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(More customer reviews)The bonding of human knowledge and technology serves as the basis for "The Schizoid Man." Unfortunately, this intriguing premise turns out to be not as fully developed as it could have been.
The Enterprise-D responds to a distress call seeking medical help for the dying Doctor Ira Graves (W. Morgan Sheppard). Graves is seriously ill but develops a bond with Lieutenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner) before he passes away. Unbeknownst to the crew and Graves' former assistant, Kareen Brianon (Barbara Alyn Woods), the brilliant cyberneticist actually transferred his mind into Data before expiring. When he learns what has happened, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) confronts the android and demands that Graves leave his body.
If you enjoy watching episodes where Data behaves abnormally, then "The Schizoid Man" is your cup of tea. However, the "switching bodies" plot is seriously underdeveloped and contributes nothing that you have not already seen in this type of story. You also have to wonder about the soundness of Graves' idea to transfer his mind into Data. If there is anything one has learned from watching the original series of Star Trek, it is that any plan involving the transfer of a human consciousness into an android body always manages to go awry. Apparently Graves did not bother consulting the research of the countless other eccentrics who tried to do the same thing before him.
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