Data (Star Trek)
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Data is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. He appears in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) and the first and third seasons of Star Trek: Picard; and the feature films Star Trek Generations (1994), First Contact (1996), Insurrection (1998), and Nemesis (2002).[1][2] Data is portrayed by actor Brent Spiner.
Data is a
Data is in many ways a successor to the original Star Trek's Spock, in that the character has superior mental skills and offers an "outsider's" perspective on humanity.[3]
Development
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 very close, but still not quite there. That was the idea and that's the way that the writers took it." Spiner felt that Data exhibited the Chaplinesque characteristics of a sad, tragic clown.[4] To get into his role as Data, Spiner used the character of Robby the Robot from the film Forbidden Planet as a role model.[4]
Commenting on Data's perpetual albino-like appearance, he said: "I spent more hours of the day in make-up than out of make-up", so much so that he even called it a way of
Spiner reprised his role of Data in the
Depiction
Television series and films
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It was in the Star Trek prequel "
Dialog in "
In "The Measure of a Man", a Starfleet judge rules that Data is not Starfleet property.[11]
Data's family is expanded in "
In "All Good Things...", the two-hour series finale of The Next Generation, Captain Picard travels among three different time periods. The Picard of 25 years into the future goes with Geordi La Forge to seek advice from now Professor Data, a luminary physicist who holds the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge University.
In the film
In the
In the
Spot
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Spot is Data's pet cat and a recurring character in the show. Spot appears in several episodes during TNG's last four seasons, as well as in the feature films ").
Biography
Data was found by Starfleet in 2338. He was the sole survivor on Omicron Theta in the rubble of a colony left after an attack from the
His
Popular culture
Like Spock,[15] Data became a sex symbol and Spiner's fan mail came mostly from women. He described the letters as "romantic mail" that were "really written to Data; he's a really accessible personality".[16]
Robotics engineers regard Data (along with the
Spiner himself released an album of old pop standards from the 1930s and '40s entitled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back, a reference to the contact lenses he wore as Data, as well as a play on the name of the Frank Sinatra album, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back.[19]
References
- Specific
- ^ Lee, Luaine (January 9, 2003). "A Data with Star Trek again". 9 January 2003. The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on May 23, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
- ^ "Star Trek: Picard Showrunner Michael Chabon Explains the Season Finale's Big Moments - IGN". April 2, 2020. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020 – via www.ign.com.
- ISBN 0-7434-5798-6.
- ^ a b c d e "Lt. Commander Data visits the Honesty Bar: an Interview with BRENT SPINER". Archived from the original on March 27, 2008.
- comingsoon.net. Archivedfrom the original on August 16, 2010. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
- ^ "TREK Vets Brent Spiner and Jeri Ryan Back for STAR TREK: PICARD, Plus: Frakes and Sirtis Returning Too!". TrekCore. July 20, 2019. Archived from the original on July 20, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- ComicBook.com. Archivedfrom the original on January 19, 2020. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
- ^ Kofi Outlaw (March 27, 2020). "Star Trek Actor Brent Spiner Says He Will Never Play Data Again". Comicbook.com. Retrieved February 1, 2024.
- ^ Weiss, Josh (March 29, 2020). "Star Trek: Brent Spiner says he's done playing Data after Picard Season 1, but is up to reprise Altan". SYFY WIRE. Archived from the original on April 27, 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
- ^ Clues (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
- ^ TNG: "The Measure of a Man"
- ISBN 0-671-53609-5.
- ^ TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint"
- ^ TNG: "Descent, Part II", "Star Trek Generations"
- ^ Kleiner, Dick (December 4, 1967). "Mr. Spock's Trek To Stardom". Warsaw Times-Union. Warsaw, Indiana. Newspaper Enterprise Association. p. 7. Archived from the original on August 2, 2013. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
- ^ Dubois, Stephanie (October 29, 1990). "TREKKIES SWOON FOR ANDROID AS SHOW ENTERS NEXT WARP". Orlando Sentinel. Tribune Media Services. p. A2. Archived from the original on August 1, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
- ISBN 0-8186-7514-4
- ^ "Science center honors robots". The Pitt News. April 10, 2008. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
The Robot Hall of Fame inducted four new robots: Lt. Cmdr. Data from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," LEGO Mindstorms, NavLab 5 and Raibert Hopper.
- ^ "Star Trek before Discovery: what did the cast do next?". The Telegraph. September 25, 2017. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
External links
- Data at Memory Alpha
- Data's biography Archived July 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine at the official Star Trek website
- An Android for All Seasons. Star Trek's science consultant André Bormanis about the creation of Data
- Spot at Memory Alpha
- Text of Data's poem Ode to Spot at Memory Alpha
- Data on IMDb
- Data at Memory Beta