The funny thing is that the reason he was stuck in the holodeck for 4 years is because of legal wrangling with the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They couldn't use him until they knew it was legal.
@@sg39g It's because when they made the first episode. They believe Sherlock Holmes was already in the public domain. Only after the episode aired did they find out it wasn't.
This COULD have been cheesy but this story arc show how awesome the writing team and actors turned a hologram into a believable real villain. I would put Moriarty up with the Q in terms of recurring bad guys I looked forward to see in an episode.
@@YD-uq5fi I would love to see broccoli come back. But because of his political views, you would never be able to get him and Deanna Troy in the same room together. They both passionately despise the other sides lol
@@Rensune You would definitely see him on a Voyager reunion I imagine. It's just the last time I saw Troi She started berating the right. It was out of nowhere. But she was also drunk off her ass. It was Comic-Con so I'm sure she didn't give a fuck. But I looked into it and this is kind of what she does when she gets really drunk. She kept making jokes like do I have to show my ID. Am I illegal alien. Are you going to put me in a cage? You know crap like that. For no reason. Nobody in the audience had any interest in politics. Everybody was just there for Star Trek. But she's just a really bad drunk lol. And broccoli had a conservative podcast years ago
@@April-dv2pb The one thing that always bothered me about the Moriarty store is could not his program been download into android body after all they had andriods in Star Trek since the orginal series ( Norman). So they should be very good at making a workable andriod maybe not as good as Data but good enough for Moriarty.
I absolutely love Moriarity in TNG. I wish they had explored it more either in TNG or in later series, like in the Picard series and the Docs emitter duplicated to give Moriarity the freedom he so much desired and deserved to have after becoming completely self-aware. I think, therefore I am. That is the definition of life, or one of them at any rate.
Well the good news is hologram Professor Moriarty and Data's evil twin brother Lore are returning in the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard! I can't wait!
Your wish was granted, but it was granted by an evil monkey paw. They brought back Moriarty as a 'member berry in Picard. Wouldn't it have been a treat in Voyager's finale to hear the doctor from admiral Janeway's alternate future name drop Moriarty at the Voyager reunion party? Maybe having said something about working with him and the countess.
I think that would be an interesting idea. Imagine Moriarty talking down to the doctor because it was “only” a mobile holodeck emitter, not true autonomy or existence.
Now, the minute Barclay deactivates Moriarty and thinks for a moment while holding the isolinear chip and leaves the holodeck is that when he creates the illusion for Moriarty that plays out in the rest of the episode? It seems so. It would seem logical that before he and Picard return they would have come up with a plan that plays out in the rest of the episode.
That look at the end means oh s*** lol here we go again but seriously I enjoyed this character so much. I also liked Dr Pulaski in the elementary dear data episode she was great. When she said fraud. Because data solved the mystery right away.
I can see him reappearing in Picard more evil than the real Moriarty with a device that works like the Mobile Emitter. Typical character reconstruction. If they know better, they’ll make him hate Picard blindly after having learned he was in a Matrix and broke out. Oh and his wife’s dead for no reason/it’s easier without her
@@callumbush1 JJ's movies were good in their own way, they just weren't true Star Trek, something people should know. But he has nothing to do with the other shows. They're just run by morons who have no idea or care as to what they're dealing with, going as far as to suggest TNG was boring in Discovery, which isn't true, not to mention it's dangerous to make claims like that because you'll plant ideas into a newer audience before they're able to properly judge for themselves.
There is something magical about old Star Trek... Voyager, TNG, DS9 ... show me a clip of an episode and suddenly I think "I should go back and watch that episode, that is a really intriguing hook" ... so sad new shows don't have that.
We he could leave the holodeck if he were on a ship equipped with emitters on every deck but that’s still at least a decade or 2 off from wide scale fleet implementation
Professor Moriarty and showdown from 20-year-old video game system shock 2 should get together and compare notes. These two are the worst and the most evil cyber villains I've ever seen. And now in the car season 3 this guy somehow found his way back to
Barclay: "They told me a few years ago to stop spending so much time with fake people in the holodeck. Spend more time in the real world. Now the holodeck programs are telling me to spend more time with them! This is a very difficult day for Lieutenant Broccoli."
I don't think there was one until a few years later at the time of Voyager. Besides, an emitter might have given the free dom he wanted and resolved the problem before it started.
The left-handed right-handed thing is always bothered me a little bit. I'm right-handed but I have on occasion cut things with just my left hand. And I'm not very athletic person.
Does anyone see the problem with this? There was, or should have been a command lock on that program. This is why there are these things called security protocols, and chain of command. Apparently anyone in the star trek universe can access potentially dangerous materials or information.
The real joke behind it all is that every certified engineer, like Barkley, automatically had access to a program as sensitive and important as Moriarty. TNG went to great lengths on emphasising the importance of discovering "new lifeforms" such as this, but at the same time it (or rather, Starfleet) failed to secure access. Why not limit access to anyone who's a command level officer? Geordi or Riker or Picard, even Worf or Crusher would've handled it better. Although I must admit, it would've made that episode a lot less interesting. 😂
I still can’t get over the arrogance/lackadaisacal nature of the TNG crew. “Huh, we inadvertently created a sentient hologram based on one of the most sadistic, megalomaniacs in fiction; a being of pure intelligence, freed from the weaknesses of a physical form, who has the entire ship’s resources at his disposal. It would be wrong to just delete his files, but do you think maybe we should, I dunno, move his files to an external black box or something? And then lock that box up in a safe? No? Just leave them in the central mainframe? Well hopefully someone attached a readme txt file to it, asking people to please not open the secret murder box. Now excuse me, I’ve got Ressikan flute practice to get to.”
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Such a wasted opportunity with this character, they could have wrote him in to an episode with Q or the confrontation with the Borg and had him help Picard to ensure his own survival
