The Most Toys

"**The Most Toys**"
"The Most Toys"
Star Trek: The Next Generation episode
Episode no.	Season 3; Episode 22
Directed by	Tim Bond
Written by	Shari Goodhartz
Featured music	Dennis McCarthy
Cinematography by	Marvin Rush
Production code	170
Original air date	May 5, 1990
Guest appearances
	Nehemiah Persoff as Toff; Jane Daly as Varria; Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien; Saul Rubinek as Kivas Fajo;
Episode chronology
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"The Most Toys" is the 22nd episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the 70th episode of the series overall.

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. In this episode, Lieutenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner) is kidnapped by an obsessive collector, who leads the Enterprise crew to believe that Data was destroyed in a shuttlecraft accident. The episode's title references a quote popular in the 1980s, "Whoever dies with the most toys wins".^[1]

^ Toles, Tom (October 24, 2016). "He who dies with the most toys loses". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 30, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2020.

[1] Toles, Tom (October 24, 2016). "He who dies with the most toys loses". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 30, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2020.

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