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Watch the first 30 seconds of this.

Brent Spiner made a web series, Fresh Hell, about him being typecast as Data. It's hilarious. In it, he commits some horrible social mistake called "the incident." We never find out what the incident is.

Did Brent ever reveal what the incident was that crashed his career in the show?

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    The joke is that it is so incomprehensibly awful that OJ Simpson may be redeemable, "but at least he's not Brent Spiner". I doubt its possible to write a convincing description of it and they don't need to.
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    Yes, but at a con, spiner said that he knows what the incident is, but it's not really important to the story. I just want to know what it is. Commented yesterday

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He's alluded to it repeatedly, but doesn't seem to have elaborated, beyond stating that it was a real thing that they didn't film.

Note that "the incident" is actually a metaphor for getting old, which is the single most unforgivable sin in Hollywoodland.

Brent Spiner: The real me? I’ll give it 10% because I do actually look like that. Basically it’s me but it’s not me. It’s me in another reality. The whole piece is a metaphor for our times. Every day you see on the web about how some celebrity has done something terrible that they have to apologize for or go into rehab or anger management and it wrecks their career at least for a time. "The Incident" that we talk about on the show is really a MacGuffin. It was that thing that wrecked his career but it doesn’t matter what it is. It really is that subtextual incident and that incident is about getting older and getting used up and getting kicked out of this fraternity you have been in and wanted to be in your whole life. And where you go from there and how do you get back in and the desperation about getting back to where you once belonged.

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