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Original release / air date: 21 February 1994
Runtime: 45 minutes
Season: 7
Episode: 17
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

An alien cultural archive invades the Enterprise's computer systems and uses Data's positronic brain to reproduce personalities from its extinct civilisation.

ASFR Content

After Data is connected to the archive, his positronic network begins carrying multiple alien identities. The overwrite expands until dozens and eventually potentially thousands of personalities occupy his artificial mind. The crew must diagnose the archive's control mechanism and end the re-enactment before Data and the ship are permanently transformed.

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The archive begins rewriting Data

After being connected to the alien system, Data starts losing control as foreign personalities appear through his positronic network.

Character(s): Data
Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

Data carries numerous separate personalities

The crew determines that Data's artificial mind is hosting many distinct identities from the extinct culture.

Character(s): Data
Scene 3
Major

Data returns to his normal personality

Once Picard completes the archive's mythic cycle, the imposed personalities disappear and Data's normal identity resumes.

Character(s): Data
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