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Original release / air date: 21 January 1989
Runtime: 45 minutes
Season: 2
Episode: 6
Country / region: United States
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: First-run syndication
Production company / studio: Paramount Television
Artificial character(s): Data
Performer(s): Brent Spiner
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android

Overview

Dying cyberneticist Ira Graves secretly transfers his mind into Data's android body.

ASFR Content

Graves first learns about Data's OFF switch and later suppresses Data's own personality before loading his memories, intellect and emotions into the android. Data's behaviour changes dramatically while ordinary circuit diagnostics show no physical defect. Psychological testing instead reveals a dominant foreign personality gradually replacing Data's own.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Major

Data explains his OFF switch to Graves

Discussing artificial mortality, Data tells Graves that his body contains a switch that renders him inactive for all practical purposes.

Character(s): Data
Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

Graves overwrites Data's personality

Before dying, Graves suppresses Data and transfers his own stored mind, memories and emotional personality into the android body.

Character(s): Data
Scene 3
Major

Normal circuitry passes diagnostics despite the personality malfunction

The crew runs full diagnostics on Data's systems but finds no hardware defect even though his behaviour is increasingly unstable.

Character(s): Data

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