Holographic bullets aren’t really ballistic. The borg might have been able to adapt. Though if they were fooled by holograms and force fields, an anti-borg program could have been made that makes them get stuck in an endless non-euclidean maze (and I mean one of the interesting non-euclidean spaces) or just tear them apart by having dozens of force fields pop up through their bodies.

With all of the hologram projectors they had in Voyager, not to mention the portable one, they really didn’t explore the tactical advantages they could give. You could literally make any boarding party believe they had transported to hell, or let them run around thinking they are winning and took over the ship when they are actually just standing around in the brig–or airlock.

Or have them board only to hear “warp core damage critical, breach in zero point–” then give them some kind of afterlife sequence where they settle into their new afterlife and pass time telling each other about state secrets they were privy to, now that it doesn’t matter anymore.

It’s kinda funny that they had holograms but didn’t really ever explore any post-facts kind of themes, other than using holograms on less advanced species.

LaForge and Troy: What the fuck!?

Riker: Holy shit I’m glad I’m not you right now.

Fuck! It is fucking possible to commit no fucking mistakes and still fucking lose. That is not a fucking weakness. That is fucking life.

Hmm might have gone a bit over budget there, but fuck it.

It’s a safety issue. You need to find a urinal buddy to help protect you from any perverts that might enter the bathroom while you’re pissing.

Remember the whole secret code involving narwhals and bacon that some of Reddit leaned into while others cringed? And a good portion weren’t even aware of it despite using Reddit.

Though that’s more like 16 years ago now I think.

Just made that one up but it was based on another Frankenstein-like setup another user in a beta testing group was using that I don’t remember the specifics of. His issues started getting mostly ignored until he upgraded his system to something more normal lol.

Or, after weeks of debugging an issue the user has logs proving they are having weird performance issues despite having a strong GPU, it turns out their parents wouldn’t let them take that GPU out of the family PC so they rigged up a PCIe to USB to wireless transmitter that hooks up to a wireless to USB to serial port that exploits a signal leaking from serial port to PCIe bus bug on the family PC motherboard to act as if the GPU is on their own machine, which both impresses and horrifies you.

And when you try to get approval to drop the issue as unsupported, your manager gives you shit and it takes another week to convince him that it isn’t a use case that you should support. And they only agreed in the end because a more senior technical person happened to overhear you pleading with your manager one day and only had to say, “that’s crazy!” for your manager to 180 immediately on the issue. But it’s still cited as a negative on your next performance review (“you spent weeks working on something we don’t even support!”).