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     That is absolutely not true at all. Holodeck programs have exhibited
all these things when we were aboard the Enterprise so you can't say that
if you do believe that it is poor writing that it has not been a problem
since TNG... that is, if I can not convince you in the next few lines.
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I have no problem with that statement.  The holodeck always HAS been an
example of very poor writing on Star Trek.  It's definitely the silliest
innovation for the TNG series.

It's simply an outlook for writers who get tired of writing science fiction,
and want to do a pulp detective story, or a fantasy, or Sherlock Holmes, or
whatever.

A better solution would have been to hire writers who never get tired of
sci-fi.