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Theory: The Emotion Chip is a drug

Evidence: Tasha Yar’s discription of drugs in the episode “Symbiosis” is eerily similar to what happens to Data in descent “drugs can make you feel good. They make you feel on top of the world. You’re happy, sure of yourself, in control.” “But it’s artificial.” “It doesn’t feel artificial until the drug wears off. Then you pay the price. Before you know it, you’re taking the drug not to feel good but to keep from feeling bad.” “And that’s the trap?” “All you care about is getting your next dosage. Nothing else matters.”.

•Yes it didn’t make him feel good but it made him feel and this extreme, artificial new form of emotion is obviously going to feel better than what he had before

•At first, he was in control-going to the holodeck to try and get more-but that control slipped away more and more over the course of the episode

•As he’s trying to get more emotions from Lore, you can see he doesn’t want them just to feel at this point he wants them because he can’t bear the thought of not feeling (or at least not feeling as much)

•That was Lore’s trap

•All he cared about was getting more emotion

•Nothing mattered. Even the life of his best friend didn’t matter enough to get him to stop

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Data Neurodiversity

Data being autistic is pretty obvious but for some reason, he also has a bit of an ADHD feel to him (especially season 1) and I’m trying to figure out why

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Data and Worf Headcanon

•After his activation, Data notices a lag time between when somebody says something and when he processes it

•Data, being Data, is obsessed with finding the reason behind this “malfunction”

•He doesn’t find anything but can’t get help to figure out what it is because “an android should not lag as though a 20th century computer”

•He doesn’t really think about it further until he notices the same occurrence in Worf

•He asks Worf about it and Worf is surprised that Data experiences it as well

•They talk more and Worf hates it because “a tactical officer needs to react to orders”

•Data realises it’s not a malfunction and Worf realises it’s not a lack of intelligence

I came up with this after I saw a picture of Data with something along the lines of “my brain lags like an old desktop” underneath it and thought it would be an interesting idea.

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T'Pol Poll

I’m just making this poll as I was talking to a family member who really doesn’t like T'Pol at all and I wanted to see if that feeling was common or not. I quite like her as you can probably tell

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Star Trek TNG Season 3, Episode 22:

This episode is so much more fucked up than I initially thought. Throughout the episode “The Most Toys”, Data’s demeanour changes. At the start he’s quite calm and just walks over to the door and attempts to open it. When this fails, you can see how his calmness slowly starts to dissipate. This continues until the end where he literally almost kills someone. If it were purely rational, he would have told Riker that rather than suggesting a transporter malfunction. And Fajo’s comments about how he’d love to see Data naked and how Varria was barely an adult when he found her. Very creepy??? That is something of an understatement.

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I’ve seen people say that Data’s “only autistic by programming” but that doesn’t make any sense because surely you could say the same thing about autistic humans in regards to their brain?

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Data Is An Adult

I’ve heard countless people in the series call Data a child but I’ve only just came up with a hypothesis about why. Yes it is said that it’s because he’s inquisitive and views the world through a relatively simple lens but these traits are not unique to children. In fact, I’m often told I view situations much more simply than they are (when they are in fact simple but it’s just humans that make them complicated) and in a world like Data’s with so many interesting things and contradictions, you would think everyone would be inquisitive. However, children are constantly learning and everyone knows it. Whereas, adults are also constantly learning but this is somewhat less acknowledged. So I think as Data is reasonably vocal about how he learns all the time, people tend to think of him as more of a child than an adult.

There’s also the fact that he displays several autistic tendencies but personally, I can’t fathom why anyone would consider that childlike.