Everyone loves the holodeck. Everyone but me, that is, because I’ve had to watch and review every holodeck episode ever made*, and I’ve come to one inescapable conclusion: it is a magical device that should never, ever be included on a starship. Maybe some kind of pleasure cruise that never leaves Federation space would be okay, but the holodeck is dangerous, both as a machine that occasionally creates sentient life and as a pure horrorshow for the psychology of the people who use it. Everybody remembers the time Data inadvertently made a Moriarty capable of realizing it was in a simulation; few people remember (and even fewer like to talk about) that time Barclay used it to practice his weird personal fantasy life involving various members of the crew.
I’m kidding (a little), but having written so much Star Trek over the years, I’ve really come to dislike the ‘deck. There are great episodes that use it (I really enjoyed its appearances on The Lower D…
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