Gabriel Almonte 

 

The main point of this episode was to challenge the ethical beliefs of technological fields. Data is a robot created by the company. He then creates another robotic being like him, has feelings, and many other human-like characteristics but wasn’t conceived the same ways as humans. Data considered it as his offspring, he wanted the offspring to pick a gender it had four options and chose to be a human female, he named her Lai. Tensions grew as people had disagreements with what to do with Lai. Data already viewed it as a child, so he grew strong loving feelings for it already People in the company were mad that he created Lai without informing anyone, he then argued that it wouldn’t be a problem if a human created an offspring in private. Other people in the company believed that Lai should be taken to a scientific lab to be tested on to see what the possible outcomes are after she is evaluated. Lai is interviewed where she gains a sense of fear because she thinks something bad may happen to her. To me that is enough to not test her and let her live as a human. However, the company still believes she belongs in a scientific facility. Then everyone finds out that Lai left but later comes back because she malfunctioned and is programmed to come back to Data when she does malfunction. They find out that they must work fast, or she will die, then others start to help out data but, in the end, they had no success and Lai died. Data forgave everyone who disagreed because people who didn’t think of her as human helped another parent when he needed help. If a technological being is behaving similar to a human it should be protected as such.