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 ).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In 2005 Spiner appeared in a short-lived science-fiction television series, Threshold, which was canceled in November of that year after 13 episodes.

In March 2008 Spiner performed alongside Maude Maggart in a radio show / musical, Dreamland, which was released as a CD album.

The day after his guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory, it was announced that Spiner would guest-star in the Young Justice episode " Revelation ", providing the voice of the Joker.

He selected that domain name because someone else bought the domain name brentspiner. com before he could do so, and he was not amenable to paying the price the owners demanded for it, which Spiner called " inflated ".

He played Governor Donald Cory in a 1969 episode of Star Trek entitled " Whom Gods Destroy ", and was going to play Doctor Noonien Soong in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Brothers " but illness prevented him from doing so ; Brent Spiner ultimately took over the role.

Keith DeCandido for Tor. com thought that the pace of the episode was slow, but that both Patrick Stewart and Brett Spiner were standing out from the rest of the cast for good reasons.

According to Spiner, the album was released in Europe against his wishes after he had rejected attempts by the record company to renegotiate his contract.

The show featured several defendants who appeared before the court again and again — notably the Wheelers, Bob and June ( Bob was played by Brent Spiner, later known for his role as Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation ), who initially pretended to be stereotypical hicks from West Virginia but were later revealed as Yugoslavians, and at one point even ran a concession stand in the courthouse.

* Brent Spiner as Bob Wheeler, a down-on-his-luck urban hillbilly who was a frequent defendant in Harry's courtroom, usually as the result of a series of freak disasters befalling him and his destitute family.

* Eric Menyuk was originally intended for the role of Data in the series, but after Brent Spiner had been cast he was granted this guest appearance.

Menyuk was originally considered for the role of the android Data which was eventually given to Brent Spiner.

" Cold Station 12 " ( the working title was CS 12 ) features the returning Brent Spiner ( Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation ) as the criminal mastermind Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of the scientist who created Data.

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 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.

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.

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

" Spiner felt that Data exhibited the Chaplinesque characteristics of a sad, tragic clown.

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.

It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.

Serene ( Mrs. Wilson ), 23, was born in Budapest and raised in Manhattan.

I was interested in James Webb Young's Madison Avenue column in which he raised the question: `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''??

I raised some kale by hocking the good clothes I had left over from my respectable uptown life, but when that was gone I didn't have a cent.

sometimes when he was pressing, Winston raised her dresses to his face.

Hoag pushed open the door: at the far end of the long dark room Muller was faintly silhouetted against the window, the rifle still raised ; ;

The question was raised, for example, as to what attitude the President would take if Mr. Khrushchev proposes a broad neutral belt extending from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.

When the mast was raised, Alexander gave the order for Small and Cromwell to be placed under arrest, and now three figures in irons sprawled upon the open deck and terror stalked the Somers.

My movement did frighten the snake and it raised its head and trailed delicately a couple of feet and stopped again, and its tongue was working very rapidly.

Lincoln rarely raised objections in the courtroom ; but in an 1859 case, where he defended a cousin Peachy Harrison, who was accused of stabbing another to death, Lincoln angrily protested the judge's decision to exclude evidence favorable to his client.

Creusa left Ion to die in the wild, but Apollo asked Hermes to save the child and bring him to the oracle at Delphi, where he was raised by a priestess.

Recently, the possibility that the alcohol used in mouthrinses acts as a carcinogen was raised, but there is to date no scientific consensus on the issue.

Doubt was also raised about the affinities of Korean and Japanese ; in particular, some authors tried to connect Japanese to the Austronesian languages.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.

"--- what Jesus ’ immortal spirit did after His death and before His Resurrection is a mystery to all but the Latter-day Saints ---" ( Elder Spencer J. Condie, Liahona ,-Church magazine – July, 2003 ) "--- unto the wicked he did not go, and among the ungodly and the unrepentant-- his voice was not raised.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

Due to the crowded nature of Rome at the time, Octavius was taken to his father's home village at Velletri to be raised.

Because of this, Octavius was raised by his grandmother ( and Julius Caesar's sister ), Julia Caesaris.

In 1256, the castrum of Abensprech was first mentioned, and on 12 June 1348, Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, and his brother, Stephen, Duke of Bavaria, raised Abensberg to the status of a city, giving it the right to operate lower courts, enclose itself with a wall and hold markets.

The money raised by the sale was expended in the purchase of stores for the support of the communities, and what was over was devoted to charity.