“The Offspring”
“The Offspring” Data builds an android, his “child” whom he names Lal - Hindi for “beloved”. Out of multiple possibilities, Lal chooses a female human form. Admiral Haftel of Starfleet Research comes aboard and insists that Lal should grow up in a lab rather than aboard a ship. Lal, however, has already developed too quickly. She experiences an emotion she cannot handle - fear. Data and Haftel try to repair the damage to her system, but it is too late to save her. summary by Ex-Astris-Scientia
This one’s really touching. If you’ve read some of my previous impressions, you know by now that anything related to a human side of an android would be my fav. Starfleet Research my ass! Hateful morons! LOL! It’s unfair that Lal had to end up like that. I had been honestly hoping that they’d revive her one day. But, TNG ended and Data still had no children. Cruel, wouldn’t you say?