Editing Data (Star Trek) (section)

==Popular culture==
Like Spock,<ref name="kleiner19671204">{{Cite news |last=Kleiner |first=Dick |date=December 4, 1967 |title=Mr. Spock's Trek To Stardom |page=7 |work=Warsaw Times-Union |agency=Newspaper Enterprise Association |location=Warsaw, Indiana |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B7dGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tHsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3727,498929 |access-date=May 7, 2011 |archive-date=August 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802045546/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B7dGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tHsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3727,498929 |url-status=live }}</ref> Data became a [[sex symbol]] and Spiner's [[fan mail]] came mostly from women. He described the letters as "romantic mail" that were "really written to Data; he's a really accessible personality".<ref name="dubois19901029">{{Cite news |last=Dubois |first=Stephanie |date=October 29, 1990 |title=TREKKIES SWOON FOR ANDROID AS SHOW ENTERS NEXT WARP |page=A2 |work=Orlando Sentinel |agency=Tribune Media Services |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1990/10/29/trekkies-swoon-for-android-as-show-enters-next-warp/ |access-date=October 5, 2011 |archive-date=August 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801073637/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1990-10-29/news/9010290211_1_spiner-commander-data-android |url-status=live }}</ref>

Robotics engineers regard Data (along with the [[droid (Star Wars)|droids]] from the ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies) as the pre-eminent face of robots in the public's perception of their field.<ref>James M. Conrad, ''Stiquito for Beginners: An Introduction to Robotics'' Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr; Book and Access edition (December 27, 1999), p. 2, {{ISBN|0-8186-7514-4}}</ref> On April 9, 2008, Data was inducted into [[Carnegie Mellon University]]'s [[Robot Hall of Fame]] during a ceremony at the [[Carnegie Science Center]] in [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 10, 2008 |title=Science center honors robots |work=[[The Pitt News]] |url=http://www.pittnews.com/news/article_84237223-1c9f-5a77-842a-460c709b8790.html |url-status=dead |access-date=July 18, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140610205825/http://www.pittnews.com/news/article_84237223-1c9f-5a77-842a-460c709b8790.html |archive-date=June 10, 2014 |quote=The Robot Hall of Fame inducted four new robots: Lt. Cmdr. Data from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," LEGO Mindstorms, NavLab 5 and Raibert Hopper. }}</ref>

Spiner himself released an album of old pop standards from the 1930s and '40s entitled ''[[Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back]]'', a reference to the contact lenses he wore as Data, as well as a play on the name of the [[Frank Sinatra]] album, [[Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back|''Ol''' ''Blue'' ''Eyes Is'' ''Back'']].<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 25, 2017 |title=Star Trek before Discovery: what did the cast do next? |newspaper=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/cast-every-star-trek-series-happened-next/brent-spiner/ |via=www.telegraph.co.uk |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-date=July 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728091512/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/cast-every-star-trek-series-happened-next/brent-spiner/ |url-status=live }}</ref>