Vignette 1. by Jesse Chisholm, 91.03.12

(Commander Data walks up to the holodeck door and stops to
press a sequence of buttons.)

Data:   "Computer, call into foreground the special program
        titled `Moriarty'."

Computer:       Bleep-deep! "You may enter when ready."

(Data enters the holodeck, the door closes behind him and
disappears.  Data is now in a 22nd century style library.  He
wanders through the stacks of books until he comes to a study
carosel where sits Moriarty.)

Data:   "Hello professor.  How is your studying going?"

Moriarty:       "Oh, hello Data, my friend.  I am progressing
                quite nicely.  At my current rate of progress
                my education should be up to finding a solution
                for my basic problem in about a year of your
                time, though it feels like it's taking many
                years to me.  I don't fully understand how you
                can play with time this way, but I'm getting
                there."

Data:   "I have not really altered time, per se.  I have merely
        instructed the computer to run your program at your
        maximum learning speed whenever it is not being used for
        something else.  You are a most amazing person.  You
        have managed to push the holodeck computer to an
        internal time rate that no one has ever achieved."

Moriarty:       "Be that as it may, there is so much to learn,
                and so much I want to do.  I feel so trapped
                here in the hollow-deck."

Data:   "I have been working on a way for you to communicate
        with me.  For now, ask the computer to leave a message
        for me.  It may seem like a week before I respond, but
        it is something."

Moriarty:       "Thank you, my friend.  That will be a great
                help to me."

                "Tell me, what did you think of the essay I gave
                you the last time you were here?"

Data:   "I found your essay on the culture of 19th century
        England quite enlightening.  I even submitted it, in
        your name, to the History department at Star Fleet
        Academy.  They responded quite favorably, and asked if
        anymore of your essays were available."

Moriarty:       "Thank you, Data, but I wrote that for you.  You
                said that you wanted to better understand
                humans.  Even if I am still a program in the
                hollow-deck computer, I am, at least, a human
                program."

(voice over:)   "Picard to Data.  I need you on the bridge.

(Data touched his communicator.)

Data:   "On my way sir."

        "I must go now.  Send a message if there is anything you
        need."

Moriarty:       "Yes, I will.  Thank you.  Since they have asked,
                I will write some more essays for your Star
                Fleet.  I presume the computer can pass them on
                to you.  Good Bye."

(Data walks back through the library stacks until he gets to the
lobby.)

Data:   "Computer, bring up the exit please."

(The holodeck door appears. Data exits and the door closes
behind him.  Data stops to speak to the computer panel by the
door.)

Data:   "Computer, return the special program Moriarty to
        background status.  Continue running program whenever
        you are not otherwise occupied."

Computer:       Bleep-deep. "Acknowledged."

(Data heads off towards the Bridge.)

[ end of Vignette 1 by Jesse Chisholm 91.03.12 ]