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I also love the one where they encounter some sort of satellite that causes Picard to live an entire life on this planet and die there, only to then wake up back on the ship afterwards...so that he could know about this civilization that had died out long ago.

Yeah. Had almost forgotten that one. That was a great one.

Patrick Stewart hit it out of the park pretty regularly on the series.

And though at first it seemed like Data would be just a Spock rip off I thought in the long run his character was more tragic cause he wanted so bad to be human and in some ways it seemed like he was that and more but you could kind of tell he always felt something was missing. Brent Spiner did a good job with him.

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Posted by Spock's Eyebrow

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Posted on 8/7/15 at 1:34 am to Methuselah

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And though at first it seemed like Data would be just a Spock rip off I thought in the long run his character was more tragic cause he wanted so bad to be human and in some ways it seemed like he was that and more but you could kind of tell he always felt something was missing.

Which made him very unlike Spock, who early on was often quite simply a supercilious bastard, who would use his superciliary features to give a sort of Vulcan facepalm.

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Posted by theGarnetWay

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Posted on 8/7/15 at 2:21 pm to Methuselah

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Data would be just a Spock rip off I thought in the long run his character was more tragic cause he wanted so bad to be human and in some ways it seemed like he was that and more but you could kind of tell he always felt something was missing

Yeah, the Data-Spock interaction on the Unification episodes was great (I think that's what they were called). Spock, the half-human half-vulcan, chose the Vulcan lifestyle so Data says something along the lines of, "in a way, you've rejected what I have always sought to become" (human)