Elementary, Dear Data

Your hosts Jessica Ray and Andy M. Goldberg discuss many things, including:

* Being new to Star Trek and what BTT is all about

* Costumes from Durinda Wood! So good!

* Friendships and non-friendships aboard the Enterprise

* Andy’s bald shiny head

* Data, AI and the ship

* Moriarty as a sentient being and a character

* Gates McFadden

* Picard giving the “bad guy” exactly what he wants? Let’s do more of that.

Jessica’s Rating

4 of 5 Deerstalker Caps

Andy’s Suggestions

If you want to find out more about Moriarty, 4 years later we’ll bust him out again in Ship in a Bottle, Season 6, Episode 12.

Elementary, Dear Data

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Next Up: The Measure of a Man

Jessica’s Prediction

Data deals with a birthday party that goes wrong and that leads to expectations of emotions: courage from Riker, love from Natasha Yar, etc.

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