• mercano@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 year ago

    Poor Data never got a promotion through seven seasons and four movies. The only time he held higher rank might have been the alternate future the Romulans manufactured for Riker on a holodeck to try to trick him into revealing secrets.

    • DokPsy@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      1 year ago

      During the Klingon civil war, he was temporarily made Captain of the USS Sutherland

      This is also where Data shows serious BDE to his racist(?) first officer.

      • SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        1 year ago

        Captain, as in head of the ship, not the rank. He was still Lt. Cmdr. Unless I’m missing remembering the episode

        • TWeaK@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Yeah that’s like saying the person in charge of the duty night shift is Captain while they have the bridge. Sitting in the Captain’s chair =/= Captain.

    • clearedtoland@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      He briefly served as Captain during TNG Gambit 1 and 2. And he made damn sure Worf knew it too!

    • Damage@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      He did lose control of himself on multiple occasions, even endangering the whole ship…

      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 year ago

        So did Picard, a number of times. “Bridge officer goes cuckoo” is a standard theme. Geordi was turned into a Romulan assassin. Worf de-evolves and kills multiple members of the crew.