He also learned more social skills with experience during the show, but retained some level of awkwardness from his early experiences. This is in line with how people work.
In Star Trek, Commander Data is socially awkward because he lacks training data. This might be because he was built and developed in isolation from the rest of society.
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snooggums@midwest.social 7 months ago
Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf 7 months ago
In my mind I always imagined he was that way because the show’s writers wrote him that way as a modern Pinocchio stand in.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
He lacks emotions. He can’t understand what others are feeling because he doesn’t feel things. He was built and developed with the human colonists where Soong worked. He lived with them, and their input shaped his programming. The only thing he lacks is an emotional understanding, since he has no emotions.
lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
He also attended Starfleet Academy. You’d think he’d have done some socializing there. Maybe taken a couple psych classes.
Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I mean I was alot older than when I first watched the series…that the entire Data vs Lore monkier went right over my head
Even when the episode title he is into’d in was something like “Data Lore”
Took season 3 of Picard for me to get it finally.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Took season 3 of Picard for me to get it finally. 🤔🤯
For those of us who don’t watch the Nu Trek stuff, could you elaborate?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You consider TNG to be Nu Trek? I typically consider TOS, TNG, and DS9 to be the OGs.
criitz@reddthat.com 7 months ago
I don’t get it, what’s the special meaning?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
reddig33@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Could’ve sworn Data was built specifically to be that way because the prior model unnerved people, and also conspired to kill an entire camp of federation colonists.