Data chose not to reveal this information to her, and allowed her to live out the rest of her life.Īfter years of internal debate, Data chose to integrate his emotion chip into his positronic net in the film Star Trek: Generations.
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The real Juliana had died, and Soong created an android who looked and sounded like her and implanted her memories into it. Tainer was an android too, only she didn’t know it. She told him that she helped construct Data decades ago, effectively making her his “mother.” It turned out Dr. Juliana Tainer while on the Enterprise, who claimed to have once been married to Dr. Soong was then killed at the hands of Data’s deranged brother Lore, and Data’s fear of what emotions might do to him caused him to hesitate incorporating the chip into his operating system.ĭata also encountered a woman named Dr. When he met his long lost father, Soong imparted one last gift to Data before he died: an emotion chip. Most importantly, during his time on the Enterprise-D, he discovered that his brother Lore was alive, as well as his creator Dr. He even briefly became the Captain of the USS Sutherland during the Klingon Civil War. He experimented with a romantic relationship with a fellow crew member, and became a pet owner when he adopted the cat Spot. And when Data created his own android daughter Lal (who tragically later perished), Picard made sure she would not become the property of the state.ĭuring his time on the Enterprise, Data also became close friends with Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, who would also serve as a sort of guide into humanity for him. When Data’s rights as a sentient being were called into question, he even defended him in court and won. During their time serving together, Captain Picard taught as much to Data as he could about what it meant to be human. Captain Jean-Luc Picard became more than just a commanding officer to Data, and evolved into a sort of father figure. Commander, and became the second officer on board the Enterprise-D. His opposition was overruled, and Data became on one of Starfleet’s finest officers.Īfter nearly two decades in Starfleet, Data rose to the rank of Lt. Bruce Maddox opposed his entry into the Academy on the grounds that he was not a sentient being. His intellect made him an ideal candidate for Starfleet Academy, but Dr. But despite this, his lack of emotions made adjusting to life extremely awkward for him, and he made very few friends. He spoke of being constructed with an ultimate storage capacity of approximately 100,000 terabytes, along with a total linear computational speed rated at 60 trillion operations per second. When Starfleet officers discovered him and reactivated him, he considered that his true “birth.”ĭata’s positronic brain made him more intelligent than any other known living creature. After the colony was destroyed, Data was deactivated. This would ensure that another android like Lore would never happen again. Soong finally created Data, this time making sure to remove all emotional considerations from his programming. For this, Lore was disassembled and placed in storage. He lured a spacefaring crystalline entity to the colony, where it eventually consumed almost all biological life there. But Lore lacked empathy, and harbored a sadistic malevolence. The next attempt was Lore, who was far more successful. The first was B-4, who lacked critical cognizance skills and was quickly disassembled. In his isolation, Soong constructed several early prototypes of Data.
Later, Data would describe himself as “the culmination of one man’s dream.” When he failed utterly, he went to the distant colony world to start again in secret. Noonian Soong, a brilliant cyberneticist who was looking to construct a positronic brain. When we first meet Data in the TNG pilot “Encounter at Farpoint,” he is a completely emotionless and a very calm, measured being. We learn quickly in the first season that he is the only known sentient android in existence, and that he was built some 28 years prior on the colony world of Omicron Theta. Here we’ll explore not only Data’s past and significance in the Trek-verse, but just how he will find his way back into the story. But thanks to digital de-aging and makeup effects, Data will be gracing the small screen once more. Second, actor Brent Spiner is now 70 years old, a far cry from the eternally youthful android. For starters, Data was actually killed off at the end of the last Next Generation feature film, Star Trek: Nemesis. One of the huge surprises in the recent trailer for Star Trek: Picard was the revelation that actor Brent Spiner would be back as Lt.
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