When requested not too long ago by TrekMovie what it took for him to take the function of Information as soon as extra, Brent Spiner was his sometimes dry self, cracking a joke about them throwing “a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars}” at him, earlier than explaining that it was only a matter of getting frank discussions with Terry Matalas about what they have been going to do with Information. As soon as the 2 had hashed issues out, Spiner was utterly on board to return again and rejoin his associates on the Enterprise. He did not wish to repeat himself, and Matalas’ plan gave Information an entire new dimension. Spiner defined:
“[…] it is taking the character to a very totally different place, actually, than he is been earlier than. [Gene] Roddenberry once I first met him, he was describing the character of Information and what he needed from Information was that Information would get nearer and nearer and nearer to being human. And on the finish of the day, he is as shut as he might be and nonetheless not. And I feel this sort of addressed that much more. It continues that journey of Information getting so very near being human nonetheless he is not. He’s nonetheless an android. He nonetheless has a man-made physique. And he nonetheless has confusion in regards to the human situation and what it means to be human. And that makes him, I feel, much more human, as a result of all of us wrestle with that.”
From the start, Information has all the time longed to be human. He even received suckered into having flesh placed on his android physique by the Borg queen in “Star Trek: First Contact,” almost forsaking his associates and crew for a little bit android-on-Borg motion. So his really being made human, or as near it as bodily doable through Dr. Soong’s cloning know-how, is ideal.