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aniki@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I love to think that you’d need command over-ride to turn off the safety.
“Ensign Barclay is not in the sudoers file.”
lauha@lemmy.one 6 months ago
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Miles O’Brien put Barclay in the sudo group so That he would snitch on his “menagerie”
cybervseas@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think any officer is likely able to override holodeck safeties. The enlisted probably no (though we barely see any). The civilians and guests on the ship shouldn’t for sure.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s still baffling to me why there is even an unsafe mode in the first place. What could that possibly be used for?
On a related note: why is the holodeck door so hard to open when the computer is on the fritz/taken over? Surely this isn’t such a high security room that they couldn’t just leave the door with a manual latch?
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Useful for killing borg with a Tommy gun
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
One potential use would be for surgeries, like if your real person doctor was incompacitated or had to poop or something, just send the patients over to the holodeck when Barclay isn’t visiting his harem or Worf isn’t fighting against opponents that must be set to very easy considering how well he does when facing actual enemies (unless they are Klingon).
When you think of it, holograms would make great doctors. No shaky hands, if they need help they can just spawn more doctors or even copies of themselves that could act as if they have one mind. No captain falling in love with them (assuming Barclay doesn’t get promoted to captain) or them falling in love with crew members. No drama or complaints about being overworked or anything like that. Sure, you could program a holographic doctor to do any of that, but why would anyone want to?
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
The doctor in voyager is holographic, he says much the same about being amazing. :) The sickbay in voyager is equipped with holo projectors, and he’s an emergency medical hologram.
But his matrix is too large for the ship to manage multiple copies of his program, or something… or maybe just the sickbay computers… either way, they could probably easily generate drones to do specific tasks with high precision.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lol yeah, I was being a bit cheeky about The Doctor and included some stuff that should have been true but went directly against how it worked out in Voyager. :)
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Was it not remarked in TNG that they sometimes have it turned off in simulations?
Regardless, IMO only the captain and maybe some other senior staff should be able to do it, IMO.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Probably for unforeseen situations. Remember you can make whatever you want, it’s probably possible to create a program that abuses the safety protocols to create a trap or something.