![]() Now that we know the lovable android Data will return in CBS All Access's Picard, it's time to remind ourselves why he was such a fantastic character. If you're hoping to dive back into The Next Generation to (re)familiarize yourself with the android's best moments, we've gathered up some key TNG episodes you should check out. “Is it Dream Data or Dreamy Data?” she asked when IGN interviewed her recently.Star Trek: Picard has arrived, and it's clear right at the start that the titular character's relationship with his former second officer, the android Data, is an important aspect of the series. We don’t know much about him yet, and even Spiner’s colleague Marina Sirtis, who plays Deanna Troi, seems to have questions. Dream Data (or Dreamy Data?) We’ve seen Data appear to Picard in the trailers for the new Star Trek show, and it sure seems like this version of the android is a dream or illusion of some kind. And as we know, Data’s memories were transferred to B-4… so maybe, just maybe, Data and Lal’s memories are still out there somewhere in the time period of Picard, just waiting to be given life again. But notably, Data stored Lal’s memories in his own mind after her death. ![]() Tragically though, when Lal exceeded her father’s programming and began to feel emotion, she suffered a cascade failure in her neural net and died. He considered her to be his daughter, and it seemed that with her, Data had succeeded in constructing a stable positronic brain like his own. Funny thing is, she didn’t know she was an android, and Data decided not to tell her as he realized she would be happier going on thinking she was human. Soong’s secret wife, but when she died, Soong built an android version of her because he couldn’t deal with the fact that she had died. Though Spiner didn’t play these two - obviously - Data also had a daughter and a mother, of sorts. But when Data died at the end of that movie, the fact that he had copied his memories and uploaded them to B-4 left a glimmer of hope that our beloved android would be resurrected in his brother’s body… Which, really doesn’t seem all that fair to B-4 when you think about it, does it? Other Androids (Not Brent Spiner) Data's "mom" Juliana Tainer (left) and his "daughter" Lal (right)But wait, there are even more members of the Soong family, both from one-off Next Gen episodes. Soong even before Lore? B-4 had a lower-end version of Soong’s positronic brain, and as such was fairly limited in his functionality. Could that be Lore? Or is it B-4, the android who we learned in Star Trek: Nemesis had been created by Dr. But come to think of it, the Borg are in Star Trek: Picard! Hmmmm… B-4 (Barely Functioning Data) B-4 (left) and Data (right)Speaking of being deactivated, the Picard trailers show us that someone has been disassembled and chilling in a drawer at Starfleet for an unspecified amount of time now. In the seventh-season finale, Data was forced to gun down his brother during this encounter, and the last we heard was that Lore was to be deactivated. He even teamed up with a group of Borg who had become disconnected from the Collective, with the android becoming a sort of cult-like leader to the lost creatures. Also played by Spiner, Lore would go on to be a thorn in Data and the Enterprise crew’s side through most of the series’ run. Soong had designed Lore before Data, but there was a bit of a problem with Lore’s ethical subroutines, which is a nice way of saying he was a son of a bitch. In Season 1 of Next Gen, Data found out that he was not the only android out there when his “brother” Lore showed up. Lore (Bad Data) Data (left) and Lore (right) But only after some less successful prototypes were rolled out. Also known as “Often Wrong” Soong because of his misadventures while attempting to perfect the positronic brain - the key to a successful android - the scientist eventually did just that, and Data was born. Noonian Soong, was also played by Brent Spiner, like most of the characters on this list. Noonian Soong (Human-ish Data) O.K., he’s not an android, but Data’s creator, Dr. Eventually, he did get emotions, thanks to a computer chip - cough-Macguffin-cough - but unfortunately, he died in the last Next Gen movie, Nemesis, sacrificing himself to save Captain Picard. He dated, he got a cat, and he even learned small talk. His greatest wish was to become more human, and he did his best to emulate human activities to that end, like playing poker with his friends, and practicing his painting, music, and acting. We followed his adventures for seven seasons of Next Generation and four movies, as he served as operations officer onboard the Enterprise. Regular Data Regular Data is just that - the guy you think of as regular old Data.
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