Metamorphosis - Jean Lorrah
Historian’s Note Metamorphosis takes place in the second season of Star Trek: the Next Generation, beginning immediately after “The Measure of a Man.”
Data had to fight for his very existence in that episode; the experience has lingering aftereffects.
“No, sir … I never wanted to compound one … illusion … with another. It might be real to Q, perhaps even to you, sir. But it would never be so to me. Was it not one of the captain’s favorite authors who wrote, “This above all: to thine own self b ...