Originally posted by: DaiShan
Originally posted by: guyver01
nothing.
Well not quite, you are a bit confused, the life form didn't actually exist and fly off into space. It was a holoprogram, that created a version of the enterprise within the holodeck so the people inside thought they had left the holodeck when in fact they hadn't. Once they figured this out the tricked the "life-form" into taking a ship and leaving, when in reality picard put the holoprogram into some sort of storage device and put it on the desk in his ready room.
did he just challenge my trek trivia knowledge? i think he did.
<puts on bi%ch-slapping gloves>
The episode in question is
Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 175 (season 7. episode 23)
Entitled Emergence
The Enterprise is attempting to create a lifeform which needs vertion particles.
YOU are thinking of
Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 29 (season 2. episode 3)
Entitled Elementary, Dear Data
Where Geordi creates a holodeck character with the skills to beat "Data" (not Holmes). Moriarty is given knowledge of the Enterprise by the ships computer. Moriarty wants to leave the holodeck and become real. Luckily, Picard is able to convince Moriarty that he does not yet know how to convert artificially created holodeck matter into a more permanent form, and he returns to the computer.
which was followed up by
Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 138 (season 6. episode 12)
Entitled Ship in a Bottle
Where Moriarty returns and takes control of Enterprise and is tricked into thinking he's given a Shuttlecraft and can leave the Enterprise, while still being in the holodeck
</end bi%ch-slapping>