It is a Massively Complex Quantum Simulation

[Holosuite corridor]

(Rom and Eddington take of a panel to get at the workings.) 

ROM: 

I've had to make a few modifications 

to this holosuite over the years. 

EDDINGTON: 

A few? It's like a junkyard in here. 

ROM: 

My Brother won't let me buy new components so I've had to scavenge for what I need. 

QUARK: 

I'm barely breaking even on the holosuites as it is. 

If I had to buy new equipment every time there was a glitch. 

EDDINGTON: 

Where's the core memory interface? 

ROM: 

Oh it's right behind the spatula. 

EDDINGTON: 

The spatula? 

ROM: 

It's made of a copper-ytterbium composite, the perfect plasma conductor. 

(Eddington scans the innards with a tricorder.) 

EDDINGTON: 

I've found them. All five of their 

physical patterns are in here 

and they're stable. 

ODO: 

Why here? 

EDDINGTON: 

The HoloSuite is specifically designed to store 

highly complex energy patterns. 

The Computer's processing 

their physical patterns as if 

they were HoloSuite characters. 

Trouble is, I'm not reading 

any neural energy. 

ROM: 

Neural energy has to be stored at the quantum level. 

The HoloSuite can't handle that. 

ODO: 

So if their physical bodies are stored 

here, where are their brain patterns? 

QUARK: 

Everywhere else. 

Their brain patterns are so large that they're taking up 

every bit of computer memory on the station. 

Replicator memory, weapons, life supports. 

ODO: 

He may be right. 

So what do we do about it? 

How do we get them back?