Robotics. Geordi has cybernetics. Others in star trek have them as well. Strength. Like Picard said, there are numerous extremely strong species. Like the Gorn. Asking a question about computational speed, and memory storage. We all have memory, and a speed that we think. Individuals with cybernetics also. I think all of Rikers arguments we deliberately weak. He did not want to loose Data. Data was his friend. But he still had to "Try".

Wat is wat ❤️

2:25 "shut up, nerd! I wanna see this android bend tf outa that bar of steel!"

Best episode ever.

Data having an off switch is like the death Star having a straight shot torpedo weakness

The one good thing about this episode is it shows that lawyers (military anyway) were done away with

"its responses dictated by software written by a man" - no, it gets more complex than that, these days. Its responses trained by observation and interaction with humans ... Just like ours.

the mega strength HAHHAAH

4:30

Wouldn't the bending of the rod have made it untouchable (too hot) for riker to handle?

why is Riker being a meanie?

Look at the hope on riker's face when picard objects to removing data's hand. He's praying that picard has a good reason he can't do this.

"I have an ultimate storage capacity of 800 quadrillion bits" That's 100 petabytes. That'll be achievable in consumer-grade storage devices by the end of my lifetime, nevermind the 24th century.

If Riker really believes data is nothing but a group of neural nets why did he say I’m sorry before he detached his forearm ?

Wait, Data has a Medal of Honor?

This was one of the best episodes from Str Trek TNG. I'm not sure if TNG would have lasted 7 seasons without Data.

I really LOVED this episode! Mr. Riker's opening argument was devastating! Great writing! Great acting! Great story!

I was 4 years old when I first saw this episode and because of how good Jonathan Frakes' acting was in this scene, I misremembered thinking he was the one requesting the recess and walking out of the meeting room, disgusted in himself. It was maybe 20 years later when I realised my mistake.

Technically, this was a direct examination of a hostile witness, not a cross-examination. Riker called Data to the stand. Picard did the cross.

4:34 - If you watch very closely you can see Brent breathing for anyone who might have missed it

Of all the assignments riker has had that he hated, this trial had to be at the absolute top of that list. Hell it is it's own list.

Riker destroyed his own implication of data being a threat due to his strength when he easily popped his arm off

Dr Soong could have left some records behind. Like data sheets or something. But he is like me. When I write code or whatever I never write really down what I do. It is all in stored in my head, which is dubious to begin with.

Is that Adam Levine?!? 😮😅😢😂

What does shutting data off proves, exactly? You can "shut off" a human being using various methods, that doesn't mean we aren't sentient beings.

1:49....."My total linear computational speed has been rated at 60 trillion operations per second." - And now, just recently here in 2024, Microsoft's new Neural Processing Unit for Copilot AI operations is rated at 40 plus trillion operations per second. If we're already making NPU's with that computational speed, then 60 trillion operations for an Android 300 to 400 years into the future feels......pathetic. BUT.....this episode was done in the late 80's aha :D Computing expectations were I guess, a littler different back then!

I don't care what anyone else says, she has a full orange bush! Prove me wrong!

Irrelevant. People can be broken even more easily than data pecan lose an arm or leg as well People can just drop dead .nothing in this episode from the prosecution point of view made no darn sense

The sensor pad that identified Data… it’s interesting Riker didn’t bring this up.

Why didn't Picard object to the point about Data's purpose? This is ambiguous at best. There's no solid proof at this point that Soong created Data to serve humans. Probably would have been sustained.

River turning Data off proved nothing. You can get the same Pinocchio moment with a Vulcan nerve pinch on multiple humanoid species, apparently.

ALL NEW ACTION FIGURE DATA WITH **MEGA STRENGTH ACTION**

And Picard has to find a way to win, after this devastating and self-destructive (for Riker) cross-examination... Great writing. 👍👍 M 🦘🏏😎

Basically androids are advanced robots which are designed to replicate human or any other life.

literally other species have strong strength, Y'ALL FORGET HOW STRONG VULCANS ARE?!?!?! SPOCK BROKE THE DECK WHEN HE TRIED HITTING SOMEONE. 'i'm afraid i can't agree' how can that lady say that???

As strong as Data is, anyone could defeat him in a fight by easily removing his arm.

That hurt Riker. Data was his best friend.

I think sometimes Data looks like he wanted to cry

Let me tell this only once, in any frame of time or concept of reality consciousness you might find yourself in.... "You can build a machine!.... But You Cannot destroy your relationship with it...." 🖤💙

Boom!

Starfleet might have a problem on its hands if Data decides he does not want to be dismantled.

Funny how they thought 60 TOPS is a lot, we're way past that on single GPU.

Sucks to be Data in this one.

You can see on his face...."What have I done?"

The most unrealistic part of this is the metal unbending itself as it relaxes. As it unbent, it should become *extremely hot*.

Maddox enjoyed this entire thing, seeing Data reduced to a plaything... I hate that smug bastard.

Wait, what? You can remove his arm, therefore he is not sentient?

He has a memory of 8000 terabytes.

Riker at the end is like...WHAT HAVE I DONE?

This might be the most heartbreaking moment in the whole series for me.