Star Trek: 10 Best Holodeck Episodes

10. The Next Generation: A Fistful Of Datas

Even in the future, there's a fascination with the past. That fascination led Deanna Troi and Worf to take his son Alexander on a holodeck adventure set it Deadwood, North Dakota in the American Old West.

This era was the Wild West at its wildest.

Unbeknownst to the holodeck users, LaForge and Data were running experiments that directly interfaced Data with the ship's main computer. A power surge caused aspects of Data to overwrite aspects of the main computer. The end result was Data accidentally imprinting all over the Deadwood holodeck program.

It started with the main villain, Frank Hollander, becoming Data-like. He looked like Data but maintained all of Wild West mannerisms of Frank. Unfortunately, he also maintained all of Data's enhanced android abilities. Slowly, more and more characters became Data. Worf and Troi realized they had to complete the story to get out, which meant defeating all the Datas.

They were successful but still could not get out, not until Worf received a kiss from is in story love interest, who now also looked like Data. It was a fun, inventive episode that showed a much different side of Worf.