Returning champ Leonard Crofoot joins us for this adventure in android parenting on TNG's "The Offspring".

When Data creates a new life-form, Starfleet responds in the most Starfleet way possible: by sending a bAdmiral to confiscate the kid. Despite the legal precedent set in "The Measure of a Man", the debate over android personhood somehow starts all over again, but before it can be resolved, Data's child dies.

Learn more about Leonard Crofoot at LeonardCrofoot.com.

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