Location
Holodeck Simulation
Holodeck — Romulus (Interior Recreation)
Romulus stands as a lost planetary homeland, a tether of memory and identity rather than a physically present setting in the current scene. Voices turn toward its absent horizons: a geography of belonging that Setal mourns, a cultural gravity that shapes language, longing, and exile. The planet registers as inaccessible—its landscapes recalled like ache, its rituals and communal textures yearned for but denied. Within Ten-Forward the very name unlocks vulnerability, fuels political suspicion, and motivates Data’s controversial offer to recreate Romulus by technical means.
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1 rich involvements
Detailed Involvements
Events with rich location context
S3E10
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The Defector
Cold Exchange at the Viewport
The holodeck-generated Romulus is not shown but is implied by Data's offer to 'bring Romulus to you.' It functions as a narrative mechanism that could translate Setal's longing into simulated, controlled experience aboard the ship.
Atmosphere
Potentially melancholic and uncanny — a fragile simulation that magnifies memory into sorrow.
Functional Role
Foreshadowed technological means to replicate a lost homeland as consolation (or manipulation).
Symbolic Significance
Represents institutional capacity to recreate emotional experience and the ethical ambiguity of doing so.
Access Restrictions
Holodeck usage typically requires authorization and is a controlled resource aboard ship.
Programmatic fidelity that mimics architecture and horizons
Muted light and uncanny stillness in simulations
Events at This Location
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