TMC
03-22-2023, 08:47 PM
https://www.looper.com/1236357/star-trek-theory-spock-and-sherlock-holmes-are-related/
Is Spock related to Sherlock Holmes? Fascinating, but highly illogical
No, it doesn't. Not at all.
Like, there are technical aspects of the theory that hold up. Spock is half-human, so Sherlock Holmes could be a member of his family, assuming that Holmes was a real person in the "Star Trek" universe — which he was not. In the season one "Next Generation" episode "Lonely Among Us," Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) describes "the immortal Sherlock Holmes" as an aspect of literature. In "Elementary, Dear Data," Data (Brent Spiner) specifically instructs the holodeck to construct a Holmes-style mystery for him to solve, "but not one written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle."
So if Holmes is fictional, what's really going on with Spock? The obvious answer is that he was actually inferring that he was related to Doyle, which would be sort of a bummer. It's more fun to imagine that two of fiction's most iconic logicians were distant relatives than it is to think that Spock was the great-great-grandson of a guy who believed in fairies. Then again, maybe Spock was just messing with the bridge crew when he implied that he had ties to the Holmes family. The guy got kind of sassy in his later years.
Is Spock related to Sherlock Holmes? Fascinating, but highly illogical
No, it doesn't. Not at all.
Like, there are technical aspects of the theory that hold up. Spock is half-human, so Sherlock Holmes could be a member of his family, assuming that Holmes was a real person in the "Star Trek" universe — which he was not. In the season one "Next Generation" episode "Lonely Among Us," Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) describes "the immortal Sherlock Holmes" as an aspect of literature. In "Elementary, Dear Data," Data (Brent Spiner) specifically instructs the holodeck to construct a Holmes-style mystery for him to solve, "but not one written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle."
So if Holmes is fictional, what's really going on with Spock? The obvious answer is that he was actually inferring that he was related to Doyle, which would be sort of a bummer. It's more fun to imagine that two of fiction's most iconic logicians were distant relatives than it is to think that Spock was the great-great-grandson of a guy who believed in fairies. Then again, maybe Spock was just messing with the bridge crew when he implied that he had ties to the Holmes family. The guy got kind of sassy in his later years.