"Tonight I have a date with holodeck two.", Geordie commented, sitting on a biobed in sickbay while Dr. Pulaski finished up his routine physical. "Sherlock Holmes."
"Oh, I love those old fictions. The last one I did was a Dickens rewrite back when I was stationed on the Repulse. Even Captain Taggart would join in on them on occasion.", she smirked.
He knew he would regret the words the second they came out of his mouth, but being too nice for his own good, he offered anyway. "You're welcome to join us if you'd like."
"If you could use an extra body?"
'Ah damn.' He nodded his head to the side in a 'sure' affirmative. 'If Data were human, he would kill me when he finds out.'
"What characters do we have? It's been more than awhile since I read Doyle's books."
"Well, I play Dr. Watson, Data plays Holmes..."
"Don't you spend enough time with machines?", she interrupted.
The comment definitely annoyed him, but he tried to not come off as cross. "Data's more than a machine, Doctor."
"So it's fun to solve mysteries with, then?"
If his visor hadn't been in the way, she would have seen him narrow his eyes before he sighed, remembering their first experience together with a Sherlock Holmes holoprogram, when Data had ruined the storytelling experience right off the bat. "He's getting the hang of it."