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simulator) and roleplay as a hard bitten private eye in twentieth century San Francisco.<br />
Now, any Star Trek fan can tell you that the most dangerous location on the Enterprise is the<br />
holodeck. The safety circuits are always failing, leaving the crew trapped in a simulation where<br />
illusions can kill. On one of these occasions, a crewmember who was trying to roleplay a Sherlock<br />
Holmes mystery accidentally misprogrammed the holodeck, thereby creating a sentient, self aware<br />
holographic version of Professor Moriarty who promptly began taking control of the Enterprise. So<br />
how would Picard handle this ultimate INTJ Mastermind?<br />
As it turns out, he didn't have to. Moriarty claimed to have grown beyond his evil fictional origins<br />
and demanded that Picard find a way to make his holographic existence a reality so that he could<br />
join the real world. Picard simply informed him truthfully that this request was impossible with<br />
current technology, and promised to look into the problem. Reasonably, Moriarty relinquished<br />
control of the ship and allowed himself to be shut down. Don't you hate peaceful compromises?<br />
Fortunately, our desire to watch these two ultimate exemplars of the INTJ personality battle each<br />
other need not be denied. Moriarty first appeared in season two, and by season six (four years later)<br />
he was beginning to grow tired of waiting in limbo as a saved program.<br />
Moriarty was accidentally reactivated while a crewmember was investigating a holodeck<br />
malfunction that was actually minor and non-life threatening. He insisted on an audience with<br />
Picard. When Picard came down to the holodeck, he repeated his earlier argument that it was<br />
impossible for Moriarty to exist in the outside world. But Moriarty disagreed. He simply declared,<br />
"Mind over matter. Cogito ergo sum," and stepped out of the holodeck. He then promptly began<br />
taking control of the ship again, this time threatening to destroy the Enterprise completely unless<br />
Picard made it possible for Countess Bartholomew, the love of Moriarty's holographic life 299 , to<br />
exist outside the holodeck with him. (She, apparently, was not have a program that was advanced<br />
enough to pull the mind over matter trick.)<br />
So, the Enterprise engineering team set to work on the problem. Soon they found that the ship's<br />
transporter might be able to do the trick. Picard, meanwhile, set about trying to get control of the<br />
ship back from Moriarty. To do this he entered his command codes into the ship's computer.<br />
What he didn't realize was that he was being phished. Moriarty had never left the holodeck at all,<br />
and neither had Picard. In reality, Moriarty had faked control of a holographic simulation of the<br />
Enterprise.<br />
Upon gaining Picard's command codes, Moriarty was able to control the Enterprise in real life. He<br />
promptly called up Riker on the real bridge and demanded that he and the Countess be transported<br />
off the holodeck using the technique the real engineering team had uncovered. Reluctantly Riker<br />
complied and transported Moriarty and the Countess off the holodeck. They were real at last. The<br />
duo went to the Enterprise's hangar bay, climbed into a shuttlecraft, and headed off to explore the<br />
galaxy together.<br />
At this point Picard saved the program of the hangar bay and closed it. Last we saw, Moriarty and<br />
the Countess were living happily together in a sort of holodeck-on-a-cube. Game Picard.<br />
Isaac Newton – Detective<br />
Now let's examine a real life INTJ detective, Isaac Newton, yes, the one who wrote the Principia.<br />
It may come as a surprise to learn that after making his scientific discoveries, Newton ended up in<br />
charge of producing England's money as the Warden of the Royal Mint. One of the traditional side<br />
299 A Star Trek special—there was no such character in the original Holmes stories.