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Lall has a positronic brain, one very similar to my own.

I began programming it at the Cybernetics conference but nobody's ever been able to do

that data at least not since you were programmed data I would like to have been consulted

I have not observed anyone else on board consulting you about their

procreation captain. Commander data at your convenience I would like to talk with you

in my ready room. Counselor. I insist we do whatever we can to discourage the perception of

this new Android as a child. It is not a child. It is an invention,

albeit an extraordinary one. Why should biology determine whether it's a child?

Data has created an offspring, a new life out of his own being.

To me, that suggests a child. If he wishes to call

Lyle his child then who are we to argue? Well if he must, but I fail to understand

how a five foot Android with heuristic learning systems and the strength of ten men can be called a child.

You've never been a parent.

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