Should Data be allowed to exist?

yes
no
maybe
YOURE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW

>>80150439
Yes
Why the hell should he not be?

>>80150466
Because holograms cannot be allowed voting rights.

>>80150439
I think, therefore A.I am.

>>80150641
ha ha

>>80150439

Measure of a Man.

>>80152023
That only deals with whether or not he should be a Federation slave.

>>80152168

they wanted to disassemble him to learn how to build more

>>80152433
Which was ridiculous since they had his transporter trace logs.

>>80152572

riker accident aside, the transporter isn't a replicator

they don't know how to reproduce things quantum level ex, living things or data's positronic brain

>>80153007
Pulaski was saved from aging disease by filtering her elderly ruined self through her trace.

>>80153028

just like they fixed 9001 other problems with the transporter, they still wern't making a copy

>>80153114
What's in that trace though if not the exact ultimate pattern?

>>80153145
their souls

>>80150439
Commander Maddox pls go and stay go

>>80153215

or as vulcans would say, their Katra

>muh science nerds often discard this little part of trek lore