Picard’s Forgotten Captain recycled a DS9 hologram trick, but better

Captain Cristóbal Rios (Santiago Cabrera), the La Sirena captain that Star Trek: Picard Forgot, made a hologram trick of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Much better. Star TrekHolograms are relatively reliable substitutes for organic people, as they are tangible and able to interact with their environments, but limited by their programming and presence (or absence) of holographic projectors. Just a few examples of sentient holograms in Star Trek exist, so it can be reasoned that Most holograms are just projected programs operating according to given parameters – even when they are based on real people.

Although they are separated by a few decades in the Star Trek time line, Both Star Trek: PicardS. Cristobal Rios and Star Trek: Deep Space NineS Quark (Armin Shimerman) uses holograms based on himself to make up for staffing issues. in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 16, “Bar Association”, Quark’s holographic trick involves using a budget hologram generator to staff the bar with multiple replicas of himself after Rom (Max Grodénchik) organizes a labor strike. so too, Star Trek: Picard In Season 1, Cristobal Rios’ La Sirena is created by several holographic variations of Rios.

Captain Rios holograms in Star Trek: Picard are better than Quark on DS9

Captain Rios’ holographic doubles evolved to have personalities

in Star Trek: Picard, Captain Cristóbal Rios’ hologram replicas are much better than Quark’s holographic doubles Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Because La Sirena’s Rios holograms all read as distinct individual characters instead of being mindless duplicates. Rather than hiring real people, Lonner Rios uses La Sirena’s Emergency Hologram feature to round out La Sirena’s intended crew of six. Each of Rio’s holograms evolves its own look, speech pattern, and temperament Still using Cris’ own personality and memories as a starting point.

In contrast, all of Quark’s holograms fulfill the singular purpose of their not-so-warm bodies to hold Quark’s bar while Rom, Leta (Chase Masterson), and the other organic employees are on strike. Because Quark acquired the most budget-friendly holographic generator possible, The multiple quark holograms aren’t even good at performing what they do are programmed to do, And they certainly don’t improve. Quark’s holographic workers blink unexpectedly offline to drop trays with surprising frequency. There is no sign of a personality among Quark’s doubles, not even Quark’s own (which is probably for the best).

The Star Trek holograms changed between DS9 and Star Trek: Picard

Star Trek: Voyager’s Doctor is responsible for the evolution of holograms in modern Star Trek

Star Treks hologram technology changed drastically between Star Trek: Deep Space Nine And Star Trek: Picard, Thanks in large part to the work of engineer Lewis Zimmerman (Robert Picardo) and Zimmerman’s most notable creation, the Emergency Medical Hologram. The doctor in Star Trek: Voyager Grown beyond his programming with meaningful friendships, hobbies outside of medicine, and became the first Emergency Command hologram. even in the world, The Doctor’s HoloNovel”Photons be free“Inspired the deprecated Mark 1 EMHes and other holograms to support their own personality And better treatment.

Although they are not sentient themselves, Captain Rios’ multiple emergency holograms in Star Trek: Picard would not have been possible without the evolution of Star Treks sentient holograms. As the Emergency Command Hologram inspired new versions of Emergency Holograms, Rios’ Hospitality Hologram may have been inspired by Vic Fontaine, Star Trek: Deep Space Nines own resident sentient hologram. Because Voyager’s Doctor and Vic Fontaine changed the way holograms were written and treated in Star Trek, Cristóbal Ríos’ hologram replicas in Star Trek: Picard are naturally better than quark’s glitchy pons.