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Original release / air date: 10 March 1990
Runtime: 45 minutes
Season: 3
Episode: 16
Country / region: United States
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: First-run syndication
Production company / studio: Paramount Television
Artificial character(s): Data, Lal
Performer(s): Brent Spiner, Hallie Todd
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Gynoid

Overview

Data secretly constructs a new positronic android, Lal, and begins teaching the artificial child how to function socially.

ASFR Content

Lal first appears as a featureless humanoid machine and then selects a female human appearance with more realistic skin and eye colouring. Data programs and trains her using repeated neural and behavioural transfers. An unexpected emotional response triggers a catastrophic cascade failure in her positronic brain; Data and Admiral Haftel perform intensive diagnostics and repair attempts, but the failure proves irreversible.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Key ASFR scene

Data unveils his featureless android child

Data introduces a newly constructed humanoid machine based on his own positronic design before Lal has selected a final outward appearance.

Character(s): Lal
Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

Lal selects a human female appearance

After evaluating different forms, Lal chooses to look like a young human woman, adopting realistic skin and eyes.

Character(s): Lal
Scene 3
Key ASFR scene

Lal's positronic brain enters cascade failure

A sudden emotional breakthrough overwhelms Lal's positronic pathways and triggers a rapidly worsening system failure.

Character(s): Lal
Scene 4
Key ASFR scene

Data and Haftel attempt emergency diagnostics and repair

Data and Admiral Haftel work on Lal's failing positronic systems but cannot reverse the damage.

Character(s): Data, Lal

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