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In Star Trek: Voyager the holodeck was used extensively because ( 1 ) a crew isolated from their homes required more frequent diversion, ( 2 ) the holographic Doctor could, in the early seasons, be located only in the Sick Bay or one of the holodecks, ( 3 ) one of the main characters, Tom Paris, was by nature and calling a writer ( holonovelist ) -- he only joined Star Fleet because his father, Admiral Paris, forced him to.
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Much of the criticism focused on the premise which essentially reduced the finale to a holodeck adventure from the Star Trek: The Next Generation series.
The USS Enterprise in this series, while supposedly the same ship as from the original series, had a holodeck very similar to the one introduced on Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was set approximately eighty years later.
( Other fan fiction described as Captain Proton stories are Star Trek: Voyager stories whose action happens partly in Voyager's holodeck where the Captain Proton program is running.
* A holodeck simulation of Professor Moriarty, played by actor Daniel Davis, appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes " Elementary, Dear Data " and " Ship in a Bottle ", accidentally achieving sentience when Geordi LaForge asks the holodeck to create an opponent able to defeat Data ( rather than Sherlock Holmes ).
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A holodeck, in the fictional Star Trek universe, is a simulated reality facility located on starships and starbases.
The first use of a " holodeck " by that name in the Star Trek universe was in the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, " Encounter at Farpoint ", although a conceptually similar " recreation room " appeared in an episode of Star Trek: the Animated Series.
In the timeline of the fictional universe, the concept of a holodeck was first shown to humans in an encounter with the Xyrillan race in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Unexpected ".
Although the holodeck was described in the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation as being fairly new technology, in the episode " Once Upon A Time " Captain Janeway and Harry Kim mention having used a holodeck as children.
It has been noted Star Trek has " a number of interesting ' holodeck ' episodes that very roughly point towards interesting philosophical and sociological issues of virtual realities ".
Significant / Innovative uses of the holodeck in Star Trek Voyager include:
* In the 1973 Russian science-fiction movie Moscow-Cassiopeia, a " Surprise Room " operated in the same way as the holodeck in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
* In the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, some advanced races ( such as the Asgard and the Ancients ) have holo technology, albeit generally not to the extent of a Star Trek-style holodeck.
* In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Big Goodbye " ( obviously in reference to The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye ), a computer malfunction traps Picard, Data, and Beverly in a 1940s Dixon Hill detective story holodeck program.
* Some episodes of the later series from the fictional Star Trek universe use the holodeck ( or its Ferengi equivalent, a " holosuite ") to tell a " story-within-a-story ", while the Deep Space Nine episode Far Beyond the Stars tells a similar story without such a high-tech plot device, as basically a work of metafiction, using the DS9 regular characters to tell a mid-20th century story, set in a science fiction publishing house in New York City.
* The plot to use a holodeck to transport an unsuspecting population to a new planet would be reused in the third Next Generation film ; Star Trek: Insurrection.
It introduces ( within the Star Trek Universe ) the " Dixon Hill " series of novels, and sees Picard using the holodeck to create a simulation of one.
* The Star Trek: Voyager holodeck story The Adventures of Captain Proton features numerous references to Commando Cody and other Republic serials, including the costume worn by the Captain, which was created from replica components of Cody's costume such as his jacket, rocket pack and chest control panel, and a killer robot that was an almost perfect replica of one used in the original Commando Cody serial.
She had appeared as the holodeck simulation Minuet in " 11001001 ", a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and later as Minuet Riker ( Will Riker's wife ) in a fantasy-alternate universe during the fourth-season episode " Future Imperfect ".
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