His positronic brain allows him impressive computational capabilities. Data is a self-aware, sapient, sentient and anatomically fully functional male android who serves as the second officer and chief operations officer aboard the Federation starship USS Enterprise-D and later the USS Enterprise-E.
He is a synthetic life form with artificial intelligence, designed and built by Doctor Noonien Soong in his own likeness (likewise portrayed by Spiner). He was the sole survivor on Omicron Theta in the rubble of a colony left after an attack from the Crystalline Entity. Data is portrayed by actor Brent Spiner.ĭata was found by Starfleet in 2338. He appears in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( TNG) and Star Trek: Picard and the feature films Star Trek Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). Data is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise.
