-: Commander, what are you?
-: An android.
-: Which is?
-: Webster's 24th century dictionary 5th edition defines an
android as an automaton made to resemble a human being.
-: Automaton made by whom?
-: Doctor Noonien Soong.
-: And he was?
-: The foremost authority on cybernetics.
-: More basic than that.
What was he?
-: Human.
-: What is the capacity of your memory
and how fast can you access information?
-: I have an ultimate storage capacity
of 800 quadrillion bits.
My total linear computational speed
has been rated at 60 trillion operations per second.
-: Commander is a physical representation of a dream.
An idea conceived of by the mind of a man.
Its purpose to serve human needs and interests.
It's a collection of neural nets and heuristic algorithms.
Its responses dictated by
an elaborate software written by a man,
its hardware built by a man.
And now a man will shut it off.
-: Do you consider yourself superior to us?
-: I am superior, sir, in many ways,
but I would gladly give it up to be human.