An idea planted itself in my brain today whilst Laura and I were talking about Star Trek and Holodecks (yes we had the inevitable “how gross would it be to clean the Holodeck after Riker used it?” conversation).
The idea came that maybe O’Brien was a secret twentieth century movie fan. The theory went that he would pass the time recreating the movies he loved in the Holodeck, with himself in the central role. So far, so good as he played Chief Brody in Jaws, Tony Montana in Scarface, Benjamin in The Graduate. As a particularly tongue in cheek moment he would be Han Solo in Star Wars. You get the idea anyway…
It all goes well until he recreates Saturday night fever. He rocks up on the Holodeck but forgets his costume. Not a problem, he could just knock one up in the Holodeck. Now adorned in the famous white suit he begins to dance and strut. Then, just as he is really getting it to it, his comm badge beeps.
“Miles O’Brien, please report to engineering”
With a sigh he ends the programme and still strutting leaves the Holodeck. He struts down the corridor to some strange looks. He enters the turbo lift where a shocked Riker and Picard standing either side of him stare with disbelief. The problem is that Holographic white suit disappeared when he ended the programme and Miles is standing there, oblivious to the fact he is now only wearing a pair of tiny black pants.
I know that the Holodeck is linked to the replicators but that wouldn’t be as funny. Now I can’t get the bloody idea of Miles O’Brien strutting into the turbo lift in his tiny black pants out my head.
This lockdown has really started to take its toll on me..
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