OOC: Histories
REGULAR UNIVERSE HISTORY◄
DATA VERSION 2.0 HISTORY◄
STAR TREK: THE LAST GENERATION HISTORY◄
INFINITY CHAMBER HISTORY◄
REGULAR UNIVERSE HISTORY
►Before the Enterprise: Dr. Noonien Soong, the great-grandchild (probably cloned) of Dr. Arik Soong carried on his family's dream of creating a new life-form that would not only serve as an offspring but be a positive addition to the human race. He also wished to do the impossible and create a positronic brain. He created three prototypes, only one of which having a body molded after his younger self. After his first successful creation, Lore, started exhibiting violent tendencies he began the model programming again and disassembled the elder brother. Lore discovered his mother's intent to have him taken apart and prior to his deactivation summoned the Crystalline Entity from deep space. The entity arrived after Data's construction and finalization of his initial processes, and his mother talked Noonien into erasing his personal memories and abandoning him on Omicron Theta. Noonien agreed, but not before storing all of the personal logs of the scientists and civilians there so that they might become a reference point for him in the future.
Data was recovered by the U.S.S. Tripoli responding to a distress beacon emitted from the homing chip in his head. He was covered in dust by the time they got there and activated again once they beamed down to the planet. Intrigued by his rescuers, he returned with them to Earth and decided to attend Starfleet Academy.
Graduating the Academy was not as easy as one would presume; while he graduated with honors in exobiology and probability mechanics he recieved low scores in most leadership positions that involved negotiation and dealing with people. He was still in the early stages of adapting his speech so that it wasn't so mechanically lilted, and eager to discover he continued to dedicate himself to his job despite his handicaps and prejudices against what he was. Before serving aboard the Enterprise, he managed to win some of the highest awards in Starfleet for his selfless acts of valor and new discoveries.
►Pre-Emotion Chip Enterprise: At Jean-Luc Picard's request, Data was stationed aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise D as its lieutenant commander. He had already been serving in Starfleet for twenty-five years at this point, though hadn't been a part of a crew that he could become particularly close to. Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge became his best friend very quickly, both of them having social difficulties, and he had his first real intimate contact with security officer Tasha Yar. While he was still stunted with his lack of emotion and his inability to understand them from others, with the help of the Captain, Counselor Troi, and others willing to explain human reactions to him he also got a sense of how human attachments worked.
When the Enterprise was sent on a mission to Omicron Theta, they discovered the parts to the android Lore. Using Data as a base they managed to reassemble and reactivate Lore, only to have him poison Data and summon the Crystalline Entity. Data proved his loyalty to the crew by beaming Lore out into space. And while he'd never disobeyed orders, he decided to reinterpret them to help missing crew stranded on a planet when he was placed in charge of the Enterprise.
This saved him from disassembly when his ability to choose was placed on trial by Bruce Maddox with the Daystrom Institute, who wished to create more androids like Data to man various starships and perform various Starfleet functions in environments inhospitable to organic life. Picard represented Data and argued that Data was a sentient life form capable of making his own decisions. It was the android's attachment to then deceased Tasha Yar that made the judge decide that Data had a right to explore his own existence and that Maddox couldn't use him. Data agreed to allow Maddox personal information so that he could observe his growth.
He fought ceaselessly for the rights of artificial intelligences and to gain respect for himself. He battled to have the exocomps recognized as sentient beings, he acknowledged his opponent Moriarity for being independently minded and then eventually out-thought him. He was kidnapped by a trader, Kivas Fajo, who considered him a unique object and the pride of his collection. He managed to escape, almost driven to kill when Fajo murdered his accomplice and made light of his emotional state. He allowed his body to be taken over by nanobots as a gesture of trust.
Lore intervened when he almost had the chance to have his emotion chip installed by Dr. Soong, feeling that he'd been wronged the "corrected" emotions were rightfully his rather than Data's. Data he deactivated and hid, and Data was only reactivated in time to say good-bye to his dying father. He later discovered that his abandonment on Omicron Theta was at the request of his mother, Juliana Tainer, and that it hadn't been his father's fault. Juliana was killed in the escape, and Dr. Soong replaced her with an android so realistic no one could tell the difference. Data hid her true nature from her so she could continue believing that she was a human.
Both he and his brother had entanglements with the Borg. When Picard was assimilated, it was Data who helped guide him out of the hive mind and used his abilities to program the Borg into sleeping. His brother later used him to rule over a group of disconnected Borg. He had to kill his brother after that, entering irreparable code into his net, though his last words to Data were surprisingly ones of love.
He also built a relationship with the Q after the Q was turned into a human, which Data had always wanted to be. Though Q despised being human, Data didn't hesitate to put himself at risk and save his life, leading the Q to have a new appreciation for him. His tendency to throw himself into danger before his friends meant that he was sent back in time to 19th century San Francisco Earth.
►Emotion Chip: After one last failed attempt to understand humor, Data decided to finally integrate the emotion chip. This led to severe reactions initially such as laughing at jokes from seven years before or crippling terror when his friends were attacked, then guilt afterward. Eventually the problems were corrected and he also was given the ability to turn the emotion chip off.
When the Enterprise travelled back in time to immediately before first contact between humans and Vulcans, he had to hide the computer's core codes in his net. The Borg Queen attempted to seduce him, and for 0.68 seconds he actually considered her offer before formulating a plan to betray her and save the timeline. He then went down to witness first contact on the ground.
He discovered somewhere in this time period that the holotronic brain had been under construction at the Daystrom Institute, and when Bruce Maddox was injured in a collapse of a laboratory he was part of the investigatory team. He discovered that his father had been notably influence by Emil Vaslovik aka Flint aka Akharin, an immortal who had been thought to be aging once away from Earth and had dedicated some of his recent centuries to building an android companion that would stay with him. Unfortunately, they all kept succumbing to cascade failure. Data's mother "died" at about this time, and Vaslovik stole her body.
Data lost control while part of a Starfleet investigation on the Ba'ku. They discovered they chose to live without technology on the rejuvenating planet. Data learned a little more about spending time playing from one of the Ba'Ku children. Four years later Data discovered his prototype sibling, B-4. When it became evident in the Enterprise's conflict with the Scimitar that the crew was going to all die if he didn't act, he downloaded his memories into B-4 to help him grow into his own individual (hypothetically) and beamed himself over to the Scimitar to rescue Picard and destroy the thalaron generator. In the process he destroyed himself as well.
DATA VERSION 2.0 HISTORY
►B-4 continued existing and growing into his own individual for some time after Data's demise; or so it would appear. As it turned out, Data's programming was taking hold of B-4's positronic brain. While Data had intended for B-4 to use his memories as a stepping stone to sentience as he'd used the logs of the Omicron Theta colonists, B-4's personality wasn't strong enough. Eventually it caved under Data's personality, and he came to be, essentially, Data in 2385.
Accepting his renewed existence, he had the Daystrom Institute construct him another emotion chip and rejoined Starfleet. The very next year he was given command of the USS Enterprise. He helps Spock enact the plan to use Red Matter, delivered by the Jellyfish, to the Hobus Star and is witness to its failure when the Hobus Star destroys Romulus and later (supposedly) the Jellyfish and Narada.
During heightened aggressions between the Klingon Empire and the Federation, he discovers that Species 8472 might be present in the Alpha Quadrant, and that becomes the Enterprise's primary mission while defending themselves against the failing peace accords between the Klingons, Gorn, and Orions.
STAR TREK : THE LAST GENERATION HISTORY
►Due to interference in the timeline from Section 31, the Klingons invaded Earth and many other Federation worlds and made them a part of the Klingon Empire. Dr. Soong was called upon to create a weapon against the Klingons. Having a history primarily in cybernetics, he built an android that was capable, durable, had a learning curve, and could see through the time stream. However, his purpose was so specialized that despite his capabilities few of his other abilities beyond probability mechanics, lingual functions, basic interaction, and machine interface were explored.
Data was to be delivered to the Earth rebellion's base by Geordi LaForge (who had been working with him on his development) and William Riker. The Klingons attacked the base, and Data managed to escape with them believing that he was a hologram and a quick adjustment to the transporter. Once down on the Earth rebellion base, he informed Jean-Luc Picard of the incongruity he'd discovered in the timeline, with Kirk failing to save the Klingon ambassador at the Khitomer accords thanks to Agent Braxton.
The Klingons were informed of the base's location through some ill-decision making on Wesley Crusher's part, and Data overrode a captured Klingon Bird of Prey's security to beam them onto the ship. They met up with Rachel Garret, Geordi LaForge, and Will Riker after they escaped another vessel being boarded by Chancellor Worf. They used the slingshot time warp to go back into the past and stop Agent Braxton's plot.
As a last resort, Braxton attempted to blow up the conference, but Data beamed everyone off the ship and crashed it into the intercepting ship.
INFINITY CHAMBER HISTORY
►Data met the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in a pocket universe where they worked together and came to know each other well. Very well, in fact, when Data was forced to supply the TARDIS with power to save the Doctor's life. Their freindship was cut short when Data was taken from the pocket universe by his brother and turned over to the Cybermen.
The TARDIS eventually left as well and used the technological blueprint she'd collected during her time interfaced with Data to construct a child. This child eventually found Data, reactivated him, and traveled with him and a small crew, including a child from a different timeline. That is until they reached Androzani Minor, where Sharez Jek became fascinated by Data's android offspring. To protect his sons Data killed Jek and was forced to assume his role.
The Doctor arrived at Androzani Minor with Peri, where he finally uncovered Data's identity and their former relationship. He traveled with him to San Francisco 1893 where they discovered the Fendahl had started to infest the city. They dealt with the situation while Mark Twain remained suspicious of them and Peri had a brief romance with Jack London.
The TARDIS was then drawn to an energy source where they discovered a collector. The descendent of Henry van Statten, a man that met the Doctor in his ninth incarnation and Lore when starting his acquisition of the internet. Obsessed with both the TARDIS and Soong-Type androids, he held the TARDIS and Data captive (with Peri as collateral) and attempted to kill the Doctor. Data managed to escape and the Doctor later saved them by using the Sontarans.
In an attempt to relax, the Doctor went to his favorite location of Stockbridge. Unfortunately the Daleks had hatched a plan, and Data and Peri were again separated from the Doctor and allied themselves with the Thals hiding in the village. He detonated his power supply and sent an electromagnetic pulse through the village, compromising its electronic devices and disabling the Daleks long enough for the Doctor to stop them. He was later repaired with help from the Aegis and the Doctor, who equipped him with a better ability to withstand strong shocks.
Intending to take Peri back to where she could return to college, the TARDIS refused to move so Data and the Doctor became college professors. There they met and befriended Winston Yang, who accompanied them when they uncovered the problem. Data agreed to undertake an Aegis mission back in his universe, giving him a psychic circuit to allow him to remotely connect with certain machines or sensitive individuals (which was just a modification of his homing circuit). Unfortunately the Doctor was possessed by Redjac and perpetrated the last of the Jack the Ripper killers. Once he managed to liberate the Doctor from Redjac, he took him to rest at a safer Stockbridge. -Based off ongoing non-canon roleplay.