Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Year: 1987-1994
Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Majel Barrett, Wil Wheaton
Genre: Action, Adventure, SF
Country: USA
Viewing method: Selected episodes
Why in Database: In one of the episodes there is a reference to the turtle in dialogue – used as comparison.
S02E03 – Elementary, Dear Data – A holographic version of James Moriarty, an adversary of Sherlock Holmes, became self-aware in a simulation. He describes himself as a fly stuck on the back of a turtle floating through a great void.
– It has described a monstrous shape on which I am like a fly stuck on a turtle’s back, adrift in great emptiness.
Author: XYuriTT
