In Star Trek, there are HOLODECKS and FOOD REPLICATORS.......?

Question

If matter and energy are connected, and cannot be destroyed, only changed. Why can't holodeck characters come into the real world where food from the replicators can appear out of thin air with substance with nutrional value?

I just thought this would be a fun, but inquiring question. I'm not a science guy, just a trek fan..... and I don't do the dress up thing..... just thought I'd make that clear...... no offence ment to those that do.

Any thoughts on this?

Live Long and Prosper!

I KNOW IT'S SCIENCE FICTION.....

Scientist are looking into the possibilities of matter - anti-matter propulsion, transporter technology. We already have communicators (cellphones) and tricorders (sensing devices).

Sorry if you are too unimaginative to even consider the concept. Narrow minded people never did anything good for this world.

Answer 1

I am a fan too also not a psyco one...and I have thought about this before...they describe the holodecks as "Photons and force fields" which obviously means what it says but the replicators I believe use organic matter which they can convert to anything else...ever notice how they talk about replicator rations being low etc, they never do explain what matter they use to fuel the matter conversion technology of the replicators but it is different because the holodeck only traps photonic energy inside force fields it isnt actually solid matter.

Answer 2

Ignore the trolls. I suppose that inanimate objects on a holodeck would be able to be taken out of the holodeck. There was one episode of the Next Generation where holodeck snow was thrown out into the main hall. However, interactive characters (people, animals, etc.) would require the computer's AI to generate responses, so they would need to be maintained on the holodeck.

It hasn't been the most consistent. One episode had characters walk out of the holodeck, but they faded away, while another had an object tossed out of the door and instantly disappear. But I see no reason why a holodeck could not function as a make-shift replicator.

Answer 3

Hi:

The answer to that is a follows:

One: the people that made them limited to the holo-deck for one thing so that they do not cause trouble with the ships operations and

2) to avoid the problem of whet-ever or not their a sentient being or not. they program them only with response only or pre-program pattern and not adding or giving them intelligent which a they seem to to do at some times

3) They need projectors to be in the real world in order to leave the Hol- deck in fact on the star ship Voyager their only one projector for the sickbay and that for the emergency medical hologram to be used normally when the ship real doctor in unable to perform his duty's or there is a massive number of wounded than the ship doctor can handle at one time.

4) it take a lot of energy to make real matter. so they are limit to the holo-deck or sick bay until they found away thru some 64th technology

5) What the replicators do is take existing matter from the air and the ship stores of atoms and nano assembled them into the pre-progamed patterns that are store into the ship's computer systems. Food is complex organic molecules that are very simple to make, where as something like human beings and animals and plants are very much more complex and and require a lot more memory than the ship computer can hold so they are almost impossible to make physically solid or real and they require the object to be a live which they do not have the technology to do

Answer 4

I think holodeck characters would be able to come into the real world, but what would be the point?

As I understand the characters are controlled by the computer? What would be the point of having essentially a flesh and blood computer when the computers in Star Trek are much more useful when 'in the walls'.

Answer 5

There are books published which list the many inconsistencies associated with the Star Trek series. The holo-deck is one of many. The theory is that the matter created inside the holodeck only exists there because it needs projectors only available on the holodeck.

Food replicators, on the other hand, take existing edible matter and merely rearrange its molecular structure to make it look, smell, and taste like what you ordered.

Answer 6

I don't appreciate the disrespectful attitude of others.

Although both the Holodeck and the Food Replicators are based on Transporter Technology, in the case of the former they don't WANT them leaving the enclosed area of the Holodeck, (might get in trouble) so it was designed to keep them restricted. They have a similitude of solidity that's temporary and dependent on the local emitters. However, when it comes to food, they WANT it to be solid and permanent, so it borrows atoms and configures them to match a pre-existing matrix. The result is identical to the master item scanned and put in the Replicator's memory.

Answer 7

Personally, I always though the holodecks were the least believable of all the unbelievable technology of Star Trek. Another pretty unbelievable thing is how the transporter needs no equipment at the other end to transport to, not like 2 way radio at all.

Answer 8

The food replicators change matter held in storage on a different part of the ship (could even be waste matter). Using transporter tech and advanced nanotechnology- in theory, cellular bonds and nutritional values can be changed- and adjusted to just about any level if you can modify things on an elemental scale.

Holodeck characters stay holograms. How they have apparent physical contact with "real" characters is something else...

Answer 9

Because you need a holo emitter to produce an animated "image". There are no holo emitters outside of the deck. You could use the same synthesis technology that is used in the replicator to produce an actual blob of matter that could exist outside of the holodek, but how would you make it react to its surroundings?

Answer 10

Everything in our known universe is made up from some form of mater-antimatter. If you were to have the blueprint for each and every object and a device in which to arrange the molecules correctly, then yes you could replicate food,tree's,cars,well you get it. so it's like every thing has a DNA that bring us to a specific way are molecules are arranged.
hummm! wounder who has are blueprint????