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Data:アンドロイド(科学主任で第二副長)
Geordi La Forge:技術チーフ(「機関部長」とも。恋多き青年です^^;)
Dr. Pulaski:ドクター・ポランスキー


Ge: Data, what was the point in going to the Holodeck?
Da: To solve a Sherlock Holmes mystery.
Ge: Exactly. But, you've got them all memorized. First time anyone opens their mouth, you've got it solved. So there's really no mystery. If there's no mystery, there's no game. No game, no fun. Oh, I'm not upset with you, Data, really. It's just that we go through all the troubles to arrange the time to go down to the holodeck, to get the proper wardrobe and to get into character, and boom. Before we even get started, you jump to the end. You see, I was looking forward to the mystery.
Da: Then, I should have extended the sequence of events?
Ge: I'm not getting through. The fun in the program, Data, was in the attempt to solve a mystery.
Da: Is that not exactly what we were doing?
Pu: Ha, ha, ha. You're wasting your breath, Lieutenant. Saying that to Data is asking a computer not to compute.
Da: Am I so differnt from you, Doctor? Are you able to cease thinking on command?
Pu: In medicine I'm often faced with puzzles I do not know the answer to.
Ge: She's right, Data. You always know the answer.
Pu: To feel the thrill of victory there has to be the possibility of failure. I mean where's the victory in winning a battle you can't possibly lose?
Da: Are you suggesting there is some value in losing?
Pu: Yes, yes. That's the great teacher. We humans learn more often from, from a failure or a mistake than we do from an easy success. But not you. You learn by rote. To you all is memorization and recitation.
Ge: Oh, I don't know about all that. Deductive reasoning is one of Data's strength.
Pu: Yes, and Holmes, too. But, Holmes understood the human soul, the dark flecks that drive us, that turn the innocent into the evil. That understanding is beyond Data.
Ge: Now you're just being unfair, Doctor.
Pu: I don't think so, Lieutenant. Your artificial friend doesn't have a prayer of solving a Holmes mystery he hasn't read.
Da: I have read them all.
Pu: You see?
Ge: Maybe the computer could creat one of Holmes style, one where you wouldn't know the outcome.
Pu: As I said, he wouldn't have a prayer.
Da: I accept your chalenge, Doctor.
Ge: Good for you, Data.
Da: We shall return to the holodeck where I shall dare it to defeat me. And you, Madam, are invited to be a witness.
Pu: I wouldn't miss it.
Da: Come, Watson.

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