Lal is essential Data 1 including native expression of emotions. Data is the latest functioning android made by Noonien Soong. How do their construction, mental and physical abilities compare and differ?
Litverse Lal vs Data
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I'd say there is a pretty wide disparity. Imagine a newer state of the art i9 with a 3080 ti with 128 gigs of RAM and 8 TB of NVME storage, a computer that would be considered top of the line today. Soong spared no expense with the body he built, using all the resources he could get across the quadrant. Now imagine a computer 10 years old, with not top of the line parts because it was built locally (or just using what was available on the ship). I would imagine something like a haswell era i5 CPU, maybe a 750ti gpu, 16 gigs of RAM, if lucky a 250 gig SSD, if not maybe a 2 TB HDD. Capable machine to be sure, but surpassed by the newer one that much more money and resources were spent on.
So, I would consider Lal capable enough, with enhanced strength and intellect compared to a human, with basic emotion capabilities as well. Perhaps not even Data 1.0 (before the new body) equivilent since he was limited to what was onboard the ship or what resources he had access to during their Starfleet assigned travel options and missions. Maybe he could get some stuff at a stop at a starbase, but that's nothing compared to Soong having unlimited financial resources and could go across the quadrants to get exactly what he wanted. Lal was obviously still an android, like Data 1.0 The new body, or Data 2.0, could pass as human or a different species entirely, with more processing speed and features. Going back to the desktop analogy, imagine the older one only having an ethernet port for connectivity while the newer one has that plus wifi and bluetooth, or even if the older one had wifi it was a/b instead of the newer one which could handle AC wifi.
So, I would consider Lal capable enough, with enhanced strength and intellect compared to a human, with basic emotion capabilities as well. Perhaps not even Data 1.0 (before the new body) equivilent since he was limited to what was onboard the ship or what resources he had access to during their Starfleet assigned travel options and missions. Maybe he could get some stuff at a stop at a starbase, but that's nothing compared to Soong having unlimited financial resources and could go across the quadrants to get exactly what he wanted. Lal was obviously still an android, like Data 1.0 The new body, or Data 2.0, could pass as human or a different species entirely, with more processing speed and features. Going back to the desktop analogy, imagine the older one only having an ethernet port for connectivity while the newer one has that plus wifi and bluetooth, or even if the older one had wifi it was a/b instead of the newer one which could handle AC wifi.
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