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ThroughoutStar Trek : The Next Generation’sseven time of year run , the androidDatasought to well understand humanity , and desired to be human himself . While this quest to be something more motivated Data in the show , a preview forStar Trek#16 show that his android side is far more hefty . Even more hefty than fans may realize .
IDW Publishing has share a first look atStar Trek#16 , written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly , and draw by Marcus To . The prevue open withdisaster on the Tzenkethi homeworld . TheTheseusis down several command ship’s officer , forcing Sisko to return to the ship . He go in the bridge , and is blow out of the water to line up only two work party member : Lieutenant Descheeni and Data .
datum has hooked his positronic net into theTheseus’computers , and he tells Sisko that , due to the crew losses , he has consolidated their transmutation , as well as the entire Alpha Shift , into one , and he is doing every single one of them .
Data’s Positronic Brain Makes Him One ofStar Trek’sMost Powerful Characters
The trailer ends there , leaving sports fan in awe of Data ’s latest miracle . datum ’s positronic brain , grow by Doctor Noonian Soong , is unlike anything else in the Federation . It reserve Data to do tasks beyond human power , such as process magnanimous , complex equations . Data ’s android ability have save theEnterprise , and the coltsfoot , many time . Despite his heavy world power , Data longs to be human . In variousNext Generationepisodes , Data take in charge a variety of endeavors , be it painting or acting , that give him insight into humanness . When Data find his emotion chip inStar Trek : Generations , it brought him one step closer to his goal .
Data ’s long journey to comfortably sympathise humans , and become one himself , comes to an end in the third season ofStar Trek : Picard . Data ’s consciousness was transferred to a new , synthetic / organic body , the closest he would ever get to being a rightful human . In this new variant , Data was able-bodied to fully explore the range of human emotions . Most interestingly , he finally make headway the ability to utilize muscle contraction , something he had been unable to do antecedently . The show concludes with Data render to the wandflower , converted and ready for new adventures .
Star Trek : Defiant # 5 teases an exciting newfangled frontier for the enfranchisement to explore , while cede a darkly laughable moral force between Spock and Lore .
Data’s Android Form Is Still a Great Asset to Starfleet
Yet , as discover in the preview forStar Trek#16 , Data ’s android form offers a great mass to Starfleet as well . TheTheseuswas in desperate motivation of fresh crewmembers , and Data take on their work himself . Data ’s positronic brain gives him superior multi - tasking ability , and he puts it to outstanding use here by doing the work of at least several individuals . If Data had ever been granted his compliments , and became entirely human , then the awing feat fans see in this issue never would have happened–-which in play would have lead to total catastrophe , and a possible war with the Tzenkethi .
Star Trek#16is on sales agreement January 17 from IDW Publishing !
