When power is completely shut down and emergency power fails, every system is supposed to stop working immediately, maybe except for the gravity generators that continue working without main power for several hours (TNGTM). This applies to the holodeck as well, in that the whole scenery is "frozen" and any system inside the holodeck including the light fails. This impact would be consistent, if all the matter inside the holodeck were actually "holomatter", i.e. some kind of replicated matter. However, most objects are supposed to be mere projections which was obviously not the case in "Night". Why should Tome create a complex "Captain Proton" program, where everything is "real"? Moreover, the whole scenery including Tom and Seven remained black and white, which is only possible if a converter/filter is active which needs power. The most obvious error is that Seven has voice access to the computer and can disengage the safety protocols. The computer should be offline as well! What is Captain Proton's "ray gun" supposed to emit anyway? I think it should be a mere harmless light effect. After all, it's a 20th century fantasy weapon, not a phaser. If, however, it can be turned into a dangerous weapon just by disabling the safety protocols, it would have to be charged, but that's hardly possible without energy.
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[This message was edited by Sol System on April 07, 1999.]
If you are rock climbing and the systems shuts down how far do you fall? 3 inches? I'm sure the holodeck programmers make sure that if a system failure--power outage--occures, no one is seriously hurt or dies. To suggest otherwise implies that there is no safety protocol at all.
A good rule of thumb is "How would you do it?"
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You'd see stars, even if none were nearby.
Only some huge dark clousd encompassing the whole region could block of all the light. It was dismissed callously as "due to theta radiation". PAH! If there were any sector of our galaxy that opaque, we'd have seen it on Earth by now.
That aside, twas a good ep.
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