 Writing for Den of Geek , James Hunt said that the risk of disintegration on the holodeck was " insane " and was rectified in later episodes . He thought that the episode stood out from the others in the first season due to the prototype holodeck story . " The holodeck will break again and again over the years , but rarely in a way any more interesting than this . Not that The Big Goodbye was particularly interesting , but it has the rare fortune of being first , " Hunt wrote . 
