"This is just a thing, and things can be replaced. Lives cannot."
— Life

January 1, 1970

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Data (played by Brent Spiner in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Ensigns of Command" (2 October 1989) by Melinda M. Snodgrass. See also: The middle of Youtube Video "TNG Picard owns the Sheliak (Ensigns of Command)" (08.02.2012) by user "trekclip123". Context: Picard exploits a loophole in the treaty with the Sheliak and offers the Sheliak a choice: either wait six months for third-party arbitrators, or give Picard three weeks to evacuate the colony. Outmaneuvered, the Sheliak agr