#also i know it’s problematic that so much of the available aro representation is aliens and robots
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thinking about what if data were aromantic. even after he gets the emotion chip put in, he still just doesn’t feel romantic love, and doesn’t understand what other people are feeling when they talk about it. and he’s really upset at first because he feels like after everything he’s been through to get here he still isn’t fully human. there’s still a piece missing. he’s tapped into every work of art humans have ever created and romance seems so ubiquitous that he thinks you can’t be human without it
i’m imagining this as like a b or c plot of an episode. maybe he’s been working with a crew member who turns out to be aromantic and they commiserate about how alienating it can be to hear everyone talk about romance all the time. everyone comes together at the end to help him realize that he feels so many different kinds of love, and no human’s experience with emotions is exactly the same and your humanity doesn’t depend on what emotions you do or don’t feel anyway
i think this would be a good episode. i would enjoy it
#i went into tng fully expecting to ship data and geordi#but for some reason daforge never grabbed me as a romantic pairing#but i love it very much as a queerplatonic dynamic#and now i know why!#i also like the idea that geordi is alloromantic but data is still his Person you know?#maybe he ends up with someone else as a romantic partner but his bond with data is never any less important to him#let 👏 data 👏 and 👏 geordi 👏 form 👏 a 👏 polycule 👏#if the o’briens can have one and the entire crew of the voyager can have one they should get to have one too#also i know it’s problematic that so much of the available aro representation is aliens and robots#but against this must be set the fact that i’m aro and i like data#daforge platonic significant others let’s make it HAPPEN people#//#tng#star trek tng#star trek the next generation#data soong#aromantic headcanons
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