#star trek ng

[automaton-enjoyer]

data headcanon/fanon from someone who has only watched the first season of TNG but wants to write a narrative fanfic GO

Data's code is strikingly similar to Lore's. Given the fact that Lore was created first, I'm inferring that Dr. Soong took Lore's code and only modified it to a point it would produce the results he wanted for Data. Like hardcoding speech patterns, and potentially placing a block on emotions.

Note that this is very different than removing emotion altogether. We can easily see that Data does feel emotion despite him saying he doesn't. This reminds me of repression in certain mental disorders like PTSD coupled with a lack of outward emotional expression sometimes seen in ASD. He also just thinks he can't experience emotion because he's an android, and traps himself in that thinking pattern.

Programmers, being naturally lazy as they are, would probably take an opportunity to simply block that code instead of work around its deletion. So if you removed this barrier, he would be able to feel a fuller range of emotion.

This can also help to explain why Data was over-emotional with the emotion chip. Instead of simply giving him the ability to feel, the chip was building on what was already there and caused double what it should have done.

"But automaton-enjoyer! He's a computer! He can't have mental illness!"

1. Look at Lore and tell me he's not a lil fucked up (lovingly). His tic can also be considered a neural malfunction. Also Data is autistic (also lovingly)

2. Dr. Soong's goal was to create a positronic brain, not a positronic computer/AI by itself. So it very well could function similarly to a human brain, but with enhanced memory etc etc.

3. If the issue was a blockage coded into him, it's less of a mental illness and more of just something that's there that has the potential to be removed. Also! Coding is rarely perfect, especially in something so complex! So the "issues" the brothers have could be errors too.

There's my ramblings! Do with it what you will.

[klaxonsynth]

sum tidbits from recently

[angelfox]

Ludwig Tortilla Slaps Jerma985 (XQC's Juiced Gameshow) / Worf Hits Lore (Star Trek The Next Generation)

[canyoufoldbooksintowords]

[technicallyclassyperfection]

[taxusbaccata6]

[lenfantdeverone]

When someone tells me that jim isn't canonically trans wtf

[yodaprod]

Wil always finds a way to show his 🏳️‍🌈 support

[cosmic-spoons]

Go white boy go

[automaton-enjoyer]

Is Star Trek a dying fandom or do I follow too many tags for other fandoms

[doitforstamets]

My Captain  👉👈

[mnemo-sick]

Summary: cdrw do, apparently, have the capacity to be sweet to one another. especially if it's a sleepy early morning and cd's not feeling well

[taxusbaccata6]

[chaddicus]

feels weird when new media gaining prominence and older, already somewhat obscure media fading from the spotlight even more leads to ppl using fandom abbreviations and shit that mean something completely different to what my brain is trained to recognize it as. all this to say I keep getting confused about people talking about the homoerotic cannibalism in young justice. what did I miss there

[secretneilgaiman]

Bone’s self-loathing is harnessed and utilized to forcibly save anyone in the immediate vicinity no matter the cost to his own body or soul, and Garak’s self-loathing manifests as causing problems for everybody else.

oh my god guys garak is the anti bones