Has anyone compiled a list of every contraction Data used? I'm not having much luck with Google.
I stumbled on the following while looking up the source for a different response (see below)...
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Data#Use_of_contractions
(contents may be incomplete but Memory Alpha definitely has one started)
Most ridiculous moment: In 'Datalore', the episode that establishes the whole 'can't talk in contractions' shtick (indeed the plot hinges on it), Picard asks Data how he is.
Response- "I'm fine".
Was it not true that Spiner and Rob Bowman came up with that ending with a deliberate contraction? This, of course, was back when nobody thought the show would last more than a year - not just because of the behind-the-scenes turmoil in getting scripts out to begin with (so, so much for ironclad character profiles), but also noting all the other "the new ____" and "____ the next generation" shows that had been attempted. Of which "The New Monkees" even bested TNG at times.
