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There ’s no shortage of references to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ’s consulting police detective , Sherlock Holmes . inStar Trek . First appear in " A Study in Scarlet " in 1887 , Holmes is regard a master of forensic tax write-off and logical reasoning , andclues to his kit and caboodle have since appear in several of theStar Trekfranchise ’s serial and picture . FromStar Trek ’s actors taking on the persona of the literary logician to Holmes ' prankish - scourge Professor Moriarty jeopardize the security of the Starship Enterprise and its crew , Star Trekhas a wealthiness of Sherlock Holmes references .
sweep the comprehensiveness ofStar Trek ’s multiverse timeline , let in J.J. Abrams ' alternative Kelvin universe , references to Sherlock Holmes are long - stand and peppered throughout the dealership ’s shows and pic , specially within the scope ofStar Trek : The Original SeriesandThe Next contemporaries . Across various formats - including television receiver , moving-picture show , stageplays , books , and audio series - the lap between the two works is fascinating and racy . AsStar Trek’sheroes and villains balance First Contacts and geographic expedition of the stars with solving rummy secret as the violin - playing , amplify glass - wielding , and deer - prowler - wearing police detective , here ’s a list of10 callbacks to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ’s noted detective inStar Trek .
The Star Trek TV dealership has existed for 57 years and consist of 12 shows ( and counting ) . Here ’s how to watch them all in timeline order .
10The USS Sherlock Holmes
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 25, “Conspiracy”
In the disturbingStar Trek : The Next Generationseason one installment " Conspiracy , " Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) is alerted to a possible insidious confederacy within the highest level of Starfleet . Assigned to review Starfleet ’s directives over the former six month , Data ( Brent Spiner ) looks at a series of ship list and mission edict - include one for theUSS Sherlock Holmes , register telephone number NCC-221B. It ’s a fast , blink - and - you’ll - miss - it moment , but it ’s a absolved nod to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ’s successful tec and his London , UK plate at 221B Baker Street . afterwards , Star Trek : The Next Generation ’s parasitic alien threatis let on , and further catastrophe is averted .
9Christopher Lloyd As Sherlock Holmes On Stage
Lloyd also played the villainous Klingon, Commander Kruge, in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
The versatile Christopher Lloyd appeared inStar Trek III : The Search For Spockin 1984 , star as the nefarious Klingon , Commander Kruge . Responsible for the violentdeath of Kirk ’s Word , David Marcus ( Merritt Butrick ) , Kruge later pass away himself in a battle with Admiral Kirk ( William Shatner ) on the volatile and already - combusting Genesis major planet . Christopher Lloyd after starred in an adaptation of William Gillette ’s microscope stage play Sherlock Holmes , appear in the claim role as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ’s logical detective . The play run for for 13 operation and starred Clark Gesner as Dr. John Watson , with several of Lloyd ’s family members also appear in other roles .
Christopher Lloyd Work
Format
Character
Year
Star Trek III : The Search For Spock
Movie
Commander Kruge
1984
Sherlock Holmes
Play
1990
8Christopher Plummer in Murder by Decree
The actor also played General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Christopher Plummer successfully straddledStar Trek : The Original Seriesand the realm of Sherlock Holmeswith a significant role in both works . Plummer took on the role of Conan Doyle ’s master detective , Sherlock Holmes , in the 1979 whodunit thriller movie " slaying by Decree . " Well received , the cinema earned rave reviews and multiple prize . In 1991 , Plummer played the deceitful Klingon , General Chang , inStar Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country . Several other notable connection to theStar Trekfranchise include howGeneral Chang inspiredStar Trek : Discovery ’s Klingonsand his daughter Amanda Plummer inStar Trek : Picardseason three , starring as the antagonistic Vadic .
Christopher Plummer Work
execution by Decree
1979
Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country
General Chang
1991
7Star Trek References In Sherlock
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman star as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson
The herald British television seriesSherlockreferencedStar Trekacross several episodes . InSherlockseason 2 , episode 2 , " The Hounds of Baskerville , " a discomfited Dr. John Watson ( Martin Freeman ) deal Sherlock Holmes ( Benedict Cumberbatch ) and says , " Yeah , alright , Spock , just … take it easy . " InSherlockseason 2 , instalment 3 , " The Reichenbach Fall , " Watson ’s eulogy to Holmes is redolent of Admiral James T. Kirk ’s ( William Shatner ) for Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) inStar Trek II : The Wrath of Khan . Significantly , Spock and Sherlock are both later returned to life history .
You were the salutary homo , the most human … human being that I ’ve ever known .
Of my friend , I can only say this : Of all the souls I have bump in my change of location , his was the most … human .
Additionally , the 2016SherlockSpecial " The Abominable Bride " parallels melodic theme within Nicholas Meyer ’s novel " The Seven - Per - penny Solution " with paper of heavy drug usance and psychological science .
Star Trek is ending serial like Discovery and Lower Decks but renewed Strange New Worlds while lay up newfangled streaming and theatrical picture show .
6The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country’s co-writer and director was a big Sherlock Holmes fan
DirectorNicholas Meyer authored the well - trade Sherlock Holmes 1974 novel"The Seven - Per - centime Solution . " Meyer is best known for his films , especially writing and directingStar Trekmovies . " The Seven - Per - Cent Solution ’s " report source Holmes ' drug addiction and playact with base of psychology . Meyer later adapted his book into a screenplay for the 1976 movieThe Seven - Per - Cent - Solution , and write four more Sherlock Holmes novel . Meyer directedStar Trek II : The Wrath of Khan(1982 ) , co - wroteStar Trek IV : The Voyage Home(1986 ) , and later co - wrote and directedStar Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country(1991 ) , weaving subtle reference to the other detective into the later handwriting .
5Spock’s Interesting Ancestry
Spock quotes Sherlock Holmes Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country & Star Trek (2009)
An importantSherlock Holmes quote from " The Sign Of Four " is cite inStar TrekVI : The Undiscovered CountyandStar Trek(2009 ) . In the former , Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) investigates the origin of a deployed torpedo , explaining that " An antecedent of mine maintained that when you rid of the impossible , whatever remains , however improbable , must be the truth . " This comment also suggests an transmissible connection between Spock and either Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Sherlock Holmes himself . InStar Trek(2009),Spock ( Zachary Quinto)repeats the same Sherlockian sentiment as the young USS Enterprise crew learns their world has depart from its original course .
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible , whatever remains , however improbable , must be the verity ?
Spock and Sherlock Holmes share several character trait , including a prejudice towards system of logic and rationality .
4Moriarty Takes Over The USS Enterprise-D
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 6, Episode 12, “Ship in a Bottle”
" Ship in a Bottle " returns to an earlierStar Trek : The Next Generationepisode , continuing the storey fromTNGseason 2 ’s " Elementary , Dear Data . " When a holodeck review unwittingly spark off the antecedently deactivatedProfessor James Moriarty ( Daniel Davis ) , the tough fictional character plot of ground to escape the labor of the holodeck and seizes control of the ship . Using the holodeck ’s technology to make a ruse , a fractal - esque simulation within a model , Captain Jean - Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew deviate Moriartyand his companion , Countess Regina Barthalomew ( Stephanie Beacham ) , to retrieve control of the ship . Moriarty and the Countess set out into the adept , consider themselves to have take to the woods into reality .
Professor James Moriarty ( Daniel Davis ) also cameos inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 .
3Leonard Nimoy As Spock And Sherlock Holmes
The Star Trek star played the logical detective on-stage in 1976
Leonard Nimoy boast a riveting range of Sherlock Holmes - related project . Before reprising Spock forStar Trek ’s first six characteristic flick , and again in 2009 and 2013 as(Prime ) Ambassador Spock , Leonard Nimoyappeared as Sherlock Holmes in the educational short " The Interior Motive " in 1975 . In 1976,Nimoy star in a production of William Gillette ’s " Sherlock Holmes,“and recite the 1978 documentary , " In Search of … Sherlock Holmes . " AlongsideStar Trek : The Next Generationactor John de Lancie , Nimoy put up a project converting skill - fiction audiobooks into wireless play , castingStar Trekactors , including Roxann Dawson , Ethan Phillips , and Armin Shimerman in Doyle ’s " The Lost humankind . "
Leonard Nimoy Work
Star Trek : The Original Series
Television
Commander Spock
1966 - 1969
The Interior Motive
Movie ( Educational Short )
1975
1976
In Search of … Sherlock Holmes
Documentary
Narrator
1978
Star Trek I - VI
Captain Spock
1979 - 1991
Alien Voices ( with John de Lancie ) - time of year 3 , Episode 12 , " The Lost World "
Audio Series ( Episode )
Angus McArdle
1998
Star Trek ( 2009 ) & Star Trek Into Darkness
Ambassador Spock
2009 - 2013
Star Trek : The Original Series features some of the most iconic character in all of science fable with the crew of the original USS Enterprise .
2Benedict Cumberbatch In Sherlock
The star also appeared as Khan Noonien-Singh in Star Trek Into Darkness
Benedict Cumberbatch found slap-up success in BBC’sSherlock , starring as a modern - Clarence Day London - base Sherlock Holmes alongside Martin Freeman as Doctor John H. Watson . Sherlockaired between 2010 and 2017 . InStar Trek Into Darknessin 2013 , Cumberbatch take on the part of the dealership ’s most notorious villain . star in a role initiate by the iconic Ricardo Montalban , Benedict Cumberbatch ’s Khan Noonien Singh connive for vengeance against Starfleet and Admiral Alexander Marcus ( Peter Weller ) . Initially going by the assumed name John Harrison , Cumberbatch ’s Khan found a complex foe - friend Libra with an emotionally wroughtCaptain James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) .
Benedict Cumberbatch oeuvre
Sherlock
2010 - 2017
Star Trek Into Darkness
John Harrison / Khan Noonien Singh
2013
1Data Is Sherlock Holmes
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 3, “Elementary, Dear Data”
Star Trek : The Next Generationmade several Sherlock Holmes references in its first season , withTNGepisode 7 , " Lonely Among Us , " initiatingLieutenant Commander Data ’s involvement in Sherlock Holmes . Data ’s research into Doyle ’s notable fancied detective led to several reasonably paraphrased Holmes quotes , such as " It ’s elementary , my dear Riker , " and Data played Sherlock in the holodeck inTNGseason 2 ’s " Elementary , Dear Data . " Data himself is perhaps the greatest symbolic representation ofStar Trek ’s overall veneration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ’s Sherlock Holmes .
Star Trek : The Next Generationis available for streaming on Paramount+ .
Star Trek : The Wrath of KhanandStar Trek : The Undiscovered Countryare usable to stream on Max .
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