Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Elementary, Dear Data (1988)
LeVar Burton: Lieutenant Geordi La Forge
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Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Data - I mean, Holmes, old boy - what are we looking for?
Lt. Commander Data : For whatever finds us, my dear Watson.
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Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Clancy, I'll be gone for a while. See that no one touches this.
Ensign Clancy : Aye, sir. And where can I reach you?
Lt. Commander Data : He can be reached at 221B Baker Street!
Ensign Clancy : Sir?
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Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : The Doctor was right. Finally, we have a game worth playing.
Moriarty : [entering the scene] The time for games is over.
Lt. Commander Data : Professor Moriarty, I presume?
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Lt. Commander Data : Geordi, I've just had a strange conversation with your assistant. Although it is three days until we rendezvous with Starship "Victory", she...
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : She believes it has already arrived? Not the starship, my friend.
[Geordi shows Data a model of the HMS Victory]
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : The original. This is my gift to the Victory's Captain Zimbata.
Lt. Commander Data : Ah, most unusual.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : I served with him as an ensign. Sure wish he'd been in command of this Victory. Wind and sail. That's the proper way to move a ship.
Lt. Commander Data : But Geordi, your Starfleet specialty is antimatter power, dilithium regulators...
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : That's exactly why this fascinates me, Data. See, it's human nature to love what we don't have. Simpler days, huh? Anyway, stringing this rigging has made me dream of handling sails...
Lt. Commander Data : This is not a computer simulation?
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Data, the whole point in doing something like this is to make it by hand.
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Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : I can't help thinking how... or what else might have happened, all because I misspoke a single word.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [referring to the model of the HMS Victory] I'll assume she'll be shipshape and Bristol fashion.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : "Bristol fashion", sir?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It's an old navy phrase, meaning everything in perfect order.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Hm... Yes, sir.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : As are we, Mr. La Forge.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Yes, sir.
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Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Data, what was the point in going to the holodeck?
Lt. Commander Data : To solve a Sherlock Holmes mystery.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Exactly, but you've got them all memorized. The first time anyone opens their mouth, you've got it solved. So, there's really no mystery.
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Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : If this murder isn't connected to the disappearance of Dr. Pulaski, then the computer is running an independent program.
Lt. Commander Data : Yes.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Why?
Lt. Commander Data : I do not know. And that is what puzzles me.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Then you don't know what's going to happen next?
Lt. Commander Data : No.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Aw, that's what I want to hear. Where to, now?
Lt. Commander Data : We will find Dr. Pulaski in here.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : How do you know that?
Lt. Commander Data : It's the only obvious choice.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Well, why is the obvious choice all of the sudden, the right one. I mean, isn't this a game of misdirection?
Lt. Commander Data : Not anymore. He wants us to find him.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Who does?
Lt. Commander Data : The master criminal, the man Holmes could only defeat at the cost of his own life at Reichenbach Falls. Our adversary, my dear Watson, is none other than Professor Moriarty, himself.
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Lt. Commander Data : What do these footfalls tell you, Watson?
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : That we're on the right track.
Lt. Commander Data : More particularly, that our opposition consists of two men, and one of them is carrying the bound and gagged Dr. Pulaski.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Now, you know all this because you read it in a Holmes story, right?
Lt. Commander 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 have shuffled and stumbled 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.