Talk:Emergence (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

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Curious objection: Towards the end of the episode, after the created intelligent lifeform leaves the Enterprise, Councillor Troi, Worf and Data are seen celebrating along with the rest of the passengers aboard the "Orient Express" recreated in the Holodeck. Shortly after the lifeform departs, the Holodeck program ends and all Holodeck created matter dissappear, however Councillor Troi, Worf and Data are still seen holding glasses with beverages, presumably generated by the Holodeck program.

I think the holodeck is capable of replicating things. Remember that holographic bullets can kill if the safety settings are off.

... holedeck work on a principle of light and forcefields. which means sensory inputs of sight, touch, sound. Though I'm curious to taste and smell. There holodeck often has lingering objects.

Holographic bullets kill, yes, but not because of the mass or composition but rather because of the disruption to the organic systems. Shock. Bloodloss. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.175.184.32 (talk) 00:54, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

... :... As explained in a previous episode (I forget which one), the holodeck works on a combination of illusion and replication. First, the computer subtly alters the setting to make scenes look larger than would seem possible based on the limited size of the holodeck. Second, the computer uses the ship's replicator to create items that the crew interacts with, such as a gun or the glasses of champagne. The glasses the three are holding are as real as if created by the ship's replicator. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.88.133.84 (talk) 02:35, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

See also

Similar to the points I have made about the see also section of the Galaxy's Child article on its talk page, the 'See also' section of this article is to my mind equally problematic. While there could be seen to be similarities between developments in this episode and The Offspring (although the circumstances are different), the relevance to some of the other episodes is rather more tenuous - in Galaxies Child for instance a baby space creature imprints on the Enterprise, but is not the ship's offspring nor is it created by a machine. Moreover, the inclusion of B'Elanna Torres on the grounds 'This Star Trek: Voyager tv show character has a pregnant' seems rather random and in some ways inappropriate. It is not as if Torres is the only Star Trek character ever to be pregnant/give birth (for example Major Kira in DS9 had a notable pregnancy) and there is no obvious relevance between Torres' pregnancy and the creation of the new life form in this episode. Also I noted that Emergence was itself in the see also. I have removed this as there is no way the same article should ever be referred to in a see also section. Dunarc (talk) 19:30, 19 November 2018 (UTC) edited Dunarc (talk) 20:29, 22 November 2018 (UTC) amended by Dunarc (talk) 20:36, 9 March 2019 (UTC)