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Captain, l have complete confidence in your ability

COMPUTER: Working.

from the building blocks of their parents' DNA.

because it's too difficult or too hazardous.

Thank you. You may step down.

Captain Louvois would have ruled summarily against me?

My God, twice in as many days.

More basic than that. What was he?

We're here to respond when needed.

l have an ultimate storage capacity of 800 quadrillion bits.

something unique, something wonderful, will be lost.

And now you propose to dismantle him.

- Major papers-- PlCARD: Yes, yes, yes.

A single Data, and forgive me, commander, is a curiosity.

What about self-awareness?

Take care of yourself, Data.

it will destroy years of work in robotics.

So l'm sentient, but Commander Data is not?

Yes, l came to you.

We are en route to the newly-established

Well, let's deal with the first.

ls there an option?

we must still sometimes resort to this kind of adversarial system.

- ls Data? - Of course.

- Sir? - Who built you, commander?

ln it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product,

Because you failed in your task?

lt's a collection of neural nets and heuristic algorithms.

Oh, yes, no doubt.