In 2378, Lieutenant Commander Tuvok shot one of the holo-emitters with a phaser in Voyager's sickbay to prevent The Doctor from escaping, after it was discovered he had incapacitated members of the crew and assumed their identities. He was unable to afford an interactive holoprojector to make Morn speak, which he felt was better, since Morn never shut up. In 2374, Quark created a hologram of Morn to replace him while he was away, so his business would not suffer. Julian Bashir's genetic enhancement on Deep Space 9 via a holoprojector. In 2373, Rear Admiral Bennett presided over the hearing on Dr. Unfortunately, the holoprojector significantly shortened The Doctor and the project was abandoned. In 2372, Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres and Ensign Harry Kim installed a holo-projector in Voyager's engine room to project The Doctor there. In 2371, during The Doctor's delusions on Voyager's holodeck, a hologram of B'Elanna Torres informed The Doctor that she had installed holo-projectors in main areas of the ship, such as the bridge and engineering, as well as the mess hall. It had begun to fail in 2370, although Jadzia Dax and Odo were able to help him repair it. Rurigan used a holographic projector to create holograms of those he had lost during the Dominion's attack on Yadera Prime in the 2340s. ( VOY: ' Message in a Bottle')Īboard Deep Space 9, Quark had several holosuites in the upper level of his bar that presumably use holographic projectors. ( DS9: ' For the Uniform', ' Doctor Bashir, I Presume') Launched in early 2374, the USS Prometheus was equipped with holographic projectors on every deck to allow free range of movement of the EMH. These were installed on bridges of starships, including the USS Defiant, and in Captain Benjamin Sisko's office aboard Deep Space 9. ( VOY: ' Caretaker') In 2373, Starfleet tested a device called a holo-communicator that employed the use of holographic projectors. This was in order to allow the use of the Emergency Medical Hologram. When the USS Voyager was commissioned in 2371, holographic projectors were installed in ship's sickbay as well. In 2365, Lieutenant Commander Data kept a small holoprojector that displayed a miniature holographic duplicate of Lieutenant Natasha Yar as a keepsake. ( TNG: ' Encounter at Farpoint', ' The Last Outpost', ' The Child', ' Loud As A Whisper') In the early 2360s, they were installed in specialized rooms called holodecks on board Federation starships, and were also available in large tabletop models or smaller, integrated desktop models. ( Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)Ī rapid rise in the use of holographic projectors occurred in the late 24th century. In 2285, Doctor Leonard McCoy visited a San Francisco bar that had lounge-like atmosphere with many tables, holographic parlor games, mirrors, plants, and lava lamps. This technology was used in the recreation, labor, and medical fields. They did this by manipulating photons and force fields to create a realistic, but virtual image. (covers information from several alternate timelines)Ī holodeck on a Galaxy-class starship in the 2360sĪ holographic projector (or holographic emitter, or simply holoprojector or holo-emitter) was a device used to create holograms.

Live hologram projector