The Offspring

Episode aired Mar 10, 1990
TV-PG
45m

IMDb RATING

8.5/10

4.8K

YOUR RATING

Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart, Nicolas Coster, and Hallie Todd in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi

After returning from a cybernetics conference to the Enterprise, Data creates his own "child," much to the chagrin of his captain, and without regards to the ramifications with Starfleet.After returning from a cybernetics conference to the Enterprise, Data creates his own "child," much to the chagrin of his captain, and without regards to the ramifications with Starfleet.After returning from a cybernetics conference to the Enterprise, Data creates his own "child," much to the chagrin of his captain, and without regards to the ramifications with Starfleet.

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IMDb RATING

8.5/10

4.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
First Star Trek TV episode to be directed by an actor from the show (Jonathan Frakes/Commander Riker). Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner had both previously directed Star Trek movies.

Goofs
When Data and Lal are choosing Lal's appearance on the holodeck, Troi falls asleep, and then Data wakes her. Troi is sleeping sitting on the floor against the wall, but as this is a holodeck, it would have been simple for Troi to request a chair or a bed to sit/sleep on.

Quotes
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Lal. I am unable to correct the malfunction.
Lal: I know, Father.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: We must say goodbye now.
Lal: I feel...
Lt. Cmdr. Data: What do you feel, Lal?
Lal: ...I love you, Father.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: [after a pause] I wish I could feel it with you.
Lal: I will feel it for both of us. Thank you for my life. Flirting... Laughter... Painting, family... Female... Human.
[she dies]

Connections
Featured in The Chronic Rift: The 1990 Roundtable Awards (1991)

Soundtracks
Star Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage

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Featured review

10/10

Gorgeous episode

One of the finest in this show.

AS many review rightfully state it is a amazing episode that takes into account what it means to be human, sentient and what rights are held by those, others don't believe to be human and deservent.

When slavery was legal they were treated like property.

Seeing Data daughter developement was startling and impressive.

Seeing what steps the captain took to protect data right was absolutely amazing.

I loved the moments that data talked about what he learned about parenthood by learning about humans and applied it to himself was amazing'

Prepare tissues when watching this episode. Many touching moments throughout.

MY favorite line was picard referencing human history in comparing what starfleet (at least 1 admiral) felt he could do While at same time, this heartless admiral did show some heart and delivered one of the most touching lines in this episode

I don't believe i gave anything away and didn't give an spoilers. If you didn't see it before. See it.