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Star Trek Data Quotes

I want to live, however briefly, knowing that my life is finite. Mortality gives meaning to human life. Peace, love, friendship. These are precious because we know they cannot endure. A butterfly that lives forever is really not a butterfly at all.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: Picard, ‘Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2’.

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yields its own rewards.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Offspring’.

Yes, sir. I am attempting to fill a silent moment with non-relevant conversation.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Starship Mine’.

Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Haven’.

There may be a correlation between humor and sex. The need for more research is clearly indicated.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

, Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Data’s Day’.

There are still many human emotions I do not fully comprehend – anger, hatred, revenge. But I am not mystified by the desire to be loved – or the need for friendship. These are things I do understand.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Data’s Day’.

Cmdr. William Riker: Let me get this straight. You want me to take off your head?
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Yes sir.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Disaster’.

Lt. Tasha Yar: What I want now is gentleness. And joy. And love. From you, Data. You are fully functional, aren’t you?
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Of course, but…
Lt. Tasha Yar: How fully?
Lt. Cmdr. Data: In every way, of course. I am programed in multiple techniques. A broad variety of pleasuring.
Lt. Tasha Yar: Oh! You jewel, that’s exactly what I hoped!

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Naked Now’.

We are more alike than unlike, my dear Captain…I have pores. Humans have pores. I have… fingerprints. Humans have fingerprints. My chemical nutrients are like your blood. If you prick me…do I not…leak?

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Naked Now’.

I am superior, sir, in many ways, but I would gladly give it up to be human.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Encounter at Farpoint’.

So…if you put funny teeth in your mouth, and jump around like an idiot … that is considered funny!

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Outrageous Okona’.

If you had an off switch, Doctor, would you not keep it secret?

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Datalore’.

In the event of a water landing, I have been designed to serve as a flotation device.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998 Film).

Apologies, Captain…I seem to have reached an odd functional impasse. I am, uh…stuck.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Last Outpost’.

I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could taste my dessert.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Hero Worship’.

I never knew what a friend was until I met Geordi. He spoke to me as though I were human. He treated me no differently from anyone else. He accepted me for what I am. And that, I have learned, is friendship. But I do not know how to say goodbye.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Next Phase’.

I could be pursuing an untamed ornithoid without cause.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Describing a wild goose chase. Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Data’s Day’.

Early bird gets the worm? I believe Cmdr. Shelby erred. There is no evidence of avian or crawling vermicular lifeforms on Jouret IV.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Best of Both Worlds’.