DataThis is Spot. This simple creature managed something quite miraculous. Something of which I did not know I was capable. In a way, he taught me to love. He is the best of me. The last of me.
A character in Star Trek: Picard
Played by Brent Spiner
Star Trek: Picard · 136 quotes
6th most-quoted character in Star Trek: Picard: in 10 of its 136 quotes
Most scenes with: Jean-Luc Picard (5), Geordi La Forge (4)
DataThis is Spot. This simple creature managed something quite miraculous. Something of which I did not know I was capable. In a way, he taught me to love. He is the best of me. The last of me.
DataGreetings, USS Titan. This is your friendly, positronic, pissed off security system, back online. Unwanted guests and monologuing protoplasms, I am initiating an immediate shift change.
DataWhy are you stalling, Captain?
I don't want the game to end.
You don't remember your death? I can't forget it.
DataApparently I ended my existence in the hope of prolonging yours.
You don't remember your death? I can't forget it. That's right. Before I had even grasped the nature of our situation, you had conceived, and executed it. I was furious.
DataMy apologies, Captain. But I am not certain I could have done otherwise.
True. That might have been the most Data thing you ever did.
[Lore has just erased Data, but Data has reappeared as Lore glitches out]
What is happening?
DataI merely discovered the error in your deception. That my memories were not without value to you. I knew because they belong to me, you would see them as trophies and be unable to resist them. [Lore collapses against Data] You took the things that were me and, in doing so, you have become me. We are one now. We... are me. [Data and Lore embrace each other as Lore fades away] Goodbye, brother.
Goodbye, brother.
DataI believe... we're good here.
Hey, Data! You just used a contraction!
DataNo, I didn't!
No, I-- I heard you! Clearly...
[Geordi realizes Data is messing with him and laughs.]
DataIt appears I'm capable of using contractions now. And you are, too!
Oh, that certainly is new!
DataMany things are new to me, including myself. I am still Data, but also Lore, B-4... All that Doctor Soong programmed into this body.
Well, tell me -- how do you feel?
DataI feel... I feel!
Admiral. Ladies and gentlemen. Allow me to introduce you to the newest version of a very old friend.
With an upgrade, I'm told.
DataOh, I am mostly myself, I assure you, albeit with a dash of computational joie de vivre.
The last time we spoke, you wished to experience death. As happy as I am that you're here, I hope that we haven't betrayed that wish.
DataNo, sir. I know that me is resting peacefully. But this me... this me would rather be no place else in the universe.
[Geordi and Data board the bridge of the maintenance shuttle.]
Hopefully we have enough juice to get us there.
DataWhat makes you think "there" hasn't already been destroyed?
Data, could you try to be a little more positive?
Data[with a strained grin] I hope we die quickly.
[Geordi has brought the crew to the Fleet Museum's Hangar Bay 12 to reveal what's inside.]
The Enterprise-D... but... how?
Thank the good old Prime Directive. The saucer was retrieved from Veridian III, so as not to influence the system. I've been restoring it bit by bit over the past twenty years. Engines and nacelles come from the USS Syracuse.
DataStrange... Seeing it makes me feel...
You're not the only one, Data.
And, obviously, we can't use the Enterprise-E.
[The crew look at Worf]
That was not my fault.
[The Enterprise has left the Fleet Museum]
Mr. Data, set a direct course for Earth, maximum warp.
DataAye, Captain. Course laid in, sir. She's ready.
Engage!
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