The Measure of a Man
In 1989, Star Trek: The Next Generation asked a question that no longer feels quite like science fiction: What makes a person a person?
In “The Measure of a Man,” Commander Data is forced to confront an unsettling possibility. Is he a free being with the right to choose his own fate—or simply a remarkably sophisticated machine that belongs to Starfleet?
Expanding on today’s Daybreak: The Soul of the Machine, we take a deeper look at one of Star Trek’s finest episodes: Picard and Riker’s courtroom battle, Guinan’s chilling warning about slavery, the mystery of consciousness, Chesterton on…
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