#tng hell

[namorian]

The show: data has no emotion

Me, watching data act like an excited schoolboy about playing sherlock Holmes: yeah sure if that makes you feel better

[warpfactor9]

the side eye these two share sometimes is absolutely lethal

[madame-saturns-stash]

Sneak peeks of some Star Trek stuff I got in the oven. Jury is still out on whether or not I'll actually finish any of it.

Q is so entrenched in my brain he may as well have grown roots in there. No I cannot draw him consistently.

[kidpickarus]

ok I know I literally JUST posted qcard but they are living in my head rent free. Sorry

[feral-ferengi]

1st Ferengifriday of this autumn 🍁🍂👂🏽

With my beloved in black 🖤

[risingchaos]

I rarely say this about straight couples in TV, but dear gOD LET THEM KISS FOR REAL.

[lizard-speed]

I FORGOT THAT PICARD CANONICALLY MADE A PLAYLIST FOR BEVERLY. WHAT THE FUCK.

[enterprise-bee]

yeah okay deja q is what i needed to get q i think. the whole friendship with data especially, with both q and data having outsider perspectives on humanity but the difference being data's ability to be positive about humanity and, despite supposedly not having emotions, being possibly the first person ever to truly give a shit about q. q describing picard as the closest thing he has to a friend in the universe at the start of the episode (comedy) and then reflected in him saying that if he'd died no one would have cared he was gone (tragedy) at the end. the explicit framing of his attempt at a noble sacrifice being as a suicide as he realizes how miserable he is. just... imagine being immortal on the scale of billions and detached from everything and then, for the first time in your immortal existence, realizing that you're really fucking lonely. yeah you know what i might throw the enterprise at a borg cube just to get picard to say "i need you" too for that reason. and you're the comic relief character. what the fuck man,

[hellodarjeeling]

[namorian]

I've been reading various conversations over whether or not Data has had emotions in some form or another the whole time or not because it's the exact kind of historical fandom conversation I love to study and it's WILD to me how little people are bringing up Lal in what I've seen so far. I've seen people mention things like Tasha's death, Spot in general, the Most Toys and In Theory episodes but so far I've only seen Offspring mentioned on here and in 1 youtube comment.

Now I haven't even seen any of these episodes yet, I'm still in season 1 and only just now coming up to Tasha's death but I know enough about things to know that Lal should REALLY be the center of this debate along with the fact that he ???? wants these emotions to begin with? because why would an emotionless android want that to begin with?

But regardless of that part just -- Lal and Data's desire for a child, how he interacts with her, his reactions to her death are all logically really good fodder for this conversation????

And on top of that even if you take the stance that the show SAYS he has no emotions and that any we see are either his in-universe mimicry or a product of human (and thus emotional) writers and actors -- he DOES UPLOAD LAL'S BRAIN INTO HIS. SO LOGICALLY HE NOW HAS AT LEAST SOME CONCEPT OF/CAPACITY FOR EMOTION. While he didn't really get that from the uploading of the colonists minds when he was made, given the different context and how much more compatible her brain is to his and how IMPORTANT things like her feelings were to her existence it's INSANE to think they didn't get copied over into him and INSANE to think it doesn't impact him in some way.

Like via having her memories/experiences/programming in his own head now and the fact that she CANONICALLY experienced things like love and fear he AT MINIMUM now has experience with feeling those things even if second hand and now also has INPUT which would be processed by his subconscious functions and likely Do Something to him in the long run.

Just like --- even if you're a hardliner that he didn't feel emotions until the chip i just feel like you gotta explain Lal just like IN GENERAL and also how the FUCK having her mind downloaded into his wouldn't SOMEHOW effect his capacity for emotions.

[sallytwo]

my take on a starfleet uniform redesign with a more practical approach ^_^

[freylaverse]

It’s Worf Wednesday!

[null-doesnothing]

the fact that every new version of Sarek in any of his modern depictions gives him pin-straight completely flat hair is actually one of the worst character decisions they could do for him. where is his fluffy hair. this is fluffy hair Sarek erasure and I do NOT stand for it

[knots-n-crosses45]

doodle from today. I desire campfire scene, so that may occur in the near future. trynna perfect that tittless pose

[overseer-picard]

*slaps picard's bald head*

you can fit so much trauma in this bad boy

[manmadedonut]

me and @bilgewaterbath tryna ask the real questions