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going down the "how many piano tuners are there in Chicago" road wrt holodecks on the enterprise
think about it: holodeck use is almost universally portrayed as lasting hours. there are only 24 hours in a day, 168 in a week (yes the Federation slices it into 26 but it's the same amount of actual time, just divided differently)
if there are a thousand people on the enterprise, how many holodecks could they *possibly* have in order to offer that kind of luxury to much more than top ranking staff? the "lower deck" crew members must get shafted, not to mention civilians
if there are ten holodecks (that would be an obscene number given their power consumption) that's 240 holodeck hours per day. but people have to sleep, the ship observes a day/night cycle that most people honor, and the decks can't be used by nightshift because they're on duty
so that's more like 158 holodeck-hours a day. if a given program lasts an hour, that means the entire set of holodecks can serve roughly 160 people a day, but considering that top staffers definitely do have multi hour sessions, we have to reduce that.
okay supposedly the enterprise D has *sixteen holodecks* according to a reddit thread about this exact topic, which i don't intend to read
anyway my point is this: if you're going to fuck in the holodeck but you're an ensign who spends most their time scrubbing shuttlepods, you better be a premature ejaculator who can get horny on a dime because you're probably gonna get a 15 minute slot every couple weeks
