Star Trek STNG Moments 29 Elementary, Dear Data 

Daniel Davis was born in 1945 (43 in 1988 when he was in that particular episode). Brent Spiner 1949 (39 in 1988 when this episode ran).

As a native brit I'm actually surprised he's an American. Bravo, very well done.

He was so good that when he played the English butler on the nanny there were British people who though he was English while the guy who played Mr. Sheffield was thought by British people to be doing a fake accent when in-fact he was English.

He also did the voice over narration for the audiobook of Star Wars: Darth Plagueis. So he’s been in both Star Trek and Star Wars 😂

@@ricksimon9867 No, in this context ‘effecting’ is correct. Affect mean to cause to change. Effect is an outcome. So his accent is being ‘outcomed’ as it were…effected you see. Remember, an affect creates an effect.

@@contessa.adella brainfart on my part thanks for pointing it out has been deleted

And the reply from Picard, that he doesn't what to kill him, I was so glad at the time that we got to see the character again later in the series in "Ship in a Bottle". Wonderful.

+DarMok Channel (ST Moments) Agreed! This scene is very powerful, I love it.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."

Have you died now?

@TheVoiceOfTruth I'm not interested in what a Pro-Nazi piece of shit like you has to say about spirits and souls.

@TheVoiceOfTruth Humans are just bags of flesh. The thing you think is so special, "spirit", is just chemicals in our brains. If you alter the chemicals in our brains, we become completely different people. An advanced AI, that's conscience, is every bit as alive as you are.

He’s a soul, but somehow entrenched in software.

What does that make you then?

@@Urasims *GIANT UGLY BAGS OF MOSTLY WATER...

I'd say second. "11001001" was pretty great. Basic TOS style, but great.

Star treks' greatest mistake was their despise for continuity.

That's Niles???? i knew he looked familar.

They didn't kill him. In this episode, after they had reached an agreement, they saved his file in the Enterprises database, to be turned back on once technology had reached the point where he could have substance outside of a Holodeck. In the sequel episode, he was accidentally turned back on by Barclay, and the crew learned that he had momentary sessions of Consciousness while he was in the file, and was aware of the passage of time. This angered him immensely as well as no progress has been done in 4-5 years to rectify his situation, so he once again tried to take over the ship. He believed that Picard had lied to him to get control of his ship back, and had never meant to turn him back on. The solution they had for him, without his knowledge, was to put him in a fully interactable holographic datacore, constantly running allowing him to live a lifetime's worth of experience without ever knowing he'd never escaped the Holodeck. He would no longer wait for the technology, and he left them no alternatives. We can only hope that he lived out the rest of his days exploring the Galaxy and experiencing everything it offered.

@@milkdudder He more than likely figured it out and lived the rest of his existence in a prison like hell.

@@Rahavin1 If this happened in Discovery or Picard, I would say that's possible. But not TNG. Being optimistic for the future was the whole vibe of the show back then. Pessimistic and jaded Star Trek is for the 20XX years.

Yep. He was stored away. Not killed. Who knows, maybe he was able to be like the doctor and move around with a holo emitter. Wish they could have shown that.

@@milkdudder until Generations where the Enterprise was destroyed along with the data cube...THE END!

Funnily enough, he was captain of the Enterprise in Hunt for Red October

Imagine.... Moriarty.. one of the greatest criminal minds in fiction.. made real. Sure mind you this one does not wish to continue being that 'character'... but at his core he will always have the Moriarty template as his core personality.

a new crew member? a criminal mind who would do anything to satisfy his own needs? I dont know..

@@bepowerification remember. Though he was based on Moriarty, virtual Moriarty had evolved beyond the confines of his program. He was essentially a different man just at the appearance of the fictional Moriarty. No less a genius in fact probably more. In fact he said it himself he didn't want to be evil.

@@Negasonic100 well, he still took over the enterprise and risked getting it destroyed if they didnt give him what he wanted. I could never trust such a person to be a good officer.

@@Negasonic100 wich makes him a decent asset

I knew his face was familiar!

urgh…I bet this woman owns more than 1 cat

This Moriarty dude was like neo busting out of the matrix

More like the doctor

No wonder starfleet spaceships sometime become sentient.

I enjoyed it to, and the guest star was great.

…provided that he actually gives up his evil ways

No, not actually. Though it is still a good scene and makes an otherwise silly episode worth sitting through for this exchange between Patrick Stewart and Daniel Davis.

He is an American, from Arkansas. His English accent was impeccable, though; it is so good, in fact, that most think that he is an Englishman acting in America. I wish he'd have had a larger role in Red October, but I love how his attitude toward Ryan changes after Admiral Greer informs him of Ryan's past as a Marine. Great movie all around!

Does a lot of bad things? I mean, might suck for the Doc for a while, but I think the Daystrom Institute would have been all over that emitter anyway, trying to recreate the tech. They certainly aren't leaving it in the hands of one EMH.

That literally happened the second time he showed up. ...it didn't work, but they found an alternative solution.

Season 3 was when "TNG" REALLY took off. Gene Roddenberry was getting less and less involved and the writers FINALLY figured out that the key to success was to be original and write the characters as they are, rather than try to recreate TOS (a la Pulaski and Data via McCoy and Spock).

Niles was played by David Hyde Pierce. Not the same guy, but I see how one would think so.

No, Niles from "The Nanny" television show...the butler. Wrong Niles. :)

Niles, and Captain Charlie Davenport, USS Enterprise CVAN-65 at "The Hunt for Red October".

They didn't have to... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JYRgenFbOcE.html

probably not hes was in that datacube along with the countess at the end of "Ship in a Bottle"

Considering the follow up to this, I wonder if the datacube survived Star Trek Generations?

Daniel Davis is actually American.

Technically everyone who speaks RP (Received Pronunciation) is pulling off an "English Accent". It's more learned than native so to speak.

Moriarty’s actor is actually from Arkansas.

Like tears in the Rain. So Sad.

@@DarMokChannel Yes, how eve Roy's end was much more final then Moriarty

@@kyle1m Yes but would have he and Regina (Stephanie Beacham) have been killed when Troi crashed the Enterprise in the Generations movie.

Because the transporter, transports physical matter, holodeck photons can not be reorientated in the real world with out a holodeck or Mobil emitter. At this time in the series no one had seen this type of emitter, so it could not be done. It's the same in the episode Ship in a Bottle, we're we see the character again. But they do manage to get around the problem. I won't say it here for those who might not have seen it. Thanks for contributing to the Channel.

But they did, season 6 episode 12. Ship in a Bottle, another great episode. Thanks for taking part in STMoments.

Based on UK TV release dates, I number the episodes out of the 178 made, the S02E03 numbers are usually in the info below. Hope that helps.

Drugs are bad.