Star Trek

Possibly a silly question ... but why, when Data has Moriarty's sketch of the Enterprise, does it continue to exist outside the holodeck?

I think that you are quite correct. It was a false and foolish call on Pulaski's part... everything we see, think, and do in life is at least partially based on recall. It would be like telling an athlete that he is a fraud because he is basing his performance on techniques or strategy that he has previously learned. It simply does not make sense.

Now, I do understand the doctor's point... what she was trying to say is "You've read the books already, so you already know what's going to happen. How is that fair competition?" If she had, perhaps, worded it differently, she could have had a firmer argument.

Okay, first Paulaski was always so mean to Data. He never did anything to her before she was mean. She just had a problem with him. But yes, I am simply just repeating the typing of these words. But what she probally meant was that he needed a challenge that he didn't know the resolution-and how to get to it. Someone just wrote a bad script line.