Chapter 2
Geordi La Forge was with Data in main engineering and had been standing at the Master Systems Display table, a table filled with computer displays that monitored the ship, discussing the implications of what Barclay had found when he came jogging up, looking excited and out of breath.
"Reg, you made good time." La Forge said with a grin as Barclay leaned a bit on the MSD table. "Catch your breath, Data and I are already up to speed on what you've discovered and we've got some ideas about what happened. Data?"
Data gave a quick nod and began to go into exposition mode. "Lieutenant Barclay, your initial theory about the cause of the massive energy drain that prompted the Enterprise to drop out of warp seems to have been correct." He tapped on the MSD table and brought up a schematic display of the Enterprise, with a close up of holodeck five. The schematic display of the holodeck had a bubble of energy in it with various symbols surrounding it indicating energy concentrations and types. "We have confimed that a unique confluence of energies created a kind of pocket space time continuum in our holodeck, and that there needed to be a massive drain from the systems of the Enterprise in order to keep the bubble in existence for even the short amount of time that it persisted." Data's fingers then danced around, quickly entering data into the MSD table and bringing up a new display. "Using the scans you performed in the holodeck we have been able to piece together previous scans we have made with internal and external sensors and have discovered what has brought about the creation of this space time bubble. A complex energy singularity entered the holodeck and had interacted with the internal conditions of the holodeck, and this combination is what has caused current events."
La Forge looked at the displays with a thoughtful expression on his face. "So at the moment we have a "how", but we still don't have a "why". I'm not sure I buy that this was a random event. All this is too well put together to be accidental. The combination of our holodeck and this energy singularity has created something that functions beautifully, even though we don't know exactly what it does."
Barclay had been studying the displays intently, waiting for a lull in the conversation before screwing up his courage to make a comment. "Sir, I think I have an idea about "Why". Seeing the scans now it really seems to me that the energy singularity in our holodeck already showed up on our scans like our holodeck before it ever took up residence there. Maybe the reason why it entered the holodeck is because it operates on similar principles and the holodeck seemed like "home"?"
"That would indicate intelligence." La Forge said, the excitement in his voice audible at that prospect.
"Fascinating." Data said with a cocked eyebrow and his head tilted slightly. "Perhaps the energy singularity is some kind of probe. It could be based on a completely different kind of technology then what we use, a technology based upon the direct manipulation of energy. The reason why it intergrated with our holodeck could be that it was the only part of our technology with which it was compatible." Data briefly had a far away expression as he made some internal calculations, then he moved to another part of the MSD table and started tapping away.
La Forge moved over to Data's side, looking at what he was doing with interest. Data had a way of figuring out problems that fascinated him. "What is it Data, did you figure something out?"
"I believe so Geordi. Our supposition that the energy singularity is similar in structure to the enviroment in one of our active holodecks gave me a new point of view for analyzing our previous scans of the Orba nebula. Observe."
La Forge looked at the data that was on display. He slowly began nodding his head. "I think I see what you're getting at, Data. The mysterious energy discharges that we were investigating in the Orba nebula have the same energy signature as the energy singularity that has hitched a ride on our holodeck. The energy singularity, in turn, only seemed to hitch a ride on our holodeck because our holodeck shares similarities with it." This turn of events was amazing, and La Forge wasn't entirely sure what the implications were. "Perhaps the whole Orba nebula was some kind of energy based computer, and this is it's way of contacting us?"
La Forge noticed that something seemed to be troubling Barclay. "Maybe the energy that has taken up residence in the holodeck is, itself, alive in some way." Barclay said suddenly. "I had a weird feeling when I was on the holodeck, like I was being observed."
"Regardless of whether or not the energy on the holodeck is the tool of an intelligent being, or it is an intelligent being itself, it would seem likely that what we are dealing with here is, in fact, an intelligence." Data said.
"Yeah, I think you're right, Data." La Forge said, looking at the information they had gathered. "I'm going to inform the captain about what we have discovered and ask for authorization for the three of us to enter the holodeck. This could be a first contact situation, and the three of us seem to be the best suited individuals to initiate a dialogue with whatever intelligence is behind all this."
***
Twilight Sparkle and her friends were having an enjoyable evening out camping, sitting around a campfire as night approached. Initially Twilight had been in a bit of a sour mood. The playful antics of her friends had put a damper on the gravitas she felt there should be during a scientific expedition. This had not been helped by Rainbow Dash saying that she shouldn't "Twilight" up their fun camping trip. Twilight had taken exception to her name becoming a verb with such a negative connotation, and things had degenerated a bit until Rarity and Applejack's diplomatic skills won out. They explained that though Dash had expressed herself poorly she just meant that Twilight should enjoy herself rather then worry too much, that she shouldn't be concentrating on the details of what they were doing at the expense of enjoying the historic event they were all taking part in, and that she should try to enjoy the opportunity to spend quality time with friends.
Still, even while having fun with her friends Twilight had seen fit to organize their camping trip so that the first location of where the alien's magic doorway appeared was marked. This turned out to be commendable forsight on Twilight's part because they were well away from the doorway, eating smores, when it materialized into existence. Twilight dropped her smore, Dash and Applejack had stuffed theirs into their mouths quickly eating them, and Rarity had wrapped hers in a napkin and carefully put it away before staring in awe as 3 aliens walked through the door.
Twilight and her friends sat quietly as they observed the aliens. They were not hiding, the camp was reasonably close to the area the door appeared with the camp arranged so that the ponies would be facing the aliens when they arrived. Still, other then a glance the aliens didn't seem to give them much attention.
"Reg, did you notice simulated animal life in addition to the forest the last time you were here?" Said one of the bipeds. He was in a similar gold and black outfit as his fellow, indeed this was the outfit that all three of them wore. Twilight assumed that this indicated the outfit was a uniform of some kind. Excitedly she took notes. The biped who had spoken to "Reg" was different in that the hairless face and hands that poked out of his outfit was of darker coloration then his fellow. He also wore a strange eye covering, something Twilight assumed might be a decoration. The other biped besides "Reg" being very pale in his flesh tone indicated that the bipeds were as diverse in their appearance as ponies. Luckily Twilight was a bit too involved with her observations to notice the somewhat insulting designation of "Animal" for her and her friends.
"No sir." The biped called Reg said, giving more attention to the ponies then his friends, who were waving around devices and studying them carefully. "I don't think it's accurate to call them animals, though. Look, they have a campfire and other tools meant for camping out. It's almost like they were waiting for us."
Being a bit annoyed with the bipeds not making the first move and acting like they either couldn't hear or understand them, Twilight decided to make the first move herself. She walked up to them, slowly and making sure to keep from making any aggressive movements, and addressed them. "Hello. I am Twilight Sparkle, representative of Princess Celestia. I welcome you to Equestria, the nation that Princess Celestia rules. May we ask who you are, and why you have come here?"
Reg kneeled down to be on a more even hoof as Twilight. "My name is Reginald Endicott Barclay. These are my friends, Geordi La Forge and Data. We're Starfleet officers. Could you tell us a little more about yourselves? I'd be interested in hearing about it."
Twilight was relieved to find that the aliens seemed friendly, if a bit distant and patronizing. Twilight knew that ponies often had names that told you a bit about what their interests were and about their personalities, so she wondered a bit about the names of the three aliens. Forge was a name that brought to mind a blacksmith, so Mister La Forge might be a maker of things. Data was self explanatory, if the aliens naming traditions were at all similar to those of ponies, he must like information. "Mr. Brocolli, I'd be happy to tell you all about us, but I'd really like to have an exchange of information." Twilight said, not realizing until Barclay looked a bit embarrassed that she'd gotten his name wrong.
Barclay shook his head and tried to put a smile on his face when Twilight tried to apologize. "No, it's fine. Just calling me "Reg" would be fine."
Twilight still felt a bit bad about hurting his feelings so tried to explain herself. "See, according to pony naming conventions Mr. Brocolli would be a fine name. Aheh." Her little laugh died as she looked around awkwardly.
La Forge closed the device he was using and walked over to Barclay. "Reg, what are you doing? We could use your help scanning."
"Yes, sir. I was just talking to Twilight here, trying to get an idea of the simulation that is being run. You know, getting an in character history of this place?" Barclay said, getting up.
"Geordi, I think Lieutenant Barclay's idea has merit." the biped named Data said. "Understanding what this simulation entails may grant us insight into the minds of the ones who created it."
Twilight was confused by the talk of simulation and wanted some answers. "Hold on. What's all this talk about "simulation"? Can any of you three actually talk to me? I'm trying to be polite here, but you three appear out of some kind of mysterious door and you don't even bother to explain yourselves!"
The other ponies had made the decision to let Twilight handle things, but her losing her temper had resulted in Dash jumping to her defense. "Yeah! You weirdo aliens are on our turf! So answer our questions about your weird door!"
La Forge hesitated. "You are aware of our... magic door?"
Twilight rolled her eyes. "Yes, we can see your door. Listen, it seems self evident that your understanding of magic exceeds ours, but we aren't some primitive lifeforms. Our understanding of math and science is advanced, and our practical application of that knowledge in technology and magic can produce wonders. I'm sure if you treat us as equals and open up a dialogue with us you'll find that your "Starfleet" and us ponies can both benefit from sharing our knowledge."
The three bipeds who claimed to be "Starfleet officers" exchanged glances with each other. They seemed worried about something and were suddenly hesitant to speak. After a pause La Forge spoke. "Listen, Twilight was it? Starfleet, the organization we represent, is very careful about how it deals with cultures that haven't reached a certain level of developement. We believe it's unethical to alter the independent developement of cultures by interfering with them before they are ready. We don't know much about you, so we don't know what the possible ramifications for our interacting are. We didn't really even know you'd be here."
"You didn't know we were here?" Twilight said with a puzzled expression on her face. "You mean you didn't have some kind of scrying spell or telescope or something to show you what was on the other side of your portal? If you made your journey blind then you three must be very brave. Perhaps a bit foolish as well."
"Actually, we knew that this place would be safe for us, we just didn't know what would be here. I'm sorry to cut this short, but we need to get back home and discuss things with our leader. The next time we come here we will definitely answer your questions about us, and we hope you all will answer our questions about you." La Forge said, as he and his friends gathered their things and got ready to leave.
Twilight walked excitedly over to the door. "Oh, how interesting! I wanted to get a closer look at how your portal works. I was a bit too surprised by your appearance the last time you used it to make proper observations. If it wouldn't be a bother could I step through with you and meet your leader? I have a talent for organization and I could help schedule our interactions."
Barclay quickly rested his hand on Twilight's shoulder, firmly stopping her before he jerked his hand back. Twilight thought that seemed a rather nervous gesture, though she could understand being nervous meeting strangers from another world. "Oh, um, sorry about that Twilight. I just had to stop you before you accidentally hurt yourself. You must be careful around our magic door." Making sure Twilight was standing still, he gestured for La Forge to open the door. When the door was open he bent down to pick up a small rock from the ground and tossed it out the open door. The rock faded out of existence.
Her friends gasped in shock and Twilight verbalized her surprise. "What happened? Is this portal dangerous?"
"Well, the portal itself isn't dangerous," La Forge said. "but it would be dangerous for you our your friends to step through it to enter our world. The... properties of your world that let you exist don't function where we're from."
"Interesting. So your world has different fundemental properties then our world..." Twilight said softly, almost to herself. "Well! We'll definitely be very careful when we interact with your portal."
"Thank you, Twilight." La Forge said. "Now, we'll be going and be back in the morning, along with some others. So don't be alarmed when we come back in greater numbers. We'll leave our portal visible so that you know were to find it, but it will be shut tight until we come through again. We wouldn't want any animals wandering through and fading out of existence."
Twilight gave a serious nod of her head. "Sounds like a plan, Mister Forge. We had already set up a base camp here that we had planned to, if necessary, provide for us for a few days while we waited for your portal to show up again, so we're all set to spend the night here waiting for you and your friends to show up tomorrow. We look forward to meeting you all."
The three aliens walked through the portal and it hissed shut. Twilight walked over and gave it an experimental knock with her hoof. She wasn't a dedicated student of metallurgy but she had read quite a few books on the subject and the material that the door was made from wasn't familiar to her.
Rarity walked over with a concerned look on her face. "Twilight, darling, are you sure it's a good idea to be playing around with that door? Those gentlemen claimed it was dangerous."
"Thank you for your concern Rarity, but I think it's safe enough." Twilight said, quickly turning her head to give a reassuring grin to her friend before turning back to her observations. "They said it was just dangerous to go through the portal, I think studying the metal door that covers the portal is okay."
Rainbow Dash circled the door with a dubious and distrustful expression on her face. "I don't know, Twilight. How can we trust what they say? Also, what's that business about not knowing we'd be here? Why were they coming here in the first place then?"
Applejack was experimenting with touching the metal door along with Twilight, but she plopped down on all four hooves and frowned at Dash when she heard her comment. "Rainbow, we should be neighborly and not just assume the worst about the folk who are visit'n us." She then turned to Twilight with a curious look on her face. "Twilight, what were they talking about when they mentioned "simulation"? I saw that seemed to bother you some."
Twilight nodded her head with a thoughtful expression on her face. "Yeah, I was wondering what they were talking about, but something else they said gave me an idea about what they might have been talking about."
Rarity walked over to a pillow she had brought along so that she wouldn't need to sit on the grass and delicately sat on it. "Well, don't leave us in suspense, Twilight, explain your theory."
Twilight and the other girls sat down with Rarity. "Well, they mentioned our worlds operating on different principles, that being the reason why it was dangerous for us to go to their world. I wondered why it was okay for them to travel to our world if the reverse was lethal for us."
"Maybe it's like how pegasus ponies can stand on clouds while other kinds of ponies can't?" Rainbow said.
"An interesting point, Rainbow. That might be the case." Twilight said, pleased that her normally athletically focused friend was making the effort to brainstorm with everypony. "I had another theory as to what their ability to exist in our world while we can't exist in their world has to do with their talk about simulation, though. Perhaps they can't enter our world!"
"But we were just talking to them Twilight. How would that be possible if they can't enter our world?" Applejack asked.
"You don't need to physically met to be able to communicate. Look at the letters we send to Princess Celestia with Spike's help." Twilight explained. "See, I was thinking that my solution to being unable to enter a world to explore it would be to magically create an avatar of myself that I could control like a puppet. If you could magically use your senses through the avatar it would be just like being where you wanted to go!"
Rarity's eyes lit up at that idea. "Why, it would be fabulous to not have to deal with the negative effects of certain enviroments, yet still experience the positive."
Applejack grinned playfully at Rarity. "I'm thinking the technology would be used for more important things then avoiding getting yer hooves dirty, missy."
"Yes, and it's just a theory, anyways." Twilight said. "We'll be able to ask our new friends about it when they come back tomorrow. I'm so excited I'm not sure I'll be able to get any sleep!"
***
Captain Picard had assembled the Enterprise's senior staff in the observaton lounge that served as the ship's briefing room. La Forge and Data had given them all a brief run down on what they had encountered, but Picard was finding the situation a little absurd. "So, one of our holodecks has been commandeered by a group of colorful, seemingly sapient ponies?"
Data nodded. "Yes, captain. The diminuitive equines currently occupying our holodeck seem to be self aware."
Commander Riker, the ships first officer, couldn't keep a grin off his face, though he tried to take the situation seriously. "Can you really determine that these holodeck characters are self aware? Couldn't they just be programmed to appear to be aware of elements intruding into their simulation?"
La Forge shrugged his shoulders. "Can we really determine if Data is self aware? Couldn't the arguement be made that he is simply a collection of heuristic programs and neural nets that mimic sapience? Couldn't the chemistry of the brain be interpreted as doing something similar?"
"This is venturing into the realm of philosophy." Picard said. "There are definite questions about what constitutes being self aware, what it means to be a person. However, we must keep in mind that the holodeck is a purpose built tool designed to allow us to interact with simulated enviroments, and characters, that are nearly indistinguishable from reality."
Beverly Crusher, the ships chief medical officer, was frowning. "Captain, I don't think we have the right to make assumptions about these entities just because they have been discovered in a device that we use for entertainment. If there is even a chance that these ponies are alive they should be treated with respect."
Picard raised his palm in a calming gesture. "Beverly, it is the mission of Starfleet to seek out new life, rest assured that I will take no action that could be dangerous to these... ponies until we determine exactly what they are. Now, Mister La Forge, I'm interested in your findings concerning the energy anomaly that seems to be the source off all this. Why would it create a civilization in our holodeck?"
"To tell you the truth, captain, I don't really know. All I do know is that the undertaking in creating what is currently in our holodeck was remarkable. It's not something that happened by coincidence, an intelligence was behind it." La Forge gestured to Data. "Data had a theory he came up with after Lieutenant Barclay pointed out how similar the energy singularity was in make up to the energy enviroment that exists in our holodecks."
Data continued. "I theorized that the energy singularity chose to enter our holodecks because it was aware that it was an enviroment with which it was compatible."
"An enviroment similar to the one in the Orba nebula, where we assume that the energy singularity originated from." Picard finished.
Crusher was looking through information on her PADD. "Looking over the scans that we took of the Orba nebula what intitially seemed to be a mishmash of energy could instead be interpreted as a kind of ecosystem, one made up of light and energy. However, with the dispersal of the Orba nebula imminent that ecosystem is dying. Perhaps what we have here is a refugee from a dying world."
"Perhaps that could indicate the reason behind the ponies on the holodeck." Counselor Deanna Troi said. "It would only be natural for a lifeform to seek out companionship in whatever way it could."
"Yes, but why ponies of all things?" Riker asked, bemused.
"Counselor Troi brings up an interesting observation." Picard said. "Whatever these ponies are, their origin seems to be due to an alien intelligence's attempt to stave off loneliness. Now, whether this means that we are dealing with a lifeform capable of creating life, or if it just means that these ponies are an elaborate shadow play surrounding a pearl of life at it's center, remains to be seen." Picard looked to Crusher and Troi. "Doctor, counselor, currently the enviroment on the holodeck is in a night stage, and the ponies are sleeping, but tomorrow I want you two to accompany Mister La Forge and Mister Data while they continue their investigation of the ponies. Counselor, I'd specifically appreciate it if you could see if it's possible to sense anything from these ponies, and also see if you can get any kind of reading from the intelligence behind all this. Doctor, examine the ponies. I'm not sure they are anything but holodeck simulations even if they do qualify as self aware, but perhaps there is something more to them."
"Captain, how do we approach the ponies?" La Forge said. "They have a subjective history lasting at least a couple hundred years even though they were only created recently from our point of view. Do we treat them as a pre-warp civilizaton? What would be acceptable to tell them about their origins?"
Picard gave that some thought before answering. "I believe that the nature of their world isn't something that should be kept secret from them. Indeed, their reaction to such information could grant us insight into how self aware they truly are. Other then that no specifics. Your description of the ponies camp site seemed fairly low tech, perhaps it's best to avoid altering the speed with which they acquire technology."
"Captain, I think I'd like to lead the away team as it investigates the ponies." Riker said. He still had a bit of a twinkle in his eye, but he seemed serious in his desire to meet a possible new species.
"I trust your judgement, number one, and it would be useful to have you on site to make command level decisions. Mr. La Forge, will there still be communication problems?"
"I wouldn't count on clean communications, sir. The temporal anomaly that preceded the creation of the pony simulation and resulted in both their subjective history and our dropping out of warp is over, but the residue from that anomaly and the high level interplay of energy that is still going on in the holodeck will still make communication difficult. Additionally, the point that we enter the simulation can't be altered, so while in the simulation we'll have to travel on foot."
"Alright. Number one, it seems you'll be on your own while in there. I envy you this chance to explore this mystery, but the Enterprise still has the mission to Bellerophon to deal with. Everyone, get some sleep and meet at holodeck five at 0900, dismissed."
***
Twilight and her friends had woken up early and ate a quick breakfast. It may have been overkill to wake up at dawn, but Twilight had felt that it was worth it to make sure that they met the Star Fleet officers while they were all awake. She'd have died of embarrassment if they had woken up bleary eyed to see the bipeds standing over them, waiting. The previous night had been busy, so everypony was a little tired. Twilight had made sure to inform Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie about what happened; Fluttershy was interested but chose to refrain from direct interaction while Pinkie Pie had elected to stay in Ponyville to prepare a welcome party. A letter had also been sent to Princess Celestia detailing the events that had occurred, and her reply still indicated that Twilight had the authority to deal with the aliens as she saw fit.
It was around mid-morning when the metal door of the alien portal opened up and the now familiar forms of the star fleet officers walked through it. Along with the three individuals they already knew there were three more, a large bearded individual in a uniform similar to the first three but red and black instead of gold and black, and two individuals in uniforms that were blue instead of gold or red. The last two individuals were interesting in their physiological differences to the other four individuals. Twilight assumed by their voices, which were very similar to ponies in their vocal range, that the four individuals in gold and red were male. That seemed to indicate that individuals in blue had to be female. An interesting point of similarity between their species cultures seemed to be that the females wore their manes longer. This caused a digression in Twilight's thoughts about cross species fashion exchanges and how Rarity would be overjoyed by the prospect, until she forced herself to pay attention to the task at hoof.
Before Twilight had a chance to react the bearded biped purposefully walked forward and began to speak. "Hello, my name is Commander William T. Riker, first officer of the USS Enterprise. I'm here to oversee these first few steps forward in the friendship between our two peoples. To put you at ease, I'd like to answer some of your questions first, I'm sure you have a lot of them."
Twilight smiled up at the man, she liked having her curiousity indulged. "Thank you, Commander. Before we continue I think I should introduce myself to you. I am Twilight Sparkle, personal student of Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria, and I have been given full authority to speak to you, answering your questions and asking my own. I think my first question has to be about your ranking structure. It's naval, isn't it? The Enterprise is a ship?"
Riker nodded. "We are a spacefaring people, but our naming conventions for our ranks is based on the naval traditions from when our people's main mode of transportation was sailing across oceans. The organization we work for, Starfleet, is tasked with exploration and defense and it employs space ships that travel the stars for those purposes. Starfleet itself is just the exploratory and defense service of an organization called the United Federation of Planets. Those are really just details, though, probably the most important thing you need to know about us is that we are explorers. What we're doing right here, discovering each other, is what we all signed up for."
Twilight could barely contain her excitement. "So you really are from another world! Well, I knew you were from another world, but I wasn't sure about the mechanics of how you traveled. Is your ship in orbit around our world? Why did you use that magic door to come to the surface rather then land your ship? Why can't we go through your portal safely? Mr. Forge mentioned something about the fundemental nature of your world being different, but what did he mean by that? Is it just a matter of a different enviroment, like a fish being unable to live out of water? And if we are unable to exist where you can, then why can you exist here? Is it an inherent property of your people, or do you use technology? Are you even here right now or are you using some kind of telepresence technology or magic to appear to be here? Does your beard indicate your superior rank..."
"Whoa, there." Riker said, not quite keeping the amusement out of his voice. "Slow down, Ms. Sparkle! We've got time to learn about each other. Why don't you take us to the nearest settlement, then we can all have a nice long discussion."
Twilight nodded happily, and Riker held back while she and her friends walked off chatting excitedly with the more subdued group of La Forge, Data and Barclay.
"Deanna, can you sense anything." Riker quietly asked Troi, while looking around at their enviroment with a more serious expression then the one he had displayed for the ponies.
Deanna Troi couldn't keep a smile off her face as she looked at the ponies walking ahead of them. "Will, I can sense a young mind brimming with enthusiasm and curiousity that reminds me of the better students I've met in my life. She's focused, perhaps even obsessive, with more then her share of anxieties but overall she is a good hearted individual."
"So they are sapient?" Riker said, looking at Twilight with a guarded expression.
Deanna nodded, a thoughtful expression of her face. "I think so. It's not impossible, I suppose, for someone to fabricate a means to fool my senses. But if something feels real to so many senses, who is to say it isn't real?" She bent over to pick up a rock and tossed it over to Riker, who caught it easily.
Riker grinned to himself as he tossed the rock he held from one hand to another, examining it. "But a stone is so easy to simulate. A mind..." he shook his head, tossing the rock aside, "A mind is something else entirely. What is going on here?"
"There's something else, Will." Troi said, a worried expression on her face. "I can feel something in the background here. I wasn't sure what exactly it is, and at first I wasn't sure it was even really there. The longer I'm here the more sure I am of it existing, though I can't get a clear idea what it is."
"Is it dangerous to you?" Riker asked, examining Troi for signs of distress.
"No." Troi said firmly. "Whatever it is I'm sensing it isn't dangerous, either intentionally of unintentionally. Just something to keep in mind, I suppose."
"Well, keep Doctor Crusher informed about your condition and if you feel any kind of distress we'll pull out of here." Riker said, his face displaying his concern. "For now we'll see what kind of answers we can find at the settlement the enthusiastic Ms. Sparkle is taking us too."
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547445 Well, it would also have to be the first couple seasons as well, since Professor Moriarty was also accepted as a 'living' hologram, and it stands to reason that they would have tests after that to determine sentience if any holodeck characters displayed unusually self-aware traits.
Congrats on the feature in the update section.
EDIT: I fixed this to be less passive agressive, sorry about that
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Moriarty was accepted as a curiousity, but if he was genuinely thought of as being alive I think they would have treated him better then leaving him to effectively rot in the holodeck memory. Sure, they had no idea that he was aware in there but you'd still think Picard would have moved his program somewhere. Ship in a Bottle was the episode that featured him making trouble for the Enterprise after his program was reactivated.
Fun fact, Ship in a Bottle is around when this fic is set. So this is season 6 TNG.
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Wow. Apparently crossovers are gold for getting featured.
Behold the power of Star Trek: The Next Generation! My personal favorite Trek.
Since they are in the Star Trek universe... I'm guess Q is going to show up. And the energy entity that comprises the Sisters has likely had dealings with him as he skips through the universe causing trouble (like he did with those other energy entities that tried to kill him when he was temporarily tossed from the Continuum for his past toying with them)...
Hence, Discord.
Three things!
Congratulations on making the featured box!
This story has been added to the group Star Trek Ponies.
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Ooh, Star Trek, must read!
Later...
This is pretty good, I like it. I'm not really a Star Trek fan, but the concept really intrigued me. Also, no dislikes so far, nice.
WRITE ON, DEAR AUTHOR, WRITE ON!
Well this is one of the more interesting stories i've seen in the updates list. I take it that its presence there indicates it will be updating, yes?
if so then, ahem, MOAR!
Yep, I read that in Picard's voice, and so did you.
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and Data's
Reg's as well for some reason.
I ran across this fic a while back. Great stuff, and I'm glad to see it finally updated. I hope your next update doesn't take as long!
Star Trek: Genesis updated after 11 months
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:| A twinkle in Riker's eye?
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Riker, you playboy. Keep away from the mares. :C
About time you updated this fic! It was collecting dust! LOL!
Anyways, I hope we can more updates more quickly than last time.
Keep up the good work.
SHE LIVES! I was wondering about this story and if it'll update at all
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Oh come on. I could see Riker maybe flirting a bit with, say, Rarity but you only need to look at his track record when it comes to female aliens to realize he would never...
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Riker, stay away from those mares.
WOOT HELL YEAH! More of this! They must meet Celestia! Ponies must become real outside the holodeck!
Really nice, makes me feel like i'm imagining a whole new Star Trek episode.
I totally forgot about this fic until now. I hope I won't forget again, and that there can be more chapters uploaded faster but with the same quality as this and the first.
I wonder if Discord will pop up and they recognize him as Q... or that he has the same voice. And I hope that Discord doesn't pop up, unless he can't do anything to the Enterprise crew.
Geez, It's been a while. Excellent chapter, I really hope it won't take so long for the next one.
I've had this in my Fav pile forever. So very glad you put up another chapter. You have all of my YES!
Tell me did any one happen to write MlP crossover fiction with DS9? If so, direct me to it.
Seems very interesting, but will the next updates be less than a year?
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As I recall Moriarty was said flat out in his first appearance as having consciousness/sapience. And that Starfleet was asked to find a way to make it possible for him to leave the holodeck. Unfortunately, by the time season six rolled around no progress had been made though to the best of my knowledge they were still trying. And of course the EMH program also became sentient on Voyager and certain other hologrophic life forms came to exist by the time of Voyager's series finale, so it seems to be a case where the circumstances are what determines whether or not a holographic individual can come to be a living being.
Please update this soon, I like story!^_^
IT LIVES!
This is relevant to my interests.
So far this is hitting on the high notes of any good Star Trek: TNG episode, Talky and techy, but with that unique MLP aspect thrown in to make things all the more satisfying and enjoyable. I don't know what your plans are but i will be watching.
1903192 *poke poke*
Please tell me that you aren't dead! And that you do have some desire to create more of this! Especially with summer here!
It'd be a bummer if you actually were dead.
But that isn't allowed! This needs to be continued! The act of finishing the second chapter without a third to go to is like the most traumatic thing that has happened all day!
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I would have to agree, it would be a shame if this project was left to just expire without a decent conclusion. Hoping for the best however.
Hasn't updated in over a year, that's a shame as I thought tis one was one of the best ST crossovers yet.
4821270 wrote : "Hasn't updated in over a year, that's a shame as I thought tis one was one of the best ST crossovers yet."
Yeah same here, hope it updates sometime.
Need. More. Story. Awesome.
Please update it soon.
It's a real pity this probably won't ever be completed. The premise was unique and interesting, much more then the usual "Enterprise discovers Equestra and forgets all about the Prime Directive."
Good start to a story, but it will probably never be updated or finished.
On a positive note, I know how it will likely end.
The Genesis device was made and it will be used to create a new home for the ponies.
The specifics of how that happens can be done in various ways.
But no matter how the author envisioned the story to play out, he did a great job on making it like an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.
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with thanks and Hopes,
From Your Biggest #1 Fan of all Time in the history of all of reality,
I hope this gets an update soon.
Someday, somehow, I hope this story gets completed.