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For the mirror universe counterpart, see Data (mirror).

Data is a Soong-type android in the 24th century who served as second officer aboard the USS Enterprise-D and the USS Enterprise-E and eventually captained the latter vessel.

SpecificationsEdit

Data internal components

Internal components

Data was constructed by Doctor Noonien Soong and, like the majority of Dr. Soong's works, was modeled after Soong's own likeness and mimicked the human form in impressive detail. Data's design included an ability to grow hair and a pseudo-cardiovascular system which produced a pulse and breathing, but rather than pumping blood, distributed biochemical lubricants and regulated microhydraulic power and temperatures throughout his body. (TNG episode: "Birthright")

Data's chemical nutrients are also capable of contracting molecular pathogens undetectable to transporter filters and bleeding from his dermal surface when his skin is pierced or torn. (TNG episode: "The Naked Now")

Data was composed of 24.6 kilograms of tripolymer composites, 11.8 kilograms of molybdenum-cobalt alloys and 1.3 kilograms of bioplast sheeting. (TNG episode: "The Most Toys")

His upper, spinal support is a polyalloy designed to withstand extreme stress. His skull is composed of cortinide and duranium. This composition makes him resistant to most forms of stress and virtually bullet proof. (TNG episodes: "The Chase", "Thine Own Self"; TNG movie: Star Trek: First Contact)

Data was built with an ultimate storage capacity of eight hundred quadrillion bits (approximately 100 petabytes) and a total linear computational speed rated at sixty trillion operations per second. (TNG episodes: "The Measure of a Man", "The Offspring")

Data's brain was outfitted (unlike Lore's type L) with a type R phase discriminating amplifier. (TNG episode: "Time's Arrow")

As his neural net was composed of anti-electrons (positrons), and throughout the nervous system, his body gave off an aura on a wavelength only visible to a humanoid wearing a VISOR. (TNG episode: "Heart of Glory")

Data has an ability to "spacewalk", for a limited amount of time, outside the pressurized confines of a vessel's hull-without an environmental suit. He also has acrobatic skills necessary to perform tasks in zero-gravity. (TNG comic: "A Piece of Reaction"; TNG movie: Star Trek: Nemesis)

Designed with a "fully functional", anatomically correct form, he could perform various techniques of interaction, including sexuality. However, he could not master the ability to whistle. (TNG episodes: "Encounter at Farpoint", "The Naked Now", "Brothers")

Although he is flawlessly capable of this human idiosyncrasy. (TNG episode: "The Schizoid Man")

Data's construction, at first, had no buoyancy-resulting in his sinking whenever submerged in water. (TNG episode: "Descent")

However, this was corrected in later years as a potential drowning risk in emergencies. (TNG movie: Star Trek: Insurrection)

Data possessed a simple infrared vision in addition to normal sight. (TNG novel: Survivors)

Despite his impressive abilities and specifications, Data always desired to become more human but often struggled to master various aspects of humanity, such as emotion, humor and contractions. As part of his quest to become more human Data kept a pet cat, Spot.

Data did finally gain emotions when he installed an emotion chip created by Dr. Soong. (TNG movie, novelization & comic adaptation: Generations)

Upon their first meeting, Commander Riker referred to him with the pet name of Pinocchio. Years later, his comparison to the antiquated children's tale came up again, while Will Riker considered Data's search for the "human condition." (TNG episode: "Encounter at Farpoint"; TNG novel: The Eyes of the Beholders)

Ancestry and familyEdit

The dream of creating an android like Data dates back to as early as the 22nd century when Dr. Arik Soong, having failed in improving humanity by means of genetic modification, decided to begin development of a cybernetic lifeform. (ENT episode: "The Augments")

He had fully expected that he would not be the one to see the completion of this task; indeed, it was not until Arik Soong's descendant: Noonien Soong, under the tutelage of Ira Graves (Data's "grandfather") and with the assistance of Juliana Tainer (Data's "mother"), that a fully-formed android was created. (TNG episodes: "The Schizoid Man", "Inheritance")

Prior to Data, Dr. Soong created at least two other androids, Data's brothers Lore and B-4. Both were considered faulty and were deactivated in favor of the more advanced Data. (TNG episode: "Datalore"; TNG movie: Star Trek Nemesis)

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Data, after the death of his daughter Lal

Despite his quite extensive ancestry Data may consider his crewmates aboard the starships Enterprise-D and -E more of a family and had a particularly strong bond with his friend Geordi La Forge.

In 2366 Data created a new android, his daughter Lal, in her short life Lal successfully achieved a far greater level of human emotion than Data had yet managed and she remained in his thoughts for many years following her death. (TNG episode: "The Offspring")

BiographyEdit

Discovery and early lifeEdit

Data was constructed by Dr. Noonien Soong, and first activated in 2335 at the Omicron Theta colony on planet Kiron III. Unlike his "older brother" Lore, he was not given emotions, and at first was very childlike. In 2336, his early memories were wiped and replaced with the logs and journals of the colonists. Shortly after, the colony was attacked by a Crystalline Entity and Data was left deactivated on a rock shelf. (TNG episode: "Inheritance"; ST video game: Star Trek: Starship Creator; TNG novelization: Encounter at Farpoint)

He was discovered in 2338 by the crew of the USS Tripoli, and reactivated, becoming familiar with Starfleet. Data entered Starfleet Academy in 2341. (TNG episode: "Datalore")

Rear Admiral Alynna Nechayev met with Data while he was hoping to join Starfleet. Nechayev allowed Data to skip the entrance exams and to move to an accelerated track with credit for individual study. (TNG novel: A Time to Be Born)

Nechayev's rank of rear admiral (with two pips on her collar) is inconsistent with her rank of commander at nearly the same time in Rogue Saucer.

Data took the first-year course Ethics and Moral Principles, in which cadets debate the topic that life everywhere was sacred. However, Data was unable to form an argument against the hypothesis, as it was against his programming, and failed the course. (TNG novel: Survivors)

In 2343, Data completed an engineering honorarium at Utopia Planitia. A year later, he piloted the shuttle Curie from Earth to Utopia Planitia, ferrying a number of Starfleet officers and one civilian, the nine-year-old Kathryn Janeway. After arriving, he took Janeway on a tour of the facility. (VOY novel: Mosaic)

At Starfleet Academy, he undertook the Priam IV test as part of admission to the graduating class. Although the test required cadets to be hypnotized into believing the test was real, Data could not be fooled and could even the see the holodeck walls. Therefore, he allowed computer experts to program the experience directly into his mind, an experience that he found disturbing due to the loss of mental control and later sudden return. It took him several days to reconcile the conflicting memories, and finally resolved the paradox by denying access to the real events. (TNG novel: Survivors)

While in Starfleet Academy, Data had been instrumental in doing some updating and redesigning of the computer system used aboard starships, including greater sophistication in its communication skills and expansion of its already formidable memory. (TNG novel: Strike Zone)

The year 2345 saw Data graduate with honors in exobiology and probability mechanics from Starfleet Academy as its first android graduate. (TNG episode: "Encounter at Farpoint"; Last Unicorn RPG module: All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook)

One of Data's first assignments was as a Starfleet Education Representative, where he visited schools across the Sol system, before he was assigned to a starship. (TNG novel: Survivors)

He remained an ensign for three years and spent ten-to-twelve years as a lieutenant before he was recruited for a survey mission by Captain Jean-Luc Picard aboard the USS Portia. (TNG novel: The Buried Age) During this mission, Picard encouraged Data to assert himself and work beyond what his superiors request of him; prior to meeting Picard, Data had shown a lack of career advancement because he always did the job in front of him simply because it didn't occur to him to push himself further or ask for particular assignments over others, adhering to the chain of command without thinking of going beyond the rules. Inspired by Picard's advice, Data was not only able to determine the true abilities and motives of the Manraloth, Ariel, but expose and thwart her plans to sabotage the Galaxy-class starships with a quantum virus that would have added various minor faults to their designs while rendering Starfleet computers unable to detect these flaws. As a result of his efforts, Data was promoted to Lieutenant Commander in 2360 after the conclusion of the mission (TNG episodes: "Datalore", "Clues") (A meeting of Starfleet Command had to specially approve the promotion. (TNG novel: Survivors) He subsequently served aboard the USS Trieste (TNG novel: The Buried Age), although he was assured that there was a place for him on a Galaxy-class starship when he wanted it for his role in saving them.

By 2365, Data had earned the Starfleet Command Decoration for Gallantry, Medal of Honor with clusters, Legion of Honor, and the Star Cross. (TNG episode: "The Measure of a Man")

By the late 24th century, Data's collected letters were required reading by cadets taking the Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course at Starfleet Academy. (Last Unicorn RPG module: Starfleet Academy Handbook)

The Enterprise-DEdit

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Data in dress uniform at Chief O'Brien's wedding aboard the Enterprise-D

In 2364, Data joined the crew of the USS Enterprise-D as operations manager, chief science officer, and second officer. (TNG episode & novelization: Encounter at Farpoint; WizKids module: Attack Wing)

Data also accompanied the Enterprise-D's First Officer, Commander Riker and away teams on various missions and first contacts with species such as the Theluvians. He also took part in various celebrations aboard the Enterprise-D such as Christmas.

Prior to a encounter with Q, Data was, unknowingly, pre-programmed by Starfleet Command to have the Enterprise-D find the planet Faltos. Data was given authority to command the ship on the orders of Admiral Thivov. Data was successful in finding Faltos. Data was also instrumental in escaping Faltos's orbit. Chief Engineer Michael Argyle and Dr. Beverly Crusher were able to help Data find Dr. Soong's research on the Crystalline Entity. Using this information, Data was able to create an escape plan by joining transporter and warp technology in a unorthodox way. However, as the ship was leaving Faltos's orbit, Data's file on this was taken away by Bensley to protect Faltos, thus making sure the planet remains lost. (TNG comics: "... Where No One Has Gone Before!", "Spirit in the Sky!", "Q Affects!")

On stardate 41590.8, Data was part of an away team to the planet Tigan. After discovering a planetary conspiracy, the team were attacked by Tigan security forces. Tasha Yar and Will Riker were taken into captivity while Data was taken to a Tigan facility where one of the Tigan conspirators, Edic, attempted to reprogram Data's positronic brain to erase his findings and report back to the Enterprise with only a positive experience of the planet. Fortunately Data's mind proved too resilient for this tampering and the attempt was unsuccessful. Data was freed from the Tigans when Edic rebelled against his fellow conspirator Kadec after seeing the error of his ways. The experience left Data contemplative, his memory so perfect, maybe that could be the key to him learning to be Human. (TNG comic: "History Lesson")

In Survivors, in 2364, Data gives his age as 26 in Federation Standard Years, which corresponds to the date of his reactivation by the Tripoli in 2338, rather than the earlier date of his creation or new memories.

He later went on an investigative mission to the planet Treva with Lieutenant Tasha Yar. They met with President Nalavia, with whom he attempted to flirt on Yar's suggestion. After Yar disappeared, Data was forced to carry on alone, and was taken on tours of the city to meet with survivors of the terrorist attacks and visiting schools. Meanwhile, he infiltrated the Presidential Palace, explored its computers, analyzed the data he found, and searched for Yar. Finally he escaped the palace and headed to the castle of Warrior's Rest in a stolen flyer to rescue Yar, but he was captured by a quoghart net he did not notice. There, Data shared what he'd learned about Nalavia’s Riatine water treatments and fake terrorists. Though conflicted by their duty to the Prime Directive, he and Yar participated in planning for the liberation of Treva, and in the defense of the rebel stronghold. He also began a relationship with Pris Shenkley, a mercenary working for fugitive ex–Starfleet officer Darryl Adin. Data later discovered information exposing Nalavia's schemes.

Following the mission, Data remotely accessed the Starbase 36 computer in order to find and examine files related to Adin's conviction in 2359. Delving deeper, he interfaced with and finally merged completely with the computer to recover deleted files from the Standard Unlimited Virtual memory system, something that could only be done by an android. He virtually drowned in conflicting information from the starbase and was left unconscious, but was fortunately discovered and restored by Lieutenant Geordi La Forge. He discovered that the files had been tampered with and exosed the Orion plot that had framed Adin, exonerating him. (TNG novel: Survivors)

At some point during the year 2364, Data also served in the position of navigator aboard the USS Enterprise-D. (TNG video game: The Transinium Challenge)

In 2366, Data was taken by the Mezartine crew of the warship Conqueror. There he was used as a new body for the Pilot's personality to continue his existence. As the pilot, Data ordered Captain Picard to give supplies or he would destroy the Enterprise. (TNG - The Battle Within comics: "The Pilot", "The Battle Within")

In late 2368, Data traveled through a Devidian portal to 1893. An away team from the Enterprise followed him and brought him back to his own time. However, he left his head behind, which stayed in San Francisco for nearly five hundred years before being reconnected to his body shortly after his recovery by his crewmates. (TNG episode: "Time's Arrow")

In 2371, Data was forced to play a deadly game with the entity Redjac when he took over Enterprise-D 's computer as part of his revenge. Redjac used the Enterprise-D 's holodeck to recreate Victorian London using Data's Sherlock Holmes program. Redjac tried to make Data feel fear. At first, Data was not able to stop Redjac from killing officers such as Ensign McKenzie. Data was able to save Counselor Troi from Redjac. Data and LaForge were then able to devise away to stop Redjac. Data was then able to find Redjac in a warehoused named "Montgomery & Sons" on Scott street, which Data saw as reference to Redjac's time on the original Enterprise. Data and La Forge were able to seal Redjac within a photon torpedo. (TNG comic: "Embrace the Wolf")

The Enterprise-EEdit

Following the Enterprise-D's destruction, Data alongside the majority of Captain Picard's crew transferred to the new Sovereign-class USS Enterprise-E. (TNG movie: Star Trek First Contact)

In the months following the infusion of the emotion chip into his neural net, Data had dificulties mastering his new emotions. He was prone to get angry or agitated over trivial matters, and found himself unable to produce art as before. In the latter matter, he enlisted the help of Lieutenant Padraig Daniels who came aboard for a temorary assignment. The two spent much time in the Enterprise' art center painting, and eventually Data managed to express himself again using his emotions. (TNG - Slings and Arrows eBook: The Oppressor's Wrong)

In 2374 during the Dominion War, Data and the crew of Enterprise-E were then sent to the Gorn homeworld to try and form an alliance between the Federation and the Gorn Empire. Data was left in command of the Enterprise after a coup occurred on the surface and Capt. Picard, Counselor Troi and Dr. Crusher went down to the surface. Data then held the Enterprise's fire against the one of the Gorn warships. Data then destroyed the Gorn warship. Data then informed Starfleet command and Adm. Connolly of the situation with the Gorn. Connolly told him that Starfleet could not send any reinforcements to him. Data was then contacted by the coup leader, Slessshh, who wanted the Enterprise to surrender or he would kill Capt. Picard, Dr. Crusher, Counselor Troi and the rest of the away team. Data however refused to do so saying that Slessshh was underestimating the human's strength. Data then decided to beam down, unarmed to the Gorn council chamber to demonstrate his point. Data then called Slessshh and the gorn weak. Data, at the behest of Capt. Picard, then challenged Slessshh to fight him. Data was able to defeat him and force the gorn war fleet to stand down.(TNG comic: "The Gorn Crisis")

In 2376, Data was part of an away team to investigate the Cardassian freighter Kamal, which the Enterprise had discovered in the Badlands. The freighter contained the Orb of Memory which caused the away team, including Data, to suffer flashbacks to people and events in their lives. (DS9 novel: Avatar, Book One)

Assignments away from the EnterpriseEdit

Given Data's impressive abilities and usefulness to Starfleet, it was not uncommon for him to be called to serve on other missions away from the Enterprise from time to time .(TNG episode: "We'll Always Have Paris", TNG episode: "The Ensigns of Command", TNG episode: "Time's Arrow", TNG episode: "Thine Own Self")

In 2375 Data joined a duck-blind mission on the planet Ba'ku and was largely responsible for revealing a Starfleet/Son'a plot to remove the Ba'ku from their planet. (TNG movie: Star Trek: Insurrection)

In 2377 Data served as technical advisor during the development of the highly experimental USS Incursion. He joined the Incursion's crew in the shakedown cruise testing the Incursion's holographic systems and subsequently found himself in the midst of the Warden plot to take over the galaxy. During the crisis he was recalled to Earth to help decode warden transmissions and was almost assassinated by Warden agents, fortunately he was rescued by the Incursion's crew and rejoined the vessel to help bring down the Wardens. (TNG video game: Away Team)

In 2378 Data was assigned to the USS Sovereign to assist in the investigation of the Vesuvi Event. It was discovered that a rogue Cardassian faction was responsible. Data received orders from Vice Admiral Liu to track down the device that the Cardassians were using to destroy star systems. A device was located on Alioth VI, but unfortunately, the Sovereign was discovered and attacked by a Cardassian fleet, forcing the crew to leave Data behind on the hostile planet for several months. He was recovered by the crew of the Sovereign and later was able to establish a dialogue with the Kessok after the Sovereign's captain initiated a peaceful first contact. After the conflict in the Maelstrom region was resolved, he returned to the Enterprise. (TNG video game: Bridge Commander)

In Bridge Commander, Data was referred to as commander; it might have been possible that he was promoted to acting commander for his assignment aboard the Sovereign.

Turbulent timesEdit

In 2378, Data had his emotion chip forcibly removed following an incident at the Rashanar Battle site. (TNG novels: A Time to Be Born, A Time to Die)

In 2379, he commanded the Bravo team mission to infiltrate the nadion-pulse cannon firebase located in the Solasook Peninsula on Tezwa. The mission was successful after Data was able to interface with the base computers allowing him to send false signals forcing the crew to abandon the base. It was on this mission that Commander Riker was kidnapped and held captive for one month. During Riker's captivity, Data served as acting first officer of the Enterprise. It was Lieutenant Vale's belief that Data went without any rest for this entire one-month period. (TNG novels: A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal)

After Riker's return, he approached Captain Picard about taking crew of the Enterprise with him to the USS Titan. Picard was fine with this except that Riker was not allowed to take Data as Picard felt that he had earned his chance to become first officer of the Enterprise. (TNG novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)

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Data in 2379

Towards the end of the year, Data sacrificed himself to rescue Captain Picard and destroy the Reman warbird Scimitar thereby preventing the deaths of the Enterprise-E's crew. (TNG movie: Star Trek Nemesis)

Following his death, the copy of his neural net he uploaded to B-4 failed to take hold and Data, including his memories, were lost. (PIC episode: "Remembrance")

NovelsEdit

ReturnEdit

After destinyEdit

In 2382, a USS Titan crew member remarked that the Daystrom Institute had been trying to recover the mind of Lieutenant Commander Data for almost three years. (TTN novel: Seize the Fire)

In 2384, Data's memories were transferred into a new body designed and constructed by his father who at first transferred his own consciousness into the body in an effort to prolong his life for a continuation of his work on androids. This body was human in appearance and was even able to give off Human lifesigns. Overall, it was a better body than the one Noonien Soong had made for Data on Omicron Theta.

Soong had originally planned on resurrecting Data with a body even more advanced than the one he made for himself, but mid-construction, during the Borg invasion of 2381, Soong's lab was destroyed in a Borg attack. Having lost all of his work, Soong had no choice but to seek out other methods. Unfortunately, he found he was unable to make a new body in time to save Data's memories.

Having only one option, he came up with a way that would save B-4 and bring back Data in exchange for his life. His plan was put into motion at the last possible moment due to the sudden kidnapping of all the Soong-type androids. Soong chased the ship that stole the androids to a K class planet and indirectly solicited help from Enterprise. Soong went with an away team to recapture the androids from the Breen.

After dispatching the guards, Soong upgraded B-4's firmware so Data's memories would survive the transfer to Soong's own android body. When the transfer was successful, Soong deleted himself to allow Data to take over the new body. Though Soong had deleted his own consciousness, his collective knowledge and memories are still accessible to Data.

After his resurrection, he transported himself and his old compatriots onto Soong's ship, Archeus, and hailed the Enterprise, requesting permission to land. Picard rendezvoused with them in the landing deck; Worf being the first to descend from the ship, followed by La Forge, B-4 (carrying Lal) and, finally, Data, whom Picard had initially mistaken as the same person he had seen on Galor IV.

After a tearful, albeit brief reunion, Data denied Picard's offer to reactivate his commission. Later, while preparing to leave, Data professed his reasons for doing so to La Forge, who had come to see him off. Data proclaimed that he is not the android his friends had once known, but, rather, a new model or updated copy of his former self.

Before entering the Archeus, he leaves La Forge a quantum particle entanglement device, which, he explains, can be used to contact him immediately. He goes on to say that when he is ready, he will come back for Lal, whose body will be stored in a secure vault beneath Starfleet Command headquarters in San Francisco. Data then declares to La Forge how he intends to find Emil Vaslovik, who had revived Juliana Tainer after her total cascade failure, and inquire how to repair a positronic matrix after such an event, so that he may revive Lal. (TNG - Cold Equations novel: The Persistence of Memory)

In November 2385, Data, Shakti (Archeus A.I.) and Commander La Forge contacted Galen to discuss duplicating the Doctor's mobile emitter. Barclay, back on Galen, was happy to see his formerly dead friend Data resurrected. The Doctor confirmed the mobile emitter was non-replicable. (TNG novel: The Light Fantastic)

Visit by QEdit

Shortly after the return of the USS Enterprise to Earth following the battle with Shinzon, Picard and B-4 were paid a visit by Q. Over the objections of Picard, Q restored Data to life in B-4's body. (TNG novel: The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard)

Path to the 25th centuryEdit

In 2385, on stardate 62762.91, after an extensive study at the Soong Foundation by a dedicated science team and Geordi La Forge, the group managed to unravel the Data matrix allowing for all of Data's memories, personality and experiences to override B-4. When the restored Data first gained consciousness, he objected to the fact that his restoration was at B-4's expense, and immediately attempted to destroy his own consciousness to preserve B-4. However, B-4 sacrificed himself to prevent Data from dying. Through this, the android was able to help the Soong Foundation in upgrading the positronic brain and help in the recreation of the emotion chip originally developed by Doctor Soong. Ambassador Spock likened it to his resurrection a hundred and two years previously, though Data likened it more to a return. (ST - Countdown comic: "Number Two"; STO novel: The Needs of the Many; ST website: The Path to 2409)

By 2387, Data was active in Starfleet and had risen to the rank of Captain. Data assumed command of the Enterprise-E, after the retirement of Captain Picard from Starfleet. He saved Spock and Nero from a Reman attack. (ST - Countdown comics: "Number One", "Number Two", "Number Three", "Number Four")

In 2390, Jake Sisko came aboard the Enterprise for an interview with Data. Data gave his thoughts regarding future Borg attacks and whether Species 8472 had reached Federation space; the captain refused to discuss the events of his "recovery." It should be noted that in the transcript of the interview, Data uses a verbal contraction, whatever it may mean. (ST website: The Path to 2409)

Sometime before 2409, Data led a mission, characterized as an 'impossible task', into Fluidic space in which the mission resulted in an 'incident'. Data and his crew survived, although, this became known as his last command of the Enterprise-E.

Though it isn't said directly, it is likely the Enterprise-E was lost on this mission.

In 2409, Data was working at Oxford University, occasionally consulting with the Daystrom Institute. When Va'Kel Shon, formerly of the USS Belfast, was offered command of the USS Enterprise-F, he met with Data in an attempt to offer it back to him. Data refused, citing his 30+ years service aboard the Enterprise as come to pass, and instead maintained that Shon was better suited for the role for the times. After the meeting, Data, alone, entered a highly secured, private lab where he was working on an identical android in a mustard-colored jumpsuit, whom, after activating a positronic circuit, called the android "brother". (STO short story: "Unexpected Honor")

It is likely Data was working to recover his brother B-4. Data, at this point, was already in B-4's body, thus the android he was working on has yet to be explained. However, the Star Trek Online novel "The Needs of the Many" establishes that B-4 had a personality copy downloaded into a database before Data took over his body, meaning that B-4's return cannot be ruled out.

In 2410, Sela agreed to her imprisonment after her involvement in the Iconian War, under express conditions which later lead to a man in a gold-striped specialized Starfleet uniform, carrying Tasha Yar's funeral hologram, to meet with her in jail. (STO mission: "Survivor")

Although it isn't stated that this was Data, the look of the man from behind and that he was carrying the Tasha funeral hologram indicates that it may be so. It also appears Sela's desire here is to learn more about the Tasha Yar of the prime universe.

Sometime in the 29th century when the Borg assimilated the entire galaxy, Data's positronic matrix was stored in the Borg hive mind when they assimilated the Daystrom Institute. Data was then rebuilt by Locutus and helped Locutus defeat the Borg Queen's sentinel, Seven of Nine. After Locutus and the Queen killed each other, Data was then sent back to USS Enterprise-E in 2381 to help Captain Picard defeat the Borg. (TNG - Hive comics: "Hive, Issue 1", "Hive, Issue 3")

InterestsEdit

One of Data's hobbies/interests was "classical chamber music." (TNG video game: Echoes from the Past; TNG episode: "A Matter of Time")

Alternate realitiesEdit

In an alternate timeline created when the USS Enterprise-C was accidentally sent through a temporal rift from 2344 to 2366, the Federation had been at war with the Klingon Empire for almost 20 years as the Enterprise-C's disappearance resulted in the destruction of the Klingon colony Narendra III. In this timeline, Data was still the ship's operations officer. (TNG episode: "Yesterday's Enterprise")

In an alternate timeline, a group of advanced aliens on Elysia worshiped as gods by the natives transformed Data into a human male. Data spent the next several months adjusting to his new body, and found among other things that he was left handed. Meanwhile the Konor conquered the Samdian Sector setting off a chain of events that led to a major war that decimated all the major galactic powers. The timeline was averted when Data was transformed back into an android and sent back in time to before he encountered Elysia's "gods." Not being transformed into a human allowed Data to uncover a critical clue in the Samdian crisis that led to the peaceful resolution of that crisis. (TNG novel: Metamorphosis)

Commodore data

Commodore Data

In another alternate timeline, he ascended to the rank of commodore. In 2408, he was the commanding officer of the USS Enterprise-F with 2,023 crewmembers. (TNG novel: Imzadi)

In an alternate timeline, Doctor Soong's dream became a reality and hundreds of Soong-type androids were operational within the Federation. Data fought for android rights and, after winning them, he and a group of others separated from the Federation to establish their own society. They settled on Iconia and began to explore their abilities.

Following the reactivation of Lore in 2378, Data contacted the Enterprise-D and requested Captain Picard's assistance to avert a war. After successful negotiations utilizing Iconian gateway technology as a bargaining chip, the war that Data feared was prevented. In the mid-2400s, he was offered a posting as Ambassador to the Dominion. (TNG - Myriad Universes novella: Brave New World)

In an alternate timeline in which the Cardassian Union did not withdraw from Bajor in 2369, Data became the captain of the USS Sutherland in 2373, shortly after the outbreak of the Romulan War. (TNG - Myriad Universes novel: A Gutted World)

Data with blue eyes

Data with blue eyes in an alternate reality

In several alternate realities visited by Lieutenant Worf in 2370, Data likewise served as the Enterprise-D's chief operations officer. In five of these realities, he attended Worf's surprise birthday party and gave him an expressionist painting of the Battle of HarOs. In two others, the painting depicted a Klingon Vor'cha-class battle cruiser.

In one reality, Data's eyes were blue instead of yellow. In another reality in which Jean-Luc Picard was killed during the Borg Incursion of 2366-2367, Data was still the second officer of the Enterprise in 2370, which was under the command of William T. Riker. Worf was the first officer. (TNG episode: "Parallels")

In another reality, Data was the first officer of the FSS Enterprise in 2380.

In another reality, Data served as the first officer of the US Enterprise, under the command of Wesley Crusher, prior to his death at the hands of the Reman usurper Vkruk in 2379. He was succeeded by Jean-Luc Picard, who had previously been the second officer.

In another reality, Data served aboard the United Earth Space Probe Agency vessel Enterprise before it was captured by the Klingon Empire and became the IKS Qu'. He was disassembled by the Klingons. By 2380, Captain Picard was the only surviving member of the original crew.

In another reality, Data was the first officer of the USS Enterprise-E, which was under the command of Thomas Halloway in 2380.

In another reality, Data was the captain of the ESS Enterprise in 2380. (TNG novel: Q & A)

Data is one of few prominent Star Trek characters to not have an established mirror universe counterpart, although his absence is usually at least partially explained through accounts of the mirror counterpart of Noonien Soong. In the parallel universe of Q & A, Lore replaces Data.

Starfleet service record Edit

location assignment rank or rate dates assignment insignia rank insignia
Starfleet Academy student officer cadet 2341-2345 Starfleet 2360s insignia 2270s-2350s cadet
Sol System junior officer / Starfleet Education Representative ensign 2345-2348 2270s-2350 service ensign
USS Portia chief science officer lieutenant 2360 2350s sci lt
USS Trieste lieutenant commander 2360-2363 2350s sci ltcmdr
USS Enterprise-D second officer / operations manager 2363-2371 2350s ops ltcmdr Yel Lt Cmdr 2364 Yel Lt Cmdr 2371
Starfleet 2370s insignia
USS Enterprise-E 2372-2378 Yel Lt Cmdr 2371 Yel Lt Cmdr 2373
USS Sovereign Special Investigator 2378 Yel Lt Cmdr 2373
USS Enterprise-E second officer / operations manager 2378-2379
USS Enterprise-E (Online timeline) commanding officer (Online timeline) captain (Online timeline) 2386-2409 (Online timeline) Starfleet badge 1 Red Capt 2400s

AppendicesEdit

ConnectionsEdit

Preceded by:
Jean-Luc Picard
Enterprise-E commanding officer
from 2386
Succeeded by:
unestablished
Preceded by:
William T. Riker
Enterprise-E first officer
2379
Succeeded by:
Martin Madden
Preceded by:
William T. Riker
Enterprise-D first officer
2369
Succeeded by:
William T. Riker
Preceded by:
Darya Bat-Levi
Enterprise second officer
23642369 / 23692379
Succeeded by:
Miranda Kadohata
Preceded by:
Darya Bat-Levi
Enterprise operations manager
23642369 / 23692379
Succeeded by:
Miranda Kadohata
USS Portia personnel
UFP seal BowmanRyallen CollaDataKilifJohanna KolbeO'BrienPicardShawn RiderVejar Starfleet Command logo
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) senior staff
commanding officers: J.L. PicardW.T. RikerE. Jellico first officers: W.T. RikerKurnQ. StoneE.P. ShelbyDataWorf second officers: DataWorf Starfleet Command logo
operations managers: DataWorf chief medical officers: B. CrusherK. Pulaski ship's counselors: D. Troi
chief engineers: S. MacDougalArgyleC. LoganL. LynchG. La Forge security chiefs: N. YarWorf flight controllers: W. Crusher Ro L.S. Rager
see also: engineering personnelmedical personneloperations personnelpilots & flight control personnelsecurity & tactical personnelsciences personnelunnamed personnel
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) operations personnel
UFP seal ChangWesley CrusherDataGleasonOrfil SolisLian T'suWallaceWorf Starfleet Command logo
see also: engineering personnelmedical personnelpilots & flight control personnelsecurity & tactical personnelsciences personnelsenior staffunnamed
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) senior staff
commanding officers: M. BatesonJ.L. PicardW.T. RikerData first officers: W.T. RikerDataWorf second officers: G. BushDataM. KadohataG. La Forge UFP seal Starfleet Command logo
watch officers EvanHeyesLynleyHavers chief medical officers: B. CrusherStevenson ship's counselors: D. TroiT'LanaHegol D.
chief engineers: M. ScottG. La Forge operations managers: DataM. KadohataR. Dygan flight controllers: S. HawkS. NaveJ. Faur
security chiefs: L. AddisonP. DanielsRowanB. LeyoroR. McAdamsC. ValeS. NaveL. BattagliaZ. LeybenzonJ. ChoudhuryA. Šmrhová
see also: engineering personnelmedical & counseling personneloperations personnelpilots & flight control personnelsecurity & tactical personnelsciences personnelmiscellaneousunnamed
USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E operations personnel
chief of operations DataM. KadohataR. Dygan Starfleet Command logo
other operations personnel A. BerardiS. MilnerJ. Rosado
see also: Senior staffEngineering Flight ControlMedical and CounselingOperationsScienceSecurityMisc.Unnamed
USS Enterprise-F personnel
25th century (from 2409) Jirelle KavKyonaPhillipa MatthiasKirayoshi O'BrienSavelVa'Kel ShonTem InasiSamuel Winters UFP seal Starfleet Command logo
alternate timeline 2382-2388 KruegerGeordi La ForgeTom ParisJean-Luc PicardWilliam T. RikerDeanna Troi
alternate timeline 2408 BlairDataHaumanLamontMargolinTucker
USS Sutherland personnel
UFP seal Manuele AtoaJoseph CareyDataChristopher HobsonShelby Starfleet Command logo
Commanding officers of the ships Enterprise
Enterprise (sloop-of-war) Dickenson USA52stars
USS Enterprise (schooner) DecaturBurrows
USS Enterprise (CV-6) Hardison
Enterprise (NX-01) Archer NX01patch
Enterprise (NX-01) (alternate timelines) ArcherT'PolTuckerLorian
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) RasmussenAprilPikeVlasidovichKirkZarloDeckerSpock Enterprise cmd insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701's predecessor) (Kelvin timeline) AprilMarcus 2250s alt cmd badge
USS Enterprise (Kelvin timeline) PikeSpockKirk
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (other alternate realities) KirkKirkPikeThelinSpockHoffmanMitchell
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) KirkSpockSulu Starfleet 2280s insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) (alternate realities) Pike
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) HarrimanGeorgeRendónSuluJohnson
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) GarrettCastillo
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) PicardRikerJellico Starfleet 2360s insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) (alternate realities) PicardCrusherHallowayRiker
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) BatesonPicardRikerData Starfleet 2370s insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) (alternate realities) PicardHallowayRikerDataJellicoCrusherWorf
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) Shon STO alt cmd badge
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) (alternate realities) PicardRikerDataShon
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J) Dax STO alt cmd badge
ISS Enterprise (NX-01) ForrestArcher TerranEmpire
ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701) AprilFranzPikeKirkSpockDeckerRileySaavik
ISS Enterprise (ICC-1701) (Kelvin timeline) Spock
ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) Pavel Chekov
ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Jean-Luc Picard
ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) Jean-Luc Picard
Free Starship Enterprise Jean-Luc Picard
ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) Leeta
First officers of the starships Enterprise
Enterprise (NX-01) TuckerT'Pol NX01patch
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) KirkShundreshSimonPikeNumber OneSpockDeckerSulu Enterprise cmd insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (alternate reality) SpockKirk 2250s alt cmd badge
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (other alternate realities) ThelinKirkGav Enterprise cmd insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) SuluSpock Starfleet 2280s insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) DaneSuluLinojj
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) CarmonaHolmesal-HalakTholav
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) RikerKurnStoneShelbyData Starfleet 2360s insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) (alternate realities) PicardRikerWorfLa Forge
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) RikerDataMaddenWorf Starfleet 2370s insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) (alternate realities) RikerPicardDataMaddenRo
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) (STO alternate reality) Winters STO alt cmd badge
ISS Enterprise (NX-01) ArcherT'Pol TerranEmpire
ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Number OneKirkSpockScottDeckerRileySaavikXon
ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Riker
ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) RikerLore
Free Starship Enterprise K'Ehleyr
Second officers of the starships Enterprise
Enterprise (NX-01) Tucker NX01patch
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) MohindasScottSulu Enterprise cmd insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) Scott Starfleet 2280s insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) Linojj
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) Bat-Levi
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Data Starfleet 2360s insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) DataKadohataLa Forge Starfleet 2370s insignia
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)
(alternate realities)
Picard
ISS Enterprise (NX-01) T'PolTucker TerranEmpire
ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Scott

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