• grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      Let’s be honest: you’re gonna end up like Barclay, with a holo-porn addiction instead.

        • SiliconAvatar@startrek.websiteEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          There may be a joke flying over my head here, but Barclay only appears, having rather consequential holo addition issues, two full seasons after the Bynars’ upgrades?

          • ruuster13@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
            3·
            4 months ago

            Barclay is pretty autism-coded. I think his time in the holodeck was mostly problematic because the rest of the crew wanted him to be faster/more productive at his job. He was avoiding conflict for sure but in a neurodivergent-affirming future there could be ample support around those side effects.

            But I was just playing on Minuet’s claim that she’s as “real as you need me to be.”

            • SiliconAvatar@startrek.websiteEnglish
              5·
              4 months ago

              Barclay was evading real life conflict and pressure for sure, but also doing erotic power play with holo-versions of his crewmates… I think that last part was an early taste of our current deepfake porn reality 😬

              Either way, Lower decks made it clear that into the 2380s, cleaning out the holodeck biofilters was still the worst job on a starship:

              People really use it for that?

              Oh yeah. It’s mostly that.