Season: 2
Original Airdate: 1/21/1989
Writer(s): Richard Manning & Hans Beimler
Director(s): Les Landau
Guest Stars
Suzie Plakson as Lt. Selar
W. Morgan Sheppard as Ira Graves
Barbara Alyn Woods as Kareen Brianon
Stardate: 42437.5
Synopsis: The Enterprise travels to the home of a brilliant but terminally ill scientist. The scientist becomes fascinated by Data and begins to talk only to him and retreats into seclusion with him. He reveals that he has discovered a way to cheat death by transferring his mind into a computer. When the Enterprise beams the away team back, Data starts behaving in an extremely odd fashion.