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Brent Spiner is Data, android crew member of the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek The Next Generation. Lieutenant Commander Data is portrayed by actor Brent Spiner. He appears in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the feature films Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis. Designed and built by Doctor Noonien Soong, Data is a sentient, fully functional android who serves as the second officer and chief operations officer aboard the starships USS Enterprise-D and USS Enterprise-E. His positronic brain allows him impressive computational capabilities. Data experienced ongoing difficulties during the early years of his life with understanding various aspects of human behavio and was unable to feel emotion or understand certain human idiosyncrasies, inspiring him to strive for his own humanity. This goal eventually led to the addition of an “emotion chip”, also created by Soong, to Data’s positronic net. Though Data’s striving for humanity and desire for human emotion is a significant plot point (and source for humor) throughout the series, he continually shows a nuanced sense of wisdom, sensitivity, and curiosity. Data is in many ways a successor to the original Star Trek’s Spock (Leonard Nimoy), in that the character offers an “outsider’s” perspective on humanity. 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. To get into his role as Data, Spiner used the character of Robby the Robot from the film Forbidden Planet as a role model.
Near mint condition.
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