Last week's Strange New Worlds ends with the characters concluding that the holodeck is way too dangerous and should be shelved, and apparently a hundred years later everyone decided the entertainment value was worth the risk. And you know what, that's relatable.
Abigail - spoilers! I watched the first couple of minutes and lost the will to live but I know I’ll watch it this week.
What gets particularly insane is VOYAGER, where they establish pretty conclusively that holograms are sentient beings with all the rights thereof, and then absolutely nobody changes their behavior or usage patterns at all.
The change seems to have been "well, TRY not to create new artificial life; oh, you did? whoopsie"
And that’s after they’d gone through the effectively the same process with Data.
Scotty offering to fix things by giving the holodeck its own computer and power was funny. I love the suggestion that TNG holodecks are even harder to control or turn off because people who weren't Scotty tried to finish his half-formed ideas
