Lieutenant Commander Data (pronounced /ˈdeɪtə/), played by Brent Spiner, is a character in Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) television series and in the four subsequent The Next Generation films.
Designed and built by Doctor Noonien Soong, Data is a sentient android who serves as the second officer and chief operations officer aboard the starships USS Enterprise-D and USS Enterprise-E. His positronic brain allows him impressive computational ...
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Lieutenant Commander Data (pronounced /ˈdeɪtə/), played by Brent Spiner, is a character in Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) television series and in the four subsequent The Next Generation films.
Designed and built by Doctor Noonien Soong, Data is a sentient android who serves as the second officer and chief operations officer aboard the starships USS Enterprise-D and USS Enterprise-E. His positronic brain allows him impressive computational capabilities. He has ongoing difficulties, however, understanding various aspects of human behavior and is unable to feel emotions or understand certain human idiosyncrasies. He is given an emotion chip in Star Trek: Generations.
Data is in many ways a successor to the original Star Trek's Spock (Leonard Nimoy), in that the character offers an "outsider's" perspective on humanity.
Gene Roddenberry told Brent Spiner that over the course of the series, Data was to become "more and more like a human until the end of the show, when he would be...
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