So in the episode, I just realized that Weasley thrown a holographic snowball outside of the holodeck and it hit Picard, how? What magic is that? Or is it just because it’s so early in the series or just what? I must have a explanation (silly or cannon) for it happening…

  • usernamefactory@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Here’s the old Joshua Bell FAQ explanation:

    “So can you take things off of the Holodeck?”

    Yes. Any object replicated on the Holodeck may leave. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to tell what is replicated, and what is not. Snow, such as the snowball thrown by Wesley in “The Naked Now” is easily replicated, and dampness is hard to simulate. The book thrown by Picard in “Ship In A Bottle” [TNG] would be easily simulated by force beams and thus was not replicated.

    The paper in “Elementary, Dear Data” [TNG] was likely simulated until the computer realized that it was going to be carried off the Holodeck, at which point it would have been seamlessly replaced with a replicated copy.