Data's Day

Find out the correct answer when we put Data’s Day the Mission Log. C – A standoff with the Romulans because anytime. But if you don’t feed the cat, no one’s going to have a good day. On a separate and only replicator-related vein, um, replimat on the Enterprise has ALWAYS bugged. Seriously, couldn’t they just give iTunes gift cards and be done with it? It’s not like the O’Briens have room for gifts from 1,024 people in their quarters, not on Miles’ salary and the quarters they can afford. Unless they’re living off of Keiko’s botany salary . . . still. If I was Maddox and received this I’d talk to Star Fleet about getting Data some counseling to deal with his repressing his emotions. The replicator center never makes an appearance again, but the reason you’d have a replicator center is for larger or restricted products. Replicators are again one of those techs that are back and forth about how it all works, but based on what we know we know that the replicators arent just a “pool of energy”, because 1, they have make references to supplies and such and 2 we know the replicator can’t replicate certain things that complex or have fine details… If they can’t do that they certainly can’t just have matter as energy as we’re often lead to believe. How they likely work is something like they have a cargo bay full of various compounds, organic and no organic, as well as tissues that they then convert to a matter-stream (which isn’t energy, but some sort of quantum fluxed matter) that behaves like electricity and then molded into the various structures needed with holography… I have that issue with all gifts and such… There is distinct difference between a “gift” and a gift that you feel you’ have to give someone. A real gift is something that reflects in the giver that they care about the receiver because the only way you can give someone something they like is supreme luck or caring to pay attention and understanding their interests. Also, another reason gift giving is similar to the previous reason for gifts which is that gifts are a way to open the world to a person to give someone something that they may have never otherwise paid any mind to. It’s interesting that Data doesn’t think to just download dance algorithms…that are in the ship memory used with the holodeck. And one must wonder about Crusher. Why would anyone think to go into a tap routine and not question why the person actually wants to learn to dance in the first place. Is that just Crusher trying to think ahead of Data? T’pel’s espionage lasting 70 some years isn’t really all that amazing when you think about it. Romulans and Vulcans like for 200 or so years. There are many people that have gone into deep covers for 20-30 years. A Romulan’s life span being double and the length of a deep cover mission being double makes sense. Also… One wonders what TNG would be like if Keiko was introduced earlier and Miles made a more central character earlier. I think that the characters wouldnt have been as successful as they became and would have really changed the flavor of later TNG and DS9, because I don’t think the zeitgeist of the earlier TNG run was ready for the O’briens just yet. Boys, for someone in your position, having analyzed every episode, in order, probably more than the most hardcore Trekkies did back in the day, I can…almost see why you think this episode doesn’t work. I don’t agree with your assessment in the slightest, though. Given all the times that TNG (and TOS before it) has completely forgotten character growth and…almost everything else, why are you being so hard on this one episode? Sure, it – arguably – regresses Data by overlooking past periods of growth, but that’s par for the course by now, and at least the episode reference Maddox meaningfully. Not only in how he exists and would have a continuing interest in Data, but also in how Data would have no reason NOT to co-operate and share his thoughts. He doesn’t bear a grudge, nor should he.