Sixth Season - Episode 138

SHIP IN A BOTTLE

Stardate: 46424.1
Rating: 14 Humour: - Action: - Tension: ++ Romance: -

Alternate Titles: German: "DAS SCHIFF IN DER FLASCHE"

Written By: Echevarria, René
Director: Singer, Alexander
Music: McCarthy, Dennis
Executive: Berman, Rick
Piller, Michael
Co-Executive: Taylor, Jeri
Supervisor: Abatemarco, Frank
Livingston, David
Producer: Lauritson, Peter
Line-Producer: Howard, Merri D.
Co-Producer: Moore, Ronald D.
Neuss, Wendy
Camera: West, Jonathan

Cast

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Cmd. William T. Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Lt.Cmd. Geordi LaForge: LeVar Burton
Lt. Worf: Michael Dorn
Doctor Beverly Crusher: Cheryl Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Lt.Cmd. Data: Brent Spiner
Moriarty: Daniel Davis
Countess: Stephanie Beacham
Lt. Barcley: Dwight Schultz
Gentleman: Clement Von Franckenstein

Plot

Professor Moriarity, a holodeck creation imbued with self-awareness and last seen in "ELEMENTARY, DEAR DATA" returns to plague Picard and the crew of the Enterprise. While playing in a Holmes adventure on the holodeck, Moriarity manages to gain control of the adventure and the ship and lures Picard, Data, and Barclay into his world and demands they give him entrance to theirs. Picard don't think it's possible and tries to prove it to Moriarity but gets quite a surprise when the professor actually leaves the Holodeck, and begins to wander around in the real world, he then aquires control of the Enterprise and demands that they bring his lover into the real world too. But when making an atempt with the transporter, Data suddenly discovers that they are actually not in the real world, but just on the holodeck. And Moriarity simply left a holodeck on the holodeck, unfortunely Picard has just tried out his securitycodes now leaving them in the hands of the professor.

Goofs

  • When Picard walks into the holodeck he is wearing his open coat with the blue shirt, but he walks out wearing his one-piece red shirt. Either he changed his uniform inside the holo-deck and is wearing a holo-shirt (in which case his uniform top should have disappeared when he steps out of the holo-deck at the end of the episode) or they screwed up again! :-)
  • Also, when they cut to a commercial break at the end of the scene where Moriarty tells Picard he has taken over the ship, Picard begins to say something as the screen fades. It's close to the end of the first half of the episode.
  • Finally, it appears that the command "Computer, Freeze Program" doesn't stop flames in a fireplace from flickering, or a clock from ticking....

Quotes

[Data is Holmes, confronting the Gentleman]
Data: "The letter could only have been written by a left-handed person souch as yourself.."
LaForge: "Ahm.. Data, he is holding it in his right hand.."

Countess: "Can we go back to earth... sometime ??"
Moriarty: "Ofcourse, my love.."

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