Gene Roddenberry's Pre-'Next Generation' Android Is the Blueprint for Star Trek's Data

Gene Roddenberry's Pre-'Next Generation' Android Is the Blueprint for Star Trek's Data




Everybody remembers Lt. Data. Mention androids in Star Trek, and sooner or later, somebody starts talking about the pale guy trying to figure out why humans insist on making everything so complicated. What most people don't realize is that Data wasn't Gene Roddenberry's first android searching for answers. In 1974, Roddenberry handed the spotlight to an android named Questor and built an entire television movie around him. The similarities to Data are impossible to miss. The difference is that one character became a legend, while the other became one of science fiction's most fascinating "What happened there?" stories.


Everybody remembers Lt. Data. Mention androids in Star Trek, and sooner or later, somebody starts talking about the pale guy trying to figure out why humans insist on making everything so complicated. What most people don't realize is that Data wasn't Gene Roddenberry's first android searching for answers. In 1974, Roddenberry handed the spotlight to an android named Questor and built an entire television movie around him. The similarities to Data are impossible to miss. The difference is that one character became a legend, while the other became one of science fiction's most fascinating "What happened there?" stories.

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