MEMORY OMEGA EXTRACT / COMMUNIQUE

SD44405.9

FROM: CDR BRUCE MADDOX (CODED/COMMAND)
TO: ADM HIRO NAKAMURA, SECTOR COMMAND, STARBASE 173

I was glad to see your name on Admiral Raner’s circulation list. By now, as a flag officer and sector commander, you’ve had a chance to review the Data Red proposal. As you can see, if the Data Red team can’t meet it’s objective, Mister Data will not be permitted to serve in sensitive postings, and certainly not the Federation flagship with its immense firepower and strategic importance.

As you know, I have the utmost belief in Data’s most remarkable capabilities and I’m putting that belief to good use. I’ve already hypothesized multiple means by which Data could defeat the measures brought up in session. I intend to follow this course of action until the team is deemed to have exhausted all avenues. Fortunately, the very idea of potentially rendering Data permanently inoperable is anathema to me.

I hope I’ll have your support in petitioning Starfleet to assign him to the Daystrom Institute once Admiral Raner presents the team’s findings.  

Since my last meeting with him I have remained in contact with Data and in doing so it’s become apparent that he is very much a living being. In that respect, he’s demonstrated a desire to “procreate,” that there might be others of his kind. He recently undertook building a Soong-type android himself that he referred to as his “daughter,” Lal.

For that reason, I don’t believe he’ll resign his commission rather than accept reassignment to work with me. Perhaps together we can crack the neural cascade failure that caused that project’s failure.

His existing research has already advanced my work by ten years. With Data on staff, the possibilities are all too imaginable.