Data's existential/operative crisis as the Iconian program invades his positronic pathways: a personal sacrifice in which an artificial person must cede memory and function to purge the threat and save others.

Data deciphers the Iconian console and, by activating what he believes to be a manual override, brings the room to life: a spinning portal revealing distant worlds — including brief, …

In Main Engineering Geordi frantically runs diagnostics on Data while Riker watches, trying to reconcile Data's recorded norms with wildly aberrant readings. Geordi voices a desperate hope for a specialist …

Data unexpectedly reactivates after a shutdown, revealing that his positronic brain invoked a self-correcting shutdown that purged the Iconian corruption. Geordi realizes the same surgical approach can save the entire …