Television Is Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation a sentient being?

[Takes Two To Tango]

This is reference to this particular episode called 'The Measure of a Man.'

"Star Trek: The Next Generation" The Measure of a Man (TV Episode 1989) ⭐ 9.2 | Action, Adventure, Drama

46m | TV-PG

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Here's a videos of that particular episode.









I believe he's a sentient being, just based on my observation of the show. He's shown a lot of concern for others and he put himself in risky positions to save others.

And I feel like he's self aware, just like humans.

What's your take on Data? Is he sentient?

 

[lsa]

 

[aerius]

Yes. He had drunken sex with Tasha Yar.

 

[deviake]

Yes.

The tech bros in real life with their "AI" which isn't AI actually will likely never live to see an actual sentient machine contrary to the nonsense they spout, and that warms my heart.

 

[Streeter]

No ........ I never thought he was . Depends on what you consider sentient though ?

 

[Jack Reacheround]

He’s sentient. Pretty much the entire show was an exploration of the answer to this question, and the writers clearly favored the answer that he was sentient.

 

[Thai Domi]

He's sentient and fully functional.

 

[HHJ]

Sentient, non sentient, who cares?


You will all be assimilated.

 

[Goon Dog]

Legit LOL.

 

[William Huggins]

I'm pretty sure you need to be sentient to act like a cunt......

 

[William Huggins]

He was literally grooming Wesley Crusher the whole series........what a cunt

 

[Joe_Armstrong]

 

[Natural Order]

What was Data's evil twin named? Locutus? Or was that the Borg boss?


Edit - Lore!

Was a great series, may go back and rewatch front to back. Been decades!

 

[Satur9]

What was Data's evil twin named? Locutus? Or was that the Borg boss?

Lore! And he was better than Data in all areas except ass gettin.

 

[Natural Order]

Lore! And he was better than Data in all areas except ass gettin.

Brilliant naming convention for the two of them and their "personalities".

 

[Starman]

"Sentient" is a fairly arbitrary term. Data was self-conscious, intelligent, and moral. He had and deserved to have agency.

 

[JoeBobbaLou2]

How can you Argue that he wasn’t?

 

[JoeBobbaLou2]

"Sentient" is a fairly arbitrary term. Data was self-conscious, intelligent, and moral. He had and deserved to have agency.

Yup, starman nails it

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

"Sentient" is a fairly arbitrary term. Data was self-conscious, intelligent, and moral. He had and deserved to have agency.

I'm just using the term, because that's what they used in the show.

Btw well said.