Data was reluctant to take the emotion chip for years, and IDW Publishing's Star Trek: Defiant #2 reveals he may have been justified. There was also the issue of Data’s rights as a sentient being.

The Star Trek universe is filled with characters that possess immense powers and capabilities that leave the viewers awestruck.

We do enjoy a bit of pain here at TrekCulture, winding our way through those scenes in Star Trek that were ... begin to go dark. Though Data does not feel emotion in the same way that she does ...

But one reveal has rocked fandom more than any other: Data is on the show! Those who remember 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis will remind you that Brent Spiner's android perished in a heroic sacrifice.

The Soongs then constructed the more familiar character of Data, without destabilizing emotions. Over the Star Trek Next Generation run and beyond, Data and Lore have… not exactly gotten on.