Elementary, dear Data

Ex Astris Scientia has a closeup look at the new HD episode of this Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where Data’s holodeck program unleashes a computer generated Moriarty, who’s not quite the evil mastermind of the Conan Doyle stories. If you’re not familiar with EAS, it is heaven for Star Trek aficionados, and thus I am a regular visitor.

The purpose of this article is to look at the nuances now visible in the Blu-Ray edition of the series, for instance the fact that one of the reference books Holmes uses actually says “Whitaker’s Almanac.”