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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3577630" data-attributes="member: 20741">Star Trek  - First ContactIn the final scene on the Enterprise, Data, with all of his plastic skin mostly dissolved, has a patch of real human skin growing on his face, having learned the technology behind it from the Borg queen. Star Trek: Nemesis: Data is seen in the film as a middle aged human, with normal skin and an odd shock of grey striping in his hair (as we saw him in All Good Things). Data explains the stripe is a side effect of his human skin growth and something he is "working on".)  Data appears to be human in all respects - except for the yellow eyes.  When asked why he chooses to appear older, he explains that with 30 years service in Star Fleet, the appearance of middle age is appropriate  and engenders respect.  Script writers weave in this idea that "age is a natural process with great meaning behind it".  This refrain is used as a counter to the very unnatural Fountain of Youth theme in the movie.I was actually quite sure they were going to actually do this in Nemesis. It solved the problem of Brent Spiner aging in a manner that make-up could no longer hide. It was a natural way out of this problem that fit the evolving story in the movies. They didn't take that off-ramp. Only Rick Berman knows why.Given that it's Rick Berman, I assume incompetence is the best explanation for it.</blockquote>