You can see the problem, of course: if he was considered “alive” in the second episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s second season, it doesn’t make any sense that seven episodes later, we have to have a big trial to determine if Data was alive or not.
It’s possible that the later episode was intended to retcon the earlier one, but it’s far more likely that the producers simply overlooked the discrepancy.
Season 2 was greatly affected by the 1988 writer’s strike, forcing producers to use scripts they already had. “Measure of a Man” was originally a spec script submitted by Melinda Snodgrass, someone who wrote this before Pulaski’s comment ever aired onscreen.
She later ended up becoming a writer for the show but left after season 3 due to butting heads with showrunner Michael Piller.
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