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- Commander Data’s curiosity about his past and desire to become human is explored in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Schizoid Man.”
- Dr. Ira Graves claims to be Data’s grandpa and teaches Data about his creator, Dr. Noonien Sun, in the episode.
- Graves transfers his consciousness into Data’s positronic brain, causing strange behavior in Data until Graves relents and lets his human parts die.
Commander Data (Brent Spiner) calls himself “Grandpa” upon Star Trek: The Next Generation, the genius scientist Dr. Ira Graves (W. Morgan Shepherd).when TNG Data knew nothing about his life until Starfleet discovered his disabled android body on Omicron Theta. As the show progresses, Data learns more and more about his past, including his creator Dr. Noonien Soong and his twin brother Lore (both played by Brent Spiner). Data admired humans more than anything.and he spent a lot of his money TNG A journey to observe the people around him and try to understand what makes him different.
in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 6, “The Schizophrenic Man” Data encounters a scientist named Ira Graves who claims to be Data’s grandfather. At Graves’ request, Data refers to the old scientist as “Grandpa” in “Schizoid Man”. Data’s uniform way of speaking sounds somewhat humorous, but it also speaks to his naivety and desire for a family. It’s endearing to hear Data call this man grandpa, but something about it doesn’t feel right. Graves later proves that he has no respect for or interest in Data as a sentient being.
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Who is Data’s “grandpa” Dr. Ira Graves from Star Trek: TNG? What happened to him?
W. Morgan Shepard played Dr. Ira Graves in his only appearance on TNG’s “The Schizoid Man.”
in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Enterpriseand Star Trek: Picardfurther members of the Song family were introduced, Star Trek Nothing further has been disclosed about Graves or his relationship with the Song family. In “The Schizoid Man,” the USS Enterprise-D visits the home of Dr. Ira Graves to provide medical care to the ailing scientist. Graves is aware that Data is Dr. Soong’s creation and claims that he taught Dr. Soong everything he knows.,him “father” Song’s work. Knowing he has only three weeks to live, Graves uses his knowledge of cybernetics to transfer his consciousness into Data’s positronic brain.
In just a few scenes, W. Morgan Shepard makes Dr. Graves a memorable, if deeply flawed, character. Brent Spiner also gives a great performance while taking over Graves’ personality.
When the expedition team returns to the Enterprise, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew begin to notice that something is wrong with Data. Half-Betazoid counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) later senses two personalities in Data’s mind, and Picard realizes what Dr. Graves has done. Picard begs Graves to let go of Data’s body.Graves initially refuses, but eventually relents after realizing the harm he has caused. Graves then somehow transfers all of his accumulated knowledge to the Enterprise’s computer, but allows the human part of himself to die. Neither Dr. Graves nor the knowledge he supposedly transferred to the computer is ever referenced again.
Other Star Trek characters have also become androids – including Picard
Star Trek has a long history with androids and other artificial life.
Since the early episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek The series has been fascinated by artificial life and immortality.in Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 7, “What Are Little Girls Made of?” Just before his death, Dr. Roger Corby (Michael Strong) creates an android body and transfers his consciousness into it. Kobe creates an android copy of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and plans to build an army of androids.. terms of service Season 2, Episode 20, “Return to Tomorrow” finds Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) at the mercy of immaterial beings who want to create android bodies for them. It will be drawn.
Star Trek: Picard Introducing the latest android created by Dr. Altan Sun and Dr. Bruce Maddox (John Ailes). These androids are built on the technology used to create Data, and Dr. Soong used this technology to construct the body of the synthetic golem. The plan was to transfer his consciousness into his body before he died, but Altan later gave Admiral Picard a golem body to save his life.. Picard died of a terminal brain disease, and he would have remained dead if Altan had not gifted him the golem.Data also acquired a new golem body. Picard Season 3, fulfilling his dream of becoming as human as possible, which began in 2016. Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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