TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

I think the first case is because the norms and social mores of the age would never be okay with someone doing that, so there are no technical stops in place due to social stops.

The second case is just TV convenience. No way a society with a perfect holodeck doesn't either lock or has moved past any sexual hangups that a 90s TV audience would have.

More to the point of the "sexy deck", if there were no locks and people are still prudes, people would not just be fucking away 10ft from the door instead of instancing themselves hundreds of virtual miles away first. Everyone would put at least one Sherwood Forrest between themselves and people snooping.

To be fair, I already share my location with multiple friends and family. That cat is out of the proverbial bag.

I can easily see the enterprise defaulting to sharing locations, unless asked otherwise. I can also see the crew not caring, unless it's actually being abused.

proceeds to barge in on negotiations with the Romulans that are about to trigger a war.

ON THE BRIDGE NO LESS! Like he apparently has full authorization to go to critical areas of the ship - bridge, engineering, deflector control, etc. (I know he didn't go those places that we saw, but plenty of other visitors have.)

TBF with Riker it just saves time on contacting everyone.

Not just the discussions--the sick bay bed is just like 4 feet from the door. No screens or nothin. What do they do for prostate exams?

While I do agree that patient privacy is especially bad in the shows, I've overheard plenty of diagnoses while waiting in waiting rooms and emergency rooms. I don't try to, but people aren't as quiet as they thin they are I guess.

So yeah, I've absolutely heard some rando in the next bed over has chlamydia because they and their doctor were openly discussing it with 10 other people within earshot.

Is that why they always have windows between the living room and bathroom?

A sizeable one.

Paid up front jn gold-pressed latinum.

To be fair, if you aren't supposed to access something, the computer will let you know that proceeding will sound a mildly worded alarm to the captain about it, and luckily you can just say "nah just kidding" and the computer doesn't think about it again.

And if you aren't supposed to access an area, it may or may not prevent you from opening a door, depending on what the plot needs. Probably let you in and wait for someone to ask where you are to let them know you're in restricted areas.

I mean, they're security guidelines for a reason.

Risa is more of "vacation planet"

And singles going on vacation are gonna try to smash. It just happens that it's fairly easy to find someone willing on an entire planet as long as you don't straight up punch them in the face. And people reeeeeeeally like their horga'hns.

And couples on vacation are going to smash.

Considering the body count that Avenue 5 has, I watch in constant fear that they'll kill off Ethan Philips' character.

I think the writers are aware of this, and may be using it to manipulate my emotions.