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TSN
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"In "Encounter at Farpoint" [TNG], another possible explanation is that the simulation was too noisy - there were trees and running water and other distractions. Data also wasn't paying too close attention."

With Data's computerized ears? I doubt it...

The throwing-a-rock-against-the-wall thing I understood in EaF. The technology was still kind of slow. But, when they did it in "Ship in a Bottle", it didn't make much sense. Shouldn't the holodeck have been able to accomodate that sort of thing by that time?

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Bernd
Guy from Old Europe
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And so I've been wondering. While a holodeck is on does it become dimensionally transcendental?? In other words, while the holodeck is on, does it literally become larger on the inside than it is on the outside via some wierd quantum flux type thing????

I don't think so. On many occasions we could see people enter and exit from both sides of the holodeck, and the scale stayed the same. It also wouldn't comply with some of the holodeck failures, most notably in "Night" when it went offline and just froze. It's already hard to explain how this could possible with a 1/1 scale holodeck when the projectors go offline, but in quantum flux it should be quite dangerous if whatever controls everything inside fails (i.e. more dangerous a place than it seems to be anyway).

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OnToMars
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that'd must be damn dangerous, Bernd, considering the shit that's gone down in these relatively 'benign' holodecks.

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