Is Professor Moriarty "dead?"

[7thsealord]

BTW, I hate it when people say it crashed. Ships don't crash, they wreck

W-e-l-l, the Enterprise-D may have arguably been wrecked, but its saucer section most definitely crashed on that planet.

 

[Captrek]

I wonder if Moriarty ever figured out he'd been tricked.

^ Since from his perspective, he got exactly what he wanted, I doubt he would care.

If that were the case, the deception would have been unnecessary in the first place.

Moriarty didn’t want to continue to be just a computer program existing in a simulation. He wanted to exit the simulation and explore the real world in a physical body. The Enterprise crew duped him into believing he had accomplished that.

If he later had an experience like Data’s experience in the simulated transporter room, an experience that exposed the deception and made him realize he was still in the same kind of simulation that he had been so determined to escape, you don’t think it would bother him? If Moriarity was cool with existing only in a simulation, what motivated his conduct in the episode?

 

[7thsealord]

I wonder if Moriarty ever figured out he'd been tricked.

^ Since from his perspective, he got exactly what he wanted, I doubt he would care.

If that were the case, the deception would have been unnecessary in the first place.

Moriarty didn’t want to continue to be just a computer program existing in a simulation. He wanted to exit the simulation and explore the real world in a physical body. The Enterprise crew duped him into believing he had accomplished that.

If he later had an experience like Data’s experience in the simulated transporter room, an experience that exposed the deception and made him realize he was still in the same kind of simulation that he had been so determined to escape, you don’t think it would bother him? If Moriarity was cool with existing only in a simulation, what motivated his conduct in the episode?

Moriarty made this pretty clear to Picard on his return.

At the end of the original encounter, it had been believed that he would essentially be 'frozen in time' whilst his file was inactive (and whilst Star Fleet and the Daystrom Institute figured out what to do with him). This was not the case - he had retained some awareness of his situation, and the situation had not been pleasant at all.

(From what Moriarty said, I would infer that it had been rather like a cross between partial sensory deprivation and a 'locked in' physical state.)

In any case, he was obviously determined NOT to be in a situation where that could ever happen again. Not that I can blame him.