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It's the most critical part of the ship-Kirk uses it for
showing off"diplomatic meetings"I'm picturing Data showing McCoy around the Enterprise-D in Encounter at Farpoint-
"Where's your bowling alley, boy?"
"We do not have a bowling alley here, sir. But we have a holodeck that can simulate a bowling al-"
"I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT MIXED-UP MOLECULES! Where's the bowling alley? This is the Enterprise, boy!"
With the size of the Enterprise-D I'm astonished someone didn't stick at least a mini bowling alley in there somewhere
A third of the ship is all Holodecks*, so if you want to bowl you could just load a program up.
*Source: computed by taking the number of "holodeck is trying to kill everybody" episodes and dividing it by the total number of series episodes.