Ultimate Hide and Seek move there. Having holodeck just making you invisible but looking like it’s off. That is until some cheating start scanning for life signs.
I wonder if you could fake it by naming it something that sounds like an unmanned diagnostic simulation instead… Visitors not familiar with the maintenance routines of starship holodecks might be fooled by it.
(And as we’ve seen, cybersecurity in the 24th Century leaves a lot to be desired, so spoofing a diagnostic is probably still possible)
Ultimate Hide and Seek move there. Having holodeck just making you invisible but looking like it’s off. That is until some cheating start scanning for life signs.
Doesn’t the holodeck have a panel that displays if there’s a program running? Anyone walking by can see it’s running program PicardTotallyNotHiding01.
I wonder if you could fake it by naming it something that sounds like an unmanned diagnostic simulation instead… Visitors not familiar with the maintenance routines of starship holodecks might be fooled by it.
(And as we’ve seen, cybersecurity in the 24th Century leaves a lot to be desired, so spoofing a diagnostic is probably still possible)