• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Any time sex on a holodeck is referenced, I can’t help but feel sorry for whoever has to clean it up.

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      It’s not a person, the holodecks are just designed in a horrifying way. We learned from an early TNG episode that when the holodecks do an uncontrolled shut down, they reclaim all the matter within them. It requires a special intentional function to leave the people behind.

      So don’t worry about it, they’re self-cleaning

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          2 months ago

          That’s a whole other question. The replicators of TNG era weren’t protein resequencers like they were in Enterprise. They were simple matter/energy conversion. They would reclaim the matter and store any remaining energy in the ship’s reserves.

          In Voyager they said the holodecks ran on a completely separate power supply than the rest of the ship, so maybe they never really intermingled with the replicator systems

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      2 months ago

      This was addressed in Lower Decks. The lower deckers have to do it!