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I think Shelby and Data made love in The Best of Both Worlds Part 1.

So then why would Soong do that? Invent an AI but then imprison it within as close to a human form as advanced science would allow? Because maybe he felt being an intelligent lifeform that exists as we do has intrinsic value in itself & perhaps in general.

For one thing, Data is perhaps much less likely to think all humans should be eradicated like V-ger or Nomad for example, because he knows intimately our experience. He can identify with us.

This is what it sounds like if you are a robot with zero empathy for human kind...

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Or you know, far, far, far less than Zero empathy.
 
This is what it sounds like if you are a robot with zero empathy for human kind...

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Or you know, far, far, far less than Zero empathy.
Hence why I only said Soong's goal was "Less likely" to result in a devaluation of humans lol. It's really just hedging his bet a little, that living like us might yield a being that more identifies with us, but hey, who knows... probably not anyone building an AI right now. :guffaw:
 
Beggar : Could you help out a forty niner? I fell down the shaft. I got blown over in th' tunnel.
Lt. Commander Data : That is unfortunate.

Oh dear.
 
His hair does not require trimming, you lunkhead.

He can grow a beard.

I imagine its like one of those pump toys with playdoh?

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If he wants long hair, anywhere, he may be able to will it into existence, like squeezing out a fart lost deep inside one of us.
 
BASHIR: "Right. Data, can I ask you a personal question?"
DATA: "Certainly."
BASHIR: "Does your hair grow?"
DATA: "I can control the rate of my follicle replenishment. However, I have not yet had a reason to modify the length of my hair. Why do you ask?"


In other words, he grows hair. Before you start name calling, better at least make sure it's justified.
 
He can grow a beard.

I imagine its like one of those pump toys with playdoh?

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If he wants long hair, anywhere, he may be able to will it into existence, like squeezing out a fart lost deep inside one of us.

Just be sure the excited little tots don't eat the clay afterward... what's really sad is that there's no video showing what happens when you pop a ball of that stuff into a beaker full of stomach acid, so I settled on this instead:

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Wish they wouldn't do the overproduced faff, and they don't chew the food to get saliva into it, but it gets to the main point right enough. And why they do the fast forward ADHD stuff when that feels slower? But there I go whine whine whine whine whining again! :rofl:


This is what it sounds like if you are a robot with zero empathy for human kind...

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Or you know, far, far, far less than Zero empathy.

Really cool scene!

Is he Dean Stockwell?

The best thing about a big bang is to promptly ask "Now where are the mashmallows and sticks?" :guffaw:
 
Just be sure the excited little tots don't eat the clay afterward... what's really sad is that there's no video showing what happens when you pop a ball of that stuff into a beaker full of stomach acid, so I settled on this instead:

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Wish they wouldn't do the overproduced faff, and they don't chew the food to get saliva into it, but it gets to the main point right enough. And why they do the fast forward ADHD stuff when that feels slower? But there I go whine whine whine whine whining again! :rofl:




Really cool scene!

Is he Dean Stockwell?

The best thing about a big bang is to promptly ask "Now where are the mashmallows and sticks?" :guffaw:

Did you not finish Battlestar Galactica, do you have very little recollection of Battlestar Galactica, or have you never seen Battlestar Galactica?

The longer you put this off, the less joy you will achieve when you finally relent.

(Yes, that's Dean.)
 
May we stick to...amorous matters? Diverging into the intimate details of viscera quick sapped the sexiness out of this discussion.
 
May we stick to...amorous matters? Diverging into the intimate details of viscera quick sapped the sexiness out of this discussion.

Did they ask Dean and Grace if they wanted to do love scenes, or were we just supposed to get by on watching her do yoga for him, in his room and extrapolate from there?
 
If they were fuck buddies or booty calls, or even if it was a one night stand... Did she show up at his funeral?

Imagine if Data and Eppy were in a relationship, and that there were dozens of episodes from season 4 through 7 where she was waiting in Data's quarters, wearing something frilly, for him to get home from work?

Once you go droid, everything else you avoid.
 
Did you not finish Battlestar Galactica, do you have very little recollection of Battlestar Galactica, or have you never seen Battlestar Galactica?

The longer you put this off, the less joy you will achieve when you finally relent.

(Yes, that's Dean.)

I've seen the whole of the 1978 version (starts great, goes downhill during its season and it wasn't originally intended as a full series but a miniseries later expanded to several miniseries but then expanded to a full season, but I digress), made it through the bleepingly bleep bleepy bleep bleeping bleep bleep awful bleeping Galactica 1980, hated the 2003 miniseries yet loved the first two seasons of the show spawned by the reboot and then dropped off interest. Never saw Caprica either.

Looks like I should circle back to BSG2003 and where I'd left off...

I will say this - BSG2003 did an exponentially better job with the "human cylon" idea than Galactica 1980 ever had (really, do not sit through G1980...)
 
BASHIR: "Right. Data, can I ask you a personal question?"
DATA: "Certainly."
BASHIR: "Does your hair grow?"
DATA: "I can control the rate of my follicle replenishment. However, I have not yet had a reason to modify the length of my hair. Why do you ask?"


In other words, he grows hair. Before you start name calling, better at least make sure it's justified.

I am experimenting with friendly jibes and insults. It was not meant as a serious disparagement.
 
BASHIR: "Right. Data, can I ask you a personal question?"
DATA: "Certainly."
BASHIR: "Does your hair grow?"
DATA: "I can control the rate of my follicle replenishment. However, I have not yet had a reason to modify the length of my hair. Why do you ask?"


In other words, he grows hair. Before you start name calling, better at least make sure it's justified.

In the context of this thread, if Data wants a back, crack and sack he doesn't need to rely on waxing or depilatories.
 
Given his exchange with a newly beardless Riker in "Insurrection", I'm guessing Data doesn't have that problem.

And I expect that removing unwanted body hair in the 24th century hurts a lot less.
 
The only good episode of GALACTICA 1980 was "THE RETURN OF STARBUCK".

True...

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Probably...

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So Cy there says the Cylons work as a team. To be honest, given G1980's general tone, I'm impressed that Cy never once uttered "Sock it to me!" given who voiced Cy (the casting is surprisingly good, but is still a surprise - especially as most people by 1980 still remembered "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"!). But the episode also has me circling back to when the show was actually good:

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The tone makes all the difference.
 
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