The Schizoid Man (Episode)

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The Schizoid Man
"The Schizoid Man" (TNG131)

"The Schizoid Man" (TNG131)
Series Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 2
Episode 6
Production Number 131


Previous The Outrageous Okona (TNG130)
Next Loud as a Whisper (TNG132)
Released 23 Jan 1989
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(The root of all realities)


Stardate 42437.5: Data's body is hijacked by his "grandfather"

Dr. Noonian Soong may have been Data's "father," but the brilliant Dr. Ira Graves was Soong's mentor and Data's "grandfather." Graves is dying of a terminal illness when the Enterprise answers his aide's call for help on their secluded research outpost. Once he arrives on the planet, Data becomes close to Graves, leading the genius to reveal his last breakthrough: a device capable of transferring a Human mind into a computer. Graves dies, and his assistant, Kareen Brianon, is evacuated. But Data begins to act irrationally, even accusing Picard of lusting after Kareen. A diagnostic check of Data reveals nothing, but Troi performs a psych test that shows two competing personalities fighting to control Data: his own and Graves.

Meanwhile, Kareen is shocked when Graves tells her of the transference, his love for her, and his plans to make her immortal by transferring her mind into another android body — a possibility she refuses to consider, which triggers Graves' violent denial of the wrongness of his plans. After unintentionally crushing the bones in Kareen's wrist, he hides in Engineering, rendering La Forge and another engineer unconscious before Picard finds him. Graves knocks Picard out for arguing for the release of Data's body, but when the captain comes to, he finds the cyberneticist has recovered — and put himself into the Enterprise computer as simple data.

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