#star trek b-4

[mostly-natm]

“Say you can’t sleep

Baby, I know

That’s that Me Espresso”

[lavenderfieldsforvr]

Sharing my transfem B-4 truth with the world (she likes to be called Bee <3)

[pirpintine]

“We... are me.”

[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

[kari-izumi]

If Janeway had been assigned to DS9, that show would've awakened so many baby lesbians with her and Kira on screen together, I'm just saying

[yellowcakeuf6]

Bored and insomniac so philosophising on original (female) characters paired with the Soong android boys in fanfiction.

From everything I've read there appears to be a recurrent theme. Data is usually drawn to clever, accomplished ladies who are feminine, petite and often blonde.

Lore meanwhile is paired with ballsy, fearless types who are implied as being tall and athletic (possibly excelling at parises squares??)

As for B-4 well, he is mostly depicted as underdeveloped emotionally and mentally so won't show any interest in a partner. Not that it matters - his golem in Picard S3 is proof he is a "Ken Doll" anyway. Which ironically is where my OFC seeking a Soong android partner is likely to wind up, hmmm...🫤

[dat4l0re]

Daystrom android M-5-10: Data, Lore, B-4

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Trek: Log 4 Cover Art by David B Mattingly

[stra-tek]

Oh god... unsee B-4's smooth bulge😬

Shots of Daystrom Station's interior, from the Twitters of Dave Blass and Kit Stolen

[mostly-natm]

Fun in the sun! ☀️🐝🌸

[idol--hands]

🦾 Soong’s sons & Pokémon crossover by the_arc_reactor 🎨

[blorbo-brainrot]

B-4 with his brothers in a cage

By ROKU on pixiv (site is 18+)

[startrekvsfaceapp]

[handsome-girl-competition]

Side B

[best-star-trek-character]

Round One

[yellowcakeuf6]

These stills from Nemesis illustrate the stark disparity between Data and B-4, credit to Brent's stellar acting in pulling this off.