Talk:Data (Star Trek)

Countdown comic

I've restored the infobox reference to Data being the 1701-E CO in the Countdown comics. (I believe the comic makes a passing explanation of how Data is somehow "restored.") A minor bit of licensed material, but licensed nevertheless. The Wikiproject page, and several talk-page discussions, clearly explain that Wikipedia's coverage is not limited to canon content. Hope this clears things up for the folks add/removing this bit of detail. --EEMIV (talk) 13:50, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

That's insane. I don't question mentioning it somewhere, but having it in the infobox without directly saying "this is from a comic book" leaves the distinct impression with the reader that it was from an actual movie/episode. Nowhere does the rest of the article mention comics or books. If they're not mentioned in the article, then including them in the infobox makes no sense whatsoever. --B (talk) 13:55, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

WP:SOFIXIT. --EEMIV (talk) 14:16, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Actually, you're incorrect: it looks like the article has had for a while a reference to the Countdown comic and Data's position in it. --EEMIV (talk) 14:17, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Fixed, the infobox now says inline that he was only first officer and captain in the comics and the ref gives further explanation for users who may need further information. That should resolve the issue of confusion and provide information about his non-canonical life. (Technically, I suppose, all of his life was non-canonical since in the obscenity that came out last year, they hit a reset button and declared all of Star Trek never happened.) --B (talk) 14:26, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Rank?

Wasn't Data promoted to Commander after Riker get's married in Star Trek: Nemesis? Rlinfinity (talk) 21:43, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

No. --EEMIV (talk) 01:58, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Possible fixes

Hi all

Can I suggest a few changes ?

The Depiction section could be changed to "Life" or "Career" or some such title. THe Charateristics could be broken down into sub-sections such as "Character", "Abilities" and "Emotions" or some such titles. This would greatly improve the section and remove the potted lists aspect. The article is getting very confused as it seems there are a few repetitions of the same material and I think a lot could be moved from Depiction to Characteristics as these are separate things

It should be more like a BLP than as it is lol

Chaosdruid (talk) 04:05, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Ode to Spot author

In the "Spot" section on the page, the following phrase exists:

(The poem was actually written by Clay Dale, the visual effects artist)

There's no citation at all on this, and the text was added by an anon December 2006 to the "Spot (Star Trek)" page before it was pseudo-merged here. While this bit of information may be true, what is the source for this, and how has it lasted this long without anyone questioning it until now? -- 130.15.49.33 (talk) 20:46, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Portrayed By Dora The Explorer

So happy to have stumbled across whomever edited it... I rofl'd —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.62.165.160 (talk) 17:27, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Way too "in universe"

Not encyclopaedic at all. Overly fanboyish.129.139.1.69 (talk) 19:16, 31 October 2011 (UTC)