Object

Holodeck Program: Dixon Hill (1945 Noir)

A full‑scale holodeck simulation that reconstructs a 1945 Dixon Hill private office and gumshoe milieu: rain‑streaked windows, low desk lamps, smoky air, and period furnishings rendered as holographic set pieces and tactile force‑field shapes. The program manifests as an immersive environment tailored for role‑play—Picard steps into the space wearing a trenchcoat and fedora and inhabits the hard‑boiled persona. The COMPUTER VOICE summons and stabilizes the program while Picard uses the simulated office and its props to enact investigative rituals and to physically withdraw from shipboard obligations.

3 appearances

Purpose

To present an immersive, interactive 1945 noir environment for user recreation and role‑play, enabling a crew member (here, Picard) to perform psychological containment and structured escapism within the holodeck.

Significance

Serves as Picard’s emotional refuge and narrative staging ground: it displaces duty with fantasy, establishes the noir case that propels the episode’s plot, and thematically mirrors the masks and roles characters adopt aboard the Enterprise.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments

S2E19 · Manhunt

Dixon Hill: Picard’s Noir Refuge

The Dixon Hill holodeck program is invoked explicitly by Picard to instantiate a 1945 San Francisco private-eye environment. It functions as the narrative container for Picard's role-play, a cognitive tool for emotional containment, and the literal stage into which he steps to displace present pressures.

Before: Loaded/available in ship systems and awaiting activation; program data present but inactive.

After: Activated and engaged with the Captain inside, the simulation now running and sustaining Chandlerland surroundings.

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S2E19 · Manhunt

Holodeck Shatters: Real Blood in Chandlerland

The Chandlerland holodeck program provides the noir environment framing the action. It supplies the aesthetic props, characters and physics that blur role-play and reality. The program's simulated thug becomes physically dangerous, forcing the program itself into the narrative as both refuge and threat.

Before: Actively running the Chandlerland (1945 noir) simulation with Picard inhabiting Dixon Hill.

After: Remains running, but its capacity to safely simulate violence is now suspect; the program's reliability is thematically and operationally compromised.

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S2E19 · Manhunt

Bloodied Exit — Persona as a Shield

The Dixon Hill holodeck program supplies the Chandlerland Hallway setting and its props; the program's hyper-realism facilitates a violent encounter that produces tangible harm and frames Picard's decision to embody Dixon Hill as a coping strategy.

Before: Active and operating, projecting the Chandlerland Hallway and characters (thug, secretary) as part of the simulation.

After: Remains active and implicated in the incident; its realism is now problematically confirmed by the presence of real injury.

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