TNGS2: Elementary, Dear Data

Ha. This was the first episode of Trek I ever decided to watch on my own.  I was a little confused since I didn't know what the fuck was going on, let alone what a holodeck was. Then again, 15 years later and I'm writing a god damn Star Trek blog.

So yea, this is another holodeck episode which I'm normally not big on but this one is pretty fucking rad.  Nerdy Geordi and Data decide to get a little R&R by playing dress up and solving Sherlock Holmes mysteries, which really sounds pretty dang fun.  Then again this is the beginning of the realization that Geordi needs a god damn girlfriend to keep his nerddom from running his life.  Sound familiar?

"check out my sweet ship android bro"

Data and Geordi head off to the holodeck and Data makes Geordi play bitch ass Watson to his Holmes. Data, however, is no fun to play with and Geordi gets upset and throws a hissy fit, runs out of the holodeck back to 10-forward to cry.

grow a pair, dear Watson

To be fair Data was sort of being a dick about it and immediately solving all the mysteries since he doesn't know any better.  Then again it is like getting mad at a poorly trained dog. Your fault, not his, you butthole.  Dr. Asshole Pulaski chimes in to say that Data sucks and could never do anything great because he is a robot, blah blah, she is a total cunt to him constantly.  Nobody likes you Pulaski.

In an effort to prove that beeitch wrong, Geordi tells the computer to make an enemy super tough for Data, which it does in Prof. Moriarty.

The guy playing Moriarty, Daniel Davis, is actually pretty badass at it.  He is some regular schmoe journeyman actor but kills it here.  He is sort like a Michael Parks, just willing to knock it out of the park for some schlub role on Star Trek.

Apparently by asking the computer to create a tough nemesis for Data, it managed to create a sentient hologram that was able to take over the ship.  It is highly preposterous (you have to say that with a nerd voice) that this could occur, but nonetheless it does. There is some psuedo-intellectual babble about the nature of AI and all that but the Moriarty character, with dignity, recognizes the situation and relinquishes control pack to Picard (after the speech of course).

Cool sets, cool costumes, some even decent FX, all around rad episode.  Season 2 is getting along quite nicely - maybe I just like this one so much because there is no Wesley.