This post contains spoilers For "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 3, Episode 4, "Space Adventure Hour".

What would Spack do with Holodek? This is the type of theoretical issue for the pie in the sky, which has no doubt filled a thousand works of fan fiction and dozens of scripts for specifications, but by this week, it is actually not something that can respond to Star Trek fans. After all, Holodek - a kind of multipurpose space for virtual reality, prompted by the imagination and powerful programming - did not exist in Genin Bornboys in the 1960s.

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" has never been stopped to become creative before. In the season that is already added a new chapter in the history of Gorn And Confirmed long -term theory of the "original series" Scalatag TrelaneThe natural next step is to somehow happen to the Holodek episode ... a century before the holodexes are something. As such, "strange new worlds" used a unique hole to continue with the great tradition of the Holodek episodes, the one that greatly bypasses all potential problems with continuity. Instead of messing up with the existing "Trek" louse louse ", an hour in space adventurous time imagines a kind of lost chapter: Holodek experience so victorious and dangerous that it is deliberately lost in history.

The party begins when Captain Pique (Anson Mont) and Una/number one (Rebecca Romain) task Laan (Christina Chong) by testing new little technology. Since she beats every simulator in the fight, she is chosen to test the road to the new program, ensuring that it is functional and not sucking too much power. It is a playful premise for an episode that never reaches its full potential, rather than dealing with a semi-entertaining story of Hollywood murder with a parody "original series" with the pink "original series" and a boring contemplation in which Spack (Ethan) participates. However, the episode shows the power of Holodek, which soon begins to surpass Laan and soon kills everyone on the company's ship.

As the mine for cryptocurrency that looks at the water, this rudimentary holodek turns out to be a huge resource writer. Since Laan explores a false mystery (while she is a fictional girl Detective Amelia Moon), the company begins to lose critical functions, and the rapid development program learns to hurt the right people. In fact, things go so wrong with the mission that Laan and Scotty (Martin Quinn) eventually recommend that Holodek's technology is not deployed so as not to endanger the lives of other Starflit officers. Pique agrees, joking that the technology will be "locked in a box deep underground". Thanks to this catastrophic first attempt, "strange new worlds" badly implies, the holodexes will be absent for the next few decades of Starflit's research.

As he enters the final stage of his five -year mission, "weird new worlds" have made some choices that seem to be contrary to the canon of the "original series". For example, the Spock show version is inexplicably burned through three Loversubovers in three seasons, including the one who is a descendant of his future Non -Nonien Singh. Despite his more loose-Guvian moments, however, "strange new worlds" is capable of nailing the complicated Trek time schedule. This actually seems to be the case with Holodek; However It was popularized as a feature of the arswives starting with "Star Trek: The Next Generation", The earliest reference to the concept came through the 1974 episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series. In the "Practical Joker" of Season 2, the Board's supercomputer begins to play Banks and the crew of the company, and the defect threatens Starflit officers captured in, as it was then called "Recreation Recreation".

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" pays tribute to that deep cut in "Space Adventure Hour", when Pique initially calls Holodek a "recreation room" before Correcting Una. That episode of the "animated series" takes place in 2270, just a few years after "Strange New Worlds". The first previous use of the term "Holodek", meanwhile, emerged around 2364, when the premiere of the Star Trek: The Next Generation series properly introduced the hyper-real dream. Soon, the "next generation" will make the Holodeks of the central part of the escapist adventures and dangerous meetings.

Laan's experience is also far from the last time Holodek almost killed someone. Technology, like any AI, has never been made really safe or confidential. However, she has made some great episodes of Star Trek. With the arrival of "Deep Space Nine", Holodeks reached their cynical final form, renovated as exclusive, expensive rooms where capitalists like Quark (Armin Shimerman) could make quick sales of imaginary sex, death and luxury. However, the urge to get in the Holodek seems to be timeless, as many "Star Trek" characters have made their free time regardless of the century or context, making technology one of the best desired features of the franchise. The signs indicate that there will be no other episode of Holodek from "Strange New Worlds", but if there are, I have three words for the writers of the series: Wild West Pike.

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