Can the holodeck recreate smells? Is it accurate, or does it suffer the same resolution problems as the replicators?
So if I asked the computer to recreate Troi from the transporter records, and then smelled her asshole, would I be smelling the REAL Troi's asshole, or just something generic?
I don't know user but you're asking the right questions.
Shit that's a good question... Considering how complicated scenarios in there can get, with numerous holographic people, I can't imagine that it'd replicate every person's smell accurately. But if you're in an open field it might be able to do environmental stuff?
The resolution probably depends on the complexity of the scene. Recreating Troi in an otherwise empty room would deliver a highly accurate asshole smell, but recreating Troi in a complicated "set", with a hundred or so other NPCs, may lower the level of detail.
At that point, the computer probably defines an asshole palette with a handful of values, and selects from it randomly for each NPC.
Like, real deal fellas, what is the fucking science behind this shit?
something generic
and why would you want to smell her arse when she's got a perfectly good pussy?
go smell quarks arse.
Better question. Can I taste her piss
There is no canon evidence for Ferengi having an anus in the first place.
I think this would probably be replicated, same as the food they eat in a holodeck game - so you could have holo-Troi piss into a cup for you, but it wouldn't quite taste like the real thing. It would just be a kind of off brand, generic piss, not Troi-piss.
in the pilot episode they explain its a combination of replicator, force fields, and holograms. so yes, the parts necessary to the sensation of smell would be replicated.
it would not be generic, because he said "from transporter records" that's specific down to the subatomic level.
agreed.
>because he said "from transporter records" that's specific down to the subatomic level
The records themselves are, but can the holo-projectors recreate data at that resolution?
I imagine it would be like trying to render a color image on a black and white monitor - the data is there, but it might not be represented in the output.
I think you would smell something, and it would be close, but the real thing would be noticeably different. Just like the flavor of replicated food.
The holodeck is just photons somehow creating solid, textured objects. I doubt it would smell like anything unless some other design is at work, something like the food synthesizers.
>olodeck is just photons somehow creating solid, textured objects
It would smell like static electricity and ozone
So basically it would kill you from long exposure.
Yes, as would any asshole
here's another question:
would YOU be able to render the resolution; is your sense of smell accurate enough to tell the difference between Troys asshole on taco Tuesday and Dr Crushers on Spaghetti Wednesday? how would you even have a metric?
It would bother me on a purely intellectual level to know that I didn't REALLY know what Troi's asshole smelled like, even if it all basically registered as "yep, that's an asshole" in my brain. But yeah, I honestly don't know if I'd be able to tell the difference.
For the metric, I guess you could probably have the real Troi spread her cheeks next to the holo-Troi, and do some comparison sniffs, at least in theory. Though realistically, if Troi is willing to do that already, maybe smelling her holographic anus is a waste of time.
Still, I'm inclined to think that holodecks DO have some ability to replicate smell now that I've thought about it further. S31 trapped Bashir in a holo-sim, and he (initially) had no idea - if holodecks always gave off a distinctive ozone smell, or NO smell, he would have noticed. And maybe the fact that he didn't notice right away means that the holodeck smells are close enough that you can't really tell the difference.
So yeah, in theory, you could catalog the assholes of every female crewmember if you wanted, provided they had taken a transporter at some point.
bump, /r/random needs more of this, and less shit
do you think Troi's asshole aroma was a steady-state or a super-position in an energy band u fucking plebe?
fickle as it was (Troi's asshole) and changeable, of course it shifted with the times and did not always exude the same butthole nature at all times of the day. THIS IS ELEMENTARY
Your questions is subject to a wide variety of currently unknown variables. Expecting that you would arrive at your desired conclusion without adequately setting perimeters is improbable.
i wonder what the IP law looks like for that. like do they retain ownership of their assholes likeness after the use the transporter. what if they transport to my house, do i get a copy to sniff whenever? i wonder what the fappening implications are with this. like if someone hacked the transporter and distributed the files.
further, there is a current debate over whether loli reduces a potential predators likely-hood of actually committing a crime. so would allowing strangers, coworkers the rape holo Troys be normal? bear in mind this is a communist society, there is common ownership.
>you need to turn the safety perameters off.
If you acquire transporter lock WITHOUT transporting someone, are you still storing the same level of data?
If so, you could basically just program the holodeck to do a status check on Troi each time the program was run, and get an up-to-date version.
And if the transporter data is kept in logs, you might be able to get a few different versions, i.e. if today's Troi is really sweaty after returning from an away mission, just rollback to yesterday's Troi.
Just actually talking about this the other day while watching TNG, and how complex the holodeck actually is. For example the Ep where Riker is almost killed, and the Doctor inadvertantly blows himself and the space station up. They determined that the Holodeck had recreated the room to such a degree of accuracy that the beacon on the surface had continued sending the Krieger Waves (or whateve they were called). So yea, Id guess you could smell whatever of whomever you'd like with accurate medical records. On the other hand, as DS9 would have it, those records aren't available as Quark had to take his own pictures of Kira to make a Holorsuite character.
>not wanting to smell Keiko's asshole instead
Anyway, using tesselation and culling techniques you only render in detail what's close enought to matter. So, even in woodstock event simulation, Troi's butthole smell will be perfect because it will be the only asshole near enough to render the smell.
its not what you'd think it be like
Geordi was clearly getting a whiff of the engineer that designed the Galaxy class, so I don't know that the IP protection is that robust.
The Ferengi might have some system to patent the vaginal likeness of their Dabo girls, but that's as far as it goes.
ALL YALL NIGGAS SLEEPIN ON TASHA YAR Y'ALL
There's no need for a holodeck, if she'll fuck a slimy and cold android, she'll fuck anything.
Quark probably just doesn't have access to transporter logs. If he did, having a holo Kira for sale would have been a lot more seamless.
Doing god's work, OP.