The Big Goodbye story
A computer malfunction traps Picard , Data , Beverly , and Whalen in a Dixon Hill holodeck program set in early-20th-century Earth.
18 total · 1 choice · 8 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| what is sentience | choice | The viewer is confronted with the question of whether or not the holodeck characters are sentient. |
| AI point of view | major | Cyrus Redblock :: holodeck characters |
| alien point of view | major | Jarada :: insectoids |
| foreign point of view | major | Captain Picard struggled to memories an elaborate greeting to ensure the Federation started off on the right foot with a race of insectoids that were sticklers for protocol. |
| future point of view | major | Picard :: automobiles etc. |
| human vs. sentient machine | major | holodeck |
| past point of view | major | Cyrus Redblock :: holodeck characters |
| private investigator occupation | major | Captain Picard assumed the identity of the 20th century private investigator Dixon Hill in a holodeck simulation. |
| virtual reality room | major | holodeck :: 1940s era holodeck simulation |
| AI rights | minor | was it ethical to kill Redblock and the gangsters |