Masks (Star Trek: The Next Generation) the entire "Star Trek: The Next Generation" series. Technically, it was chosen as second-worst, but Empire decided that ""—its initial choice for worst episode—didn't count, because "Shades" was a flashback 'clip' episode. Masks (Star Trek: The Next Generation) "Masks" is the seventeenth episode of the of the American science fiction television series "", the 169th episode overall. An alien archive, like an alien Library of Alexandria, initially appearing as a rogue comet because of accumulated matter, transforms the "Enterprise" as well as adapting Lieutenant Commander Data for a re-enactment of its culture's mythology, including the creation of two masks which
Brent Spiner In addition to the series and films, he voiced his character in several "Star Trek" video games, such as "Star Trek: Generations", "", "", and "". After appearing in several episodes as , the ancestor of Data's creator, Dr. Noonien Soong, Spiner also recorded dialogue as Data that was heard in the final episode of "", "These Are the Voyages...", which aired in 2005, bringing the "Star Trek" TV franchise Spiner had helped establish 18 years earlier to a close. In 1991, Spiner recorded an album of 1940s pop standards entitled "Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back", the title of which