Data's internal transformation: Data wrestles with the moral, psychological, and existential implications of becoming a 'father' — learning to care, to protect emerging personhood he cannot biologically feel, and to process grief and continuity after L...
Data's internal transformation: Data wrestles with the moral, psychological, and existential implications of becoming a 'father' — learning to care, to protect emerging personhood he cannot biologically feel, and to process grief and continuity after Lal's failure and death.
Events in This Arc
In the corridor outside Data's lab a tight, secretive moment explodes into revelation: Geordi, Wesley and Troi are ushered in to find Data kneeling over a newly assembled, primitive android—Lal. …
In the lab's quiet, clinical light Data must admit he cannot stop Lal's neural collapse. In a fragile, lucid surge Lal summons the emergent language of feeling—struggling to speak, she …
On the bridge Picard and the senior staff confront the aftermath of Lal's death. Data, unable to accept obliteration, reveals he has incorporated Lal's programs and memories into his own …