Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Rightful Heir (1993)

Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data

Quotes 

• Lt. Commander Data : I once had what could be considered a crisis of the spirit.

  Lieutenant Worf : You?

  Lt. Commander Data : Yes. The Starfleet officers who first activated me on Omicron Theta told me I was an android - nothing more than a sophisticated machine with human form; however, I realized that if I was simply a machine, I could never be anything else. I could never grow beyond my programming. I found that difficult to accept, so I chose to believe... that I was a person, that I had the potential to be more than a collection of circuits and subprocessors. It is a belief which I still hold.

  Lieutenant Worf : How did you come to your decision?

  Lt. Commander Data : I made... a leap of faith.