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by solardev 1426 days ago
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Nah, he's quoting a TNG episode where Data does the exact same thing.
Data may have said it in TNG, but pretty sure this originated with the 1983 film “WarGames” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames).
It was Picard to Data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4A-Ml8YHyM

The WarGames "the only winning move is not to play" quote is about mutually assured destruction; a rather different lesson than the one Data learns in 'Peak Performance'.

Ah,oops, my whoosh!