"Ship in a Bottle" is the 138 episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is a sequel to the second season episode "Elementary, Dear Data". As with that episode, "Ship in a Bottle" mixes characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation and "Sherlock Holmes". When making "Elementary, Dear Data", writer Brian Alan Lane and the producers of the episode erroneously believed the Holmes characters to be in the public domain, when ...
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"Ship in a Bottle" is the 138 episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is a sequel to the second season episode "Elementary, Dear Data". As with that episode, "Ship in a Bottle" mixes characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation and "Sherlock Holmes". When making "Elementary, Dear Data", writer Brian Alan Lane and the producers of the episode erroneously believed the Holmes characters to be in the public domain, when they were in fact still owned by the estate of their creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. The resulting copyright issues delayed the production of "Ship in a Bottle".
Data and La Forge are enjoying a Sherlock Holmes holodeck program when the two notice that a character programmed to be left-handed was actually right-handed. They call Lt. Barclay to repair the holodeck, but as he checks the status of the Sherlock Holmes programs, he encounters an area of protected memory. He activates it to find the artificial sentient Professor James Moriarty (Daniel...
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