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''Trek'' movie producer/scribe [[Nicholas Meyer]] wrote both the original novel and the screenplay for the Sherlock Holmes pastiche ''The Seven-Per-Cent Solution'', whose cast included [[Georgia Brown]], [[Joel Grey]], [[Samantha Eggar]] and [[Jeremy Kemp]].
 
''Trek'' movie producer/scribe [[Nicholas Meyer]] wrote both the original novel and the screenplay for the Sherlock Holmes pastiche ''The Seven-Per-Cent Solution'', whose cast included [[Georgia Brown]], [[Joel Grey]], [[Samantha Eggar]] and [[Jeremy Kemp]].
   
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Data as Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character in a series of books and stories written in the 19th century by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes was an English detective who used his genius, along with deductive reasoning and logic, to solve crimes, serving as a "consulting detective" – an expert who is brought into cases that have proven too difficult for other investigators.

He was accompanied on his missions by his close friend, the physician Dr. John H. Watson, who served as the narrator of the Holmes' stories. Holmes' nemesis was Professor James Moriarty.

Data was fond of the great detective and his ability to solve mysteries by careful examination of the available evidence. (TNG: "Data's Day") He first became aware of Holmes when Riker called Picard a private eye, (TNG: "Lonely Among Us") though he was introduced to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle by Captain Picard. (TNG: "Data's Day") When describing Dixon Hill to Data, Geordi La Forge described Hill as a 20th century Sherlock Holmes. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")

Later, Data played the role of Holmes in a holodeck program, alongside La Forge in the role of Dr. Watson. La Forge, while accompanying Data and Katherine Pulaski on a challenge to solve a Holmes mystery he had not read, accidentally programmed the Moriarty hologram so well that it became self-aware and learned of its true existence, requesting the computer to create an adversary capable of defeating Data, rather than capable of defeating Holmes. (TNG: "Elementary, Dear Data", "Ship in a Bottle")

Data found Holmes' methodology of deductive reasoning to be quite useful in performing his duties. (TNG: "Data's Day")

Captain Spock once stated, "An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains – however improbable – must be the truth." (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) This is, in fact, a famous quote of Holmes'. (TNG: "Data's Day") The alternate reality version of Spock also quoted this aphorism, although he did not attribute it to an ancestor. (Star Trek)

The aphorism first appeared in the Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of Four, published in 1890. Variations on the quotation also appear in the short stories "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" (1892), "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" (1908) and "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" (1926).

Apocrypha

In a comic story released by WildStorm Comics titled "Embrace the Wolf", Data assumed the Sherlock Holmes persona to save crewmembers who were trapped in the holodeck and being hunted by the energy being known as Redjac. The being had recreated Victorian London to repeat his most famous historical role, that of Jack the Ripper. Using this identity, Data manages to rescue Deanna Troi from a house on the banks of the Thames by examining a comb, and subsequently leads the senior staff to a confrontation with Redjac in a slaughterhouse.

Trek movie producer/scribe Nicholas Meyer wrote both the original novel and the screenplay for the Sherlock Holmes pastiche The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, whose cast included Georgia Brown, Joel Grey, Samantha Eggar and Jeremy Kemp.

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