Portal:Star Trek/Featured Character
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This is a list of all the months with featured characters so far, if you want to add one create it as "Portal:Star Trek/Featured character "Month" "Year"" like below. Also use the layout like in the ones already listed. They will be updated on a monthly basis.
DataIn the episode "The Measure of a Man", Data's full name—the sole word—is elaborated upon in an on-screen graphic with the initialisms NFN and NMI: No First Name, No Middle Initial.</ref> is a character, portrayed by Brent Spiner, in the Star Trek fictional universe. Designed by Doctor Noonien Soong, Lieutenant Commander[1] Data is an android who serves as the second officer and chief operations officer aboard the starships USS Enterprise-D and USS Enterprise-E. Data appears throughout the Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) television series and in the films based on The Next Generation.
Data is a sentient artificial lifeform designed to resemble a human. His positronic brain allows him impressive computational capabilities[2] and the ability to perform most human activities. However, he has ongoing difficulties understanding various aspects of human behavior and is unable to feel emotions[3] until he is provided with an "emotion chip" in Star Trek: Generations.