Data - South American or French?

[Snowdrop82]

Data is Data. He is neither South American, nor French. But if he were either, why not both? He could be from French Guiana! But he's from Omicron Theta.

 

[FredH]

No, it's not a reference to Nimoy having played Asian, Native American and Hispanic characters.

I suspect that it’s the hopefully-outmoded convention whereby, say, people refer to David Carradine’s character on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as “looking Oriental”, which happened more than once, despite his very plainly being a white guy who talks funny.