Computer...

Does the holodeck prevent them from creating sick shit?

Like if I generate a loli version of captain picard to rape, is the ship's counselor going to get an email about it

Star trek is PG, so I think it never came up.

I would assume so. It'd be a good idea to know if one of your crew was using the recreation system for living out rape fantasy about commanding officers.

DS9 laid it out pretty clearly. Yes people use them for sex. They're usually in a fairly public venue on the station and hey, people talk.

>"Computer lock doors, Scarlett Johansson protocol. Start program Masturbation 1, safeties off"

You can lock the doors, you can scrub the databases, but you can't hide the sweat and look of shame a keen eyed bartender will see when you inevitably have to leave

>'Did you enjoy the new uhh-- changes i made to your program sir?"
>"Why yes quark, she looks positively perfect! i didn't expect you'd be able to shave off those extra years, but you've done it again!'
>"and my fee?"
>"I 'll give you double if you never mention this to anyone, and a little extra for the person who has to clean it"
>"same time next week?"
>"you fucking bet"

You can literally make ANYTHING in the holodeck and all they do is recreate historical and classic literature programs yes I know its because they could then reuse sets and costumes from other productions, but still

Im posting this, but I wouldn't use it for something more than a one-shot game where we were breaking from the usual campaign.

Well its clear from the show that unless you are in the room, or are actively looking at the room, you really can't tell whats going on in the HD. The logs seem to just say what the programs name is as well, not whats actually going on.

So with a clever naming system, you probably could get away with anything as long as you don't get scrutinized. and if you suspect shit you can do a thorough scrubbing and remove the program itself.

I personally would be spending my time with a loli harem, it's not there are laws (that are shown) against it anyway.

GURPS Prime Directive, of course!

There's also the thing about not having to worry if something from the 19th century back is in the public domain or not.

Id be in the holodeck every day living out all the 80's sci-fi movies, or purging xenos filth. or cuddling with a holo gf

Seconding FATE. No need to make it any more complicated than that.

If public Access to holodecks was that easy Risa wouldn't be so popular.

>Ywn run a shady bar with a holodeck and have tons of stories about everyone from the homeless bum that's always scraping up money for his next go at it to a fucking Starfleet Admiral with a few sick fetishes.

Wasn't that literally the PLOT of the episode involving ops dude? He was living escapist fantasies where he was slapping his superiors shit and fucking Troi?

No one knew till he locked himself in the thing and they had to go in after him

GURPS

We'll finally see who's the Hitlest.

FATAL, you know kirk has rolled for anal circumference.

It was Barclay.

And they only knew because he was late for work a few days in a row.

They located him and, rather than deactivating the program and buzzing him like a non-assholish person would have done just waltzed in there. To Troi's credit she did put up a half-assed protest before going a long with it.

This is Asperger's, depression, anxiety, phobias and self-loathing Barclay's program they walked in on. The only place he can pretend to not be a fuck up of a human being. The one bit of escape from the mockery of life he exists in that keeps him functional.

Yes he painted himself as a huge Mary Sue but all the other crew, bar Riker, were depicted as dashing, handsome and sophisticated people with whom he was all friends. Riker was a bumbling child like idiot who he as also friends with. Basically all he did with the Riker simulation was down the height and up the enthusiasm.

Point is I can imagine Barclay's other programs being a lot, lot darker. It might have been for the best that they walked in on a Three Musketeers derivative rather than his Silent Hill / The Suffering mash up safeties off

>a little extra for the person who has to clean it

Great, you just reminded me of this:

somethingawful.com/news/blue-stripe-life-4/

>>Safety protocols off
NIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGER

I actually still use LUG rules for generic scifi. I'm slowly switching my notes to Mini6 though.

Ahem: - somethingawful.com/news/blue-stripe-life-4/

> computer, when Commander Worf enters the holodeck, engage aroused Romulan harem program.

Godammitsonofawhore you beat me to it & I didn't notice & posted .

Why were they all so shit to Barclay?

Really it was because he was late so often. Being on time to shit is super important, and even if someone has good pt, is good at their job, and is otherwise a cool dude if they aren't on time to formation and shit everyone will hate them for it. Remember most enlisted and officers have to pull long hours and watch rotations. So every minute you're still on watch or at the desk on duty waiting for relief that should have been there is a minute you're focusing all your hate on them for not being in asleep by now.

No. You can tell that is correct by looking at how much trouble the holodeck ends up causing because it isn't regulated or monitored in any meaningful way.

Apparently all you need is strong coding skills.

The episode with the holodeck program intimated it was a sex fantasy only gets the creator caught because someone else just strolled in midway with their officer override, if I remember correctly.

Keep in mind Barclay could run through programs having 'relations' with a crew member (troi herself I think?) without her knowing. So apparently not.

Would have more sympathy but the "hard work" done on the Enterprise is done in a carpeted, warm, padded chair, soft music playing luxury liner made of comfort.

They are essentially bitching because their super decadence is replaced with regular comfort.

They knew he was a mess when they hired him. What were they expecting?

Meanwhile Riker gets asked by an admiral to redo the crew rota to be less stupid. He throws a tantrum, gets sent to be quarters and suffers no real consequences.

And then Troi takes the piss out of Barclay to the senior staff.

They didn't hire him exactly he was transferred to them, Barclay's story at the beginning of the episode if something that happens very often in the real navy, there's a shitbag who is late all the time or otherwise unable to do his job as well as the others. If fixing him doesn't work they just transfer him, strongly encourage him to transfer, to another command. and it's not about whether or not the Enterprise is comfy. Its about accountability, there is still a serious risk just being in space and the enterprise almost blows up a fuckton of times only to be saved because you had people on duty to stop shit from going sideways. Remember Barclay is in engineering and his whole job is to watch the reactor and keep it from blowing everyone up. when one of your officers doesn't show up for meetings or his job, his peers and superiors get pissed. Doubly so in a military like environment like starfleet where people can no shit die if you aren't doing your job.

You are 110% right about the admiral though, he was acting both with the right intentions and right execution, while being completely responsible with his changes and reasoning behind them like requesting that Diana wear a real uniform like literally everyone fucking else. Probably the best example of how an actual officer should act in the whole series, especially when he swallowed his pride and went to ask for Riker's help as a pilot for the shuttle mission.

>Computer, show these ancient web users "Skub".

Now here is a brain tickler: can the holodeck let you fake being someone else with it? And to what degree?

Playing the charming handsome hero only goes so far when you are still a 98 pound weakling with a face like a frog. Surely, some people out there want to take the roleplay to the level of looking different too, or live out the power fantasy of being super strong.

Holy shit, no wonder all of the admirals in Starfleet are insane. It's all of the worst parts of academia having a lovechild with ring-knocker Pentagon officers in a fucking sex club run by autistic children.

It's sort of implicit that the characters in the holodeck react as if the user looks like the character they're supposed to be. Otherwise what would be the point?

The audience doesn't see that change because honestly it would cost more to get another actor and if not handled properly would be confusing.

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Presumably you could have the golden set everything to 1/4 gravity if you just wanted to be superman or whatever. I'd imagine there might be an upper limit to what it can simulate realistically, but for just being strong you can make everything else light.