If you holodeck the D and then go into the holodeck, can you use that holodeck to simulate another Starfleet vessel with a holodeck? And if so, can you then use that holodeck to replicate the process with another ship and holodeck?
How deep do you think we can go before we start to experience collapse?
In Star Trek TNG, the holodeck character Professor Molarity attempted the reverse of that. He wanted to leave the artificial confines and exit into the real world. Upon exiting and however it (the real world) appeared to Molarity, unbeknownst it was still inside a running holodeck session. And Lt. Barclay still owns that battery-poweted flash drive with that session still running in perpetuity.
I don’t see why not. If there were only one person there, the system could just not render the layers that you’re not currently in, so it could go on forever.
Wait now I have a fun follow-up question:
If you holodeck the D and then go into the holodeck, can you use that holodeck to simulate another Starfleet vessel with a holodeck? And if so, can you then use that holodeck to replicate the process with another ship and holodeck?
How deep do you think we can go before we start to experience collapse?
There’s even a Very Short Trek that addressed that idea.
In Star Trek TNG, the holodeck character Professor Molarity attempted the reverse of that. He wanted to leave the artificial confines and exit into the real world. Upon exiting and however it (the real world) appeared to Molarity, unbeknownst it was still inside a running holodeck session. And Lt. Barclay still owns that battery-poweted flash drive with that session still running in perpetuity.
One can only imagine the depravity he’s put Moriarty and his beloved through since.
I remember that episode!
I don’t see why not. If there were only one person there, the system could just not render the layers that you’re not currently in, so it could go on forever.