Data (Star Trek)

Data, also known as Lieutenant Commander Data, is a character from the Star Trek series.
== Charactah Account ==
Gold-skinned android who serves as Second Officer and Operations Officer aboard the Enterprise. Though his presence was fairly inexplicable in the beginning, Data was soon revealed to have been built by an eccentric scientist, who perished and left Data alone on a space colony. Upon his retrieval by Starfleet, Data reasoned that his natural path was to enroll in Starfleet Academy.
For an emotionless machine, Data can be quite brusque with people who question his sentience or abilities as a shipmate. One imagines that, after twenty years in Starfleet, Data's learned to put those pests in their place.
A Sherlock fanboy, Data is naturally a trained musician and can fiddle his way through a beautiful violin piece. He seems to be enjoying himself altogether to much as Holmes, kicking back with his dressing gown, puffing on a calabash pipe and pondering on the latest mysteries. In settings like these, the Pinocchio metaphor really comes to the fore: he is most human whenever he is playing dress-up.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror
* Hellspock
* Married... With Children 2099
* New Crew
* New Crew Annual
* Star Trek
* Star Trek Annual
* Star Trek Classics
* Star Trek First Contact
* Star Trek Generations
* Star Trek Unlimited
* Star Trek: Countdown
* Star Trek: Early Voyages
* Star Trek: Mirror Broken
* Star Trek: The Mirror War
* Star Trek: The Next Generation
* Star Trek: The Next Generation Annual
* Star Trek: The Next Generation Archives
* Star Trek: The Next Generation Omnibus
* Star Trek: The Next Generation Special
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Divided We Fall
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Doctor Who: Assimilation
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Embrace the Wolf
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Forgiveness
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ghosts
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Hive
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Intelligence Gathering
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Perchance to Dream
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Terra Incognita
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Gorn Crisis
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Killing Shadows
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Last Generation
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Modala Imperative
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Q Conflict
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Space Between
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Through the Mirror
* Star Trek: Waypoint
=== Movies ===
* Star Trek Generations
* Star Trek: First Contact
* Star Trek: Insurrection
* Star Trek: Nemesis
=== TV Series ===
* Star Trek: Picard
* Star Trek: Picard Season 3
* Star Trek: The Next Generation
* Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2
* Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3
* Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4
* Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5
* Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6
* Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7
=== Video Games ===
* Star Trek Adversaries
* Star Trek Online
* Star Trek Trexels II
* Star Trek: Away Team
* Star Trek: Bridge Commander
* Star Trek: Generations
* Star Trek: Hidden Evil
* Star Trek: Legends
* Star Trek: The Next Generation
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Echoes from the Past
* Star Trek: The Next Generation - Future's Past
* The Pinball Arcade
== Trivia ==
* To this day, Data is on Spock's level as the most popular Star Trek character in the franchise. Not such a big surprise, since he is essentially an inversion of Spock's character - instead of having emotions that he tries to deny, he actively searches for emotions he does not (yet) have.
* Data pulls a lot of girls in this series, almost as many as Riker. Although only one of those relationships (Tasha) was "consummated" on-screen, with the rest implied (Jenna D'Sora, the Borg Queen) or remaining in the flirtation stage.
* In several episodes, Data's uniform has a decidedly greener tint than the gold of the standard Operations.
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== External Links ==
* Data at Memory Alpha
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