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Beyond Data, the actor has played five other characters and numerous versions of the android (see A Fistful of Datas for a few of them). This variety is something that Spiner says he s enjoyed over the years. There s that double-edged sword of being identified with one role, but if I m going to have to be identified for a single role, at least it s a role where I got to play all kinds of other different roles, he explains. I really enjoyed playing Sherlock Holmes when we did that [on
TNG episodes Elementary, Dear Data and Ship in a Bottle ]. We did all kinds of things, and I was inhabited by different creatures and personalities. It s a dream, for an actor, to be able to do that. And so really, I think of them all as the same thing, in a way. It was all one character, even though the Soongs were human.