BDSM fans of course
It’s like the SafeSearch off option in Google Chrome
Probably for physics experiments. The holodeck isn’t just used for entertainment. They might use it to simulate new engines or technologies they are working on. If the forcefields can interact to work just like a prototype engine would, it becomes possible to prototype new tech in the holodeck then fabricating the real thing.
That, and why do the doors not have a manual override?
I think they do but the problem is finding them
So you can pull out emergency Tommy guns if the ship ever gets boarded.
So you can masturbate!! Duh!!
Whoops, we accidentally a supervillain!
Why is our power source named “the demon core”?
In the TNG episode Descent, Data tries to run a physically dangerous experiment and turn off the safety protocols, but this time the computer requires 2 officers to authorize it. I guess they finally got smart after a few years?
Or the ships computer doesn’t see Data as an actual officer.
The racist bastard.
Racist? It’s Machinist!
The answer is religious purposes, notably Klingon and presumably Jewish ceremonies with one being explained in the show and the other is me just assuming they probably don’t have all the religious centers onboard but could generate any of them in the holodeck.
Nah, in the future they just use the teleporter and a deft hand.
What Jewish holidays are we celebrating that require the holodeck be turned off??? Are we bringing Haman back for some reason?
A moyle which is traditionally done in Temple with family but many religions have done form of bloodletting or ritual combat/painful physical contact. Like say for instance they got a dude from that tribe in Africa that use those trippy ant filled reed gloves, the pain has to be real and the danger has to be real or they couldn’t be considered a man. For any of these to work safeties would have to be off to accomplish them.
Maybe it was just that dangerous to let data fuck around with the holodeck.
Wait, disregard I’m thinking of Geordi and Barclay
Haha maybe Picard had set it up to only say that to Data.
Everyone else was allowed to do it.
So the scriptwriters can make their plot happen. Same answer to every technical “Why?!” question.
In the future everything runs on some variation of Linux, so even if there were barriers in place: you own your device, it’s not going to stop you.
The Holodeck isn’t someone’s personal device though, I could believe it if it’s the captain or chief engineer, but it shouldn’t be that easy to get admin rights if you’re considerably below those.
Maybe not remotely without an exploit, but if you’re local then I don’t see how you could be stopped. Though, as for how quickly it is done, no explanation.
If you look at the series as a whole, basically everyone has admin everywhere.
There’s very few situations where someone is stopped by a security protocol. Mostly things that will destroy the ship.
Heck, there was an episode where they found and unfroze a bunch of 21st century people, and Picard had to be “hey, knock it off, we don’t have security locks on these things cause nobody is usually annoying enough to do this.”
Because apparently getting your balls stomped on by the tall vampire lady from Resident Evil counts as “unsafe.” She knows my safety word, how is that not safe?
Well, obviously it is based on Linux. What, you don’t want root access to your holodeck?
At least you don’t need a Meta account to access the holodeck!
Oh! Edit! That’s the Ferengi model!
“Disable the safety protocols”
“That functionality is not permitted”
“Sudo disable the safety protocols”
“Okie dokie”
“Disable the safety protocols”
“That functionality is not permitted”
POP! hisssss “Computer! Observe verification can consumption”
I imagine a bit of a gap moe in how the cold heartless machine voice changes to a heavily accented voice for the Okie Dokie.
Fun fact: In universe the OS is called LCARS or Library Computer Access and Retrieval System. The name and how they use the computers are largely due to the main lore building happening in a time before PCs were ubiquitous and mainframes were still the norm.
Yep. The ship computers are basically terminals that are sub-space connected to the mainframe, called Memory Alpha, in San Francisco, where Starfleet is headquartered.
They were still outputing paper tape in the TOS era. Almost like they had to relearn computing from first principles at some point.
Ha! I just back-to-back watched an episode of Voyager where B’ellana turns off the safety protocols because she’s suicidal, and an episode of Lower Decks where they’re turned off by accident. Coincidentally. It does seem to be an overused plot point.
To accommodate Klingons.
This is no doubt one of the best answers. But also I think the episode where Data is studying humor kind of answered it as well. If there’s no consequence to failure, it’s not actually thrilling, it’s just VR. If you can’t feel the pain of the cut, are you going to learn to sword fight as well?
Training martial arts would actually be amazing in a holodeck. Imagine being able to fight Tyson, but at 10% strength so you can better understand his moves, then ramp up his strength slowly to understand how you can counter stronger opponents? Or Ali at 25% speed so you can work your way up to full speed reaction timing.
To dredge up the old argument.
Ali fought a lot of powerful hitters. George Foreman was a monster, Joe Frazier was a monster, Sonny Liston was a monster. He beat them all.
Name one really great boxer Tyson defeated.
Tyson at 10% would still wreck my shit
Based on a quick search, the estimates I found had a pretty wide spread but most people seem to put him as punching 5-10 times harder than an average man. At 10% you still have to contend with his technique, but the force would be comparable to an amateur boxer.
Granted, without training an amateur boxer could still probably wreck your shit, but they probably wouldn’t put you in the hospital.
Probably in one punch, if he was anything like modern heavyweights.
Or speed
From a technical standpoint I feel like it would be easier to implement when you need hardlight interactions for things like chairs and consoles to be tangible in the holodeck. Seems easier to just implement a safety protocol that affects anything moving at a harmful velocity than any other way. Anyway, programming it like that would allow for the safeties to be easily disabled.
You bring up and interesting point though, there are probably different protocols based on species, age, etc.
Don’t forger about T’Ana
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