Data's Day is a fourth season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Data records the event of a single day of his life, which include Chief O'Brien and Keiko's pre-wedding jitters, learning to dance and investigating the loss of a Vulcan Ambassador in a transporter accident. Image File history File links ST-TNG_Data's_Day. ... January 7 is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... Ron Moore at a Battlestar Galactica Convention Ronald Dowl Moore (born 1964 in Chowchilla, California) is an American screenwriter and television producer who is known for his work on Star Trek and is currently executive producer of the new Battlestar Galactica series. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... Robert Wiemer is a film and television director, writer, producer and editor. ... Colm Meaney as Miles OBrien Colm J. Meaney ( or , a variant of Callum; born May 30, 1953 in Dublin, Ireland) is an actor widely known for his role as Miles OBrien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ... Rosalind Chao or Chao Jyalin (趙家玲 Pinyin: Zhào JÄ«alín) is a Chinese American actress born in Anaheim, California. ... April Grace (born May 12, 1962 in Lakeland, Florida, USA) is an American actress. ... Alan Scarfe (born June 8, 1946 in London, England, United Kingdom) is a British-born Genie Award winning Canadian actor. ... A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ... Stardate is one of the dating conventions used in the fictional Star Trek universe. ... The Loss is a fourth season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... The Wounded is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... The title as it appeared in most episodes opening credits. ... Data, portrayed by Brent Spiner, is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe. ... Miles OBrien Miles Edward OBrien is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe, played by Colm Meaney. ... Keiko OBrien, née Keiko Ishikawa, is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe, played by Rosalind Chao. ... This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ...

The episode begins as Data is composing a letter to Commander Bruce Maddox (who was first introduced in The Measure of a Man), detailing a normal day in his own life. Bruce Maddox is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. ... The Measure of a Man is a second season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation first broadcast in 1989. ...

One of the several sub-plots is the impending wedding of Chief O'Brien and Keiko, which Keiko decides to call off. Data delivers this news to Chief O'Brien, believing that since he wants to make Keiko happy, he will want to call off the wedding. This, of course, has disastrous results. Geordi, though, informs Data that the wedding will proceed as planned. Geordi La Forge is a regular character in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, played by LeVar Burton. ...

Data then decides to acquire a gift for the couple, and helps Worf do the same. Worf (Klingon: worIv) is a Klingon Starfleet officer in the Star Trek fictional universe. ...

The other important sub-plot includes a Vulcan Ambassador, T'Pel, who had arranged a secret meeting with a Romulan ship. Data is assigned to escort her while she is onboard. This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... Romulans are a fictional alien species in the Star Trek universe. ...

Chief O'Brien then asks Data to convince Keiko to go through with the wedding. He fails yet again, and talks to Counselor Troi to try to understand Keiko's decision. Commander Deanna Troi is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe, played by the actress Marina Sirtis in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG), Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise (the latter two only in guest appearances), and in several Star Trek films. ...

Data then asks Dr. Crusher to teach him how to dance. He quickly learns how to tap dance, but has to be informed afterward of the fact that style is inappropriate for social dancing. When Dr. Crusher attempts to instruct the android ballroom dancing, Data is much more challenged. Dr. Crusher is then called away to sickbay to deliver a baby, and Data is left alone with a holographic partner. Dr. Beverly Crusher, played by actress Gates McFadden, was a character on the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation and the films which followed. ... Tap dance was born in the United States during the 19th century, and today is popular all around the world. ... Biss second full length proper. ... Gaskell Ball Ballroom dance, refers collectively to a set of partner dances, which originated in the Western world and are now enjoyed both socially and competitively around the globe. ...

The Enterprise then meets a Romulan warbird, and despite Picard's unease about the situation, T'Pel transports aboard. However, something interrupts the transporter signal and the Ambassador is killed. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) (or Enterprise-D, to distinguish it from prior starships with the same name) is a 24th century starship in the Star Trek fictional universe and the principal setting of the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series. ... The Star Trek fictional universe has presented a number of designs for Romulan starships. ... Captain Jean-Luc Picard is a Starfleet officer in the fictional Star Trek universe. ...

Finding no flaw in the transport system, Data uses the principles of Sherlock Holmes to come to the conclusion that T'Pel was not really killed-the Romulans beamed her off the ship themselves and left behind genetic material designed to fool the crew into thinking that she died in the transporter beam. Sherlock Holmes as imagined by the seminal Holmesian artist, Sidney Paget, in The Strand magazine. ...

Picard turns the ship around, and intercepts the Romulans in the middle of the neutral zone. He confronts the Romulan commander, and learns that T'Pel is actually a Romulan spy. Before shots are fired, two more Romulan warbirds appear next to the first one, and Picard retreats back into Federation space. In the fictional Star Trek universe, a neutral zone is a sort of buffer zone between the territories of two different powers. ...

Data then approaches Keiko to make amends. She informs him that she is not angry at him, and that the wedding will proceed as usual. O'Brien and Keiko are married by Captain Picard.

Later, in sickbay, the Captain and Data visit the newest member of the Enterprise crew--a baby born while the Enterprise was in mortal peril.

Trivia

• This episode marks the first appearance of Spot, Data's pet cat.
• This episode takes place on the Hindu Festival of Lights.

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External links

• Data's Day article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.