This is one of my very favorite ST: TNG episodes and one I felt compelled to revisit after watching the first two episodes of the new series ST: Picard.
In this taut, cleverly written and profoundly moving episode, we learn along with Data's good friends Jordi, Deanna and Wesley, that he's been up to something since attending a cybernetics conference. Something is a red gold metallic creation with a positronic brain, just like Data's.
What follows is an often humorous tale about how adults are turned into parents by their toddlers. Except this toddler, who has chosen her physical form (human female) emerges from her Dad's lab fully formed, pre-loded with her personal version of the Encyclopedia Galatica with batteries included. Just one thing, essential social skills do not come as an add-on packet. They have to be acquired through interactive experience.
As ST: Picard is an expansion of the themes raised in this TNG episode, it is well worth watching to consider what may have happened at Star Fleet and within the Federation during the 25 years between the two series. Actor/producer Hallie Todd's performance , from an early point in her long career, will break your heart. Clearly this is one the essential stories in Star Trek lore.
In this taut, cleverly written and profoundly moving episode, we learn along with Data's good friends Jordi, Deanna and Wesley, that he's been up to something since attending a cybernetics conference. Something is a red gold metallic creation with a positronic brain, just like Data's.
What follows is an often humorous tale about how adults are turned into parents by their toddlers. Except this toddler, who has chosen her physical form (human female) emerges from her Dad's lab fully formed, pre-loded with her personal version of the Encyclopedia Galatica with batteries included. Just one thing, essential social skills do not come as an add-on packet. They have to be acquired through interactive experience.
As ST: Picard is an expansion of the themes raised in this TNG episode, it is well worth watching to consider what may have happened at Star Fleet and within the Federation during the 25 years between the two series. Actor/producer Hallie Todd's performance , from an early point in her long career, will break your heart. Clearly this is one the essential stories in Star Trek lore.
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