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Originally Posted by Quoth
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the character Data does stuff either impossible for some one his size and weight (like sic million dollar man) or impossible for a computer. Conversely he's unable to do things a computer program could do 60 years ago. Of course perhaps he's really a genetically engineered "android" not running a computer program at all. The original robots of fiction in the RUR play were actually androids.
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No, I think Data is entirely mechanical:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Soong-type_android
Though on topic, in one of the (not-so-canon) novels, there was a plotline where Data tries to write fiction. The best he can do is basically rip off other authors to point where another character thought it was supposed to be a parody.