10 Weirdest Things About Data’s Body In Star Trek

Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) quickly became one of the most popular characters to come out of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and there are many notable and unique things about his android body. As the only android in Starfleet at the time, Data had to work to prove his sentience and personhood. Over the course of TNG’s seven seasons, he explored what it means to be human and sought to achieve his own sort of humanity. Although Data wished to be human, there are several things about his body that make him very different from most humanoids.