Information: - A starship, starcraft or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for traveling between planetary systems, as opposed to a vehicle designed for orbital spaceflight or interplanetary travel. - Lieutenant Commander Data ( / det / DAY - t ) is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe 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 . An artificial intelligence and synthetic life form designed and built by Doctor Noonien Soong , Data is a self - aware , sapient , sentient , and anatomically fully functional android who serves as the second officer and chief operations officer aboard the Federation 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 behavior 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 . Although Data 's endeavor to increase his humanity and desire for human emotional experience is a significant plot point ( and source of humor ) throughout the series , he consistently shows a nuanced sense of wisdom , sensitivity , and curiosity , garnering immense respect from his peers and colleagues . 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 , even briefly working with Spock in the two - part Next Generation episode , Unification . - Science fiction (often shortened to SF, sci-fi or scifi) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas." It usually avoids the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically science fiction stories were intended to have a grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created, but this connection is now limited to hard science fiction. - Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for creating the . Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television. - William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, author, producer, and director. In his seven decades of television, Shatner became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, Captain of the USS "Enterprise", in the "Star Trek" franchise. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of "Star Trek", and has co-written several novels set in the "Star Trek" universe. He has written a series of science fiction novels called "TekWar", which were adapted for television. - Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise based on the television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called "Star Trek" and now referred to as "", debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on the television network NBC. It followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew aboard the starship USS "Enterprise", a space exploration vessel, built by the interstellar federal republic United Federation of Planets in the twenty-third century. The "Star Trek" canon of the franchise include "The Original Series", an animated series, four television series, its film franchise and an upcoming television series scheduled to debut in 2017. - The following is a list of Saturn Award winners and nominees for Best Supporting Actor (in a film). Burgess Meredith, Ian Mckellen and Andy Serkis are the only actors that have won the award twice, while only Javier Bardem and Heath Ledger have won both the Saturn Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same performance. - The United Federation of Planets, abbreviated as UFP and usually referred to as "the Federation", is a fictional interstellar federal republic composed of planetary sovereignties depicted in the "Star Trek" science fiction franchise. The planetary governments agree to exist semi-autonomously under a single central authority based on the Utopian principles of universal liberty, rights, and equality, and to share their knowledge and resources in peaceful cooperation and space exploration; each member world retains its own political and social structure, with the Federation itself serving as a 'United Nations'-type advisory body. - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building (formerly known as the GE Building) at Rockefeller Center in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at Universal City Plaza), Chicago (at the NBC Tower) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and Technology Center. The network is part of the Big Three television networks. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, which was originally created in 1956 for its then-new color broadcasts and became the network's official emblem in 1979. - Brent Jay Spiner (born February 2, 1949) is an American actor, comedian, and singer best known for his portrayal of the android, Lieutenant Commander Data, in the television series "" and four subsequent films. In 1997, he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Data in "", and was nominated in the same category for portraying Dr. Brackish Okun in "Independence Day", a role he reprised in "". He has also enjoyed a career in the theatre and as a musician. - James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk is a fictional character in the "Star Trek" franchise. Kirk first appears in "" and has been portrayed in numerous films, books, comics, webisodes, and video games. As the captain of the starship USS "Enterprise", Kirk leads his crew as they explore "where no man has gone before". Often, the characters of Spock and Leonard McCoy act as his logical and emotional sounding boards, respectively. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'data ' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. 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