"In this episode, the Holodeck fantasy life of a crewman aboard the Federation Starfleet starship USS Enterprise-D interferes with his ability to deal with malfunctions which threaten the ship."
Great friggin episode. Dwight Shultz was amazing as the social inept Lt. Barclay. You may remember Shultz as Murdock on the A-Team. Or as guest radio host to Michael Savage??? Anyway, he was good.
Lt. Barclay is beyond socially awkward, he's a complete human travesty. The only time he can socialize is in the holodeck. Where of all things he recreates the Three Musketeers. You can literally create ANYTHING ... I mean ANYTHING. Hmm, yeah, the Three Musketeers. Seriously?
Of course the episode must have the trusty, "Enterprise is going to explode in five minutes" scene. Guess who saves the day?? Pretty obvious. My absolute favorite part about this episode is that in the end Lt. Barclay does not change. He is still a miserable and pathetic, social disaster. Yes, he is indeed a Trekkie.
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Lt Barclay!!! Finally! I love this guy, he is such a loser. I can totally relate
They always use the holo deck for "historical" fantasies!!?? It's never sci-fi fantasies ! What would sci-fi be like in the Star Trek universe? Would they even read sci-fi? They are really living it!? What do the people in Star Trek think their future will be like?? Even more revealing bathrobes?
-yours truly,
Capt.Naps
This would make my top twenty best Trek episodes of all time, across every series. It's just brilliant and perfectly captures everything that Star Trek does well: Human interest, comedy, romance, and science fiction.
Here's my question though: Why does everybody acted so shocked and pissed off that Barclay is using the greatest entertainment invention in the history of mankind in order to actually have fun. Everybody is so mad that he created and probably fucked Troi on there. Who on that ship wouldn't fuck Troi on the Holodeck? Hell, I'd work through the entire crew one by one and fuck them all. Why not? I'd be recreating hippos and shit and fucking them.
Have fun with your Dixon Hill and your Sherlock Holmes fantasies. The rest of the crew are just in there fucking shit. Seriously, how many gallons of come must the Enterprise sanitzation crew mop out of their every night?
"Hmm... let's see. Computer, what haven't I fucked yet?"
"There are 34 billion, 846 million, 392 thousand and sixteen known lifeforms in the Federation databases with which you have yet to fornicate."
"Damn! This is gonna take longer than I thought. Well, gotta start somewhere. Computer... create a neon red 1995 Mazda Miatta... and stick a vagina on the back."
That is really so true. You just know the kind of crazy shit that goes on in there.
I'm ashamed of the things I do alone in my apartment and it's only the 21st century. I don't want a holodeck.
I think in star trek people are so mature and high minded that they don't act like perverts??? would human nature change that much in the future?? would guys stop being creeps? and women stop being crazy???
I think it's just like when some serial killer's computer is looked at, and the media is like, "He had a huge porn collection." And everybody has to act all shocked, even though everybody who has the Internet has a porn stash.
Well, except me. Just not worth taking the chance now that I'm married!
That's also why you gave up serial killing.
Touche Justin
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