Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode 64: The Offspring

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Data (Brent Spiner) surprises the Enterprise crew when he reveals his research project-Lal (Hallie Todd), and android he has personally built and programmed. Picard (Patrick Stewart) is concerned about Starfleet's reaction to Lal, but nonetheless permits Data to continue his study. After choosing the appearance of human female, Lal is given a job in Ten Forward where she can interact with many different people. But Lal's future prospects dim when Starfleet's Admiral Haftel (Nicolas Coster) beams aboard. Haftel wants to transfer Lal to a Federation research station so she can be more closely monitored. Picard argues that Lal should remain with Data, whom Lal regards as her father. But no on e recognizes that Lal's android makeup contains one fatal flaw: human emotion, which is slowly destroying her.