#soong

[capsfromtrek]

[wonkyplate]

how could you not be obsessed with the soong's when this whole family are designed to make each other depressed

a brilliant man who fathers androids in his own likeness, more concerned with the continuation of his legacy and research than with showing love to his own children

a kind woman with so much love to give but her husband and children can't love her back in the same way (except maybe lore, but we know that at some point she came to fear him and he was deactivated)

[spoiler] the eldest android, one of noonien's first prototypes, who lacks the positronic net his younger brothers are built with. i can only assume he was treated differently by his father for the "failure" he built him with

the middle child who is designed with all the faculties of someone who can experience the best and worst of humanity and is punished for becoming wayward as a result, with little to no guidance or help ("you could have fixed me!")

the youngest android who is perfectly suspended behind the window of humanity and spends his life trailing after it, constantly in search of fitting in when he's aware it may never happen. if this father truly loved any of them, data was the most loved - which begs the question: was noonien so afraid of showing love that he required a son who couldn't know the difference?

and then you've got:

data not remembering anything about his family (wiped clean) but he has all the memories of the colonists who feared him ???

[spoiler] juliana's memories and humanity being unknowingly transferred into an android because her husband couldn't bear the thought of losing her, something which data learns after he meets her decades after the memory-wipe, but noonien still ends up losing her when she leaves years later and remarries

[spoiler] the conflict of morality when choosing whether to tell your mother she is now an android because you're desperate to have some sort of a family to share your life with, and not telling her to save her happiness !!!!!!!!!!!

data being left behind out in the cold on omicron theta while the crystalline entity destroyed the colony and all organic life on the planet, because juliana was afraid that he would turn out like lore and she couldn't bear the thought of damning another son to a life of misery

lore and data clearly feeling some sort of sibling connection but neither of them being well equipped to be the perfect brother. lore is on a crusade for a satisfaction that he'll never achieve without his family's help and data is too rigid to fully understand the intricacies. there have been too many betrayals and too much hurt for data to let lore in willingly (+ vise versa but the Mentally Ill edition)

b-4 being entirely too good for this world. he deserved so much more

this family is one of the most fucked up things about star trek. roddenberry didn't want to introduce conflict into the utopian series and so while it's a beautiful vision to aspire to, it's got this naïve and unfulfilled feel to it. people and stories thrive on conflict & solution, so the writers must have an exceptionally difficult time keeping things interesting for us. tng pulled it out of the bag with the soong tragedies

[rhinexstone]

People joke about how funny and unrealistic the whole “every soong male looks like Brent Spiner” but like…I am the fourth person on my mothers side to have their mothers exact face. Like when my hair was similar to my moms even as a child it freaked people out how alike we were. And it was like that with her mother, and her mother before her. So far, we’ve all aged the exact same too, so when I see Brent Spiner pretend to be another soong man, my brain just goes “Ah, a soong man who inherited The Family Face”

[zhaozi]

playboyy (2023) dir. cheewin thanamin

[quarkslobes]

everyone reblog with a star trek headcanon you refuse to give up. for me i know in my soul data and geordi regularly played 4D minecraft in the holodeck

[magpieandpossum]

"Thine Own Self" Data doodle for the day :)

[idol--hands]

[itsybitsyb0nes]

CACKLES it was the first thing that came to mind

[capsfromtrek]

[captaincrusher]

Mood.

[mandala-lore]

I am a Soong family apologist first and a critical thinker second.

[flowersforgrantaire]

Any neurodivergent fellow who'd like to share their hyperfixations with me is welcome in my dm's.

I know how it feels to find yourself speaking all the time about one thing and see annoyed faces around you. Or being said that you're behaving weird, when you're just excited about telling some random facts. I care about your hyperfixations, and I want to listen all you have to say.

(I'm fixated right now on Star Trek, so if anyone wants to talk about that specifically I'd be extra glad)

[quarkslobes]

i have this theory that data can feel emotions, but he's unaware of it because he cant feel the physical symptoms of emotions. like when we're anxious we sweat, hands shake, we get nauseous, face flushes– if i couldn't feel those physical symptoms would i even be able to tell the difference between anxiety versus sadness versus excitement etc etc...? i would feel very robotic about it too. i dont know, our thoughts are filtered through a body and they expect data to have those same body filtered emotions. i think he has the capacity to be even more in tune with his emotions and wants and needs than a biological human because he cant rely on the physical symptoms, he has to truly know whats in his brain.

[galactic-magick]

Star Trek makes me soooo crazy cuz you got Picard saying things like "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose."

And Data saying things like "I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could taste my dessert."

And Bashir saying things like “You can't go through life trying to avoid getting a broken heart. If you do, it'll break from loneliness anyway."

And Odo sayings things like "It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice is that sometimes they make the wrong choice."

And I’m just supposed to be normal about it???

[idol--hands]

“Drinking buddies” (translation: PLEASE let me stay in my bod.)