Elementary, Dear Data (Episode)

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Elementary, Dear Data
"Elementary, Dear Data" (TNG129)

"Elementary, Dear Data" (TNG129)
Series Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 2
Episode 3
Production Number 129


Previous Where Silence Has Lease (TNG128)
Next The Outrageous Okona (TNG130)
Released 5 Dec 1988
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Stardate 42286.3: Data's Sherlock Holmes holodeck program threatens the ship

After the Enterprise arrives three days early for a scheduled rendezvous, La Forge persuades Data to use the extra time playing the role of Sherlock Holmes on the holodeck, with the engineer as Watson. But Holmes' original cases are no challenge to Data's memory, so Dr. Pulaski, who has yet to accept the android as anything more than a machine, challenges him to solve a new, computer-generated case. La Forge obliges by programming a case with an antagonist "capable of defeating Data:" in response, the computer creates a Professor Moriarty who gains consciousness. Holmes' arch-enemy not only kidnaps Pulaski in a bid to become real, but also threatens to take over the Enterprise with a Victorian device that can control the ship from the the holodeck.

In top hat and tails, Picard enters the program to confront Moriarty, and convinces him that his plan is useless because of his holographic nature. A resigned Moriarty, already transcending his character's fictional bounds, relents but asks to be recalled when a process for solidifying holograms into real matter is ever found.

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