When searching for an image of Sherlock Holmes for this blog post, I came across many different ones. Most show Sherlock Holmes as a single minded detective, with an insatiable curiosity. Always wearing the trench coat, and hat often carefully examining something closely just as in the image that I chose. This image comes from one of my favorite episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation of all time,titled “Elementary, Dear Data”. Data being the android that he is, reads and memorizes all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s works. While attempting to take part in a fun holodeck program with his friend Geordi as Watson to his Sherlock. Of course he recognizes the story almost immediately and takes the fun out of it. In an attempt to help Data truly understand the human aspect of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Geordi instructs the computer to create a character capable of defeating Data. Somehow this instruction along with a power surge sets Professor Moriarty free, thus actually granting a computerized being that which Data has always longed for humanity, and an understanding of human emotion.