Elementary, Dear Data
Joe Siegler
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Elementary, Dear Data
This Story: Season 2 Episode 3 (production code 129)
TNG Overall: Episode 29
Trek Overall: Story 129, Episode 131
Airdate: 5 Dec 1988
Written by Brian Alan Lane
Directed by Rob Bowman
Notes
- A loose sequel to the episode “The Big Goodbye“.
- Wesley Crusher does not appear in this episode.
- A deleted scene would have explained the reason why a piece of paper from the holodeck is brought out and doesn’t dissolve.
- Legal disputes over the use of the character by the Doyle estate prevented sequels to this episode until several seasons later.
- Picard says “merde” in the episode, which is French for the English word “shit”.
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[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | IMDB | Amazon US DVD | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek TNG Ep 29 - Elementary, Dear Data - 5 Dec 1988 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 14, 2024
Data goes full Sherlock Holmes and plays the character on the Holodeck. They challenge him by having the holodeck create a character capable of defeating Data, but this results in a Moriarty that is pic.twitter.com/Zrl3tnGVCv
#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek TNG Ep 29 - Elementary, Dear Data - 5 Dec 1988 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) October 14, 2024
too powerful and threatens the Enterprise itself. This ep is well written, well acted, and one of the better ones that features Pulaski. Legal issues prevented a sequel until the 6th season, tho. pic.twitter.com/9hvfM87hyN
