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This article is from the Star Trek Tech FAQ, by Joshua Bell inexorabletash@hotmail.com with numerous contributions by others.

24 "How do you fit two entire baseball teams (real people, not holographic extras) into one of Quark's Holosuites?" "Take Me Out To The Holosuite" [DS9] (Holodeck and Computers - Star Trek)

We do know that Quark's holosuites come in various sizes. If you're
talking about at least 18 people, each would require almost 4 square
meters of area, or 72 square meters - and that's conservative. Imagine
they all start walking out the door in single file - the computer has
to shuffle each player's compartment around so that they end up by the
door in the order they decide to leave! (In the episode, we never see
a mass entrance or exodus, so it's possible that the holosuite does
have some limitations). That's about a 9 meter by 9 meter space - a
full sized holodeck by any account. But then again, there's no
evidence that Quark doesn't have something of that size tucked in the
back - for use only by clients with sufficient Latinum, of course.

The poster who asked this question on the newsgroup (Marco Antonio
Checa Funcke) after seeing the preview for the episode proposed that
perhaps the docked Vulcan starship's holodeck was used. Michael Welch
answers that they definitely did not use the Vulcan ship because at
the beginning of the episode, the Vulcan captain tells Sisko he needs
to schedule holosuite use and Sisko refers him to Quark. The Vulcan
captain at that point tells Sisko that it's a baseball program he's
developed.

 

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