The Limits of Data in Star Trek

i'm objecting to this notion that asmah's robots and data are go-fi examples right is that i mean yeah i don't get the reasoning there right so so data is this is it canonical somehow in star trek that that data is entirely a rule-based programming situation. There's a whole actual series in which nunian nunian sing song sing his creator his father like allows him to dream actually and allows him to sort of rise above sort of his programming in some sense. I think tng may have to do a whole thing about data but tng does this  in a way.