#bonus points for Anson Mount repeatedly saying if he could play any other Star Trek role/has a fav it’s Data

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Listen as much as I want Pike and Sisko to meet because of their ridiculous narrative parallels

I think Pike would legitimately cry if he met Data, I’m not even joking. The adoption papers would be signed on site, full stop.

Data is literally an embodiment everything Chris wants Starfleet to be. Data in seeking to be human is everything that is great about humanity, and chose Starfleet as his vocation. “To seek out new life, well there it sits!” to quote Jean-Luc Picard.

Data is absolute proof that the world Pike wants to have a hand in shaping isn’t a wasted effort.

I mean, we know how much he thinks the world of Spock both as an individual and in the broader sense of being living proof of the universal constants of love and not being alone in the universe.

I think he’d have just as strong of a reaction to Data on mere principle.

Gives me the warm fuzzies.