Then again, with how much can be done casually by literally anyone who is on the ship, not just starfleet personnel, what even is privacy anymore in 2380?
Then again, with how much can be done casually by literally anyone who is on the ship, not just starfleet personnel, what even is privacy anymore in 2380?
I think the first case is because the norms and social mores of the age would never be okay with someone doing that, so there are no technical stops in place due to social stops.
The second case is just TV convenience. No way a society with a perfect holodeck doesn’t either lock or has moved past any sexual hangups that a 90s TV audience would have.
More to the point of the “sexy deck”, if there were no locks and people are still prudes, people would not just be fucking away 10ft from the door instead of instancing themselves hundreds of virtual miles away first. Everyone would put at least one Sherwood Forrest between themselves and people snooping.
I’m not sure that the holodeck works like that. I could be wrong but if you go in the holodeck and get in a car and drive 100 miles and then get out and summon the holodeck door…it’s just right there. You don’t have to go back a hundred miles. So there really is no way to put “virtual distance” between you and the door. From my understanding anyway.
But when someone else enters the holodeck through the door, are they virtually right next to you, 100 miles from your starting point, or do they also start at your starting point? If two people enter the holodeck together and one person stays near the entrance while the other drives off, then a third person enters the holodeck, where does that third person appear?
It’s super inconsistent, and the technology seems to mostly work on dramatic convenience.
You’re coming to chat with your ex about feelings and jealousy and stuff? Door pops up right there. You’re coming to bust the porny creepo? You spawn just out of sight so you can catch him in the act. Here to rescue your friend in peril from semi-sentient noir characters? You spawn all the way across the map.
The computer is sassy like that.
All very good questions.