Holodeck Computer (Enterprise Ship Computer Holodeck Subroutine)
Purpose
To load, run, regulate, and adjudicate holodeck and shipboard simulation programs: accept voice and console commands, enforce safety and program constraints, modulate environmental and force‑field parameters, record simulated 'hits', and trigger precise timing events during tactical simulations.
Significance
Serves as the technological arena and literal referee for the episode’s tests of command, strategy, and identity: it enables Kolrami’s war game, becomes the opponent and symbolic foil in Data’s Strategema defeat, and functions as the timing and deception engine behind the Hathaway ruse. Its rulings convert intellectual contests into public humiliations, its timing locks in life‑risking gambits, and its clinical authority forces officers to shoulder moral responsibility, exposing human frailty and Data’s shaken infallibility.
Appearances in the Narrative
When this object appears and how it's used