Spiner felt that he had visibly aged out of the role and that Data was best presented as a youthful figure.

Frank Rich wrote that the musketeers were " professionally played " by Taylor and his co-stars Brent Spiner and Chuck Wagner but felt the three had " little dialogue and often seem like interchangeable stand-ins for the Three Stooges.

The fourth season saw Brent Spiner ( Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation ) as the imprisoned scientist Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of Data's creator ( Dr. Noonien Soong, also played by Spiner in at least two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation ), in a three-episode arc at the end of which Soong abandons the concept of improving mankind in favor of creating artificial intelligence: an allusion to what will eventually become Data.

Brent Spiner lent his voice to the finale, and is briefly heard as Data.

* Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data

Brent Spiner portrays the android Data ; rumors before the film's release suggested that since Data's skin had been largely removed at the end of the story, it would allow another actor to assume the role.

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

Lieutenant Commander Data ( ) is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe portrayed by actor Brent Spiner.

Gene Roddenberry told Brent Spiner that over the course of the series, Data was to become " more and more like a human until the end of the show, when he would be very close, but still not quite there.

To get into his role as Data, Spiner used the character of Robbie the Robot from the film Forbidden Planet as a role model.

Spiner said his favorite Data scene takes place in " Descent ", when Data plays poker on the holodeck with a re-creation of the famous physicist Stephen Hawking, played by Hawking himself.

Spiner reprised his role of Data in the Star Trek: Enterprise series finale " These Are the Voyages ..." in an off-screen speaking part.

In " Brothers ", Data reunites with Dr. Soong ( also portrayed by Spiner ).

Brent Jay Spiner ( born February 2, 1949 ) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and four subsequent films.

In 1987 Spiner started his 15-year run portraying Lieutenant Commander Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation, which spanned 7 seasons and 4 feature films.

However, Spiner has opined that he is too old to continue playing the part, as Data embodies a " childlike innocence " that Spiner can no longer credibly exhibit, as his appearance had already begun to lose that quality by the time he filmed his last Trek films.

In 1991 Spiner recorded an album of 1940s pop standards entitled Ol ' Yellow Eyes Is Back, the title of which was a play on the yellow contact lenses Spiner wore as Data, and the title of a Frank Sinatra record, Ol ' Blue Eyes Is Back.

* Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data

Other Star Trek actors such as Michael Dorn ( Worf on TNG ), Brent Spiner ( Data on TNG ), Colm Meaney ( Miles O ’ Brien on TNG and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ), LeVar Burton ( Geordi La Forge on TNG ), Nichelle Nichols ( Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series ), Avery Brooks ( Benjamin Sisko on DS9 ), Paul Winfield ( Clark Terrell in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ), David Warner ( various characters, most notably Gul Madred in " Chain of Command ", a two-part episode of TNG ) and Kate Mulgrew ( Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager ) were guest or recurring stars in the series.

The fans range from people who dress as Klingons to members of Brent Spiner fan clubs and a club that is producing a Star Trek movie of their own.

Spiner also portrayed Data's manipulative and malignant brother Lore ( a role he found much easier to play, because the character was " more like me "), and Data's creator, Dr. Noonien Soong.

In 1992 she appeared alongside fellow cast members Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, and Colm Meaney in a production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, which was performed in four cities.

Brent Jay Spiner was born February 2, 1949 in Houston, Texas, to Sylvia and Jack Spiner, who owned a furniture store.

After his father's death, Spiner was adopted by Sylvia's second husband, Sol Mintz, whose surname he used between 1955 and 1975.

Spiner was raised Jewish.

Data from the mood scale showed that drug manipulation increased the angry and happy conditions, although the happy subjects felt much happier than the anger condition subjects.

At the time of the first game's release, Capcom U. S. A. sued Data East Corp. over Fighter's History due to what Capcom U. S. A. felt were infringements on their Street Fighter II property.

Back on the outpost, Riker asks Data what happened, but Data cannot explain it ; he just felt angry.

It is alleged that the latter was felt to be so strongly expressive of suffering and agony, that it was found necessary to remove it from the place where it had been exhibited in the chapel of a convent.

The Long Parliament comprised " a set of the greatest geniuses for government, that the world ever saw embarked together in one common cause " and whose actions produced an effect, which, at the time, made their country the wonder and admiration of the world, and is still felt and exhibited far beyond the borders of that country, in the progress of reform, and the advancement of popular liberty.

In two episodes, Sam had leaped in as a mentally challenged person, and exhibited such signs himself, while in another case, he appeared to be woman near term, and felt the pains of childbirth up until leaping out of her life.

He felt, critics say, that the panorama not only exhibited an immense scene of some kind, but also the weakness of human intelligence.

Realizing that NBC executives exhibited very little desire to micromanage various aspects of the show, the staff felt confident they would be allowed to push outside of the mainstream talk-show boundaries and thus set about putting together a quirky, absurdist, and odd program.

Greg Feith, the lead NTSB investigator, said he felt surprised that pilots exhibited this behavior.

In fact, many contemporary testers felt that the Toronado was more poised and responsive than other cars, and when pushed to the limits, exhibited superior handling characteristics, although it was essentially incapable of terminal oversteer.

Patients exhibited spiritual gifts while in trance, and after contact with the source of spiritual energy patients felt invigorated, renewed, transformed.

In the Samurai X: Reflection original video animation, Mike Crandol of Anime News Network referred to Sanosuke's revised design as " pretty awkward " since Crandol felt Sanosuke's original character design was " perhaps being too cartoonish to translate well into this new style ," with the " new style " being the " decidedly more realistic look " exhibited in all of the Samurai X original video animations.

The primary distinguishing feature between the earlier Amratian and the Gerzean culture is the extra decorative effort exhibited in the pottery of the period Artwork on Gerzean pottery features stylised animals and environment at a greater degree than earlier Amratian artwork Further, images of ostriches in the pottery artwork possibly indicate an inclination these early peoples may have felt to explore the desert of the Sahara.

The characteristics of this style — a combination of the depictive, the abstract, and the psychological — came to stand for the alienation which many people felt in the modern period, combined with the sense of reaching more deeply into the psyche, to be " made whole with one's individuality ".

Over the course of Season 16, Romana begins to take on some of the characteristics of the screaming " damsel in distress ", which reinforced Tamm's decision not to remain in the role as she felt the character had been taken as far as she could go.

Theories involving the inheritance of acquired characteristics were among the most popular alternatives to natural selection, and scientists who felt that such Lamarckian mechanisms were the key to evolution were called neo-Lamarckians.

Some people including Cope and Darwin critic Samuel Butler felt that inheritance of acquired characteristics would let organisms shape their own evolution, since organisms that acquired new habits would change the use patterns of their organs, which would kick-start Lamarckian evolution.

Prout, in other words, does not unfeelingly depict signs of age and decay chiefly for the sake of interesting textures, but rather employs these textures and other characteristics of the picturesque to create deeply felt impressions of age nobly endured.

There came a moment when Erich Warsitz felt that a series of brief hops in the He 176 had made him familiar with its characteristics and nasty tricks, and he suddenly made up his mind to carry out the first real flight on June 20, 1939.

" Fritz had a " glib, smooth and self-assured " personality, characteristics Crumb felt he was lacking in.

Painter emulates the visual characteristics of traditional media such as oil paint, pastel sticks, air brush, charcoal, felt pens, and other traditional artists ' materials on various textured surfaces.

While most sources would agree to 1711 being the moment where the gradual erosion of the traditional institutions had reached its ultimate stage, characteristics usually ascribed to the Phanariote era had made themselves felt long before it.

Watsuki wished that he could design Kaoru " more cutely " and to be " more fashionable " but decided to tone down those qualities as he felt that she needed to express " down-to-earth " and financially " poor " characteristics as well.

It was strange for me to hear him describe the familiar characteristics: he has never felt drawn to a woman, and has been infatuated with men several times.

Stone said he felt the episode solidified major characteristics embodied by the Chef character, particularly the fact that he is one of the only adults in South Park who always understands the truth of any given situation and believes the children almost all of the time.

Kalanchoe beharensis ( commonly known as elephant's ear kalanchoe, felt bush, or feltbush ) is a plant species in the succulent genus Kalanchoe, and the family Crassulaceae, a morphologically diverse and systematically complex angiosperm family with characteristics such as leaf-succulent, usually herbaceous, and often five-parted, radially symmetrical flowers with two whorls of five stamens each.