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I have been sending him regular status reports

Why should biology rather than technology

And I shall personally review the android's development.

- Purpose? - My function. My reason for being.

What does Lal do when you're on duty?

I am the only model available, admiral.

One is meant kindly. The other is not.

I have learned, with difficulty, that there comes a time when...

to seek out new life and new civilizations,

That will define the parameters.

from working with someone as old as you.

and I am prepared to accept the responsibility.

What do you feel, Lal?

This is what it means...

about parenting! I am talking about the extraordinary consequences

- to their children-- - Data, I am not talking

that it was possible to continue Dr. Soong's work.

Have you considered sending her to school?

Lal has a positronic brain, one very similar to my own.

- Is there a problem? - Yes, captain.

She-- She won't survive much longer.

Nothing personal.

So Lal now possesses the sum of my programming.

what only your own creator has been able to achieve.

I am forced to wonder how much experience he had as a parent

I don't think your father has taught you selective judgment

- I helped define them. - Yes, captain.

I began programming it at the cybernetics conference.

but she is here.

has just returned.

during the formative stages of her development.

The children were not laughing with you.

It would be very dangerous to have you both in the same place,