ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Elementary, Dear Data</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#000000"> <TABLE ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="595" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" BORDER="0"> <TR> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="150" VALIGN=MIDDLE ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="STTNG Pictures/Next-Gen-Logo.gif" WIDTH="175" HEIGHT="117" BORDER="0" ALT="Star Trek The Next Generation Logo"></TD> <TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'Elementary, Dear Data'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 129)<BR>by Brian Alan Lane</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="200" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="STTNG Pictures/STTNG S2 Cast.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="142" ALT="Star Trek The Next Generation Cast"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> When the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> arrives three days ahead of schedule for its rendezvous with the <I>U.S.S. Victory</I>, Captain Picard and his crew take the opportunity to take some much needed downtime. Knowing that Lieutenant Commander Data is a Sherlock Holmes aficionado, his friend Lieutenant Geordi LaForge arranges for a visit to the holodeck, to take part in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mysteries in Victorian London; however, Geordi, in the role of Doctor Watson to Data's Holmes, is quickly disappointed when the android, having memorised all the Sherlock Holmes stories, promptly solves the crime in a matter of seconds. After Doctor Kate Pulaski overhears Geordi attempting to explain the difference between deduction and memorisation to his friend, she challenges Data to solve a real crime; Geordi instructs the ship's computer to give Data an original mystery and an opponent that could actually defeat him. The three officers re-enter the holodeck, but the Doctor is then kidnapped by Holmes' nemesis, the notorious Professor Moriarty; it is not long before the formidable villain manages to seize control of the holodeck computer and then demands to leave the holodeck to become a real person... <BR><BR> Patrick Stewart (<B>Captain Jean-Luc Picard</B>), Jonathan Frakes (<B>Commander William Thomas Riker</B>), LeVar Burton (<B>Chief Engineer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Worf</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data</B>), Wil Wheaton (<B>Wesley Crusher</B>), Diana Muldaur (<B>Doctor [Commander] Katherine  Kate Pulaski</B>), Daniel Davis (<B>Moriarty</B>), Alan Shearman (<B>Lestrade</B>), Biff Manard (<B>Ruffian</B>), Diz White (<B>Prostitute</B>), Anne Elizabeth Ramsay (<B>Assistant Engineer Clancy</B>), Richard Merson (<B>Pie Man</B>) <BR><BR><B>Directed by Rob Bowman <BR>Produced by Burton Armus, John Mason and Mike Gray <BR>Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry </B> <BR><BR><B>TX:</B> <FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> <BR>5th December, 1988 <BR><BR><B>Notes:</B> <BR>*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Chief Engineer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Security Chief Lieutenant Worf, Councelor Deanna Troi, Lieutenant Commander Data, Doctor [Commander] Katherine  Kate Pulaski and Wesley Crusher <BR><BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>