TNG's most absurd moments
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The buttons on Data's station forming a 'P' was pretty cringeworthy, too.
Spider-Barclay! Spider-Barclay!
Does whatever a spider may!....
....and also, the chick-fight on the jungle-gym (or 'climbing frame' if you are someone banished to Delta Vega) that follows this great line:
"Then you shall have no treaty, no vaccine, and no Lieutenant Yar!"
Does whatever a spider may!....
....and also, the chick-fight on the jungle-gym (or 'climbing frame' if you are someone banished to Delta Vega) that follows this great line:
"Then you shall have no treaty, no vaccine, and no Lieutenant Yar!"
Beverleyyyyy........
A "fully functional" android............
I mean, OMG! WHY?!?!
Because he can.
Soong wanted Data to be a fully functional member of the society he was living in, giving him dreams, giving him emotions, even including the wish to have a family (otherwise he would have never created Laal nor made the experimental relationship with that crewmember whose name currently escapes me).
^^^ roundabouts absurd, how Soong made such efforts to make Data fully functional, what with the dreams and emotions and eye blinking and breathing.
Soong can tackle all the obstacles of developing a positronic brain, achieve artificial sentience, everything he can to make Data as human and alive as possible and then (cue absurdity) Soong fails with the contact lens and skin pigment. For what, spite?
Or maybe Data (who can change his appearance) wants to look that way? He wants so very much to be human, but won't allow himself natural human colors? Is that absurd or not really?
Soong can tackle all the obstacles of developing a positronic brain, achieve artificial sentience, everything he can to make Data as human and alive as possible and then (cue absurdity) Soong fails with the contact lens and skin pigment. For what, spite?
Or maybe Data (who can change his appearance) wants to look that way? He wants so very much to be human, but won't allow himself natural human colors? Is that absurd or not really?
Well, Soong made him that way (probably because he wanted people to know and accept that he was an Android), and Data accepted that. He didn't go Michael Jackson and tried to give himself a skin color he didn't have. BUT when he created Laal, he gave him/her/it the choice of gender, race, skin color and appearance.
Here and I thought you were going to hit upon the sometimes forgotten inability to pronounce contractions.
Why? I don't really get this one...firstly, he was turned into energy as a recognizable pattern but one that wouldn't last long...if the transporter could convert one to other why coudn't it do so back again...and a "P" on Data's console seems like a logical way to get someone's attention on the bridge if you aren't capable of full communication.
RAMA
Hmm as opposed to the dozens of other times that's been used in SF....Darth Vader, B5, etc...I'd be more likely to believe a technological weapon could do it than psionic powers.
I think it was made fairly clear over a period of years on the show itself that Soong learned from Lore, and created an android that COULDN'T do everything at the time of creation but tempered it's abilities and ego but having to LEARN as it went along, that may include sneezing, laughing, dreaming, and yes...sex. Perhaps the contraction issue was just a by-product of his reduced programming complexity.
RAMA
I think that was the most absurd moment of all... People devolving into other species. And then... being transformed back! Totally back to normal even, no side effects.
I can appreciate dermal regenerators and other devices that will heal, but I find complete DNA transformation to be utterly ridiculous.
Any theories on how? It obviously doesn't effect the oxygen level or John Doe wouldn't be able to heal individuals. And through the shields?
This (along with Data developing multiple personalities).
Also, the whole idea of the tactical officer being made to stand. Surely comfort is key to somebody who often has to aim manually and needs to keep steady when the ship is shaking about during an attack (one wrong move could mean lowering the shields).
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