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** Every other android had a that fatal flaw of being destroyed by illogic. It makes sense that they would not be used.
*** Not quite: Ruk and the other androids in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" had no such problem (and that's just for starters). Besides, most androids are benign beings whom nobody would set out to destroy with logic, even if they could. Strangely, the Voyager episode "Prototype" actually showed us other A.I. constructed by aliens, which is more than TNG ever did (even making reference to Data in the process).
**** And those robots turned out to be 1) sentient, and 2) genocidal. Number one was probably the deal-breaker because most worlds probably wouldn't be admitted to the Federation if they had a sentient slave class, even if the slaves were artificial. (This being before the TV series started to introduce the idea of sentient holograms, and the Voyager continuation novels decided to run with the crazy-ass idea that every single hologram is apparently sentient or capable of it.)
== Silicon Life, It's Like Nothing We've Seen... Oh Wait... ==
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