From: jjaslow@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jason (Jazzie) Jaslow)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Holodecks
Date: 20 Dec 92 03:30:00 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Dec20.005008.28738@samba.oit.unc.edu> Jem.Lewis@launchpad.unc.edu (Jem Lewis) writes:
>In article <BzHH12.5n@mach1.wlu.ca> mart4678@mach1.wlu.ca (Phil Martin u) writes:
>>
>>First, the holograms in the holodeck have the properties of matter. They are
>>supposedly a 'special kind of energy' unique to the holodeck that is converted
>>into a 'special kind of matter' that is also unique to the holodeck. If you
>>pick up a 'holo-stone' and try to take it out with you, it dissapears at the
>>door. Does anyone remember the episode where Data is matching wits with 
>>Moriarty, who decides to try to leave the holodeck?
>>
>So why does Wesley come out of the Holodeck dripping wet in _Encounter at
>Farpoint_?  Shouldn't the water have disappeared?
>Just a thought.
>
>Jem Lewis
>
>
>jlewis@polar.bowdoin.edu


The way I understand it, is that matter is truly made in the holdeck.
There is some large scale replicator in the holdeck that acutally
creates the water, the snow, the piece of paper, the matter of a
persons body, etc. in the room.  Since this matter is like any other
replicated matter, it is able to leave the holodeck.  But once out of
the room it is no longer under the control of the holodeck's force
fields and is simply a peice of whatever.

  This explains how Geordi could take Moriarty's picture of the
Enterprise out of the room, how Wesley could throw a snowball at
Picard and how he could be dripping wet outside of the holodeck.

	On the other hand, when that Mobster guy tried to leave the
holodeck, he dissolved.  Perhaps the computer (or the writers)
believed it would be in bad taste to have a dead, piece of flesh lying
down the hall from the holodeck and de-replicated it.  It knew the
other objects left the control of the room but these objects can be
used outside ther room, unlike a "mannequin" of a Mobster.

Jason T. Jaslow

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