Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer who wrote the famous Sherlock Holmes books and short stories. (TNG: "Lonely Among Us")
Captain Spock once implied that he was a descendant of Doyle's, presumably via his Human mother Amanda Grayson. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
Data was very much interested in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and it was Captain Picard who introduced him to the author. (TNG: "Data's Day")
[edit] Background information
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country director and screenplay writer Nicholas Meyer had previously written the screenplay for The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, based on his novel. The film and book feature Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle's creation. This may be the reason that Spock implies that he is a descendant of Doyle's through his mother Amanda Grayson.
- Although Professor Moriarty described Conan Doyle as an Englishman in "Ship in a Bottle", he was in fact Scottish.
