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DataIn the episode "'' (''TNG'') television series and in the films based on ''The Next Generation''. Data is a sentient ''. Dramatically, Data is a rough counterpart to " Data's name is properly pronounced (in " FICTIONAL CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' Data's originally planned backstory was that he had been created by aliens.1 The backstory appears in the novelization of " Encounter At Farpoint " by David Gerrold , which has Data having been built by alien machines from Kiron III, in order to preserve the memories of a wiped-out human colony. The episode "''. He is functional but has much less experience than Data and B-4's neural pathways "are significantly less advanced" than Data's, as said by chief engineer Geordi LaForge upon his reassembly of B-4. Data attended Starfleet Academy over the objections of Bruce Maddox and graduated with Honors Degrees in Probability Mechanics and Exobiology . Data served aboard several starships before being assigned to the ''Enterprise''-D as the ship's chief operations officer. In 2365, cyberneticist Bruce Maddox obtains permission to have Data reassigned for "study," which would involve the android's deactivation, disassembly, and duplication (with his knowledge and memories dumped into a computer and thereafter transferred back), possibly destroying his personality and sentience in the process. Data refuses, but Maddox asserts that Data is Starfleet property and therefore unable to refuse the procedure. With Captain Jean-Luc Picard as his advocate, Starfleet Judge Advocate General asserts that Data is not property and therefore can refuse the procedure, which he does. , his short-lived Android Daughter ]] Desiring to reproduce, Data creates an " During his captivity at the hands of fraudulent antiquities dealer Kivas Fajo, Data makes clear his ability to kill "if necessary". The episode is ambiguous as to whether Data finds it necessary to kill Fajo to prevent Fajo from murdering other people: Data is " During the " ]] In 2367, Soong, intending to give Data a basic emotion chip, activates a homing signal that overrides Data's other programming. Unbeknownst to Soong, the beacon summons Lore as well. Lore fools Soong into giving him the chip, then kills his father and departs.''TNG'': " Brothers " Data temporarily commands the " In 2368, Data's head is discovered in an archaeological site in " ]] In 2370, Lore kidnaps Data and coerces him, through Lore's manipulation of the emotion chip, into aiding an insurrection by the Borg. Data is forced to attack and disassemble his brother. The weapons blast that subdues Lore also damages the emotion chip.''TNG'': " Descent " Later in 2370, Data meets a woman who appears to be and thinks she is Dr. " In an alternate future created by " Films assists Data in installing the emotion chip Dr. Soong made for him]] In 2371, Data chooses to install the emotion chip he extracted from Lore. Despite initial difficulties in adaptation, Data successfully integrates the emotion chip.'''' When the ''Enterprise''-E pursues a Borg Sphere through a temporal warp to 2063, the Borg Queen takes Data captive and attempts to coerce him into allying with the Borg, reactivating his emotion chip to make Data easier to manipulate. She provides him the ability to feel tactile sensations as humans do by grafting functional organic flesh to portions of his body, and attempts to seduce him sexually. Although Data is tempted by the Queen's manipulations, his apparent actions to aid the Borg are a ruse; his actions are instrumental in averting the Borg's attempt to prevent humanity's First Contact with Vulcan s and assimilation of humanity in the 21st century. Damage caused by weapons fire on the Ba'ku homeworld leads to Data blacking out and his ethical programming taking control of his actions; as such, he exposes a '' , upon his discovery]] Shortly after '', saving the lives of the crew of the ''Enterprise''. When Picard attempts to explain to the simple B-4 that Data is dead, B-4 cannot quite grasp it. But then Picard overhears B-4 singing part of a song Data had been singing earlier, suggesting that Data is not necessarily gone forever. (However, it is somewhat unlikely Data will be resurrected in another film, as ''The Next Generation'' is likely finished as a franchise for at least the near future, and Spiner has repeatedly said he is aged past the point of believably playing an ageless android.) RELATIONSHIPS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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