Comment on Captain, masking is highly illogical
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Isn’t Data’s whole identity based around making himself more palatable?
Comment on Captain, masking is highly illogical
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Isn’t Data’s whole identity based around making himself more palatable?
bobo1900@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
I think it’s more about learning to be human. He imitates other people and their mannerism not because they find his nature inconvenient, but because he think that my imitating them he can understand.
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Other way around, his mandate is to emulate humans, so he seeks to understand so that he may do so better, even while lacking emotions.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Not a lack of emotion, but a learned habit of suppressed emotions, which is why it works for masking.
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
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