#Data

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - S2E2 Where Silence Has Lease

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek: The Next Generation // S05E08: Unification II

[allmyandroids]

this is truly one of my forever favourite pictures from a star trek comic agsfhd

[giddlygoat]

by exact count, there are seventy-five thousand, two-hundred and thirty-four operations necessary for the manufacture of a single positronic brain

[chazchaschad]

asdfdata

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that you can draw a line from Spock to Data to Tendi, tracing the evolution of how the ideal scientist is framed in popular culture:

Spock: Cold, dispassionate, strives for mechanical objectivity; aloof and separate from the rest of his society, kind of arrogant (bit of a misogynist, frankly, but not in the traditional way): the perfect encapsulation of the brainy, post-war, masculine scientist archetype.

Data: Inherits mechanical objectivity by his very nature, but problematizes it; suggests that he wants to be/should be in the world and a part of society, but can't quite manage it; absorbs everything with boundless patience and curiosity without rushing to judgement; outwardly male but not really "masculine" in any way that matters: the perfect encapsulation of science in transition after the end of the Cold War/rise of STS

Tendi: Warm, emotional, boundlessly passionate about her research; objectivity comes from her ability to compartmentalize, she doesn't need to make a machine of herself or detach herself from society; female, but in, frankly, kind of a queer way: perfect encapsulation of the 2020s scientist-as-friendly-nerd archetype.

[tngface]

[2mo3cm-man]

[datarep]

20% of U.S. adults say they "never" get enough sleep

by CivicScienceInsights/reddit

[defconprime]

TNG Season Two Crew

[atomiccollectionanchorme]

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 2 Episode 21 "Peak Performance"

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION // S2E21 Peak Performance It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life.

[lizardbrainlabs]

mr data......

[iskander-tm]

[lassie-farce]

captain picard being the most shredded officer on the bridge will never stop being funny

like logically i know data could break him like a single strand of dry spaghetti

but imagine negotiations with aliens and he just flexes a bicep and the aliens are like

///•u•///

(so is q)

[chazchaschad]

AND YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF ON A BEAUTIFUL SHIP…. WITH A BEAUTIFUL CREW… AND YOU MAY ASK YOURSELF…. HOW DID I GET HERE?