Parkland (Holodeck)

A wide, simulated parkland unfurls inside the holodeck: long grasses and scattered trees bathed in warm sunlight, distant birdcalls layered over the faint electrical hum of the system, and an open lawn that swallows footsteps. The space registers as both comforting and uncanny as a lone, off‑key whistle threads through the air; it hosts intimate human moments—music practice, candid conversation—and functions narratively to humanize an android, surface bias, and stage the recruitment for an away mission.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E22 · Shades of Gray

Holodeck Duet — Data's Duet and the Away Team Offer

The wide holodeck Parkland serves as the initial doorway into an expansive, pastoral space that relaxes Riker, conceals the private glen, and offers a believable natural setting for a candid human-android exchange away from formal ship spaces.

Atmosphere

Warm, expansive, deceptively real—comforting and lightly uncanny.

Functional Role

Primary setting that initiates the private meeting and transitions shipboard duty into personal conversation.

Symbolic Significance

Represents a human-crafted refuge where artificiality and authenticity meet; a neutral ground for testing intimacy between human and android.

Access Restrictions

Access controlled by holodeck protocols; effectively open to anyone granted permission but presented as a private space once inside.

Sunlit faux grass and distant simulated horizon Ambient birdcalls layered over faint holodeck hum

S2E22 · Shades of Gray

Holodeck Duet — Pinocchio and Prejudice

The broad holodeck Parkland provides the initial sense of wide, natural space that contrasts with the ship's confines; it functions as the scene's framing device, making the encounter feel private, uncanny, and safe enough for candid conversation while still being a constructed environment.

Atmosphere

Deceptively pastoral and expansive, quietly intimate beneath its manufactured calm.

Functional Role

Setting the tranquil context that permits informal, off‑duty conversation and humanizing interactions.

Symbolic Significance

Represents an artificial refuge where human‑machine boundaries can be tested and intimacy can be simulated safely.

Access Restrictions

Accessible by authorized personnel via holodeck invocation; controlled and opened by ship systems.

Warm simulated sunlight bathing grass and trees Distant birdcalls and holodeck hum A stream running through the landscape Expansive horizon suggesting false limitless space

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S2E22 · Shades of Gray

Holodeck Duet — Data's Duet and the Away Team Offer

Riker opens the holodeck into an expansive park and follows an off‑key whistle to find Data practicing a melody. Riker corrects the notes, sits beside the android, and in a …

S2E22 · Shades of Gray

Holodeck Duet — Pinocchio and Prejudice

Riker wanders into a parkland holodeck and discovers Data struggling to whistle a melody. Their easy, intimate exchange shifts from playful music-correction to a sharper ethical note when Riker, awkward …