You're literally just handwaving all the issues. Which is completely fine, as long as you stop pretending there's some actually reasonable science behind this fantasy-machine.

There is, and...

Saying "volumetric displays and forcefields" doesn't make it rational

... It does.

But that's OK. You don't have to understand it.

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 2w ago

I provided you with an actual photograph with a quote that's clearly showing that holographic food isn't real,

No you didn't. You showed a photograph of Quark complaining about giving away free stuff. Other sources from Star Trek episodes themselves have verbally explained the holodeck replicates.

Go watch Encounter at Farpoint again.

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 2w ago

I'm still going to ask where you're getting "all the food is real" from?

First episode of TNG describes the holodeck replicating things for authenticity, specifically when Riker got his suit wet for real with water from the holodeck.

There have been multiple instances of this after the very first episode too.

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 2w ago

Yeah, a bad copy that's not affecting all of your senses as has lots of limitations?

Maybe because it's older technology than a holodeck? You do understand how the progress of technology usually involves the solving of problems and limitations, right?

That's all the answer you need.

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 2w ago

The emphasis of this scene is that the food is for free. Not that the holodeck can't replicate food.

However, there are other issues here. Firstly, it's not a federation holodeck. Secondly, for some reason they're not called holodecks either, but holosuites. This isn't a direct comparison.

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 2w ago

I mean... If you're wearing a VR headset and move via treadmill... Then you're pretty much halfway towards what holodeck does already. So now imagine it's a few centuries into the future.

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 2w ago

That's because a holodeck isn't merely a projection on the walls. It's been described a few times as a complex array of volumetric displays, forcefields, and replicated materials that shift around the individuals participating in the holodeck.