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This is what it means...

And I shall personally review the android's development.

That will define the parameters.

about parenting! I am talking about the extraordinary consequences

- Is there a problem? - Yes, captain.

I am the only model available, admiral.

what only your own creator has been able to achieve.

- to their children-- - Data, I am not talking

Lal has a positronic brain, one very similar to my own.

It would be very dangerous to have you both in the same place,

What does Lal do when you're on duty?

I began programming it at the cybernetics conference.

Why should biology rather than technology

I don't think your father has taught you selective judgment

What do you feel, Lal?

I am forced to wonder how much experience he had as a parent

One is meant kindly. The other is not.

and I am prepared to accept the responsibility.

She-- She won't survive much longer.

I have been sending him regular status reports

Nothing personal.

The children were not laughing with you.

Have you considered sending her to school?

during the formative stages of her development.

but she is here.

So Lal now possesses the sum of my programming.

that it was possible to continue Dr. Soong's work.

- I helped define them. - Yes, captain.

- Purpose? - My function. My reason for being.

I have learned, with difficulty, that there comes a time when...

has just returned.

from working with someone as old as you.

to seek out new life and new civilizations,