In 2365, Data attempted to located a comedian to help him better understand the concept of "what is funny?". Weiss was among the holodeck program files that were contained aboard the USS Enterprise-D. The program code list for this comedian was RN-45432. (TNG-R: "The Outrageous Okona" , okudagram) This character was only mentioned in writing. This character was named for CBS Digital employee Craig Weiss, a member of the TNG remastering team. For the remastered version of this episode, this character replaced Burt Armus.