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Picard: "Captain's log, stardate: 42286.3. We've arrived on station at coordinates 3-6-2-9 by 5-8-4; three days early for our rendezvous with the U.S.S. Victory. There is nothing to do now but hold this position and wait."
 
Data: "Geordi, I just had a strange conversation with your assistant. Although it is three days until we rendezvous with starship Victory, she--"
Geordi: "She believes it has already arrived? Not the starship, my friend, the original. This is my gift to the Victory's Captain Zimbata."
Data: "Most unusual."
Geordi: "I served with him as an ensign. Sure wish he'd be in command of this Victory. Wind and sail; that's the proper way to move a ship."
Data: "But, Geordi, your Starfleet specialty is antimatter power, dilithium regulators..."
Geordi: "That's exactly why this fascinates me, Data. See, it's human nature to love what we don't have; simpler days, huh?"

Geordi: "Clancy, I'll be gone for awhile. See that no one touches this."
Clancy: "Aye, sir. Where can I reach you?"
Data: "He can be reached at 221B Baker Street!"
Geordi/Watson: "In the hands of some, the violin is a wondrous thing, equally capable of stirring the soul to the height of bliss as to the depths of despair, but...Data, that's incredible! How can you play it like that?"
Data/Holmes: "Merely throwing myself into the part, Watson."
Data/Holmes: "And may I say that your perturbation becomes you Inspector Lastrade, whilst simultaneously affording me the opportunity to yet again serve Queen and country."
Geordi: "Data, did Holmes really talk like that?"
Data: "Absolutely."
Geordi: "Computer! Freeze program. Exit!"
Data: "Geordi? Where are you going, Geordi?"
Geordi: "I'm done!"
Data: "But...but...Geordi, I was about to reveal the fact that the sir is in fact a..."
Geordi: "The fun in the program, Data, was in the attempt to solve a mystery."
Data: "Was that not exactly what we were doing?"
Dr. Pulaski: "You're wasting your breath, Lieutenant. Saying that to Data is asking a computer not to computer."
Data: "Am I so different from you, Doctor? Are you able to cease thinking on command?"
Dr. Pulaski: "In medicine, I am often faced with puzzles that I do not know the answer to."
Geordi: "She's right, Data. You always know the answer."
Dr. Pulaski: "To feel the thrill of victory there has to be the possibility of failure. I mean, where's the victory in winning a battle you can't possibly lose?"
Data: "Are you suggesting there is some value in losing?"
Dr. Pulaski: "Yes. Yes, that's the great teacher. We humans learn more often from a failure or a mistake than we do from an easy success. Not you. You learn by rote. To you, all is memorization and recitation."
Geordi: "I don't know about all that. Deductive reasoning is one of Data's strengths."
Dr. Pulaski: "Yes, and Holmes, too. But, Holmes understood the human soul; the dark flecks that drive us, that turn the innocent into the evil. That understanding is beyond Data.
Geordi: "Now you're just being unfair, Doctor."
Dr. Pulaski: "I don't think so, Lieutenant. Your artificial friend doesn't have a prayer of solving a Holmes mystery he hasn't read."
Data: "I have read them all."
Dr. Pulaski: "You see?"
Geordi: "Maybe the computer could create one in Holmes style, one where you wouldn't know the outcome."
Dr. Pulaski: "As I said, he wouldn't have a prayer."
Data: "I accept your challenge, Doctor."
Geordi: "Good for you, Data!"
Data: "We shall return to the holodeck where I will dare it to defeat me! And you, madam, are invited to be a witness."
Dr. Pulaski: "I wouldn't miss it."
Data: "Come, Watson!"
Dr. Pulaski: "I'll give you credit for your vast knowledge, but, your circuits would just short out if you were confronted with a truly original mystery. It's elementary, dear Data."
Geordi: "Computer, in the Holmesian style, create a mystery to confound Data with an opponent who has the ability to defeat him."
Computer Voice: "Define parameters of the program."
Dr. Pulaski: "What does that mean?"
Geordi: "The computer wants to know how far to take the game."
Dr. Pulaski: "You mean it's giving you a chance to limit your risk."
Geordi: "No, the parameters will be whatever is necessary in order to accomplish the directive. Create an adversary capable of defeating Data."
Moriarty: "What have we here?"
Computer Voice: "Computer standing by."
Moriarty: "What are you?"
Computer Voice: "If you refer to the arch you ordered, it provides computer control. Do you wish to input any commands?
Moriarty: "Not at this time."
Data/Holmes: "The game...is afoot!"
Data/Holmes: "What do those footfalls tell you, Watson?"
Geordi/Watson: "That we're on the right track!"
Data/Holmes: "More particularly, that our opposition does indeed consist of two men and that one of them is carrying the bound and gagged Dr. Pulaski!"
Geordi: "Now, you know all this because you read it in a Holmes story, right?"
Data: "Not at all. Because we do not hear the Doctor's footfalls, we must assume that she is being carried. And since we do not hear her cries for help, we know that she is gagged. Further, both sets of footfalls are heavy and masculine. One man seems to shuffle and stumble in an irregular pattern. Since the ground is level, we must conclude that Dr. Pulaski is struggling against one of her captors, sporadically knocking him off stride. Deduction; pure and simple. Well...not that simple.
(sound of steps)
Geordi and Data: "Footfalls!"
Data/Holmes: "Professor Moriarty, I presume?"
Geordi: "Data, wait. What is it? What's on that paper and why can't we shut down the holodeck? Data!"
Data: "This!"
Geordi: "This is impossible. How can a character from 1890s London draw a picture of the Enterprise? And who's got control of the computer?"
Data: "He does. Moriarty."
Geordi: "That is impossible. I don't understand."
Data: "Nor do I."
Geordi: "Data, wait. What about the Doctor, is she all right in there?"
Data: "No. She is in grave danger."
Geordi: "Well, Dr. Pulaski and I had a discussion about whether Data could solve an original Holmes-type mystery."
Picard: "Which you asked the computer to provide."
Geordi: "Yes, with a worthy opponent."
Picard: "Worthy of Holmes?"
Geordi: "Oh, my God. I asked for a Holmes-type mystery with an opponent capable of defeating Data. That's got to be it."
Picard: "Merde."
Dr. Pulaski: "Tell me what you want from me or allow me to leave."
Moriarty: "Frankly, now I want nothing more of what the fisherman expects of the worm. You, dear doctor, will be the worm; this will be the hook for your captain; Jean-Luc Picard."
Dr. Pulaski: "Who is that?"
Moriarty: "How well you know."
Riker: "Nice suit."
Worf: "Thank you. Captain, I will be standing by to assist you if needed."
Riker: "You'll be a big hit in London."
Ruffian: "I'll take that coin, sir. That's right and anymore you got, too."
Picard: "Excuse me."
Ruffian: "I don't think so. I want all that money. That's right, I want it now."
Picard: "Data..."
Data: (grabs him) "This holographic image differs from any I have ever seen. Could he have actually injured you?"
Picard: "More serious than than. I think the mortality fail-safe may have been circumvented. He could have killed me."
Ruffian: "Let it go, gov! Come on! He's hurtin' me!"
Picard: "Data, let him go."
Moriarty: "You or someone asked your computer to program a nefarious fictional character from 19th century London and that is how I arrived. But, I am no longer that creation; I am no longer that evil character; I have changed. I am alive and I am aware of my own consciousness."
Picard: "Moriarty, this vessel's computer has a vast memory capacity."
Moriarty: "How well I know."
Picard: "You will not be extinguished. We will save this program and hopefully, in time, when we know enough bring you back in form which can leave the holodeck."
Moriarty: "Then perhaps we'll meet again, madam."
Dr. Pulaski: "It could be a long time. Time won't pass for you, but, I may be an old woman."
Moriarty: "Then I'll still fill you with crumpets."