Elementary, Dear Data
- Episode aired Dec 5, 1988
- TV-PG
- 46m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
4.4K
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An attempt to provide Data with a challenging Sherlock Holmes holodeck program backfires when its Professor Moriarty character accidentally becomes self-aware.An attempt to provide Data with a challenging Sherlock Holmes holodeck program backfires when its Professor Moriarty character accidentally becomes self-aware.An attempt to provide Data with a challenging Sherlock Holmes holodeck program backfires when its Professor Moriarty character accidentally becomes self-aware.
Wil Wheaton
- Wesley Crusher
- (credit only)
Anne Ramsay
- Ensign Clancy
- (as Anne Elizabeth Ramsay)
Rosemarie Baio
- Holographic Widow
- (uncredited)
Majel Barrett
- Enterprise Computer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Michael Braveheart
- Crewman Martinez
- (uncredited)
Jeffrey Deacon
- Command Division Officer
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaPicard utters "merde", the French word for "shit". As it was said in a foreign language, it passed the TV censors. Merde is sometimes translated as "damn" in subtitles. This is not euphemism but reflects common usage in French. French conversation is relaxed about the use of swearwords with sexual connotations, whose literal translations would be considered very strong or taboo in English. For example, "Je m'en fous" literally means "I don't give a f***" but is used by the French in the same way as the milder "I don't care."
- GoofsMoriarty hands Data a piece of paper upon which is a sketch of the Enterprise. Data immediately storms off the holodeck, and shows the paper to La Forge. As the paper was holographic, it should have vanished the moment it was removed from the holodeck. However, other episodes have established that some objects (such as food) are actually replicated within the holodeck, and thus are "real" (i.e. not holographic), depending on the needs of the program and its user (as well as the plot of the individual show).
- Quotes
Moriarty: Is the definition of life "Cogito ergo sum" - I think, therefore I am?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, that is one possible definition.
Moriarty: It is the most important one - and for me, the only one that matters.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: Science vs. Fiction: Holodeck und Hologramme (2006)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
Featured review
In response to Qanqor
This was a really good episode. Everything about it was fun and exciting. I think Qanqor's review of this episode implies that he missed the point of what it was supposed to be. There needed to be an episode that wasn't so dark. They had just lost Yar.
Also no. The computer was locked out by Moriarity himself. When the system created him, it created him to be smart enough to defeat Data. The computer gace Moriarity the knowledge of the entire ship. Along with any knowledge that was present in the system itself. He overrode the system.(You honestly would have known that if you got halfway through. And at the end, he is the one that cancels the override)
And no. They could not have destroyed the Holodeck, they had explained that doing so would destroy Palaski.
Despite all those things. Even if they could just destroy the holodeck. The whole purpose of the episode was to solve a mystery. It was to challenge one's mind. Not use brute force to accomplish something.
Also no. The computer was locked out by Moriarity himself. When the system created him, it created him to be smart enough to defeat Data. The computer gace Moriarity the knowledge of the entire ship. Along with any knowledge that was present in the system itself. He overrode the system.(You honestly would have known that if you got halfway through. And at the end, he is the one that cancels the override)
And no. They could not have destroyed the Holodeck, they had explained that doing so would destroy Palaski.
Despite all those things. Even if they could just destroy the holodeck. The whole purpose of the episode was to solve a mystery. It was to challenge one's mind. Not use brute force to accomplish something.
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- Runtime46 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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