“Elementary, Dear Dara”
“Elementary, Dear Data” Data and Geordi are playing in a Sherlock Holmes simulation on the holodeck. Pulaski challenges Data by having the computer create an opponent as a match for him, Professor Moriarty. Holmes’s enemy kidnaps Pulaski and even threatens the Enterprise. Picard resolves the situation when he explains Moriarty that he is only a computer program and won’t be able to leave the holodeck. Before Moriarty is stored, Picard agrees to reactivate him once a method to convert him to a corporeal form is found. summary by Ex-Astris-Scientia
Did I say I naver hated Dr Pulaski? A lot of people did. Me? I never really liked Dr Crusher and, particularly, her son. I didn’t mind Pulaski and I was thrilled to see her attitude towards Data being changed. Racism, prejudice, stereotypes - that’s what I’ve always loved to see gone in Trek. Or punished. Or ridiculed.
As for the main plot, it was one of a few episodes I didn’t mind the dressing up. Perhaps because even in disguise the characters remain so much the same? Data trying to solve the mistery and think like a human is cute. Data is cute period.