Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) turned down the chance to become human in Star Trek: The Next Generation season 1, 34 years before Data’s synthetic resurrection in Star Trek: Picard season 3. Despite TNG’s rocky star, the android operations officer, Data, quickly became one of the best things about early Next Gen. From his first appearance in TNG‘s premiere, “Encounter at Farpoint,” Data expressed a desire to be human and his exploration of humanity would last throughout all of TNG and beyond. Despite this, however, Data refused an immediate human upgrade in TNG season 1, episode 10, “Hide and Q.”
Go to Source
Author: Rachel Hulshult
