Yeah, Season 1 Data is very strange at times. His goofy grin when Tasha takes him into her quarters in the second episode is memorable, but SO out of character.
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Data Moments
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There's a moment in Encounter at Farpoint, I think, in which crewmen in engineering use an idiom (something like burning the midnight oil) and Data, walking by and holding up a parental/senior officer finger, comments "That would not be advisable!" He never breaks his stride. I think the two crewmen just stare after him in bewilderment before returning to their task. It's quick, but -- to me -- funny.
That was actually from the series finale, All Good Things. Even though it took place at the time of the Farpoint mission, it was written and filmed in season 7. It may have something to do with how well it was written.
As an aside, I just mistyped Farpont as Fart-point.
As an aside, I just mistyped Farpont as Fart-point.
Ah, thanks for the clarification -- do you happen to remember the comment he was responding to?
Yeah, Deja Q is a good example of how well both Data and Q were used when the writing was good. I also liked his analogy of Picard being like Q's "beloved pet" in AGT.
In Measure of a Man, it's a Data episode, and has a few funny/touching moments.
One is where Data is at his going away party, and he is given a wrapped present.
He delicately peels away the present in order to preserve it for later to be recycled or something, when Wesely tells him the point is to be eager to unwrap the present and not careful.
So Data protests about preserving the wrapper, they say 'you're missing the point', and Data then almost wildly rips the wrapper to shreds with a confused look on his face!
Everyone laughs, it's pretty funny....
And the look on Riker's face when Data tells the court he slept with Tasha - and said he promised not to tell anyone!
The crew members must have ended that episode thinking Data was truly weird...
You get to know a little more about how he thinks in the episode too...
One is where Data is at his going away party, and he is given a wrapped present.
He delicately peels away the present in order to preserve it for later to be recycled or something, when Wesely tells him the point is to be eager to unwrap the present and not careful.
So Data protests about preserving the wrapper, they say 'you're missing the point', and Data then almost wildly rips the wrapper to shreds with a confused look on his face!
Everyone laughs, it's pretty funny....
And the look on Riker's face when Data tells the court he slept with Tasha - and said he promised not to tell anyone!
The crew members must have ended that episode thinking Data was truly weird...
You get to know a little more about how he thinks in the episode too...
Data is definitely one of my favorite characters on the show, right up there with Picard and Worf. The best Data-centric eps are The Measure of a Man, The Offspring, Phantasms, Masks, and The Most Toys. He has lots of fun moments in many other eps, like in The Big Goodbye, when Picard, to explain his odd color, gives him the name, "Carlos from South America." And when Data lays the smack-down on the prejudiced human officer Hobson, his second-in-command on the Sutherland, in Redemption, Pt. II. A shame he was killed off. -- RR
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