Editing Holodeck (section)

==Origins==
[[File:Holomouse2.jpg|thumb|Two photographs of a single hologram taken from different viewpoints. Holograms provide a real-world starting point for the fictional holodeck of ''Star Trek''.]]

The ''Star Trek'' holodeck was inspired by inventor Gene Dolgoff, who owned a holography laboratory in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|title=Meet The Man Behind The Holodeck, Part 1|url=http://www.startrek.com/article/meet-the-man-behind-the-holodeck-part-1|access-date=2016-01-11|website=StarTrek.com|date=11 March 2014 }}</ref> ''Star Trek'' creator [[Gene Roddenberry]] met Dolgoff in 1973.

The first appearance of a holodeck-type technology in ''Star Trek'' came in the ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]'' episode "[[The Practical Joker]]", where it was called the "recreation room".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Mangels |first=Andy |date=Summer 2018 |title=Star Trek: The Animated Series|magazine=RetroFan |issue=1|page=34|publisher=[[TwoMorrows Publishing]]}}</ref> In the episode's story, Dr. McCoy, Sulu and Uhura are trapped inside it by the ship's computer.

The holodeck was a frequent plot mechanism in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', beginning with the 1988 episode "[[The Big Goodbye]]", in which the holodeck played a central part of the plot.<ref>{{cite web|last=Pendlebury|first=Ty|title=Making the holodeck a virtual reality|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/making-the-holodeck-a-virtual-reality/|access-date=2019-12-02|website=CNET|language=en}}</ref>

Prior to ''Star Trek'', science-fiction writer [[Ray Bradbury]] wrote about a technology-powered "nursery", a virtual reality room able to reproduce any place one imagines, in his 1950 story "[[The Veldt (short story)|The Veldt]]".

The word ''holograph'' comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ὅλος (''holos''; "whole") and γραφή (''[[-graphy|graphē]]''; "[[writing]]" or "[[drawing]]"). [[Magyars|Hungarian]]-[[British people|British]] physicist [[Dennis Gabor]] received the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1971 "for his invention and development of the holographic method", work done in the late 1940s. The discovery was an unexpected result of research into improving [[electron microscope]]s; the original technique is still used and is known as [[electron holography]]. Optical holography was made possible by the development of the [[laser]] in 1960. The first practical optical holograms recording 3D objects were made in 1962 by [[Yuri Denisyuk]] in the Soviet Union and by [[Emmett Leith]] and [[Juris Upatnieks]] at the [[University of Michigan]] in the United States.