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Player Name: Bianca
Player LJ: thundercrap
Email and/or AIM: notleonardnimoy at gmail dot com
Timezone: Pacific
Other Characters: None
Character: Data
Fandom: Star Trek : The Next Generation
Deviance: Prime Universe (Deviance 1)
Age: 41
Gender: Identifies as Male
Species: Soong-type Android
Canon Used: Televisions Show, Comics, and Novels
Appearance: Data is 5'10'' and has the appearance of a man approximately 87 kg (180 lbs), though his physical structure is more like 159 kg (345 lbs). He has pale "golden" skin, which is actually white bioplast sheeting underlit with yellow-lit fiberoptic sensors that occur with the frequency of the nerves found in human skin. His hair is dark brown, usually slicked back and neatly kept, and his eyes are yellow. Otherwise, he's of average appearance.
He prefers when not on duty to wear clothing suiting to the environment, and enjoys dressing up in general.
Psychology: Data always felt that that perfection was unattainable. His daughter asked him why he strove to be more human when he couldn't achieve his goal, but he said that the point was the journey and not the conclusion. He also told a young boy who was emulating him that because he possessed certain skills that could be considered superior to humans, this wasn't necessarily anything that would make him 'better'. Even after he got his emotion chip, he told the Borg Queen that perfection was the product of a delusional mind. No matter what his mistakes were, he would admit them.
He never was very good at socialization. Even after grasping the concept of emotion, his efforts were at best excessive because he still had little frame of reference to understand other people's emotions. It's difficult to put himself in someone else's perspective. However, his intentions are good (with the help of handy dandy moral protocols) and he's developed the ability to joke slightly, though he still has his moments of ineptitude. In order to play this somewhat consistency, I usually use Aspergers as a model for his behavior. Without the emotion chip, he never uses contractions. When more at ease and with the chip activated, he continues to use them only seldomly. When he become emotionally distressed, he uses them more frequently.
The friendships he does form he's excessively dependent on, as it's how he develops his own personality he takes the loss of a friend especially hard. They linger on in his mind, and he'll frequently keep keepsakes or reminders of them so that they won't truly be lost to him, such as Tasha's final recording after her death, the book Picard gave him (though that was simply a gesture of fondness rather than a symbol of loss), or passing on his father's dinosaur models to children aboard the Enterprise. Even when he can't "feel" he still senses the disruptions in his programming brought about by their loss. His crew is kind of like his family, as well and even having not known his family it's still a very important concept to him He dutifully carries his daughter, Lal, around in his net in the form of her memories. He felt especially betrayed by his brother (as much as he could feel at the time) whenever he harmed anyone close to him. And he remained in contact and protected his mother about the truth of here existence up until her death. He also claimed and protected both the bodies of his mother and brother from being dismantled after their respective deaths ala The Immortal Coil.
Outwardly he would seem to have a very mild personality and is eager to please. He would prefer always to find peaceful resolutions to situations. Before taking any hostile action against anyone, he would try to debate them into a position of abdication. He would usually choose the quickest and most effective way to disable an opponent rather than the flashiest.
Despite this he has a passively commanding attitude; if he disagrees with something he'll take action against it and do so without allowing anyone to question him. Being an android his judgment has been called into question many times, as has his right to choose. When he feels that he's not being taken seriously for one of the previous reasons, he'll do things like turn off transporter systems and conduct scans on his own. For instance when they were going to transport the exocomps after disabling their ability to choose to rescue Geordi and Picard, Data deactivated the transporter without telling anyone. When he was in command of the Sutherland when he wasn't trusted by his first officer, he gave orders without explanation. If he feels he is in the right, he will do whatever he can to accomplish a means to an end.
Modeling some of his behaviors off of Sherlock Holmes, he tries to base his decisions off of empirical evidence and the balance of risk. He liked Sherlock Holmes because Holmes proved to him that someone could function respectably in society and even play an important role without being ruled by emotion. Because Jean-Luc Picard was such an influence in his life, Data often tries to emulate him as well.
Other Skills/Abilities: Data is far stronger than any human because his skeletal structure consists of metals used in Starships, and his musculature is a sort of high density plastic. He can easily bend steel. He's capable of 60 Trillion processes per second and has 88 petabytes of storage space. His skin sensors can also be used as a rudimentary interface, and he can control vast networks if so required. He can store coded information deep within his net. More can be found at this write-up that I made.
Other Weaknesses: He's easily influenced by outside sources with the capacity to do so. His arms and legs are connected with vaccuum seals, and if detached he has no control over them. He has an inherently trusting nature and a lack of understanding concerning human behavior. He can be deactivated by a large electrical surge and require hours of recovery time.
History: (All of this, btw taken from my own write up). 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 received 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.
Canon Point: Immediately prior to Star Trek: Nemesis
Reality Description: Data is from a futuristic reality and is a member of an interstellar union called the United Federation of Planets. Some of the basic technology available includes faster than light travel referred to as "warp" and transporter technology, as well as beam weaponry.
Other major forces in the universe include the Romulan Empire, the Klingon Empire, the Orion Syndicate, the Ferengi Alliance, the Cardassian Union, the Breen Confederacy, and the remnants of the Dominion (though mostly excluded to the Gamma Quadrant). At the stage I would be bringing Data in, there would still be unrest with the Romulans, not completely resolved after the Dominion War. Public figures include immediate former President of the Federation, Zife, a Bolian who presided over the Federation during the bulk of the Dominion war, and the current one, Bacco, a human who was elected once his term was over. The majority of the Romulan Senate is still active, as it is prior to Shinzon's massacre using the thaloron radiation generator. General Martok is now Chancellor Martok and presides in leadership over the Klingon Empire. Worf, another member of the crew of the Enterprise and former second in command of Federation forces at Deep Space 9, had served as the Ambassador to the Federation but he resigned the position to commence security duties aboard the Enterprise once more.
There are many bipedal races (mostly with gene seeding from the same ancient race), and the Federation is centered out of San Francisco, Earth. There are race exclusive ships, such as primarily Vulcan vessels or Andorian ones, though for simplicity mostly human ones were shown in the series and those were likely the vessels that Data was most accustomed to.
Personally, Data's immediate crew and "family" consists of Jean-Luc Picard (Captain and psuedo-father figure), Dr. Beverly Crusher (Commander and Chief Medical Officer), Deanna Troi (Commander and Ship's Counselor), Geordi La Forge (Lt. Commander, Chief of Engineering, and best friend), Worf (Commander and Chief of Security), and William Riker (Commander and Second Officer). In absentia, the individuals that were important to him included Lt. Tasha Yar, the former Chief of Security, his brother, Lore (who had an impact in teaching him what not to be), his daughter, Lal, his recently deceased mother, Julianna Tainer, and his father, Dr. Noonien Soong. The ship that he serves on, the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 E is a galaxy class vessel and serves as the flagship of the Federation.
First Person Speaking Sample:
[The perusal of the brochure warrants a pause at the section about "robots", though he supposes he must be an exception to the rule. He would have to be to be here, he assumes.]
I suppose this is not the first time I have phased from reality... [It's said to himself as he looks over the other brochures, and even balks a bit at Nathan's. They explain everything and yet minimal information simultaneously. He finally abandons the brochures to investigate. He taps his communicator, first.] Data to Enterprise, come in, Enterprise.
[He waits for a moment, listening to the buzz of the communicator with a muted look of confusion.]
Greetings? I am Lt. Commander Data of the USS Enterprise. I am seeking assistance.
[He frequently sounds formal. Voice kind, not entirely flat but close to it. It's just a touch nasal, but not offensively so.] I am afraid that I am lost. [Even with a guide, he supposed that was the best way to describe this manner of situation.] I found a shop aboard Deep Space Four and it led to here, wherever here might be. Could someone please respond if anyone is within audible range. [He pulls out his tricorder to scan.]
I am getting no logical readings with my tricorder, they are in constant fluctuation. [Said to that someone that might-be-listening-but-he-wasn't-sure-was] Air quality is indeterminate. Gravity is indeterminate. Life signs are also indeterminate. Presence of atmosphere at all is indeterminate. And... I do not specifically recognize any of the visible star formations. It would take me approximately five hours to run a full analysis of one small area though to judge whether or not the positioning could be indicative of an earlier or later point in the Milky Way galaxy.
[He closes the tricorder and replaces it in his utility belt, as it seems that it would be useless here.]
Third Person Writing Sample: It had been longer than he had expected before his friend was to arrive, so he sat quietly in his chair and waited, watching passing people and individuals with idle interest. That was until a robot went trundling by. He had seen it before, but not given it much thought. It had so resembled a toy of the late 21st century in the context of his universe that he wouldn't have expected much of anything useful to come from it. Looks could frequently prove deceiving, however, and some hint of irresistible curiosity drove Data to reach for the tricorder on his utility belt and scan in the general direction of the dog-shaped automaton.
Generally a tricorder measured an area within a certain length, height, and width set directly in front of where the device was pointed. This could range from general settings that comprised basic elements, or in the case of what Data held (a technical tricorder), it could relay back a three dimensional look at the interior of a machine so long as the external layers weren't formed from metals that blocked the signal. He was fortunate in this case.
Fascinated by the information that scrolled across the screen (and more quickly than any human could read), Data knelt down by the shiny metal dog. So well was he acquainted with primitive design, that it seemed he was surprised to find that the superstructure on the exterior actually masked a very complicated memory and analysis system.
All the makings for an artificial intelligence. Could it be sentient as well?
A childish expression of fascination crossed his features, a joy that he could only find in discovery. Even when his feelings were muted, the emotion chip not functioning and unable to give any effects of his net physical focus, he still "felt" his processes quicken at a new and fascinating finding. And in this case, it was a primitive looking robotic dog, wagging its antennae tail.
He glanced up from his tricorder screen and shut it quietly, wishing to address it formally so that he didn't frighten it off (he didn't know if it could be frightened off, but he had no desire to risk it). "I am Data. It is a pleasure to meet you. I believe you have been referred to as 'K-9'?"
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Player LJ: thundercrap
Email and/or AIM: notleonardnimoy at gmail dot com
Timezone: Pacific
Other Characters: None
Character: Data
Fandom: Star Trek : The Next Generation
Deviance: Prime Universe (Deviance 1)
Age: 41
Gender: Identifies as Male
Species: Soong-type Android
Canon Used: Televisions Show, Comics, and Novels
Appearance: Data is 5'10'' and has the appearance of a man approximately 87 kg (180 lbs), though his physical structure is more like 159 kg (345 lbs). He has pale "golden" skin, which is actually white bioplast sheeting underlit with yellow-lit fiberoptic sensors that occur with the frequency of the nerves found in human skin. His hair is dark brown, usually slicked back and neatly kept, and his eyes are yellow. Otherwise, he's of average appearance.
He prefers when not on duty to wear clothing suiting to the environment, and enjoys dressing up in general.
Psychology: Data always felt that that perfection was unattainable. His daughter asked him why he strove to be more human when he couldn't achieve his goal, but he said that the point was the journey and not the conclusion. He also told a young boy who was emulating him that because he possessed certain skills that could be considered superior to humans, this wasn't necessarily anything that would make him 'better'. Even after he got his emotion chip, he told the Borg Queen that perfection was the product of a delusional mind. No matter what his mistakes were, he would admit them.
He never was very good at socialization. Even after grasping the concept of emotion, his efforts were at best excessive because he still had little frame of reference to understand other people's emotions. It's difficult to put himself in someone else's perspective. However, his intentions are good (with the help of handy dandy moral protocols) and he's developed the ability to joke slightly, though he still has his moments of ineptitude. In order to play this somewhat consistency, I usually use Aspergers as a model for his behavior. Without the emotion chip, he never uses contractions. When more at ease and with the chip activated, he continues to use them only seldomly. When he become emotionally distressed, he uses them more frequently.
The friendships he does form he's excessively dependent on, as it's how he develops his own personality he takes the loss of a friend especially hard. They linger on in his mind, and he'll frequently keep keepsakes or reminders of them so that they won't truly be lost to him, such as Tasha's final recording after her death, the book Picard gave him (though that was simply a gesture of fondness rather than a symbol of loss), or passing on his father's dinosaur models to children aboard the Enterprise. Even when he can't "feel" he still senses the disruptions in his programming brought about by their loss. His crew is kind of like his family, as well and even having not known his family it's still a very important concept to him He dutifully carries his daughter, Lal, around in his net in the form of her memories. He felt especially betrayed by his brother (as much as he could feel at the time) whenever he harmed anyone close to him. And he remained in contact and protected his mother about the truth of here existence up until her death. He also claimed and protected both the bodies of his mother and brother from being dismantled after their respective deaths ala The Immortal Coil.
Outwardly he would seem to have a very mild personality and is eager to please. He would prefer always to find peaceful resolutions to situations. Before taking any hostile action against anyone, he would try to debate them into a position of abdication. He would usually choose the quickest and most effective way to disable an opponent rather than the flashiest.
Despite this he has a passively commanding attitude; if he disagrees with something he'll take action against it and do so without allowing anyone to question him. Being an android his judgment has been called into question many times, as has his right to choose. When he feels that he's not being taken seriously for one of the previous reasons, he'll do things like turn off transporter systems and conduct scans on his own. For instance when they were going to transport the exocomps after disabling their ability to choose to rescue Geordi and Picard, Data deactivated the transporter without telling anyone. When he was in command of the Sutherland when he wasn't trusted by his first officer, he gave orders without explanation. If he feels he is in the right, he will do whatever he can to accomplish a means to an end.
Modeling some of his behaviors off of Sherlock Holmes, he tries to base his decisions off of empirical evidence and the balance of risk. He liked Sherlock Holmes because Holmes proved to him that someone could function respectably in society and even play an important role without being ruled by emotion. Because Jean-Luc Picard was such an influence in his life, Data often tries to emulate him as well.
Other Skills/Abilities: Data is far stronger than any human because his skeletal structure consists of metals used in Starships, and his musculature is a sort of high density plastic. He can easily bend steel. He's capable of 60 Trillion processes per second and has 88 petabytes of storage space. His skin sensors can also be used as a rudimentary interface, and he can control vast networks if so required. He can store coded information deep within his net. More can be found at this write-up that I made.
Other Weaknesses: He's easily influenced by outside sources with the capacity to do so. His arms and legs are connected with vaccuum seals, and if detached he has no control over them. He has an inherently trusting nature and a lack of understanding concerning human behavior. He can be deactivated by a large electrical surge and require hours of recovery time.
History: (All of this, btw taken from my own write up). 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 received 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.
Canon Point: Immediately prior to Star Trek: Nemesis
Reality Description: Data is from a futuristic reality and is a member of an interstellar union called the United Federation of Planets. Some of the basic technology available includes faster than light travel referred to as "warp" and transporter technology, as well as beam weaponry.
Other major forces in the universe include the Romulan Empire, the Klingon Empire, the Orion Syndicate, the Ferengi Alliance, the Cardassian Union, the Breen Confederacy, and the remnants of the Dominion (though mostly excluded to the Gamma Quadrant). At the stage I would be bringing Data in, there would still be unrest with the Romulans, not completely resolved after the Dominion War. Public figures include immediate former President of the Federation, Zife, a Bolian who presided over the Federation during the bulk of the Dominion war, and the current one, Bacco, a human who was elected once his term was over. The majority of the Romulan Senate is still active, as it is prior to Shinzon's massacre using the thaloron radiation generator. General Martok is now Chancellor Martok and presides in leadership over the Klingon Empire. Worf, another member of the crew of the Enterprise and former second in command of Federation forces at Deep Space 9, had served as the Ambassador to the Federation but he resigned the position to commence security duties aboard the Enterprise once more.
There are many bipedal races (mostly with gene seeding from the same ancient race), and the Federation is centered out of San Francisco, Earth. There are race exclusive ships, such as primarily Vulcan vessels or Andorian ones, though for simplicity mostly human ones were shown in the series and those were likely the vessels that Data was most accustomed to.
Personally, Data's immediate crew and "family" consists of Jean-Luc Picard (Captain and psuedo-father figure), Dr. Beverly Crusher (Commander and Chief Medical Officer), Deanna Troi (Commander and Ship's Counselor), Geordi La Forge (Lt. Commander, Chief of Engineering, and best friend), Worf (Commander and Chief of Security), and William Riker (Commander and Second Officer). In absentia, the individuals that were important to him included Lt. Tasha Yar, the former Chief of Security, his brother, Lore (who had an impact in teaching him what not to be), his daughter, Lal, his recently deceased mother, Julianna Tainer, and his father, Dr. Noonien Soong. The ship that he serves on, the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 E is a galaxy class vessel and serves as the flagship of the Federation.
First Person Speaking Sample:
[The perusal of the brochure warrants a pause at the section about "robots", though he supposes he must be an exception to the rule. He would have to be to be here, he assumes.]
I suppose this is not the first time I have phased from reality... [It's said to himself as he looks over the other brochures, and even balks a bit at Nathan's. They explain everything and yet minimal information simultaneously. He finally abandons the brochures to investigate. He taps his communicator, first.] Data to Enterprise, come in, Enterprise.
[He waits for a moment, listening to the buzz of the communicator with a muted look of confusion.]
Greetings? I am Lt. Commander Data of the USS Enterprise. I am seeking assistance.
[He frequently sounds formal. Voice kind, not entirely flat but close to it. It's just a touch nasal, but not offensively so.] I am afraid that I am lost. [Even with a guide, he supposed that was the best way to describe this manner of situation.] I found a shop aboard Deep Space Four and it led to here, wherever here might be. Could someone please respond if anyone is within audible range. [He pulls out his tricorder to scan.]
I am getting no logical readings with my tricorder, they are in constant fluctuation. [Said to that someone that might-be-listening-but-he-wasn't-sure-was] Air quality is indeterminate. Gravity is indeterminate. Life signs are also indeterminate. Presence of atmosphere at all is indeterminate. And... I do not specifically recognize any of the visible star formations. It would take me approximately five hours to run a full analysis of one small area though to judge whether or not the positioning could be indicative of an earlier or later point in the Milky Way galaxy.
[He closes the tricorder and replaces it in his utility belt, as it seems that it would be useless here.]
Third Person Writing Sample: It had been longer than he had expected before his friend was to arrive, so he sat quietly in his chair and waited, watching passing people and individuals with idle interest. That was until a robot went trundling by. He had seen it before, but not given it much thought. It had so resembled a toy of the late 21st century in the context of his universe that he wouldn't have expected much of anything useful to come from it. Looks could frequently prove deceiving, however, and some hint of irresistible curiosity drove Data to reach for the tricorder on his utility belt and scan in the general direction of the dog-shaped automaton.
Generally a tricorder measured an area within a certain length, height, and width set directly in front of where the device was pointed. This could range from general settings that comprised basic elements, or in the case of what Data held (a technical tricorder), it could relay back a three dimensional look at the interior of a machine so long as the external layers weren't formed from metals that blocked the signal. He was fortunate in this case.
Fascinated by the information that scrolled across the screen (and more quickly than any human could read), Data knelt down by the shiny metal dog. So well was he acquainted with primitive design, that it seemed he was surprised to find that the superstructure on the exterior actually masked a very complicated memory and analysis system.
All the makings for an artificial intelligence. Could it be sentient as well?
A childish expression of fascination crossed his features, a joy that he could only find in discovery. Even when his feelings were muted, the emotion chip not functioning and unable to give any effects of his net physical focus, he still "felt" his processes quicken at a new and fascinating finding. And in this case, it was a primitive looking robotic dog, wagging its antennae tail.
He glanced up from his tricorder screen and shut it quietly, wishing to address it formally so that he didn't frighten it off (he didn't know if it could be frightened off, but he had no desire to risk it). "I am Data. It is a pleasure to meet you. I believe you have been referred to as 'K-9'?"
Did you read the rules? Yes