Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Ship in a Bottle"

'''"Ship in a Bottle." Star Trek: The Next Generation.''' (c) 1992. Episode 6.12, #137 of 176, Production number: 40276-238. First aired week of 25 Jan. 1993. Alexander Singer, dir. René Echevarria, script. Michael Piller, exec. prod.

Mr. Data's construct of Professor Moriarty [i.e. Dr. Moriarity] regains (self)consciousness and engineers the recreation of the Enterprise on the holodeck: the cybernetic "bottle" containing the starship. Moriarty seeks the recreation in real space-time of himself and his beloved (cf. and contrast the desire for a mate of the Creature created by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein [1818/1831]). The conclusion of the plot has Moriarty and his beloved contained—arguably trapped—within a small cybernetic device in the manner of Count Zero and his beloved in W. Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive (q.v.); the episode ends with Picard recapitulating the thought of Chuang Tzu when he woke up from a dream of being a butterfly and considered the possibility that he might be a butterfly dreaming itself Chuang Tzu.