On more than one occasion they have said in the show. That holodecks can disintegrate all matter inside the holodeck. So I would think no cleaning necessary.
ok, given that statement, I’ll never get inside a holodeck.
and given how often they mess things up, I’m surprised they are even legal in the federation.
It’s even worse than they make it seem.
When this came up, they said an uncontrolled shutdown would reclaim all matter on the holodeck, and the computer was not letting them shut it down properly.
Just like what happens to all the food that isn’t eaten.
Doesn’t stuff get recycled in to the replicators? Including human (and non-human) waste?
Yep and depending on the complexity of the object they may just replicate the material. Like with food and water.
Lower decks starts off about this. the ensigns have to clean the bio scrubbers. They’re always full
I would reverse the polarity on those bio-filters as a practical joke, and potentially for a Tuvix-level moral need of exterminating the monstrosity the sick bay refuses to terminate.
Both this post and that one scene from Lower Decks forgets how holodecks work (no surprise from LD. It tries to insert humour at the expense of lore the whole bloody time…)
Anyway…
The holodeck, as established in the very first episode of TNG, is also a replicator. Throughout TNG, DS9, and VOY we see multiple instances that a replicator works both ways. Cleaning the dishes is a matter (hah) of putting it all back into the replicator and watching it get turned back into energy.
When you create a bar or a restaurant on the holodeck, all the food and drink there is real. You really eat and drink something, it has real flavour. Snow, water, mud, are all real too (Wesley Crusher got snow on Picard’s uniform one time when exiting the holodeck). But it all disappears instantly when you command the program to be ended.
No wonder, then, that certain experimental medical procedures were done on the holodeck in some episodes; it’s an incredibly sterile space. Everything that isn’t the people who entered the deck instantly gets turned into energy. For all the “holodeck gone wrong” episodes, none of them had a situation where a person accidentally gets vapourised. Damn thing is safer than a transporter.
Anyway; yes, very funny. But no, that’s not how holodecks work. Nobody needs to clean your cum off the walls.
You’d think that the holodeck, of all places, would be something that could be cleaned by a dedicated holographic synthetic serviceman.
Holojanitor: “What is my purpose?”
Have you seen Voyager? You should. Later on it does have a subplot around this.
The Doctor’s my favourite character from that show, but I think the episode you’re probably referring to (Author, Author) went a little too on the nose with its allegory when it had a bunch of holographic doctors literally swinging pickaxes in a mineshaft inside an asteroid. The technological contrast was too jarring for me.
This is wonderful
tuvox having sex with his holographic wife to subside pon’far
That’s also the answer his holographic women give when they’re asked what program is running
Computer, run Jizz Squeegee Typhoon Rinse Laforge Omega Seven. Disengage safety interlocks.
lol … I’d create a program where it made the empty unused holodeck look like it was filled with all sorts of strange fluids and liquids that need to be cleaned.
Got a UV light to try to see if my cat peed somewhere he shouldn’t and that’s what inspired the image.
Not sure if its clear it’s supposed to be black light. I tried.
do you think we’re not well-versed in checking for dried bodily fluids
😘
Ah, those are urine stains all over the holodeck.
That… I’m not going to say that’s better, actually.
The UV light shows any organic fluids.
Food. Urine. Semen. Sneezes.
You know, it’s implied there’s sex in the holodeck, at least in the shows. Haven’t read the books to have a clue about that. But, if trek were real, I sometimes wonder how the policy of that would have developed.
aat the very least, couples going to romantic locations to get it on… the solo masterbation potential for moral boosters and you know that they be trading programs with each other like dirty vhs
There would have to be some kind of underground trade in spank bank programs lol. No matter how utopian you want to get, humans at least are sexual beings, and I don’t see that not being expressed in holo when there’s already full on pirate scenarios lol
Holosuites were explicitly a thing
People probably have sex in the Jeffries tubes as well. Geordi’s probably used to crawling around and finding a wet spot.
Oh yeah, Klingon daddy, do me in the Jeffries tube! Do me hard.
But yeah, you know horny ensigns looking for a hidden spot would wedge themselves in there
Infinity glory hole
