I am surprised no one entertained the idea of building an android body for Moriarity, or some sort of computer device they could download him into which would let him move outside.
Also they did not consider installing holoprojectors around the corridors to at least let him see the ship.
Not once during this whole thing did Picard or Data or Barclay go to their quarters? I can't imagine that the program could recreate them that well.
When Moriarty was taken to Sickbay, I half expected to see him saying:
"But where is Doctor Pulaski?"
Or better still:
"My dear Katherine, it is truly wonderful to see you again. I know I've got a crumpet in here somewhere... and by the by, you look different than when we last met..."
On the other hand, imagine what havoc could ensue had Moriarty acquired an android body. Can you say "The Schizoid Man"?
When Moriarty and the Countess go aboard the shuttle it is a type 6 (like the one they gave to Scotty in "Relics"). Then the shot changes and it's a type 7 (the footage comes from "Unnatural Selection"). Then the shot changes to an interior of the shuttle and it's a type 6 again.
Maybe it was a type 6.5?
When Moriarty introduces the Countess Bartholomew, he states that Data created her to be a companion for him. Awww, how sentimental of an emotionless android.
When did Data create this Countess and how did Moriarty meet her? He's been stored in memory since Elementary, Dear Data. There was no mention of Data activating Moriarty, saying, "Professor Moriarty, meet the Countess Bartholomew. Countess Bartholomew meet Professor Moriarty. I think you two kids are going to hit it off. Computer store them in protected memory." For that matter, why the Countess Bartholomew instead of Doctor Pulaski? He seemed quite taken with her the last time.
I was disappointed with the look of the two gas giants colliding. I expected their mutual gravities to rip their atmospheres from one planet to the other, instead the cloud patterns don't even change. Either the special effects people were too lazy to make it look real or they just assumed that such a collision would look like two pictures of planets being merged together.
When Picard changed his uniform, what did the Holodeck do with it? Did it just let it fall to the floor when it no longer needed to reproduce Picard's room? Or did it continually move it around in case Picard ever reentered his 'room'?
Picard, Data & Barclay are in the Holodeck. Would that be the same rinky dink little Holodeck we see at the beginning of the show? Three real people are wandering around, sometimes separately, in this tiny room and they not only think it is the Enterprise they never seem to bump into, or overhear, each other?
Good for the real people that Moriarty stopped listening to their conversations, when he got what he wanted or they never would have tricked him.
Where did Barclay get that big old hunk of active memory? I don't remember him bringing it in, or even seeing it in the panel that he works on at the beginning of the show.
Why didn’t Picard, Data and Barclay consider that they and Moriarty were still in the holodeck the moment Moriarty apparently stepped out of it in Act 1? I can buy Picard and Barclay possibly not thinking of this, but Data? Data’s mind is constructed to think of all possible permutations of a situation, and to approach problems using the scientific method. In trying to come up with an explanation for how Moriarty could step out of the holodeck, the first thing he should’ve attempted to establish was whether Moriarty was indeed still in it.
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Really bad error, eh? I hate it when that happens.
FUNNY LINE: "Computer, end program" Barclay at the end of the episode...when he's "just checking" to see if the environment was real.
And it wasn't, because after that, the program ended! Aaaaaaaaaaa...
Don't smile. It's true! The computer never replied, "Please restate request" or "You're not on the Holodeck, moron" or something similar ;)
It didn't have to, because shortly after this the end credits started rolling.
Are they gonna give a copy of the Doctor's holographic emitter to Moriarty?
If they could and did, would he "as mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore!" since he was tricked or would he be polite because he truly got into the real world.
Side topic:
One wonders whether Moriarty would be the type to join the group of Sentient Holograms (the escaped ones from the hirogen battle sim.) if he was created on voyager
Doc's holoemitter is 29th century technology, and they barely understand it enough to repair it, let alone copy it.
Time is irrelavent.
take it tp DS9
they can copy anything there!
Even if they did give the holo-emitter to Moriarty, he may not trust that they do mean to leave him in the real world. After all, he's been deceived twice before, who's to say if they're telling the truth now?
The way Picard convinces Moriarty to release the command codes deserves some scrutiny. The idea was that he programmed a reality within the simulated reality that could beam people off holodecks. However, in order to convince Moriarty that he and the countess really are in Picard's fantasy, they would have needed to step into it. Meaning, they would have had to step into the holodeck on the simulated Enterprise. The countess never left any holodeck and Moriarty certainly would have known where he was since he was the mastermind in control of everything. It's unlikely that he could have stepped into Picard's program accidentally. If anything, he would have known which holodeck the countess was on and gone into that one to meet her.
So if Moriarty never stepped into Picard's holodeck program, then when he called "arch" at the end, then it should have been the real arch and not the arch from Picard's program. The Commander Riker he was talking to should have been the real Riker.
It's hard to belive that Picard's plan of creating a reality to please Moriarty could have worked unless he somehow believed that he could also trick Moriarty to step into his reality.
Stephanie Beacham (Countess) was Sable Colby on "Dynasty" and its spinoff, as well as Dr. Westphalen on "SeaQuest."
Stephanie Beacham (Countess) was Sable Colby on "Dynasty" and its spinoff...
What was Charlton Heston doing in that spinoff (titled Dynasty II - The Colbys and then just The Colbys)?
Daniel Davis went on to play in The Nanny.
Couple things about Daniel Davis:
In both Moriarty episodes, he menaces the Enterprise. In the movie The Hunt for Red October, Davis plays the captain of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
I always thought he was British, due to his TNG and Nanny roles, and his overall cultured accent. He was born and raised in Arkansas.
The look on the fake LaForge's face when Picard asked excuse him and Data was pretty funny. I thought Barclay's line at the end was lame. Even if they were a simulation for something else's amusement it wouldn't respond to Reg.
When LaForge and Data leave the holodeck at the start of the episode, LaForge says 'end program and save'. Shouldn't it be the other way round? If I did this with my PC all would be lost...
Perhaps its like windows and has a pop up window saying save any changes made.
So where is that little computer with Moriarty and the Countess in it now? Is it sitting on a shelf in Barclay's apartment? Did he give it to Dr. Zimmerman to study?
I wonder what became of it?
Its probably sitting in a very safe vault in Starfleet HQ.
And it's being examined by... Top. Men. (OK, Beings.)
It probably got corrupted when the Enterprise upgraded to LCARS Vista
"The way Picard convinces Moriarty to release the command codes deserves some scrutiny. The idea was that he programmed a reality within the simulated reality that could beam people off holodecks. However, in order to convince Moriarty that he and the countess really are in Picard's fantasy, they would have needed to step into it. Meaning, they would have had to step into the holodeck on the simulated Enterprise. The countess never left any holodeck and Moriarty certainly would have known where he was since he was the mastermind in control of everything. It's unlikely that he could have stepped into Picard's program accidentally. If anything, he would have known which holodeck the countess was on and gone into that one to meet her.
So if Moriarty never stepped into Picard's holodeck program, then when he called "arch" at the end, then it should have been the real arch and not the arch from Picard's program. The Commander Riker he was talking to should have been the real Riker.
It's hard to belive that Picard's plan of creating a reality to please Moriarty could have worked unless he somehow believed that he could also trick Moriarty to step into his reality." - Anonymous
The countess was inside the holodeck on the holographic ship. It was this holodeck that Picard modified since he had the means to control things in the ship. Holo Transporters, Holo-Holodeck etc. Moriarty had to keep the countess on the holo-holodeck in order to trick Picard. So Moriarty stepped into the holo-holodeck at the end because that's where he was storing the Countess.