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After seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and four movies – not to mention the occasional episode of Star Trek: Enterprise – Brent Spiner makes his return to the Star Trek universe in Star Trek: Picard. But it wasn’t just the prospect of playing Data again that brought the actor back into the fold, as he explains.

If one were to employ Vulcan logic to the return of Brent Spiner as Data in Star Trek: Picard, it should really surprise no one. The series centers on Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) approximately 20 years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, in which Data gave up his life to save his beloved captain, though some of Data’s memories lived on in the B-4 prototype android. Picard’s guilt about his friend’s demise and sacrifice – along with the dissolution of the Romulan Empire – factored into Picard’s decision to leave Starfleet and settle into a far quieter life. But when Picard returns to action, it sets the stage for Data – or one of his iterations – to do so as well. And that means Spiner is back, too, reprising…

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