“Data, why are you laughing?”

You don’t need to be a “Spiner Femme” to appreciate the awesomeness of Brent Spiner, TV’s Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Whether you’re a Trekkie, Trekker, or just someone who enjoys theater, you know that Spiner is a talented and funny actor and sometimes singer (imagine him in a duet with John Barrowman…). Some of the best moments in Star Trek have been exchanges between Captain Jean Luc Picard and the android who would be human–at least until the later movies made the mistake of focusing on the characters to the exclusion of all else. At a convention in New Jersey this past March, Spiner imitated a fanboy all too well and asked... [read full story]