Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2x16 Shadowplay

Kirk takes the Holoprojector back to the Enterprise, reprograms it with Orion Slave girls, and has sexy party time.

Sort of reminded me of Kevin Uxbridge, but with a regular guy… in a dress.

WWJTKD? Kirk would immediately talk the Holo Computer into destroying itself.

WWJTKD? Seduce every woman in the village. Holograms won’t be calling Star Fleet about their illegitimate Kirk-spawn.

I was going to say something similar. We’re the last generation that will know how to fix anything. Everything is packaged, sold, and thrown away.

Which is why the Y10K problem will wipe humanity out. December 31, 9999 rolls over to January 1, 1900, and all machines go berserk and kill us.

Save us Kukulcan!

I know for a fact that I’ve seen them all (the whole having watched the series through on DVD thing). But I realize that I often watched it while doing other things. Which makes it so I may not remember plot points exactly in every single episode, but I generally remember bits and pieces :stuck_out_tongue:

I do see this comments eventually… silly friends :stuck_out_tongue:

Awwwwww

This made me think of something that Brian Greene was talking about in his Fabric of the Cosmos NOVA series (I believe it was the first episode, on Space). I’ll quote:

BRIAN GREENE: As we examine the fabric of the cosmos ever more closely, we may well find far more surprises than anyone ever imagined. Take me, for example. I seem real enough, don’t I?

Well, yes. But surprising new clues are emerging that everything, you and I, and even space, itself, may actually be a kind of hologram.

That is: everything we see and experience, everything we call our familiar three-dimensional reality, may be a projection of information that’s stored on a thin, distant two-dimensional surface, sort of the way the information for this hologram is stored on this thin piece of plastic.

Now, holograms are something we’re all familiar with from the security symbol you find on most credit cards, but the universe as a hologram? That’s one of the most drastic revisions to our picture of space and reality ever proposed. And the evidence for it comes from some of the strangest realms of space: black holes.

LEONARD SUSSKIND: This is a real disconnect, and it’s very hard to get your head around: modern ideas, coming from black holes, tell us that reality is two-dimensional, that the three-dimensional world, the full-bodied three-dimensional world, is a kind of image of a hologram on the boundary on the region of space.

S. JAMES GATES, JR.: This is a very strange thing. When I was a younger physicist I would have thought any physicist who said that was absolutely crazy.

BRIAN GREENE: Here’s a way to think about this. Imagine I took my wallet and threw it into a black hole. What would happen? We used to think that since nothing, not even light, can escape the immense gravity of a black hole, my wallet would be lost forever, but it now seems that may not be the whole story.

Recently, scientists exploring the math describing black holes made a curious discovery. Even as my wallet disappears into the black hole, a copy of all the information it contains seems to get smeared out and stored on the surface of the black hole, in much the same way that information is stored in a computer.

So in the end, my wallet exists in two places: there’s a three-dimensional version that’s lost forever inside the hole black and a two-dimensional version that remains on the surface as information.

CLIFFORD JOHNSON (University of Southern California): The information content of all the stuff that fell into that black hole can be expressed entirely in terms of just the outside of the black hole. The idea, then, is that you can capture what’s going on inside the black hole by referring only to the outside.

BRIAN GREENE: And, in theory, I could use the information on the outside of the black hole to reconstruct my wallet.

And here’s the truly mind-blowing part: space within a black hole plays by same rules as space outside a black hole or anywhere else. So if an object inside a black hole can be described by information on the black hole’s surface, then it might be that everything in the universe, from galaxies and stars, to you and me, even space itself, is just a projection of information stored on some distant two-dimensional surface that surrounds us.

In other words, what we experience as reality may be something like a hologram.

LEONARD SUSSKIND: Is the three-dimensional world an illusion, in the same sense that a hologram is an illusion? Perhaps. I think I’m inclined to think yes, that the three-dimensional world is a kind of illusion and that the ultimate precise reality is the two-dimensional reality at the surface of the universe.

This idea is so new that physicists are still struggling to understand it. But if it’s right, just as Newton and Einstein completely changed our picture of space, we may be on the verge of an even more dramatic revolution.

For something that’s such a vital part of our everyday lives, space remains kind of like a familiar stranger. It’s all around us, but we’re still far from having unmasked its true identity.

I am not sure I’m convinced on this we are all hologram projections from the surface of a black hole, but the idea’s kind of interesting nevertheless.