Computer Gaming World stated that the game "plays like one would expect a Star Trek: The Next Generation "holodeck" game to play".
While the command staff of Voyager seek to discover a way to free the ship from the spatial distortions, extra-dimensional aliens who exist in a photonic state cross over from their own dimension through a distortion located in the holodeck.
In an interview on the 74th episode of the netcast "Home Theater Geeks", Dolgoff tells host Scott Wilkinson how he was the one who suggested the Holodeck idea to Gene Roddenberry and how the two worked to define the parameters of the concept.
While taking a break from preparations, a computer malfunction traps Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Lt. Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner), and Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) in a 1940s-style gangster holodeck program with Captain Picard playing the role of detective Dixon Hill.
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Lt. Geordi LaForge (LeVar Burton) and Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) attempt to repair the holodeck systems, while inside the holodeck, the group returns to Dixon's office.
His most enduring contribution was the creation of the fictional detective Dixon Hill; a circa 1930s gumshoe portrayed by Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a recurring series of Holodeck simulations.