I’m now convinced that most holodeck malfunctions are the result of end users, who don’t know what they’re doing, using AI to generate poorly-written software they’re ill-equipped to debug or even really understand.
I’m now convinced that most holodeck malfunctions are the result of end users, who don’t know what they’re doing, using AI to generate poorly-written software they’re ill-equipped to debug or even really understand.
My headcanon is that Dr. Zimmerman received the Moriarty program from Barclay, and discovered from it how to make sentient holograms, which is why holograms started getting sentient more regularly and by design.
If you look at Encounter at Farpoint, they’re ooh-ing and aah-ing over the thing like they’ve never seen one before. Meta considerations of exposition for the audience aside, it was clearly a brand-new technology. Considering how rapidly it proliferated and advanced – Quark was running holosuites within five years, and the EMH mark 1 was online within seven – it seems to me that the capability for sentience was probably there all along/obvious low-hanging fruit, and the D’s holodeck’s initial limitations were just an early-adopter thing.
The finest crew in Starfleet were unpaid beta testers?
It’s the “flagship” for the Federation. An exaggerated reflection of the whole in its relative state. Just look as the Enterprise F… just don’t blink.
I mean, you could just look at the magnetic catapults on the USS Gerald R. Ford to see how truth-in-television that is!