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I’ve got Star Trek: The Next Generation on the background. It’s the episode where Lieutenant Barclay (played by Dwight Shultz, better known as Howling Mad Murdock on The A-Team) is losing his shit and playing out weird, inappropriate revenge fantasies in the Holodeck.
For those who don’t know, on Star Trek the Next Generation they’ve got something called The Holodeck. The Holodeck is a room on the Starship Enterprise where a computer simulates reality. Using a series of holograms, force fields, tractor beams and artificially created scents, sounds and tastes, the Holodeck is able to recreate all aspects of physical reality in a completely interactive and believable way.
The Holodeck seems to be used primarily as an entertainment device. It’s used from time to time to create battle situations for training, and to run simulated potential solutions to real world problems. But mostly it’s used for recreational virtual reality fantasy.
I have a few questions about the Holodeck.
First of all, it’s been strongly hinted that people can use it for sexual purposes. There was an episode where Geordi La Forge (the ship’s chief engineer) was caught in an intimate situation in the holodeck with a simulated recreation of a former coworker. Apparently (according to Wikipedia) on Deep Space Nine, one of the characters, Quark, rented out a holodeck exclusively for sexual encounters.
So if people can go into the holodeck and create sexual scenarios, and then have sex with those simulations, does that mean that when the person is done, and the holograms disappear, do all of their discharged bodily fluids just drop to the floor?
When the Holodeck isn’t in use, it just looks like a black room with a grid across the floor, walls and ceiling. So if Geordi is boning this simulation of a chick, and he blows his wad inside of the simulated woman, does the simulated woman then carry around that jizz inside of her until the simulation ends? Does Geordi have to be aware of where the simulated woman is positioned when the simulation ends, so that he can clean up his spunk after it drops to the floor?
Or do you think that the Holodeck has some kind of futuristic jizz cleaning function?
Would you want to go into the holodeck after Wesley Crusher has been in there for an hour?
If Diana Troi programs a ten man no holes barred Klingon bukkake gangbang, and she’s in there for an hour, obviously the holographic Klingon jizz will disappear when the simulation is over, but what about all of Troi’s Betazoid lady juice? Not to mention her sweat, saliva, (and since we’re dealing with Klingons here) tears, mucus and blood? Where does all of that go? I can only imagine that it pools on the floor.
The worst job on the Enterprise has got to be whoever has to mop the Holodeck.
And it seems that there aren’t any kind of privacy rules in the Holodeck. People just walk into other people’s simulations. I’ve seen people go into the Holodeck and tell the computer to run the last simulation or a previous simulation that someone else participated in. How embarrassing would that be?
I mean, if you’ve got a room where you can create and participate in the darkest, most disturbing sexual fantasies… the shit that you would never actually bring up to a real person… can you imagine if someone walked in on that?
That has to be extremely traumatizing.
For that matter, one has to wonder about the psychological ramifications of something like that. Not just being walked in on, but being able to participate in that at all. It’s one thing to smoke a doobie and let your imagination run weird movies in your head, it’s another thing to actually physically DO those things. Some people are lucky enough to find compatible sexual partners who are willing to act out some of those darker fantasies in a role playing environment, but even then you’re going to be constantly aware of the limits and rules of social conduct that would keep your fantasies restrained to a degree. But in the Holodeck, there would be no holding back.
Maybe in your head the idea of dressing up like The Tin Man and fucking Judy Garland over a tree stump with an ax handle is interesting and kinky and fun. But that’s just in the realm of imagination. I imagine it’s something else entirely to actually put on that Tin Man costume and be in a scenario where not only can you create that scenario out of whole cloth, but there are no limitations on how far you can take that fantasy.
Let’s say you’re into erotic asphyxiation. If you’re with a real, consenting partner, and you’re choking them, you know that there’s a point when you have to stop. There are safe words and lines that can’t be crossed. But in the Holodeck, there are no lines or safe words. If you’re choking someone in the Holodeck, you’re going to feel their throat under your hands. You’re going to see their eyes bulge and their tongue swell as you choke the life out of them. You’d have no reason to stop, because intellectually you’d know that it wasn’t real. But you’d still be there, participating in it. And if you’re in the height of sexual arrousal, pumping away at someone who feels, sounds, smells and tastes like a real person, and you have no consequences, why wouldn’t you take it to that level? I mean, if you’re predisposed to dark sexual fantasies, as some people are.
What do you think that does to a person? Would it be healthy?
I imagine that the context of the show suggests that you’ve adjusted to the existence of this Holodeck. It’s not like you’d forget where you were or what you were actually doing. But still, the physical feeling of actually doing physical harm to another person for sexual gratification has got to change your psyche. It’s got to change the way you look at other people.
I have no idea what kind of advancements have been made in psychology in the 23rd century. Maybe they’ve gotten past dark, demented sexual fantasies. But clearly people still have psychological problems. On Star Trek: The Next Generation, it seems like every week another crew member goes nuts for some reason or another. They obviously haven’t curedcrazy yet. There are four lights after all.
I suppose it’s silly to think this much about the ramifications of something that exists solely as a plot device on a fairly silly science fiction TV show fifteen years ago. But that’s what I do. I honestly do not have anything more important to think about.
That being said, I kind of wish I had a holodeck. I’d have a date with Dorothy and an ax handle. Probably some flying monkeys too.
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For the record, that whole Tin Man/Dorothy thing is something I just thought up as I was writing this. Though I’m not ruling it out as an addition to the spank bank later on.
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Hobo Nickels are re-engraved/re-carved old buffalo nickels that were minted in the USA from 1917-1938. The tradition started during the Great Depression with the traveling Hobos who would alter the face of the nickel and then trade them for necessities.
Oooh I want one of these…
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I like how the main goal of most people doing Marilyn Monroe photographic tributes is to make her more naked.
