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Brent Spiner Says He is Too Old to Play Data Again, Working on a New Documentary

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By GustavoLeao / 05:56, 2 October 2008 / General Star Trek

UInterview posted a new video interview with Star Trek The Next Generation actor Brent Spiner and here are excerpts, courtesy of TrekToday.

Asked if he will ever play Lt. Commander Data again, Spiner said "Sean Connery said, 'Never say never,' So I wouldn't say 'never," but probably never. We are getting a little bit old in the tooth to be doing it, at least I am. Data is a character that I think is about youth, in a way. And he's about childlike wonder. Exploring humanity with sort of childlike eyes...some of the other people could come back way easier than my character could."

He revealed his is working in a documentary. "I'm going to go from one end of the country to another," he explained, "just going to people's houses and talking to them. There's a specific reason, which I'd rather not talk about, but I won't be making fun of people, that's not what I'm looking for. I really am just looking for ordinary people or extraordinary people or peculiar people or not peculiar people to visit. Just a variety kind of a cross-section of America and there is a theme but I'm going to keep that to myself just at the moment because it's so simple that I'm afraid somebody else will do it before I get out there." Spiner encouraged people who would like to be a part of the documentary to contact him at brentdoc@aol.com.

The full video interview can be found here.



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By: Muldfeld (Odo's file, contact) @ 21:55:17 on Oct 02, 2008

Pretty neat idea. Sounds exciting and difficult. Not someone resting on his laurels. Good for him.


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By: OkeydokeyObi (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:24:59 on Oct 02, 2008

1) Since Data is my favorite character from TNG, I am glad to hear him say this instead of "Data's Dead!!!! That's impossible!!!!", like I have heard about Kirk in recent months. I always thought there was a possibility of bringing him back in some way (in fact the movie more or less implied it), so that's a relief.

2) Anyone remember the episode where Data meets his "mother"? She had some kind of technology that allowed her to age and have a normal lifespan. I always wondered why they didn't use that as a plot device for Data. After all, Data always wanted to be closer to humanity, and what better way to do that than to have a normal human lifespan? It would have accounted for the aging and it would have created some interesting scenes where Data was deliberating the merits of giving up his immortality. Not only that, but the topic was touched upon in First Contact too, where he was given "skin". Why not appropriate that technology?

I guess these types of things are what drive people crazy about Rick Berman and Brannon Braga's leadership.

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