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Star Trek: The Next Generation Character
Data
Status	Deceased
Gender	Male
Species	Android
Origin	Created by Dr. Noonien Soong and Juliana Soong
Portrayed by	Brent Spiner
First Appearance	"Encounter at Farpoint"
Profession	Counselor - USS Enterprise-D, USS Enterprise-E, USS Titan
Relatives	B-4 (brother) Lore (brother)
Special Features	linear computational speed rated at sixty trillion operations per second. ultimate storage capacity of eight hundred quadrillion bits

Lieutenant Commander Data is a fictional android originating in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation. The character was played by Brent Spiner whose portrayal of the emotionless android won hims critical acclaim.

Creation

Cyberneticist, Dr. Noonien Soong is responsible for the design and creation of Data and his brother Lore.

Bio

Date of birth: Permanently re-activated February 2, 2338 (initial activation unknown)

Place of birth: Omicron Theta science colony

Parents: Created by Dr. Noonien Soong and Dr. Juliana O'Donnell Soong Tainer

Education: Starfleet Academy, 2341-45

Marital status: Single

Children: One, deceased

Date of death: 2379

Place of death: Destroyed with Reman ship Scimitar in line of duty

Missions

2348 Promoted to lieutenant (junior grade)

2364 Named as operations officer and second officer on U.S.S. Enterprise, under Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

2368 Temporarily in command of U.S.S. Sutherland where he detected Romulan interference in Klingon civil war

2372 Transferred with remainder of Picard's senior staff to Sovereign-class U.S.S. Enterprise-E

Trial

Data was ruled not the property of Starfleet in a trial over him transferring ships.

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