Star Trek: The Next Generation
Summary
Star Trek : The Next Generation’sLt . Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) finally became everything Gene Roddenberry want him to be inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 . Soon afterTNGbegan , Data became one of the show ’s most popular characters , and his journey to bring out his human race became one of the sound parts of the show . As an mechanical man , Data was unable to feel human emotion , but he still develop to care about the the great unwashed around him in his own way . Data had a lovely and subtle story discharge over the course ofTNG’sseven season , but it was n’t untilPicardseason 3 that the mechanical man got his ultimate indirect request .
Star Trek : The Next Generationprimarily concentre on brook - alone episodic stories , andData ’s seeking to be humanwas one of the few arcs that go throughout the entire series . Although Data charter steps backward in a few episode ( such asTNGseason 4 ’s " In Theory " ) , he by and large became more human - like asTNGprogressed . Picardseason 3 finally learn the culmination of Data ’s quest for humanity , but Brent Spiner feel Data’sTNGarc still fulfilled Roddenberry ’s original plan for the character . In theStar Trekoral history , The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Yearsby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross , Brent Spiner talk about Data ’s story arc onTNG . Read his full quotation below :
It was Gene ’s construct from solar day one that Data would commence as a blank pill and , from being around human , he would absorb their qualities and idiosyncrasy through osmosis . By the end of the intact experience , he ’ll be as stuffy to being human as potential — and still not be one . I think we ’ve been successful at that . If you ran the whole serial from day one to the last episode , you would see that pass course . perhaps it would occasionally slip once or twice , but for the most part it was a clean bow toward Gene ’s idea . "
Star Trek : The Next Generation has one of the most beloved cast of characters in all of scientific discipline fiction . Here are the major characters of the classic .
Picard Season 3 Fixed Data’s Questionable Emotion Chip Storyline
Data is now as human as he can be.
Although Data had a wonderful story arc onStar Trek : The Next Generation , theTNGmovies loosen much of the character ’s progress . Data ’s emotion chip was introduced inTNGseason 4 , installment 3 , " Brothers , " when the android visited his Jehovah , Dr. Noonian Soong ( Brent Spiner ) . Dr. Soong had create the chip as a way to give Data emotion , but Data ’s evil brother Lore stole the micro chip for himself . After Lore was eventually take down , Data kept the emotion fleck , but did n’t instal it untilStar Trek Generations . Generationsturned Data ’s emotional journey into a serial of joke , making the feelings generated by the emotion chip feel like a takeoff of the tangible thing .
gratefully , Star Trek : Picardseason 3 fixed this problem , not once mentioning any sort of emotion chip shot . When Data returns inPicardseason 3 , he not only has a freshly upgrade man-made body , but also the power to experience emotions organically . information becomes as close to human as he could ever hope to be , and hisPicardseason 3 storyline feels correct for the character . information gets to experience real feeling , without his emotional reactions being play simply for laughs . Picardseason 3 build on Data’sStar Trek : The Next Generationstoryline without sacrifice any of the characteristic that made the character so great in the first place .
Star Trek : The Next Generation&Star Trek : Picardare available to stream on Paramount+ .
Source : The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 old age : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The Complete , Uncensored , and Unauthorized unwritten History of Star Trekby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross
