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In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Spot is Data's pet cat and a recurring character. Spot is not actually spotted. Spot appears in several episodes during TNG Three cats have played the role of Spot.
Overview Spot originally appears as a Somali cat, but later appears as a red tabby house cat. Spot also changes sex from male to female, eventually giving birth to kittens (TNG: "Genesis"). The authors of the Star Trek Encyclopedia jokingly propose that these inconsitencies can be explained by the idea that Spot is a shape-shifter or victim of a transporter accident (depending on which edition of the Encyclopedia one reads). Data creates several hundred food supplements for Spot and composes "Ode to Spot" in the cat's honor (TNG: "Schisms"). A computer error later causes some of the ship's food replicators to create only Spot's supplements and replaces portions of a play with the ode's text (TNG: "A Fistful of Datas"). The morphogenetic disease "Barclay protomorphosis syndrome" mutates Spot into an iguana. The diseases effects are eventually undone (TNG: "Genesis"). Spot is notoriously unfriendly to most people other than Data. Commander William Riker once received serious scratches from Spot (TNG: "Timescape"). Geordi La Forge borrowed her to experience taking care of a cat, but she ate some of his shoes and damaged his furniture (TNG: "Force of Nature"). When Data asked Worf to take care of Spot, Worf proved to be allergic to her (TNG: "Phantasms"). However, she did get along with Lieutenant Reginald Barclay, thus when Data had to leave on a mission at the same time Spot's kittens were due, he persuaded Barclay to take care of her (TNG: "Genesis"). See also | ||||||||
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