40 Years Later, Star Trek’s Greatest Data Episode Remains an Untouchable Sci-Fi Gem

Snodgrass shared on her blog that Gene Roddenberry almost scrapped the Star Trek: Discovery episode because he believed lawyers wouldn’t exist in the future. Beyond introducing the legal profession to the Star Trek universe, “The Measure of a Man” also showed the Enterprise crew playing poker for the first time – a scene that was later revisited as the final shot in both The Next Generation and Picard‘s series finales. However, the episode is best remembered for establishing how Starfleet views artificial life, like the character Data, and later, the holographic doctor from Voyager.








