Stardate 46424.1: Investigating a glitch on the holodeck, Barclay accidentally reactivates Dr. Moriarty's routine in Data's Sherlock Holmes holoprogram. The holographic villain is angry that the crew have forgotten their promise to transfer him to the real world some day. However, he puzzles Picard, Data and Barclay when he walks outside the holodeck and stays in one piece. Moriarty asks Picard to help the Countess Bartholomew, the love of his life, to come alive as well. After a while Data discovers inconsistencies. He finds that everything is a ruse and that he, Picard and Barclay are still on the holodeck with Moriarty. The rest of the ship is not real, including all other crew members. Unfortunately Moriarty has now the access codes to the real ship, after Picard was forced to use them, which is especially dangerous since the Enterprise is very close to two colliding gas giants. The crew, however, outwit Moriarty using his own trick when they just transfer him and the Countess Bartholomew to the holodeck in the holodeck instead of beaming them out to the real world. Now stored in a small module, the two are provided with lots of adventures in what they think is the real world.

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