One of Lieutenant Barclay's Holodeck Fantasies

Star Trek: The Next Generation: S3E21-Hollow Pursuits
This is just one of Lieutenant Barclay's holodeck fantasies that appear in this episode in which he worries Guinan, pushes Geordi across Ten Forward, intimidates Commander Riker and entices Counselor Troi. Can someone say "sociopath" for me? Because it's on the tip of my tongue so i can only type it....
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[@rfairbairn]

99% of the time the holodeck was banging Troy.

[@valiatus6719]

Time well spent.

[@mjb51270]

Don't forget Beverly

[@HRHooChicken]

Imagine that. When the programme ends, the spunk just falls to the floor

[@kojack635]

@@HRHooChicken eww

[@ter151b]

Well no one was banging Guinan

[@tormuse2916]

What gets me most about this scene is the fact that Barclay (apparently) sees LaForge as an arrogant, self-righteous jerk, for telling Barclay to do his job, when LaForge actually struggles with his own insecurities and social difficulties. It's just that LaForge deals with it by putting himself more into his job, while Barclay deals with it by retreating into fantasy. I kind of get the feeling that if they learned how to communicate better, they could get along. It makes it kind of sad to me that Barclay fantasizes about beating him up, when in different circumstances, they maybe could be friends.

[@darkjediknight2923]

They ended up as very good friends though after this episode!

[@tormuse2916]

@@darkjediknight2923 I sure hope so. We see so little of Barclay through the series that it's hard to tell.

[@darkjediknight2923]

@@tormuse2916 That's true. I think in the film First Contact, it's implied they are definitely friends. And he also appears in Star Trek Voyager where it is definitely shown that he is friends with Geordi, Data and Troi.

[@RetroMaticGamer]

One of my favorite story arcs in Star Trek is watching Barclay get over his social anxieties and learn to develop and nurture functional relationships. It gave me hope for my own similar issues.

[@darkjediknight2923]

@@RetroMaticGamer It's a great episode. The Nth degree.

[@Crurned]

Chuck Norris looks under his bed for Reginald Barclay

[@kellyweingart3692]

Barclay looks under his bed for Chuck Norris 😂

[@supremeobliterator]

So does Mike Tyson.

[@nickcolbert9615]

Only thing that could have made it better is if Geordie’s visor had flew off. Lol.

[@theot.2869]

He must have superhuman strength. All it took was a tap and Geordi practically flew into the wall.

[@xxlCortez]

When I first saw it and how he grabbed Riker, I was like: Who's that badass?

[@Cjnw]

He channeled Guinan's strength to punch LaForge and F*** Troi

[@liam89th]

Almost as bad as as that referee Di Canio flattened with a mere push.

[@puppet4978]

I do get the joke but I mean it's a holodeck. It's like playing Garry's Mod on VR

[@Enigmalake]

Laforge does like rolling 😆

[@Experiment632]

Fanon plot twist: Q plays a prank on Barclay and teleports him to the real Ten Forward without him knowing where he unwittingly confronts the real Riker and Geordie. Amazingly it works because none of them ever believed he had it in him. It took him a a whole duty shift to realize it was reality by which time the senior officers were all terrified of him. Oh and he won the heart of the real Deanna Troi.

[@nickcolbert9615]

I loved this bit, especially since it was the the opening scene and you didn’t know it was on the holodeck. A “cold open” if you will. Really doing his Mad Dog Murdock role here!😉🍻🖖🏼

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

1:46 I should point out, Barclay wasn't obeying orders there, he was simply going to engineering TO SHUT LA FORGE UP ONCE AND FOR ALL, and then sabotage the warp core with his bare hands to render the ship immobile in space for a while so he could get back to his holoprogram without any disturbances. Also, Reginald Barclay made me type this. ;*(

[@lilipahdnaag3414]

@0:30 when broccoli pushes Geordie- best thing ever

[@energicko]

I think a lot of fans with low self-esteem enjoyed watching this scene more than Dwight Schultz performed it.😆😭

[@AshleyPomeroy]

I'm amazed they all managed to keep a straight face.

[@naran_naran]

Yup!

[@alliwishis2652]

Yeah just got this in my recommendation definitely enjoyed it been there too many times in fantasise that is

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

1:21 I wanna see the part where la forge brings worf and ten security guards with phaser rifles back with them, and then Barclay takes them all out in a big firefight, then beats up the entire bridge crew, corners Picard in his ready room and makes him whimper behind his desk while pressing the phaser rifle against his cheek. Not to mention the part where he grabs Wesley by his collar, lifts him up several feet against the wall and shakes him.

[@Acein3055]

You would probably stay in there forever and get a holodiction.

[@Meijera]

damn

[@jaxr2958]

Not Wesley, he took over for real and challenged the real Picard when it was his fantasy episode. Like Sheldon, Wesley was always just one step off being a criminal mastermind.

[@animationfanatic2133]

You ok there buddy

[@mechazoic]

You don’t mess with “Howling Mad” Murdock!

[@mellifluousfable]

Fantasy in some ways and yet, I have to say that I though his analysis of Riker was pretty spot on to be fair! 😂

[@scottkingentertains]

I'm glad somebody remembered and posted this.

[@Meijera]

Here's to insubordination 🍺

[@gsutton78]

Now, that's a fantasy :-)

[@fadlya.rahman4113]

Wait a few centuries and soon the federation starship will have holodecks as crew quarters. Then everyone will be late to their shift.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

0:03 Come now Guinan, just because he's SUPER TOUGH AND MANLY, that doesn't mean there's going to be any trouble around him. People just need to learn to behave in a civilised, respectful manner around him.

[@DinnerBells]

Love how Geordi runs away after.

[@nickcolbert9615]

DinnerBells like an old west saloon fight. Lol

[@theuniversedoesntcare]

*Hugs*

[@tbn22]

Just rewatched this episode, and had forgotten how close to home it hits. I am an introvert who used to be extremely socially awkward, and in my last workplace, I experienced almost a real-life channelling of this episode. A super rude bully of a co-worker who harassed me non-stop, as Geordi is being in this episode. A "Riker", being the CFO who also carried a silent grudge towards me, and then finally a friendly CEO who did what he could to encourage the best in me, while telling his complaining employees to "suck it up". Fortunately, I am in a much better position now. Still an introvert always will be. I have built an impenetrable iron confidence around that, and I have learned to deal with facts as I find them, meaning I can carry out my work and be proud of it without fear of judgement.

[@Ray_D_Tutto]

Sorry you had to go through that.. It always disappoints me how people treat my mental illness as an insult to their ego.

[@grimsnark4849]

Did they guy who called him to Cargo Bay 5 hear Barclay say "It'll have to wait til later darling"?

[@insertanynameyouwant5311]

he heard Geordi and Riker as well and thought like WTF

[@dmale79]

Broccoli knew how to use the holodeck properly! And he didn't feel any guilt the way Laforge did with that female engineer.

[@MrBrownsugar85]

lol the way Geordi goes flying when Barclay lightly shoves him

[@ces4399]

Sort of a "soft porn mirror universe" in TNG.

[@BarekHalfhand]

I just recently discovered he was on The A-Team.

[@ElPayasoMalo]

As soon as he effortlessly dominates Riker and Riker acts like a passive wuss about it, I knew this wasn't quite real.

[@hefito3d527]

THIS WILL BE THE NEW ME

[@mtjoy747]

You can see why Barclay hides behind these fantasies while 75% doing his job, LOL.

[@Acein3055]

No doubt I would spend the rest of life in the holodeck and it probably would be a short life from exhaustion. I could write the book on holodiction.

[@ssj3vegett0]

unless your wealthy...you can NEVER spend your life in HD. you have to pay for rent/morg/property taxes to house your HD Room right? you need elec to power it..and so on...so unless your rich you need to spend alot of time in the real world to pay/maintain the small fun time in the HD!

[@Meijera]

THIS should have been the program that Riker, Geordi, and Deanna walked in on instead of the Three Musketeers/Goddess of Empathy program. He would have bought himself a one way ticket back to the Zhukov with Riker kicking his ass all the way to the shuttle bay!

[@darkjediknight2923]

That would be hilarious. But then he could have Riker unable to escape the holodeck and "Commander Barclay" as the acting captain after "Riker" has just escaped having attacked Picard. The entire holodeck crew are now hunting Riker down.

[@YD-uq5fi]

I really wish one of Barclay's simulations in this episode had any two out of George Peppard, Mr. T, and Dirk Benedict in it. Perhaps all of the A-Team was just a holodeck simulation by Barclay. That is why all the bullets never killed anyone.

[@JamaicanRain]

If this show were on another channel, that ending would have gone MUCH differently.

[@insertanynameyouwant5311]

gee dwight schultz will be 73 this year. I thought he would a bit younger

[@az21bob666]

in his fantasy he talk shit about riker and lefore but still respectful of picard.

[@stephenwilliams203]

LeVar Burton overselling that push was excellent.

[@perfectionbox]

Yep... Barclay and his mad, mad, MAD fantasies 🤣🤣🤣

[@navyman4]

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED this episode when I was 15! That was me..... in the world of my nerd mind with all those High School girls from class.

[@Superunknown190]

I think I’d die of cringe if I were Barclay and got caught doing what I was doing.

[@Ghost-ql3hl]

A team theme starts playing

[@sherbournesubwaymess]

As far as I'm concerned...this is real TNG, and everything else is a holofantasy.

[@mjb51270]

Deanna and Beverly.Barclay likes his women with bare shoulders

[@SerpentorTheEmperor]

It is so satisfying to see Geordi and River beaten.

[@dylanrieck6671]

These scenes must have been fun to shoot

[@williamkelly6319]

Here's to insubordination!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@gerbillover3186]

Howlin' Mad.

[@au9parsec]

I was just as pissed off and angry with some of the managers I had back when I use to work at Home Town Buffet as Lieutenant Barclay was at his superior officers during the first few months he was serving on the Enterprise. Lieutenant Barclay was pissed off and angry at his superiors on board the Enterprise for the exact same reason why I was pissed off and angry at some of my managers when I was still working at Home Town Buffet, because they were being rude, mean and ugly to him just like how some of the managers I had when I was working at Home Town Buffet were being rude, mean and ugly to me. Therefore me and Lieutenant Barclay have a lot in common with each other. If I had a holodeck, I would have handled my raging anger I felt towards the Home Town Buffet managers that were being extremely rude and mean to me, the exact same way that Lieutenant Barclay was using the holodeck to handle the raging anger he felt towards his superior officers that were being extremely rude and mean to him.

[@jdb2002]

You get to beat up the people you want, and nobody gets hurt in the real world. What's wrong with that?

[@GalenMarekOfficial]

@@bkray26 I know, right...some people take stuff to personally

[@au9parsec]

Green Power Ranger. A lot of people in the real world who are as eccentric as the fictional character Barclay are lazy and disorganized and lives in their own fantasy world's. The majority of them have autism and gets disability benefits. I'm not saying that everyone who has autism are like lieutenant Barclay. Because there are still a majority of people who have autism who lives normal lives. But a majority of people with autism are just like lieutenant Barclay, and me and Chris Chan are a couple of different guy's with autism who are just like lieutenant Barclay and we both have disability.

[@au9parsec]

Green Power Ranger. Autistic chipmunks.

[@Meijera]

What happened to the quality of the food there? Sure went downhill. As a child in the 90s I remember they had real cheesecake. Then over the years I think they got cheap and the once glorious cheesecake turned into yucky cheese foam. So sad...

[@Shaun-vy9vi]

do they have a holodeck equivalent to clearing the browser history? or is it kind of a dont ask dont tell kind of thing?

[@ElPayasoMalo]

You know Riker's is smut city while Worf's is basically Doom without guns. Riker probably has three play lists: jazz, boning, and boning with jazz.

[@havefunoutthere6378]

I'd be in that thing 24/7...who knows, maybe I am.

[@goldenretriever6440]

I think I might have holodeck addiction I just got an oculus quest with VRChat and I CANT STOP USING IT

[@goldenretriever6440]

@@ab-wj8yg That’s true Either way I’m not complaining it’s the greatest thing ever invented I don’t care if I wind up permanently plugging my brain into it someday

[@matics28]

No need for vrchat when you're currently living in one lol.

[@theuniversedoesntcare]

*Teleports him*

[@dmale79]

I often wonder what I would rather have from Star Trek. A place just like Risa, and I mean with everything Risa has. Or a holodeck. I'm sure a lot of people would say a holodeck because you can tell the computer to create Risa. However, I don't know if you can have sex with simulated women. Plus, look at all the times the holodecks creations took over the ship, or came to life and walked through the Arch. The pros and cons of this decision would make for a great podcast. I think I would pick Risa.

[@BNPLsChillPlaceNVids]

1:11

[@angeleyes564]

He dont like riker?

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Barclay thinks that real men drink hard. The fool. I wish I could say I never touched a drop of that stuff.

[@SeanRobertMason]

Holodecks raise a cool ethical question that I am not sure if Star trek has addressed yet. If you can live out your fantasies, should some fantasies not be allowed to be practiced? If you are on earth, it might not matter as the danger is little to none. If you are a ship with weapons on the frontier, getting into the habit of genocide or rape on the holodeck might produce disastrous behavior if the holodecks are down for the month. The holodeck might be down because of a short military engagement or whatever. Clearly, you should not be allowed to use the holodeck with the people on your current ship unless it is training or something approved by everyone.

[@PR--un4ub]

Even with real people elsewhere, it's...

[@JesseColton]

The moral question I wish they would have addressed is that multiple times characters were implied to be having sex with holographic versions of real crew members, which is akin to seeing medical files or nude images of a coworker without their consent. What a person wants to fantasize about is one thing but allowing sexual activity with a holo character of a shipmate (or any real person) shouldn't have ever been allowed

[@PR--un4ub]

@@JesseColton "multiple times characters " Such as who? The only example I can think of is Barclay.

[@Shaun-vy9vi]

catharsis vs vicarious learned behaviorism

[@blueeyeswhitedragon9569]

I knew this was fake

[@angeleyes564]

He love Troy?

[@eldyrionthewatcher1993]

Uhmm well, there's more forms of attraction than love...

[@ssj3vegett0]

Troy represents Woman in everyday life in everyday common places..work/home/going out. maybe you would like (to be frank)Bang a girl named jennifer at your Job, jennifer represents troy..she never go for you for what reason..but in the Holodeck all the limits are removed. so you can be confident cause nothing can stop you...and you would bang jennifer (troy) cause you can

[@charabotte1]

brocolly

[@puppet4978]

0:31 He oversells a simple push lol

[@RetroMaticGamer]

It's obviously programmed to. Barclay did the equivalent of turning on a God Mode cheat so he could feel superior.

[@randombrokeperson]

I honestly thought it was weird he was willing to harm a child (Wes) in his fantasies. (He did this later on in the episode.)

[@Bravilor]

Wes isn't as young as Picard wants to insist.

[@BladeStrike]

Wesley is not a child

[@randombrokeperson]

Zeng Vuh | Anyone under the age of 18 is a child. Wes was at child at the point in time in referring to.

[@tylerralph3853]

Look, I'm pretty sure we've all wanted to harm Wesley at one point or another.

[@ananousous]

@@tylerralph3853 Even Beverly has slapped him

[@ter151b]

Worst Star Trek character EVER! BARCLAY!

[@mudshovel289]

What? No! He changes, and gets help and becomes less weird. This flaw of his makes him a more interesting character. Plus a bunch of introverts can relate to having similar fantasies about their classmates/coworkers in their minds. We just don’t have a holodeck but unfortunately fantasizing rather than working to change your reality is a pretty common problem.

[@HankMcGurk]

1:44