Rank: Lieutenant Commander
 Current assignment: Second officer/science officer, U.S.S. Enterprise,
 NCC-1701/E
 Full Name: Data
 Date of birth: Permanently re-activated Feb. 2, 2338 (initial activation
 unknown)
 Place of birth: Omicron Theta science colony
 Parents: Created by Dr. Noonien Soong and Dr. Juliana O'Donnell Soong
 Tainer
 Education: Starfleet Academy, 2341-45
 Marital status: Single
 Children: One, deceased
 Quarters: Formerly, Enterprise-D: Deck 2/Room 3653
 Service Awards: Starfleet Command Decoration for Valor; Starfleet Command
 Decoration for Gallantry; Medal of Honor, with Clusters; Legion of Honor; The
 Starcross

 Starfleet Career Summary

 2348 -- Promoted to lieutenant (junior grade)

 2364 -- Named as operations officer and second officer on U.S.S. Enterprise,
 under Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

 2365 -- JAG inquiry at Starbase 173 denied any Starfleet property interest,
 upholding sentient individual rights

 2368 -- Temporarily in command of U.S.S. Sutherland, detected Romulan
 interference in Klingon civil war

 2372 -- Transferred with remainder of Picard's senior staff to Sovereign-class
 U.S.S. Enterprise

 2373 -- During attempt to repair Borg temporal sabotage with Earth first
 contact, kidnapped and resisted assimilation by Borg to prevent capture of
 vessel and loss of timeline integrity

 Psychological Profile: Report of Ship's Counselor Deanna Troi

 Although the outlook did not pick up steam until his Enterprise posting after 26
 years of existence, Data has quite simply wished to be more human and
 experience as much of that condition's depths and shadows as his adaptive
 programming can approximate - with experiments in everything from art, acting,
 and poetry to keeping a pet cat Spot and imitating humanisms ranging from
 laughter, sneezing and whistling to dance, facial hair grooming and bedtime
 routines.

 Even with that goal, Data turned down a chance to be human offered by Q in
 2364, quoting Shakespeare's "To thine own self be true," but inched closer to
 his goal with the discovery of an "emotions chip" created by his builder, Dr.
 Noonien Soong. Although he delayed using it for over a year, the chip when
 finally installed in 2371 caused a near-overload until Data began learning the
 complexities of the new world just opened. Humor was a concept that largely
 eluded him until that point, although relationships - both positive and negative -
 were fostered via what Data described as a familiarity of repetition.

 UPDATE: SD 50900 review cycle:

 Re: emotions chip of subject Data:

 Data continue to familiarize himself with the flood of potential the chip opened
 up, but always until strict supervision to avoid further overloads. Today, two
 years after installation, he tends to keep it running during normal operations but
 maintains internal control over the timing should it prove troubling or distracting.

 The chip proved an Achilles heel during Data's capture by the Borg Queen,
 when she literally tempted him with sensations of flesh and blood he had never
 experienced despite his growing worldliness. Even so, the emotional data
 overload was not enough to overrule his ethics program.

 Data was the fifth and next-to-last model created by Soong and his then-wife
 Juliana on the Omicron Theta science colony, activated on Feb. 2, 2338 when
 found by members of a U.S.S. Tripoli away team after the Crystalline Entity
 had drained the life force from the 411-member colony. Not until 2370 did he
 realize he had a childhood-like developmental memory from an existence before
 that date, wiped by Soong and replaced by the colonists' memories and logs
 as they faced their doom by the Entity.

 In later years, Data discovered his remarried "mother" and just as quickly
 realized Soong had made her an android, transferring her consciousness
 shortly before she died; the revelation, which he opted not to reveal to her, was
 one of two Data experienced in programs left by Soong, the other being a
 dreaming routine accidentally accessed in 2369. Dr. Ira Graves, Soong's
 mentor and a legend in his own right, asked the android to call him
 "grandfather" during a time before Graves' short-lived hijacking of Data's body
 for his own consciousness in 2365.

 Data has said his post-activation months were rough, but the crew who found
 him inspired him to join Starfleet and, after being deemed sentient, he was
 accepted to Starfleet Academy in 2341 - with Cmdr. Bruce Maddox of the
 Daystrom Institute casting the only nay vote in the decision of his examination
 board. Data found the entrance exams elementary but in his freshman year
 discovered his biggest problems to be those of social interaction, such as
 practical jokes and the Sadie Hawkins Dance. After a curriculum which
 included advanced training in auxiliary vessels, he graduated four years later
 with honors in probability mechanics and exobiology. Following graduation he
 spent three more as an ensign and 10-12 more in the lieutenant grades. One of
 his postings was to the U.S.S. Trieste, where the missions included an
 unstable wormhole.

 Even with his career, Data's rights as an intelligent being rather than Starfleet
 property were challenged and barely won in 2365 when Maddox wished to
 disassemble him for replication without first having mastered the Soong's
 positronic process. Data and Maddox eventually kept up correspondence to
 further Maddox's research.

 Data only discovered in 2364 that he was immediately preceded by a "brother,"
 Lore, built with an inferior ethics program and originally disassembled before
 Data's own creation. The Starfleet android encountered his "sibling" three times
 in all: once upon his reassembly when first revisiting Omicron Theta in 2364,
 again when Soong was killed by Lore on Terlina III in 2368 during his theft of the
 emotions chip meant for Data; and again in late 2369, while commanding a
 faction of renegade Borg marauders released from the Collective. Lore had
 coerced Data by suppressing his ethics program, but he was overcome and
 finally disassembled, the emotions chip going to Data at last.

 Combining his interest in procreation with advanced positronic studies in 2366,
 Data himself created a short-lived daughter christened Lal whose ownership
 had again been contested by Starfleet and Admiral Haftel. The emotional
 overload she was exposed to in the struggle presaged Data's five years later,
 but her unintended emotional ability could not be processed adequately and
 she "died" despite the best efforts of Data and Haftel.

 Aside from a romantic encounter with the late Tasha Yar under effects of the
 Tsiolkovsky virus in 2364, and a crush directed at him by Tau Cygnan colonist
 Ard'rian MacKenzie, he later tried dating Lt. (j.g.) Jenna D'Sora. A small
 hologram of Yar is among his closest possessions, which also include a book
 of Shakespeare sonnets from Picard, the proximity detector of Turkana IV from
 Yar's sister Ishara, and props from his Holodeck adventures.

 After all Data's years in Starfleet following activation, Geordi LaForge was the
 first to become a friend and accept him with respect as an equal - apparently
 not until they met aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise; he later planned LaForge's
 memorial service when the chief engineer and Ro were presumed dead during
 an encounter with the Romulans in 2368. Having introduced Miles O'Brien and
 Keiko Ishikawa, Data served as her bridal escort during their wedding and
 danced a step he'd learned from Dr. Crusher.

 A fascination with Old Earth detective fiction led Data to a common hobby
 shared with LaForge of role-playing Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on the
 Holodeck; he has read all the Holmes books. That interest evolved into
 legitimate theatre as well as music, where he has studied the violin, guitar,
 oboe and flute and plays in shipboard performances. Skill dances such as tap
 are easier to master than those with subtle variables such as ballroom, but he
 has done so. Data also tried his hand at various styles of painting, but realized
 that his knowledge of previous styles overrode any personality he could put into
 the art. He also plays poker, knows blackjack and learned Stratagema well
 enough to tie gamesmaster Sirna Kolrami - but he once lost a tri-dimensional
 chess game to this officer.

 Professional Assessment: Report of Starfleet Command Review Board

 Due to his programming and superhuman abilities, Data is by definition an
 exemplary officer, but those same abilities have also been proven an Achilles
 heel of sorts - as when he was overcome by his "brother" Lore, or the homing
 signal once used by his creator Soong, among other instances on record. The
 recent Borg invasion and his capture and hoped-for assimilation as a potential
 ally is yet another.

 Unfortunately, as the only android in the service, the natural disinclination to
 attribute command abilities and respect to an artificial being - as well as the
 long-undetermined issue of his self-determination rights - hampered Data's
 command advancement and led to service in operations division only. Despite
 his long career he was not placed even in acting command until assuming the
 con of the U.S.S. Sutherland during the blockade of Romulan aid to the Duras
 Klingon faction in 2367-68. Data also devised the first known defense to the
 Picard Maneuver in 2364, nine years after it was first used.

 He carries Alpha-1 computer clearance and Priority 3 security clearance.

 Bio-engineering Review: Joint Report of CMO Beverly Crusher, M.D. and
 Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge

 Data, who weighs 100 kg., carries a concealed master on/off switch centered
 just below his right shoulder blade. This switch is known only to the senior staff
 of the Enterprise: commander, first officer, chief engineer, chief medical officer
 and ship's counselor. As designed he is programmed not to lie or deceive,
 recalls everything he's ever been exposed to, cannot use verbal contractions,
 and has super-human strength, dexterity, voice duplication, self-diagnostics,
 and "fully functional" male sexual abilities without the emotional attraction.
 Though he approximates fellow humanoid sleeping patterns and workshifts, he
 of course needs no actual rest and often takes the helm during the "night
 watch."

 Experiments into his direct input into or remote control of ship's systems have
 been uneven, but his unique abilities have been invaluable in securing the
 safety of ship and crew in numerous crises and far outweigh, in our opinion,
 any potential weakness they present.