Conversation so far:
how did Star Trek develop?
Did Brent Spiner use that clown as the basis for Star TreK?
is there anything interesting about the development of Data from Star Trek?
Brent Spiner felt that Data exhibited the Chaplinesque characteristics of a sad, tragic clown.

Question: Was Data well-received?
Self-contained rewrite: Was the character Data from star-strek well-received?