Star Trek: Picard's Forgotten Captain Recycled A DS9 Hologram Trick, But Better

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Captain Cristbal Rios (Santiago Cabrera), the La Sirena captain that Star Trek: Picard forgot, made a hologram trick from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine much better. Star Trek's holograms are relatively reliable substitutes for organic people, since they're tangible and able to interact with their environments, but limited by their programming and presence (or absence) of holographic projectors. Only a few examples of sentient holograms in Star Trek exist, so it can be reasoned that most holograms are just projected programs operating according to given parameters even when they're based on real people.
Jen Watson

Star Trek: Picard's Forgotten Captain Recycled A DS9 Hologram Trick, But Better

Quark did holograms first; Rios did them better.

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