‘My Stomach Would Turn’: Brent Spiner’s Star Trek: The Next Generation Experience Was An Absolute Nightmare That Would Break Next Generation Stars Today

Brent Spiner played the role of an android, Data, who served as second officer of the USS Enterprise-d in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Spiner went on to reprise the role in the films as well as the sequel series Star Trek: Picard. However, being an AI system, Spiner’s role had jargon-heavy dialogue. Many actors today would have struggled to carry the role, but not Spiner.

Brent Spiner in an image from Star Trek: The Next Generation | Paramount Network

Some speculated at the time that the actor had a photographic memory. However, he revealed in an interview that he had no special ability to remember lines. He shared that he got better at teaching them by doing it every day for The Next Generation.

Brent Spiner’s role in Star Trek was challenging for a major reason that Brent Spiner and others…