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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.
Data carries numerous separate personalities
The crew determines that Data's artificial mind is hosting many distinct identities from the extinct culture.
Data returns to his normal personality
Once Picard completes the archive's mythic cycle, the imposed personalities disappear and Data's normal identity resumes.
A power surge damages Data and erases his working memory
An explosion during the probe recovery overloads Data's systems and leaves him unable to remember who or what he is.
Villagers tear away Data's skin
During an attack the villagers rip open Data's synthetic exterior and expose the mechanical components inside.
Data is impaled and shuts down
The villagers strike Data with a metal spike, leaving the android apparently dead and later buried.
The Enterprise repairs and reactivates Data
Riker and Crusher recover the body, return it to the ship and restore Data's normal function.
Lore suppresses Data's ethical programming
Lore uses a carrier signal and emotional manipulation to keep Data's morality routines disabled.
Data's ethical program is restored
Picard and Geordi transmit a counter-signal that reactivates Data's ethical programming and breaks Lore's control.
Data deactivates Lore
After refusing Lore's final demands, Data shoots his brother and then switches him off.
Soong's recording explains Juliana's construction
Data activates the hidden information chip and learns that Soong recreated his deceased wife as an android using her memories and personality.
Data is decapitated by the time-shift explosion
The explosion severs Data's neck, leaving his head behind in the nineteenth century while the rest of his body is carried back to the future.
Data's headless body is recovered
The Enterprise crew finds Data's body without its head and transports it back aboard the ship for repair.
Geordi reattaches Data's 500-year-old head
The previously excavated head is physically reconnected to Data's recovered body in the science laboratory.
Data returns to operation
After the reattachment initially fails to initialise normally, Data comes back online and reads the binary message Picard left inside his neural circuitry.
Data uses his body as an electrical conductor
The android deliberately bridges a dangerous electrical path so Riker can pass, sacrificing the operation of his body.
Data operates as a detached head
With the rest of his body unusable, Data has his head detached so the positronic brain can be transported.
Data's head is connected to the Enterprise
Riker carries the head to Engineering and attempts to connect Data directly to the damaged ship.
A hidden recall program takes control of Data
Soong's signal activates a buried automatic routine that overrides Data's normal behaviour and drives him to seize control of the Enterprise.
Lore shuts Data down and takes his place
Lore deactivates Data and swaps uniforms so that Soong mistakes the identical android for Data.
The crew reactivates Data
An away team finds the genuine Data still powered down and brings him back online.
Data is electrically disabled
A disguised control pad shocks Data the moment he touches it, leaving the android inert so Fajo's crew can abduct him.
Varria scans Data's component composition
While Data is disabled, Varria scans the quantities of tripolymer composites, molybdenum-cobalt alloy and bioplast in his body.
Fajo fakes Data's destruction using matching component elements
The same materials are placed aboard the exploding shuttle in the correct proportions so Enterprise sensors will conclude Data died in the blast.
Data remains motionless as passive resistance
When presented as a collectible android, Data deliberately refuses to move or speak despite being fully operational.
Data and Haftel attempt emergency diagnostics and repair
Data and Admiral Haftel work on Lal's failing positronic systems but cannot reverse the damage.
Maddox proposes dismantling Data
Starfleet cyberneticist Bruce Maddox plans to take Data apart for study and replication despite Data's belief that the procedure may permanently damage him.
Riker removes Data's arm in court
To demonstrate that Data is physically a machine, Riker detaches one of the android's arms before the hearing.
Riker switches Data off
Riker activates Data's concealed shutdown control and the android immediately goes limp before the court.
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.
Graves overwrites Data's personality
Before dying, Graves suppresses Data and transfers his own stored mind, memories and emotional personality into the android body.
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.
The Enterprise crew rebuilds and activates Lore
Data assists the medical and engineering staff by exposing his own construction so that they can reassemble the matching android and bring him online.
Data reveals his hidden OFF switch
While helping with Lore's reconstruction, Data shows Dr. Crusher the concealed switch capable of shutting his body down.
Lore impersonates Data
Lore incapacitates Data, swaps clothing with him and uses their identical appearance to pass himself off as his brother.