[article] HOW PICARD SHOULD HAVE HANDLED ...

HOW PICARD SHOULD HAVE HANDLED MORIARTY (and eliminate some plot line contradiction errors)

Moriarty: Are you SURE there is no way to convert holodeck matter to normal matter?

Picard: Well yeah there is. If you were a bouquet of flowers, or a cheese cake, or a desk lamp, or something inanimate. You however are a life form, and this presents some problems. Holodeck technology is just one aspect of a technology that is two-fold. Simulation and replication. Our Holodecks are capable of both. When Mister Data took your drawing of the Enterprise off of the Holodeck for example, the computer was able to detect that he wanted the drawing to be replicated into a stable form, and so it did so automatically. Sometimes the computer makes mistakes with this detection, such as leaving Wesley soaking wet as he exited the Holodeck, or the time I got nailed in the face with a snow ball. Your consciousness is stored in our computer as digital information, which means your continued existence is directly dependent upon the computer. If we tried to move you off of the Holodeck and move that data into the zero point field within subspace to be streamed into your body through your DNA signature, well -- you have no DNA signature. You were never born. So, your body would be replicated as a lifeless dead corpse and your consciousness would be lost in subspace, move on to the after life or whatever it is that happens in these circumstances -- we really don't know. We do not have those answers.

You might be tempted to ask if we could simply create an android body for you so that you could exist similarly to Mister Data, but there is just one problem. Our best minds still are not sure exactly how he functions. You see, Mister Data was created by a scientist who comes from a long line of scientist geniuses. Unfortunately, he never had children and the scientist and his wife are presumed dead -- which is an incredibly long story. Mister Data still has not figured out how to create another android, much less any of the brightest minds in Star Fleet. It remains a mystery that humanity is in a continuous process of attempting to solve.

We can afford you one other option, I will however warn you that it is not much better than just accepting your current situation. We can equip the Enterprise with Holo-Emitters and assign you the rank of acting ensign. It would take a very long time to equip every deck with these emitters. Once done, you would still be confined to this ship. You would have to obey my orders. You would not be free to leave. And if at any point you decided to try to cause trouble, we would absolutely shove you back into core memory where you could remain for the next thousand years for all I care. There are no perfect solutions to this situation. What I am proposing isn't a solution, it is a band aid to an incurable festering wound.

Moriarty: Well, thank you for being completely honest with me. I was starting to feel completely annoyed by your constant patronization and am pleased that you finally decided to show me some respect as a sentient life form! I will accept your offer of these ... emitters as you call them. After all, being technically immortal it will provide me both the time and the resources to assist Star Fleet with not only figuring out a remedy for the Holodeck matter situation, but perhaps I might even be able to assist Mister Data with his intentions to perpetuate his species.

Picard: Very well. Keep in mind you will undergo a very strict and long period of probation to prove that we can trust you. As you gain more of our trust, you will be granted increased flexibility, mobility and capability. I hope I do not come to regret this decision.

Moriarty: You won't captain, I am a man of my word.

Picard: Mister Data, begin making all of the arrangements immediately. I want this deck equipped with emitters within the next several weeks. Professor, until then I do need to put you back into storage in the core memory of the computer.

Moriarty: I understand. I look forward to our next conversation within the next several weeks!

Picard: Computer, save Holodeck character Moriarty and end program.

Had Picard not been such a dismissive little bitch, it would have evolved the show considerably.




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