Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Ship in a Bottle (1993)

Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data

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• [Data and La Forge indulge in another Sherlock Holmes adventure] 

  Lt. Commander Data : [as Holmes]  With practice, handwriting can be forged. It takes a trained eye to notice certain... discrepancies. For example, whether someone is right-... or left-handed.

  [he throws a matchbox to a holographic gentleman, who catches it] 

  Lt. Commander Data : Your brother was right-handed. The alleged suicide note was written by a left-handed individual, such as yourself!

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Er, Data... it's in his right hand.

  Lt. Commander Data : [puzzled]  Curious. There seems to be a problem with the holodeck's spatial orientation systems.

  Gentleman : [derisively]  London's greatest detective, huh?

• Lt. Commander Data : Captain. I have determined how Moriarty was able to leave the holodeck. He never did. Neither did we. None of this is real. It is a simulation. We are still on the holodeck.

• Lt. Commander Data : This contradicts everything we know about holodeck physics.

  Moriarty : Then perhaps you don't know as much as you thought.

• Barclay : Do you have the chair, Commander?

  Lt. Commander Data : No. It lost cohesion as soon as the transporter cycle was complete.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I have just given the computer my command codes, thinking I would get control of the ship.

  Lt. Commander Data : You may have inadvertently given Professor Moriarty the means of gaining control of the real Enterprise.