Data's scientific curiosity versus emergent humane concern: Data's forensic and archival impulses lead him to preserve and investigate the artifacts and cryonics subjects, then to act (revival assistance, social engagement) in ways that challenge his p...
Data's scientific curiosity versus emergent humane concern: Data's forensic and archival impulses lead him to preserve and investigate the artifacts and cryonics subjects, then to act (revival assistance, social engagement) in ways that challenge his purely clinical stance—an internal arc about observation becoming moral participation.
Events in This Arc
The away team materializes in a cramped, late‑twentieth‑century control room. Data's tricorder quickly catalogs a thin atmosphere and an ancient solar generator and identifies analog instrumentation and a non‑voiceactivated computer. …
In Sickbay Picard is confronted with an ethical, logistical problem that fractures the ship's immediate focus: Beverly has thawed three twenty‑first‑century cryonics subjects Data recovered, only to discover they had …
Ralph Offenhouse erupts in panic when Picard announces the three revived 21st‑century guests will be transferred off the Enterprise, revealing Ralph’s identity is rooted in money and material control. Picard …