American actor and theatre director who played the cyberneticist Commander Bruce Maddox in the second-season Next Generation episode The Measure of a Man.
Brian Brophy is an American actor who later became director of theatre arts at the California Institute of Technology.
In the second-season Next Generation episode The Measure of a Man he plays Commander Bruce Maddox, a Starfleet cyberneticist who wants to dismantle Data in order to learn how to build more androids. When Data refuses and resigns, Maddox argues that he is property, which leads to the hearing before Captain Louvois.
Maddox ends the episode beginning to refer to Data as he. The character is mentioned again in Data's Day and returned decades later in Star Trek: Picard, where the part was played by John Ales.