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- From: sbarnes@dragger.ifmt.nf.ca (Spencer J. Barnes)
- Subject: Re: Holodecks
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- References: <_-n2p9n@rpi.edu> <1992Dec18.004911.211@ncar.ucar.edu> <BzFtG5.K47@news.iastate.edu> <1992Dec18.201651.29179@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:40:43 GMT
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- In <1992Dec18.201651.29179@ncar.ucar.edu> vicki@steam.atd.ucar.edu (Vicki Holzhauer) writes:
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- >In article <BzFtG5.K47@news.iastate.edu> ltran@iastate.edu (Lang Tran) writes:
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- >>I also seem to remember an episode where Wharf was a sheriff and was
- >>shot in the arm buy an image of an the "outlaw" data.
-
-
- >Well, it seems to me as if you get into a whole new category if you
- >include holodeck accidents where something "outside" was going on (in
- >this instance, Data's influence on the holodeck and the "power
- >surge"). There was also the Dixon Hill episode where the historian
- >(first season, can't remember his name) was seriously wounded. In
- >that episode, the probe by the Hraded (?? - people with strange
- >language Picard had to greet) had disabled the holodeck ...
-
- >The diving accident and kayaking injury apparently (as far as we know)
- >took place during a "normal" holodeck program.
-
- >(If they're "normal," can I have one? :-)
-
- >--
- >Vicki Holzhauer, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- >Boulder, Colorado / / / / vicki@ncar.ucar.edu
-
- The holodeck programming includes a 'Mortality Failsafe' (The idea
- was introduced in 'Elementary, Dear Data') which is supposed to prevent
- fatalities. This mortality failsafe can be overridden by authorized
- command to the holodeck computer. Given this level of sophistication, it
- is reasonable to assume a 'scale of risk' which may be selected by an
- user of a given program. Hence the diving and kayaking accidents.
-
- The 'near' fatalities described above were in fact results of accidental
- overrides, but i remember a federation ship described in one of the early
- tng novels whose officers routinely turned off the mortality failsafe in
- order to carry out 'realistic' personal combat training.
-
- Why allow any risk?? Because it would be stupid to make anything so safe
- its insipid. (Dr. David Marcus)
-
- Spencer
- sbarnes/compserv@gill.ifmt.nf.ca
- Trekking thru the fog!!
-
-