Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Most Toys"

"The Most Toys." Star Trek: The Next Generation. 12 May 1990. Timothy Bond, dir. Shari Goodhartz, script.

Title from the expression, "He who dies with the most toys wins." Mr. Data, the unique android, is the "toy" in question. Escape from the murderous collector involves Data in a conflict of programming and ethics: to save human lives and gain his own freedom, he acts to kill the collector; that he does not is pure coincidence. After the fact, Data does not exactly lie about his attempt at murder, but he does mislead.

See also Mariella Scerri and Victor Grech's "Sentience in Science Fiction 101." SFRA Review #315 (Winter 2016): pp. 14-18.[1]

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