The Russell Macklemore Experience #23
16:48-17:59=71 And 18:06-18:17=11
Elementary, Dear Data that's is today's episode of TNG that I will be writing about and early in the second season as it is, it's one of the best episodes of said season, which I've liked but not enjoyed.
I will surely enjoy this one because it's Data inhabiting the role of Sherlock Holmes and liking Holmes as I did when I was a boy and read my share of mysteries, how can I not like this episode, even though it was one of the quieter stories of TNG as the Enterprise was simply there to wait to rendezvous with another starship.
But that wouldn't be for a day or two which gave them enough time to do as they would while they waited.
And this story focused on Chief Engineer Laforge and Commander Data.
Laforge had served with the captain of the Victory as an ensign and he thought to give him a great gift of the original Victory, a sailing ship from hundreds of years in our past which made it even older for them.
And he wanted Data to have some joy of his own and invited him to play Holmes to his Watson on the holodeck.
Data quickly agreed and they dressed up as Homes and Watson,
But Data being Data, who was an android and fully read up on all the Holmes' stories solved the mystery with almost no time passed at all.
Poor Laforge was irked with his friend as he paused the program and stormed out of the holodeck.
A short time later, in Ten Forward they were talking about what had happened and Data wasn't quite getting what Laforge was trying to tell him.
It just so happened that Data's biggest supporter, Dr. Pulaski, who has no liking for him, weighed in on their doings because for her, what day was complete without shit-talking Data?
The long and the short of it was that she challenged Data to solve Holmesian style mystery.
He accepted her challenge and invited her along, because Data wasn't full of dislike for organics like she was for non-organics.
Data solved this mystery stupidly quick too and Dr. Pulaski called him a fraud because it was just more of the same, just a little less together for him.
This was when it got interesting as Laforge commanded the computer to make a foe who was able to defeat Data not Holmes.
He said it very clearly but Data himself didn't comment on it, which he surely should have.
Then again, if he had, there wouldn't have been the adventure that there was.
The computer was just doing what Laforge has asked of it too.
Even if it had to steal some power from elsewhere on the ship to do it, which was noted by Worf and not followed up on by Riker.
Bad form Riker.
The long and the short of it was that Moriarty evolved and gained control of the Enterprise after kidnapping Dr. Pulaski.
Shortly after this development, they encountered Moriarty who drew a drawing on paper that he gave to Data which freaked him out and they exited the Holodeck and had to read in the senior officers.
The reason for Data being freaked out was understandable when we saw the drawing, which we saw while they were on the ship and outside of the holodeck, because it was an outline of the Enterprise herself.
Boy did Laforge futt up in this and Picard didn't upbraid him for it.
Picard went back with Data and even Worf showed up, dressed in the period costume, though he waited outside of the holodeck while. Picard and Data went in.
The ending was quiet and for some no doubt, anti-climatic as Moriarty shook the ship a couple of times as he had created a control setup that gave him the alarming ability to shake the ship.
There was a funny little moment when Picard snapped open his folded hat with the cane that he had chosen for his costume and it spooked Worf as he jumped back.
Oh brave Klingon warrior.
I liked the ending as not all endings to great stories have to be full of great violence and excitement.
It was like a stirring chess match
A perfect ending to a great story.
Definitely an enjoyable episode, though I'm sure that I enjoyed it more when I first watched it all the way back in 1988.
I fear that I can;t say the same thing about the next episode but that is an episode to be written of the next time.
Be as well as you can be during this most trying of times.
Elementary, Dear Data that's is today's episode of TNG that I will be writing about and early in the second season as it is, it's one of the best episodes of said season, which I've liked but not enjoyed.
I will surely enjoy this one because it's Data inhabiting the role of Sherlock Holmes and liking Holmes as I did when I was a boy and read my share of mysteries, how can I not like this episode, even though it was one of the quieter stories of TNG as the Enterprise was simply there to wait to rendezvous with another starship.
But that wouldn't be for a day or two which gave them enough time to do as they would while they waited.
And this story focused on Chief Engineer Laforge and Commander Data.
Laforge had served with the captain of the Victory as an ensign and he thought to give him a great gift of the original Victory, a sailing ship from hundreds of years in our past which made it even older for them.
And he wanted Data to have some joy of his own and invited him to play Holmes to his Watson on the holodeck.
Data quickly agreed and they dressed up as Homes and Watson,
But Data being Data, who was an android and fully read up on all the Holmes' stories solved the mystery with almost no time passed at all.
Poor Laforge was irked with his friend as he paused the program and stormed out of the holodeck.
A short time later, in Ten Forward they were talking about what had happened and Data wasn't quite getting what Laforge was trying to tell him.
It just so happened that Data's biggest supporter, Dr. Pulaski, who has no liking for him, weighed in on their doings because for her, what day was complete without shit-talking Data?
The long and the short of it was that she challenged Data to solve Holmesian style mystery.
He accepted her challenge and invited her along, because Data wasn't full of dislike for organics like she was for non-organics.
Data solved this mystery stupidly quick too and Dr. Pulaski called him a fraud because it was just more of the same, just a little less together for him.
This was when it got interesting as Laforge commanded the computer to make a foe who was able to defeat Data not Holmes.
He said it very clearly but Data himself didn't comment on it, which he surely should have.
Then again, if he had, there wouldn't have been the adventure that there was.
The computer was just doing what Laforge has asked of it too.
Even if it had to steal some power from elsewhere on the ship to do it, which was noted by Worf and not followed up on by Riker.
Bad form Riker.
The long and the short of it was that Moriarty evolved and gained control of the Enterprise after kidnapping Dr. Pulaski.
Shortly after this development, they encountered Moriarty who drew a drawing on paper that he gave to Data which freaked him out and they exited the Holodeck and had to read in the senior officers.
The reason for Data being freaked out was understandable when we saw the drawing, which we saw while they were on the ship and outside of the holodeck, because it was an outline of the Enterprise herself.
Boy did Laforge futt up in this and Picard didn't upbraid him for it.
Picard went back with Data and even Worf showed up, dressed in the period costume, though he waited outside of the holodeck while. Picard and Data went in.
The ending was quiet and for some no doubt, anti-climatic as Moriarty shook the ship a couple of times as he had created a control setup that gave him the alarming ability to shake the ship.
There was a funny little moment when Picard snapped open his folded hat with the cane that he had chosen for his costume and it spooked Worf as he jumped back.
Oh brave Klingon warrior.
I liked the ending as not all endings to great stories have to be full of great violence and excitement.
It was like a stirring chess match
A perfect ending to a great story.
Definitely an enjoyable episode, though I'm sure that I enjoyed it more when I first watched it all the way back in 1988.
I fear that I can;t say the same thing about the next episode but that is an episode to be written of the next time.
Be as well as you can be during this most trying of times.
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