The Picard ManeuverHello, fellow humans.
DagwoodIIIIs this canon or did the poster just cherry pick a few instances?
This might be legit. Brent Spiner said in interviews that he was consciously keeping track of Data’s growth during the series. He intentionally made him feel like a blank canvas that behaved in an uncanny way at first, and slowly introduced more and more human mannerisms and warmth to his character.
Without instruction, for seven years & four movies. He was probably doing the same thing during Picard.
Can I note that Data served many years in Starfleet prior to the start of TNG? He wasn’t activated the day before the Encounter at Farpoint mission started. He would have had years of experience working with humans by that point.
FuglyDuckYes, but the crews didn’t accept him as much as enterprise crew did, making it hard for him ti experience and grow.
Agreed. I think Enterprise was the first time people collectively treated Data like anything other than a machine. A case of nurture when is came to the professional culture of Picard’s command.
Then Pulaski comes onboard from another ship and immediately regards him as a walking computer. This was probably the first time Data stood up for himself as well. Over time, Pulaski adopted the respect the rest of the crew had for him.
ummthatguyJust too bad she fell down that turbolift shaft.
Picard summarily dismissed the claims that Data pushed her.
Of course. We all know Data was merely holding the door for Picard.
I mean maybe not, but I find it hard to believe he’d get promoted to lieutenant commander if he couldn’t lead. So people had to have trusted him, like the guy eventually did in the episode where he had command of that ship.
heh. Pretty sure a rock with googly eyes would be a better leader than half the Admiralty. Just saying. plenty of turdlings getting promoted who shouldn’t have been. And plenty more were promoted merely on competence with little regard for leadership.
He also got plenty of awards for bravery and courage. There are tons of socially awkard leaders. Like Gen. Sherman (union army, civil war,) Brilliant tactician, socially worse than the average redditor.
(anybody else remember pet rocks from the 90’s? those were fun.)
Aren’t we talking about Star Trek? Most of the admirals are pretty competent in ST, when they aren’t being occupied by an invading force or something.
I mean, just as examples, we’re talking about an organization that put civilian families- including children- onto ships that are routinely attacked or otherwise facing casualties.
And let’s not talk about OSHA standards that clearly don’t exist. Virtually every non-combat casualty of been prevented with a modicum of regard for safety (wearing PPE, having a safety plan that includes questions like “what could go wrong”, and addresses them, etc)(let’s not talk about seatbelts and surge protectors,)
Or that JAG admiral who failed to even consider a legal test to determine data’s sentience- a legal test that not only would literally have to exist, but be taught to basically everyone in starfleet; because the prime directive requires that they not fuck with sentient life.
You’ll see him mimicking behavior throughout the series. One of my favorite examples is in Starship Mine aka “Star Trek does a Die Hard” with Data’s attempts at small talk.
Brent Spiner might be a seriously underrated actor. My two fav Data episodes are ‘A Fistful of Datas’ where Spiner is playing as multiple holodeck characters at once, and (forgot ep name) where he’s taken over by an entire alien civilization and he’s rapidly switching between multiple alien personalities. Watching Brent Spiner perform Data’s complex roles is a friggin’ master class in acting. Watching Data “glitch” mid sentance for example. Spiner is just incredible
The other episode is Masks.
The first handful of episodes, you could tell that spiner was trying to figure out how to play data. There’s something just … Off about his portrayal of the Android… It’s hard to describe.
But, to be blunt, there were a lot of things that were “off” about season 1…
Rob T FireflyYeah, that was pretty much everyone in Season 1. The whole show was trying to figure out how to be itself.
Humans do this unconsciously! I was on a first date and thinking, “Pretty sure this woman likes me.” So I mirrored her for a little bit then started purposefully changing my posture, and she went right along with me! Had to stop before I laughed out loud and had to explain myself.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Im surprised he doesn’t take on accents, too. That’s something people do. I remember catching myself taking on a southern accent while talking to a lady from Tennessee while on a long flight and then getting all self conscious that she might think I was mocking her and I wasn’t even doing it on purpose. 😩
I learned to do this in job interviews. It works!