Star Trek: 10 Weirdest Holodeck Episodes

It's the ending to Star Trek: Enterprise nobody wanted, and the deleted scenes from The Pegasus nobody needed. As Branon Braga once said, "It was the only time Scott Bakula got pissed off at me," and we don't blame him! After all, These Are the Voyages is a weird Holodeck episode, and weird because it's a Holodeck episode in the first place.

As a series, Enterprise was coming to an abrupt end. Cancellation had, alas, finally caught up with it. Producers had to do something for the very last episode, but instead, they did this. A skip forward in time is fine. We can deal with that. If we aren't going to get three more seasons, at least we can catch a glimpse at where the story was headed, at the founding of the Federation, perhaps? It's all an illusion, however. Commander Riker stands up, freezes, saves, and ends the program.

The main problem with having all of the 22nd-century scenes set on the holodeck is that it leaves room for doubt. "Maybe the program's off?" as Deanna Troi herself says in the episode. The whole thing can only ever be the computer's interpretation of 209-year-old events. For perspective, if not an entirely fair comparison, for us (in 2024) that's as far back as the year of the Battle of Waterloo.

Star Trek: Picard's third season confirmed that the NX-01 had been refitted, naturally before decommissioning, but this wasn't included in Riker's holo-program. With the historical veracity of These Are the Voyages in more doubt than ever, therefore, we'd like to reiterate that #Trip'sNotDead.