Brent Spiner

On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Brent Spiner is Data, the android whose wonder made optimistic space opera feel like a weekly seminar. First-run syndication revived Trek without Kirk; Data, Worf, and the Borg made franchise television feel serious. Spiner plays curiosity as plot, not a gag about circuits. Gold makeup, a head tilt, a personhood argument that never needed a laugh track.

TV Flash keeps him because the hour still teaches. Picard is the quiet authority; Data is the question the bridge cannot table. On this desk Spiner is 1980s sci-fi craft that made syndication feel like literature with a viewscreen — start mid-run if the pilot creaks, stay for the android who made philosophy into a close-up.

Syndication kept Star Trek: The Next Generation on the schedule 1987–1994 — the window this file actually uses. On this desk Data is ensemble craft: the reason a famous format still has a person in it. Do not hunt a secret episode zero. s01e01 is listed for a reason. Encounter at Farpoint is the first-run syndication contract: Stewart's Picard, a new Enterprise, and franchise television regenerating without Kirk. s04e01 is how Star Trek: The Next Generation talks after it knows the assignment. The Best of Both Worlds Part II is the Borg scare as landmark: optimistic space opera with teeth, the hour later Trek still rents.

We file him as Star Trek: The Next Generation first and Data second. 1987–1994 on Syndication is the rest of the map. If you only jump once, jump to s03e01. Evolution opens the season after the wobble — idea-driven starship hours finding the weekly-serious voice the later catalog still quotes. s04e01 stays on the card. The Best of Both Worlds Part II is the Borg scare as landmark: optimistic space opera with teeth, the hour later Trek still rents. The living room already knew the rest.