Masks (Star Trek: The Next Generation) the entire "Star Trek: The Next Generation" series. Technically, it was chosen as second-worst, but Empire decided that ""—its initial choice for worst episode—didn't count, because "Shades" was a flashback 'clip' episode. Masks (Star Trek: The Next Generation) "Masks" is the seventeenth episode of the of the American science fiction television series "", the 169th episode overall. An alien archive, like an alien Library of Alexandria, initially appearing as a rogue comet because of accumulated matter, transforms the "Enterprise" as well as adapting Lieutenant Commander Data for a re-enactment of its culture's mythology, including the creation of two masks which
Ship in a Bottle (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Ship in a Bottle (Star Trek: The Next Generation) "Ship in a Bottle" is the 138th episode of the American science fiction television series "", the 12th episode of the . In this episode, which continued a plot line from the second season episode "Elementary, Dear Data", the fictional holodeck character Professor James Moriarty seizes control of the "Enterprise" in his quest to be freed to live in reality, outside the confines of a holographic environment. Data and La Forge are enjoying a Sherlock Holmes holodeck program when the two notice that a character programmed to be left-handed was actually