PATREON EXCLUSIVE - What If Data Did Get Emotions?

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In S1, It was Riker who tried to make Data into a human when he still had Q powers but Data refused, saying he wanted to find his own way. In s3, Q made him laugh because he thought making Data a human would be a curse. Similar subject matters so easy to confuse them.

If you guys want romance in character arcs over multiple seasons you are gonna love DS9 a lot. I don't want to spoil anything, I just want to serve as a hype man.

It's like, what if Worf was a pacifist.. 👀

If Spock were just a regular guy with pointed ears, he would be the Spock from the Cage with a touch of Data (curiosity), as Roddenberry had originally envisioned.

If Data did get emotions I probably wouldn't enjoy it because it destroys what makes Data, Data.

I hope, near the end of the TNG journey that you guys or your Mods get to go back through your video comments on “things we’d love to see” and ruminate on how many you predicted, and which turned out better than expected.

I think it would be horrifying. People have emotions that make us want to react in an emotional way but most people can stop themselves for over reacting. A machine does not have that. If a machine makes a decision it will react. Now, machines behave based on logic and information. People live in the "gray" where we must make a yes or no decision but we know it is all about degree. Machines are 1 or 0 not gray.

What was Riker's favorite state? In-diana. I'll let myself out...

I think Data already has emotions. His sense of humanity has grown beyond even his own expectations. That's pure emotional growth.