Minuet is a self-aware holographic character in Star Trek: The Next Generation, created in the holodeck of the USS Enterprise-D by Commander William T. Riker in 2364. Presented as a sultry companion within a New Orleans jazz club program set in 1958, she proved unusually perceptive and adaptive after the holodeck was enhanced by the Bynars.
Minuet was secretly programmed by the Bynars to hold Riker's attention while they commandeered the Enterprise to save their homeworld's central computer. She is regarded as the first self-aware Starfleet-created hologram in Star Trek canon, a lineage later continued by Moriarty, The Doctor, and Vic Fontaine. This overview summarizes Memory Alpha material under CC BY-SA; chronology appears in the Timeline.
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