 The events of " Elementary Dear Data " led film professor <unk> <unk> to suggest that Pulaski may have been inspired by the works of Friedrich <unk> . In Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy : The <unk> of a <unk> Mind ( 2011 ) , <unk> notes that Pulaski 's argument that Data lacks <unk> is reminiscent of parts of <unk> 's 1878 work Human , All Too Human . The relationship between Pulaski and Data was further considered by <unk> V. Wilcox in her article " <unk> Data : <unk> in Star Trek : The Next Generation " ( 1993 ) . Wilcox notes that Pulaski " frequently challenges Data in terms of his machine nature , expressing <unk> for his supposed <unk> . " She compares Data 's <unk> state to slavery due to the reference in " The Child " to Maya Angelou 's 1969 work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . 
