Star Trek: First Contact
Summary
The co - writer ofStar Trek : First Contactknew the love affair between Lt . Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) and the Borg Queen ( Alice Krige ) was weird . For seven seasons ofStar Trek : The Next Generation , Data strove to be more human like his fellow USS Enterprise - 500 crew mates . The android made friends and even gave romance a try , but his family relationship with the Borg Queen was something else only . Although Data ’s emotional journeying took a few steps back in theTNGfilms , Star Trek : First Contactdid give him the prospect to know forcible touch on human tegument .
information was never go to rat Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) and the Enterprise crew inStar Trek : First Contact(though he did take it for 0.68 second ) . But theandroid still find a sure fascination and temptationin what theBorg Queen was offering him . In theStar Trekoral history , The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Yearsby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross , First Contact co - writer Brannon Braga speaks about Data ’s unconventional romanticism with the Borg Queen . Read his full inverted comma below :
Once we invented the Borg Queen , we realized that Data being seduce in some way by her would be very interesting . It is the most provocative and strange experience he ’s ever had , and he does add up very stuffy to forcible existence thanks to the Borg . This is actually a romance . It ’s a sick and perverted Latinian language , but it ’s everlasting because it lay out many things , include enticement , seduction , and love story , but all satiate with Borg perversity .
The android Lt . Commander Data had a surprising number of romanticist encounters over the course of Star Trek : The Next coevals .
Star Trek Never Gave Data A Chance For A Real Romance
However, Data was “fully functional.”
AlthoughStar Trek : The Next Generationgave Data a duo of chance for romance , the show never explored what a real relationship for Data would look like . InTNGseason 4 , instalment 25 , " In hypothesis , " Data tried dating , butthe episode ’s story does n’t seem to translate Data as a character . When Lt . Jenna D’Sora ( Michele Scarabelli ) present an stake in Data , his initial response is understandable , as he seek advice from his friends . After that , though , " In possibility " falters , as Jenna does n’t seem to be intimate Data that well , and much of her behavior come across as childish . Data , too , do out of character , turn what could have been a wizard love life fib into a series of gags .
Data ’s other two romances onStar Trek : The Next Generationfair a bit good , but not by much . InTNGseason 1,Data ’s abbreviated encounter with Tasha Yar(Denise Crosby ) is , again , mostly act for ungainly joke , and the genuine connexion between the two only becomes apparent after Yar ’s death . InTNGseason 3 , installment 2 , " The Ensigns of Command , " an habitant of Tau Cygni V shows an pursuit in Data , buthe claims to be unable to find anything at all . This does n’t quite ring true considering Data ’s friendships and connections with the Enterprise crew . It ’s a shameStar Treknever explore a actual Data love affair , especially considering most of the other main characters had multiple lovemaking interestingness throughoutTNG . Still , Brannon Braga is correct , thatStar Trek : First Contactcertainly contained Data ’s strangest romance .
Star Trek : The Next Generation&Star Trek : First Contactare available to stream on Paramount+ .
reference : The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Years : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The arrant , Uncensored , and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trekby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross
