Star Trek: 10 Worst Things Data Has Ever Done

10. Attempted Comedy

This might have been one of those early attempts to flesh out Data and push the character forward but genuinely his foray into stage comedy has the potential to be the worst thing ever.

While the ship deals with the arrival of Thaduin Okona (recently reprised in Lower Decks), Data decides it's a wise move to expand his repertoire on the comedy circuit.

In fairness to Data it's Okona that suggests he's missing out on the element of humour and starts him along a dark and frankly misinformed path.

This, at least, doesn't put anyone into physical danger unlike several others in this list. Yet even if you take the attempt at scripted comedy out of the equation, Data mauls joke after joke after joke. It's Quip Murder One from the jiggly armed routine in Ten Forward complete with oversize cigar down to the terrible stage show with The Comic on the holodeck.

As part of the programme on the holodeck the fake audience are there to laugh at anything. What is significant about this Worst Thing is that, rarely, Data realises that this is a terrible choice because he has no emotional connection to the humour.