This was an excuse to allow Voyager to use the holodeck, which would have been an extravagant waste of power otherwise.
The Enterprise D holodeck ran from ships power, as shown in “Booby Trap”.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
I remember a line in at least one episode that claimed holodecks consume so much power, they run on their own independent power system and aren’t connected to the warp core.
Can’t remember which episode it was, but it was likely one of the two parters where the Hirogen take over Voyager and have the WW2 sim.
DavidGA@lemmy.world 1 week ago
mactan@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
only as separate as the plot demands, sometimes it’s more interconnected