Data (Star Trek)

Lieutenant Commander Data, played by Brent Spiner, is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe. An android, he served as the second officer and chief of operations on the USS Enterprise-D and the USS Enterprise-E. Data appeared throughout the ' television series and in later movies.

Inspiration

The character of Data was inspired by a made-for-TV movie Gene Roddenberry wrote in the 1970s entitled, The Questor Tapes, which was the pilot for a series that would have detailed the adventures of a lifelike android searching for the secret of being human. In the movie, Questor was to have experimented with sexuality, actually making love to a female character. Network censors did not allow this scene to be used in the film, but a decade later, relaxed standards allowed an "intimate relationship" to occur between Data and Tasha Yar, as described above.

Related Topics:
Gene Roddenberry - The Questor Tapes - Android

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