So imagine my surprise when, while reading an article about Sherlock/ Star Trek connections I discovered that there was a star ship named after Sherlock Holmes. Its name appears on a view screen during an episode of TNG: "Conspiracy". I've seen the episode, but never noticed this, so I immediately hunted up a screen shot and, sure enough, there it is. You have to kind of squint to make it out, so kudos to whoever was sharp-eyed enough to notice it originally, but it is there: the USS Sherlock Holmes NCC 221B. How cool/ nerdy is that?
It's no secret that I love the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle... my two volume collection of his novels and short stories is battered and bent from years of repeated reading. I also enjoy the Granada series starring Jeremy Brett, several of the Holmes movies, and of course, BBC Sherlock. There are other incarnations of Holmes which I'm not particularly fond of (Elementary) but that's a post for another day. It's also obvious that I'm a Star Trek fan- again, not of all the Trek franchises or episodes, and very few of the movies, but a fan nevertheless. This being the case, I'm always interested when the two worlds intersect: for example, Spock quotes Sherlock Holmes in The Undiscovered Country and there are a couple of episodes in ST: TNG which feature Data playing Sherlock Holmes on the holodeck. More interesting from my point of view, Nicholas Meyer, writer of The Wrath of Khan as well as a couple of the other movie screenplays also wrote The Seven Percent Solution which is probably the most famous of all Sherlock Holmes pastiches. So imagine my surprise when, while reading an article about Sherlock/ Star Trek connections I discovered that there was a star ship named after Sherlock Holmes. Its name appears on a view screen during an episode of TNG: "Conspiracy". I've seen the episode, but never noticed this, so I immediately hunted up a screen shot and, sure enough, there it is. You have to kind of squint to make it out, so kudos to whoever was sharp-eyed enough to notice it originally, but it is there: the USS Sherlock Holmes NCC 221B. How cool/ nerdy is that? And just for fun:
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