Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) became one of Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s most beloved characters, but the android had a fascinating life before the show even began. As the operations officer on the USS Enterprise-D under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Data helped save the galaxy numerous times. Without Data’s enhanced android abilities and resistance to pathogens and mind manipulation, the Enterprise would have been destroyed several times over. Data was the only android of his kind serving in Starfleet, and he wanted nothing more than to be human.

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