Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Eye of the Beholder (1994)

LeVar Burton: Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge

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• [Data is talking about his first months of activation, when he was at risk of systems failure] 

  Lt. Commander Data : I came to the conclusion, it would be safer - and easier - to shut myself down and start again.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Yeah, but if you had done that you wouldn't have remembered any of the things that had happened to you.

  Lt. Commander Data : Mm. In a way, it would have been like committing suicide.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : So what did you do?

  Lt. Commander Data : I decided against the procedure. I chose instead to treat the problems I was having with my systems as challenges to overcome, rather than obstacles to be avoided.