Star Trek: The Next Generation
Summary
Brent Spiner ’s Lt . Commander Data find a kindred feel in Sherlock Holmes onStar Trek : The Next Generation , and the android is never more human than when he body forth the world ’s greatest consulting detective . Data ’s fascination with Holmes begins inTNGseason 1 , when Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) cite the detective . data point then like a shot reads every Holmes tale by Arthur Conan Doyle and takes on the image of Holmes . information takes this love even further inTNGseason 2 , episode 3 , " Elementary , Dear Data , " when he and his best protagonist Geordi La Forge ( LeVar Burton ) embark on a Holmsian holodeck dangerous undertaking .
Despite being an humanoid who insists that he can not find , Data often appears more human than many of the actual humanity that surround him . When Data use up on the persona of Holmes , he sincerely throw himself into the part , clearly enjoying himself . Brent Spiner , too , throws himself into the character , using a different flexion for Holmes that still feels undeniably like Data . Data seems to express emotion several times throughoutTNG , but " Elementary , Dear Data " focuses on the eccentric ’s felicity and highlightsData ’s very human friendship with Geordi . The intact thing is a truthful joy to watch .
Star Trek : The Next Generation ’s dear humanoid Lieutenant Commander Data features conspicuously in some of Star Trek ’s most long-suffering episode .
Sherlock Holmes Brings Out Data’s Humanity
“Deduction, pure and simple. Well, not that simple.”
From Data ’s obvious inflammation about all of the novelty in Sherlock ’s apartment to his disappointment when Geordi leaves the holodeck , Data expresses so much emotion throughoutStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s " Elementary , Dear Data . " He even spill back to Dr. Katherine Pulaski ( Diana Muldaur ) when she assert that Data would n’t be able-bodied to figure out a existent Holmes mystery . Data shortly shew Pulaski wrong , but the physician does n’t get to see it , as she has been waylaid byProfessor James Moriarty ( Daniel Davis ) . AfterData ’s encyclopaedic knowledge of every Sherlock Holmes taradiddle made the holodeck ’s mysteries too easy for him to solve , Geordi asked the initiative computer to create an"adversary capable of kill Data . "
to defeat Data , the young Moriarty gain access to the ship ’s computers and soon learns that he is a holograph on a spaceship . Data right away recognize the threat Moriarty now poses to the Enterprise and he and Geordi inform Captain Picard . data point goes from being giddy at the opportunity to solve a Holmes enigma to being worry for the Enterprise and its crew . He then help Captain Picard stop Moriarty and keep start the ship , but it ’s everything that comes before that highlights Data ’s humanity . He makes a perfect Sherlock Holmes , and Brent Spiner effortlessly switches from Data to Holmes at all the correct moments .
Moriarty Returned (Sort Of) In Star Trek: Picard Season 3
“Can someone explain why a 19th-century holo-villain is guarding a 25th-century black site?”
Star Trek : Picardseason 3 reunited thecast ofStar Trek : The Next Generationand the USS Enterprise - five hundred crew would n’t be complete without Data . Despite the fact that Data died in bothStar Trek : NemesisandPicardseason 1,Picardseason 3 sees the mechanical man resurrected yet again . This freshly promote version of Data has a more advanced synthetic dead body that ages just like a human , andhe can also experience actual emotions . When Captain William Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) , Captain Worf ( Michael Dorn ) , and Commander Raffi Musiker ( Michelle Hurd ) search Daystrom Station , they discover violin medicine and whistling , before finally meet Professor Moriarty .
When Data fights for control of his fresh golem trunk , his dearest of Sherlock Holmes is one of the things that help him come up back to himself .
Riker recognizes Moriarty , as well as the tune that keep bring , and clear that data point must be on the place somehow . Riker , Worf , and Raffi then find the fresh Soong - type humanoid that Starfleet has co - opted to be the surety for Daystrom Station . The part of Data that lives on in this android used music and familiar imagery , include Moriarty , to reach out to his old Friend . While the sentient rendering of Moriarty seen onTNGdoes not technically fall inPicard , some version of the Holmes villain live on within the psyche of Data . Data accomplish a certain stratum of humanness onStar Trek : The Next Generation , and his time as Sherlock Holmes was an significant part of his journeying .
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