Star Trek: The Next Generation

introduce onStar Trek : The Next Generation , Lt . Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) quickly became one ofStar Trek’smost interesting and dear fictional character . An advanced one - of - a - sort humanoid , Data assist as the operation ship’s officer aboard the USS Enterprise - D under the command of Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) . Data ’s universal kindness and wide-eyed sense of wonderment made him hard to dislike , and he remains an important part of modernStar Trek . Brent Spiner ’s nuanced performance help oneself make datum stand out amongTNG’sincredibly strong cast , and his pursuit to be human became one ofTNG’sbest ongoing plot line .

Thanks in part to Brent Spiner ’s performance as Data ( as well as his portrayal of Data ’s evil twin crony Lore and variousSoong house members),Star Trek : The Next Generation ’s data point - centric episode remain some of the show ’s strongest . Like Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) onStar Trek : The Original Series , Data allowedTNGto explore humanity from an outsider ’s perspective . After the conclusion ofTNG , Data played a important role in all fourStar Trek : The Next Generationfilms until his heroic forfeit inStar Trek : Nemesis . Data was then absent from theStar Trekfranchise until the character made a surprising counter inStar Trek : Picard — not once , but twice .

Data Was Created By Dr. Noonien Soong & Found By Starfleet (2330s-2364)

Dr. Soong Built Data Sometime In The 2330s

Dr. Noonien Soong make Data on the major planet Omicron Theta around 2336 , as the one-fifth of six androids . Data dwell out his earliest days among the settler on Omicron Theta , learning from the world around him just as a human child would . At one point , Dr. Soong deactivated Data to upload the memories of the colonists to the android ’s positronic wit . While Data was deactivated , a Crystalline Entity attacked the colony , forcing Dr. Soong and his wife , Juliana ( Fionnula Flanagan ) , to take flight and leave data point behind . On February 2 , 2338 , the USS Tripoli found Data and reactivated him .

Lore had been built just before Data , but before long grow unsound and had to be deactivate .

Data struggled without his"parents,“but his neural net continued to develop as he achieved sentience . Because a Starfleet watercraft had ascertain him , Data chose to attend Starfleet Academy beginning in 2341.Although his lack of savvy regarding social cues sometimes made Data ’s life unmanageable , he achieved high marks and finally graduated with honors in 2345 . Data ’s first designation was aboard the USS Trieste , where he advanced from an ensign to a lieutenant , before being promote to lieutenant commander in 2360 . Four class later , in 2364 , Data fall in the crew of the USS Enterprise - D as its operations policeman .

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Data Served On The USS Enterprise-D In Star Trek: The Next Generation (2364-2371)

Data Served On The Enterprise-D From 2364 Until The Ship’s Destruction In 2371

As the operations ship’s officer on the USS Enterprise - D , Data participated in many away missions and was regularly left in mastery of the bridge circuit for the dark chemise , as he did not require quietus . Data ’s android abilities and immunity to disease proved vital on legion occasionsand the Enterprise would have been destroyed several times over if Data had not been aboard . Throughout his time on the Enterprise , Data learned more and more about what it mean to be human , often with the help ofhis good ally , Lt . Commander Geordi La Forge(LeVar Burton ) .

Some Of Data ’s Most Important TNG Episodes

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Season 1 , Episode 13

" Datalore "

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time of year 2 , Episode 9

" The touchstone of a Man "

Season 3 , Episode 16

Captain Picard, Shinzon, and Data from Star Trek: Nemesis

" The Offspring "

time of year 3 , Episode 22

" The Most toy "

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time of year 4 , Episode 3

" Brothers "

time of year 6 , Episode 26 & Season 7 , Episode 1

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" Descent , Part I " & " Descent , Part II "

time of year 7 , Episode 10

" Inheritance "

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InStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 1,Data met his buddy Loreand learned more about his creation . The next year , a Federation judge determined that Data was an individualand had the right hand to make his own choices . InTNGseason 3 , Data created an android girl named Lal ( Hallie Todd ) based on his own positronic engineering , although she later put up a tragic cascade failure and ceased to serve . other inTNGseason 4 , Data met his Maker Dr. Soongjust before the elderly man ’s end at the hands of Lore . Data later on had to deactivate his chum after Lore keep in line Data into allying with the Borg .

Data Died In Star Trek: Nemesis (2371-2379)

Data Was Killed In Action In 2379 & His Physical Body Was Destroyed

In the first film following the end ofStar Trek : The Next Generation , Star Trek Generations , Data decide to instal the emotion chip that Dr. Soong had create for him several year before . As Data adjust to the emotion chip , he experienced potent ebullition of emotionthat impacted his ability to do his job . Much ofData ’s emotion potato chip journeywas play for laughs inStar Trek Generations , and the plot line was dropped as the movies progressed . InStar Trek : First Contact , Data was kidnapped by the Borg Queen ( Alice Krige ) and tempted to join her grounds ( for 0.68 seconds ) .

Star Trek : Nemesis reunites the casting of Star Trek : The Next Generation for their final movie , and it ’s the breakthrough role for Tom Hardy .

Data also played a fundamental role inStar Trek : Insurrection , as he was the one to ab initio discover something amiss on the Ba’ku planet . In the finalTNGfilm , Star Trek : Nemesis , the Enterprise - E find another one of Data ’s brothers , B-4.Despite B-4 ’s less advanced positronic genius , Data uploaded his own storage into the other android ’s neuronic internet . After William Riker ’s ( Jonathan Frakes ) forwarding to captain , Data was poised to take over as First Officer of the initiative , but Picard ’s clone Shinzon ( Tom Hardy ) had other design . In the end , Data sacrificed himself to keep open Captain Picard , the Enterprise , and satellite Earth .

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Data Returned (With A Twist) In Star Trek: Picard (2399-2402)

Multiple Versions Of Data Appeared In Star Trek: Picard

Despite his death inStar Trek : Nemesis , Data returned inStar Trek : Picardseason 1 . Data first appeared in the dreams of Admiral Jean - Luc Picard , as the two play a game of stove poker and later as Data paint an range of his"daughter . “Picard remained deeply bear upon by Data ’s death , and he later on got the chance to mouth with the android ’s consciousness in a computer simulation created by Dr. Altan Inigo Soong ( Brent Spiner ) . Upon Data ’s request , Picard agreed to stop the android ’s awareness , lead in another end in 2399 . Altan Soong , however , continued working on Data and finally constructed a new synthetic body for the android .

Brent Spiner also voiced an alternating ( purple ) universe version of Data ’s brain inStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 5 , sequence 7 , " Fully Dilated . "

Star Trek : Picardseason 3 revealed that Soong had find oneself a way to extract Data ’s memories from B-4 , and he combined those with the memory of Lore and Lal . After an away team lead by Captain Riker rescued the synth humanoid from Daystrom Station in 2401,Data and Lore ’s personalitiesfought for control . In the end , Data won out and his personality became the rife one , finally allowing the android to know real emotions . From his love of his computerized axial tomography Spot to his fascination with Sherlock Holmes , Data remains one ofStar Trek : The Next Generation’smost lovable characters and he has one of the dealership ’s strongest character journeys .

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