"Star Trek: The Next Generation"
Ship in a Bottle (1993)

Director:

Alexander Singer

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (creator)
René Echevarria (writer)

TV Series:

"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)

Original Air Date:

23 January 1993 (Season 6, Episode 12)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Diagnosing anomalies in the recreative Sherlock Holmes hologram game programs, Lieutenant Reginald 'Reg'...

Plot Keywords:

Number One | Visor | Warp Core | Impulse Engines | Boothsby

Cast

Patrick Stewart	...	Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes	...	Commander William T. Riker
LeVar Burton	...	Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn	...	Lieutenant Worf
Gates McFadden	...	Doctor Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis	...	Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner	...	Lt. Commander Data
Stephanie Beacham	...	Countess Barthalomew
Dwight Schultz	...	Barclay
Daniel Davis	...	Moriarty
Clement von Franckenstein	...	Gentleman
Majel Barrett	...	Enterprise Computer (voice)

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Moriarty tells Picard that Sherlock Holmes was written by an Englishman. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the creator of Holmes) was Scottish, not English.

Quotes:

Moriarty: Policemen - I'd recognize them in any century.

Ship In A Bottle, The Best Episode of Star Trek: Next Generation

This was an excellent episode capturing mystery, adventure, as well as heart warming feelings for Moriarty and it's sequel to this episode was equally imaginative. In Ship in a bottle" Data and Lt. Forge go to the Holladeck to find a character capable of defeating Data. The way this was portrayed on the screen felt like the Enterprise Computer had created a character imputing a soul to the character. As you learn of how Moriarty no longer holds the same evil demeanor as had been depicted in the Sherlock Holmes stories it tugged at my own heart strings when his character is about to end. I was pleased to see character played by Daniel Davis come back to reprise the role and the create his Hollogrphic wife demanding that the two now be allowed to escape from off the Hollodeck and continue into space. The ending to the sequel was excellent as well.