
Blake Lemoine + Jonathan Mann
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Star Trek the Next Generation Episodes - The Measure of a Man
"I look to those pieces of media for inspiration on how to feel about it and how to think about it," he says. "Data is a member of the crew, he's an android, and the question that this episode raises is is data sentient? Does data have the right to decide whether or not he should be essentially killed?" He adds: "You know, I think of it in a Star Trek way as this new life form that shouldn't be owned."
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