In 1989’s Star Trek: The New Generation episode 'The Measure of a Man,' Star Fleet conducts a legal hearing to decide whether the android Lt. Cmdr. Data is sentient, and thus possesses human rights, or is simply an object that is the property of Star Fleet.
The script delineates three criteria for sentience: intelligence, consciousness, and self-awareness. Data’s intelligence is taken as given, while the script considers consciousness as too nebulous a concept to determine whether Data possesses it or not.
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