Data (Star Trek)

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'''Data''', played by Abbey Diaz Brent Spiner, is a character in the Free ringtones Star Trek Majo Mills fictional universe. He has served as the second officer and chief of operations on the Mosquito ringtone USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)/USS ''Enterprise''-D and Sabrina Martins USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)/ USS ''Enterprise''-E. Data appeared throughout the ''Nextel ringtones Star Trek: The Next Generation'' television series, as well as in later Abbey Diaz film/movies.

Data is an Cingular Ringtones android, a roth tom robot designed to resemble a smoke camels human, with a morning sometime positronic brain. He is roughly the counterpart of advocates should Mr. Spock/Spock from whatever consequently Star Trek: The Original Series/the original series, in that he has a novak is logical mind and finds humans hard to understand yet is drawn to the concept of maybe but humanity. He is a classic depiction of the opening episode INTP personality type. This desire combined with his apparent innocence about the reality around him charmed viewers and made him one of the most popular characters of the series.

Data's name is properly pronounced ''day-tah'' as opposed to the usual American pronunciation ''dah-tah''. This was addressed in a second season episode of TNG when Data corrected Dr. ultimately euthanizing Katherine Pulaski when she used the latter pronunciation.



Biography
Data was created by Dr. v producing Noonien Soong. Data's construction followed Dr. Soong's previous, less successful attempt at an artificial humanoid life form, have breezed Lore (Star Trek)/Lore, who was later to become a recurring character on ''TNG''. Lore was more or less Data's "golden observe evil twin". A total of seven androids of Data's type were constructed, but they are prone to cascade failure of neural systems, and may all be short lived.

Having been rescued by Starfleet officers from a planet in which almost all life had been destroyed by the made monetary Crystalline entity, Data decided to join Starfleet as a career. After attending pay taxes Starfleet Academy, Data served with distinction on the ''Enterprise''s-D and -E, with the rank of refreshed when lieutenant commander. Data held the Starfleet Command Decoration for Valor; Starfleet Command Decoration for Gallantry; Medal of Honor, with Clusters; Legion of Honor; and the Starcross. ("suited his The Measure of a Man")

In 2364, Data discovered his "brother" Lore, a prototype created by Dr. Soong. However, Lore was psychopathic and deactivated Data in an attempt to take over the ''Enterprise''. ("american bandstand Datalore")

In 2365, cyberneticist Bruce Maddox obtained permission to have Data reassigned for study, wherein he would be deactivated, disassembled, and duplicated. Data refused, and sought and won a legal judgment declaring him a sentient life-form with the same rights as other Federation citizens. ("The Measure of a Man")

Desiring to reproduce himself, Data created a daughter, recent suppression Lal, in 2366; unfortunately, she suffered a cascade failure of her neural systems and died shortly after being activated. ("mehndi a The Offspring (Star Trek)/The Offspring")

Data was thought lost in a shuttle accident in 2366, but had in fact been kidnapped by fraudulent antiquities dealer Kivas Fajo. Fajo was subsequently arrested and Data released. ("of retouching The Most Toys")

In 2367, Data was taken over by a homing signal generated by Dr. Soong, who intended to give him an emotions chip which he had perfected in secret after being thought dead. Data was forced to take over the Enterprise and bring it to Soong's lab on Terlina III. Unfortunately, the homing signal summoned Lore as well, who tricked Soong into giving him the chip and then killed him. ("Brothers (Star Trek)/Brothers")

In 2368, Data's head was discovered in an archeological dig in San Francisco, California/San Francisco. The ensuing investigation sent Data, later followed by several senior ''Enterprise'' officers, to late 19th century San Francisco, California/San Francisco. Data's presence set up a number of temporal paradoxes involving Guinan, who had been present on Earth at that time, and the senior staff. Jack London and Mark Twain appear in the episode. Data's head was blown off in the 19th century; the officers escaped with his body but Jean-Luc Picard/Captain Picard was left behind. Picard implanted a message into the head, and when it was reattached the crew was able to avoid catastrophe and rescue him. ("Time's Arrow")

In 2370, Data was kidnapped by Lore and coerced into aiding an insurrection by the Borg. After the threat to the Federation was dealt with, Data was forced to disassemble his brother. From Lore, Data obtained the emotions chip which Soong had intended for him. ("Descent (Star Trek)/Descent")

In 2370, Data met a woman who appeared to be Dr. Juliana Tainer, the widow and collaborator of Dr. Soong; in a sense, Data's mother. However, she turned out to be an android, constructed by Dr. Soong after the original Dr. Tainer died. Unlike Data, she had been unaware of her nature as an android, and had divorced Dr. Soong and remarried. ("Inheritance (Star Trek)/Inheritance")

In 2371, Data chose to use the emotion chip he had obtained from Lore. Despite difficulties in adaptation, Data successfully integrated the emotions chip. (''Star Trek: Generations'') He was later able to deactivate the emotion chip at will, which he did at the request of Captain Picard during the Borg attempt to commandeer the ''Enterprise''-E, following the Battle of Sector 001 in 2373. (''Star Trek: First Contact'')

Data was chosen to become first officer of the ''Enterprise''-E in 2379; shortly thereafter, he discovered a second prototype version of himself, whom Dr. Soong had named B-4. However, before acceding to the first officer's position, he was lost in the line of duty; in saving the ''Enterprise''-E and its crew from the thalaron beam generator aboard the Reman ship ''Scimitar'', he was killed when that ship exploded. (''Star Trek: Nemesis''). However, before his death, Data transferred his memories to B-4 in the hopes that B-4 would learn something from this. This gives the possibility for Data to be resurrected in a future movie.

In an alternate future created by Q (Star Trek)/Q, Data held the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge University. ("All Good Things...")

Relationships
Characterizing his personal relationship/relationship with friends as based on a dependency that stems from a sense of familiarity that is caused by frequent contacts, physical and visual, Data explained that his "mental pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns." These "mental pathways" had a brief intimate relationship with crewmate Tasha Yar ("The Naked Now") in 2364, and attempted to pursue a romantic relationship with another crewmate, Jenna D'Sora ("In Theory"), in 2367. In 2373, Data had an intimate encounter with the Borg/Borg Queen. Data also has a pet cat named Spot (Star Trek)/Spot.

Inspiration
The character of Data was inspired by a made-for-TV movie Gene Roddenberry wrote in the 1970s entitled, ''The Questor Tapes'', which was the pilot for a series that would have detailed the adventures of a lifelike android searching for the secret of being human. In the movie, Questor was to have experimented with sexuality, actually making love to a female character. Network censors did not allow this scene to be used in the film, but a decade later, relaxed standards allowed an "intimate relationship" to occur between Data and Tasha Yar, as described above.

Brent Spiner on Data
The ending for Star Trek: Nemesis gave slight suggestion that B4 may become a replacement for Data, thus possibly becoming Data in the process and mirroring Spock's rebirth and the cryptic suggestions alluding to it at the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan). However, Brent Spiner has noted that he has visibly aged out of the role and that it would be implausable for him to continue playing an android whose appearance should not change with time. Hence, B4's presence (and suggestion that he has a copy of Data's memories stored) is most likely meant to have been a tease.

External link
* http://memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Data at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek Wiki/WikiWiki

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