequences of those actions. Its a great plot device and character development method.
Think about so many of the things that happened in the hollow deck. So many of those would have been criminal acts and you’d have to imprison your characters after the first time if you are trying to claim your characters are in a moral society.
The holodeck is what you get when the writers of a science fiction series set hundreds of years in the future in a galaxy densely populated with intelligent, space-faring species who have technology to travel hundreds of times the speed of light decide that that concept is too limiting.
Also a great way to reuse some of those existing costumes and sets.
It also lets the actors do something different once in a while. Change of scenery (literally) as well as stretch their skills they may not otherwise get to use in the course of their regular characters.
It also allows you to have your characters do morally questionable or outright criminal acts without them suffering many of the consequences of those actions. Its a great plot device and character development method.
Think about so many of the things that happened in the hollow deck. So many of those would have been criminal acts and you’d have to imprison your characters after the first time if you are trying to claim your characters are in a moral society.
There should have been a Star Trek: Holodeck series. (Basically just Fantasy Island, with Star Trek accents, I guess.)
And more plausibly than TOS’s “Hey! We found a planet where it’s Earth except Abandoned/Nazis/Romans/Gangsters/Cowboys!”