Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Home Soil (1988)
Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data
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Quotes
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Inorganic Life-form (voice) : Ugly. Ugly giant bags of mostly water.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Bags of mostly water?
Lt. Commander Data : An accurate descriptions of humans, sir. You are over 90% water surrounded by a flexible container.
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Lt. Commander Data : Please show me spectral analysis, magnification 12k.
Computer Voice : Silicon, germanium.
Lt. Commander Data : Transistor material.
Computer Voice : Gallium arsenide.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Emits light when charged.
Computer Voice : Cadmium selenide, sulfide.
Lt. Commander Data : Emits charge when lit.
Computer Voice : Water, impurities, sodium salts.
Lieutenant Worf : Conductor.
Lieutenant Worf : [to Data and Geordi] But is it alive?
Computer Voice : Probability: positive.
Lieutenant Worf : I wasn't asking *you*.
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[the inorganic substance has made a cell division]
Doctor Beverly Crusher : Two of them!
Lt. Commander Data : Only life can replicate itself, Doctor. Inorganic or not - it is alive.
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Lt. Commander Data : It would appear the laser's drilling system was reprogrammed, sir. As soon as it's memory bank received power, it turned itself on and went after me. Fortunately, I was able to cope with it.
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Lt. Commander Data : The firing program was dynamic.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : The firing pr... in what way?
Lt. Commander Data : It adjusted to my tactics. It tracked with me, anticipating. A fixed program could not have done that.