LogFAQs > #952593990

Again, even on the starships, there are limited number of holodecks and you see only the officers using them in general. in addition on DS9 Quark etc would rent them out, and they were expensive, so you can see that they are not available to anyone. Even the captain etc doesn't have his own holodeck to use anytime he wants.

And these are starships, so it makes sense that such resources would be even more in demand and used less often on actual earth etc (since the need for a holodeck on a space ship is obviously far greater).

Replicators etc do make most things easy to obtain but they are still powered by dylithian crystals or whatever, which are a valuable commodity, so yeah, even on earth there are still resource problems and restrictions on what you can use etc.

In the newest star trek show, the universe basically had a massive explosion type thing with warp drives or something and I think the Federation basically went poof (didn't watch the last season past the first few episodes but that was the gist I got). It's obviously at that point in time that resources are in short supply and even though technology has advanced the average person certainly isn't living in a eutopia at that point.

Anyway Star Trek seems to be one of the few futuristic shows where VR and holodecks etc have not caused the masses to become addicted etc, most others at least have it treated like a drug.

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