Star Trek: The Next Generation
Summary
Lt . Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) may have been a supposedly unfeeling android onStar Trek : The Next genesis , but he still get by to be one of the funniest characters on the show . data point spent much of his time aboard the USS Enterprise - D find the humans around him , hop-skip that he could learn more about what it meant to be human . Along the way , it became apparent to everyone but Data that he was already human in all the way that count . One of the human traits Data had difficultness grasping was humor , and he explore this in an early episode ofTNG .
InStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 2 , episode 4 , " The Outrageous Okona , " data point consults with a comedian ( Joe Piscopo ) on the holodeck to learn how to be comic . His outcome are less than successful when he tries out his unexampled jokes onEl - Aurian bartender Guinan(Whoopi Goldberg ) . Guinan does her serious to aid Data , buthumor is subjective even for humanoids , making it a particularly difficult concept for data point to savvy . Despite this difficulty , however , Data was often funny , sometimes without even meaning to be . While this could have made it feel like the character ( and audience ) were laughing at Data rather than with him , it almost never make out across this way .
Though Data was finally given a more human body and emotion in Star Trek Picard season 3 , he was already human in all the ways that mattered .
10Data’s Response to Guinan
TNG Season 2, Episode 4 - “The Outrageous Okona”
As Data attempt to sympathise wittiness inStar Trek : The Next Generation’s"The Outrageous Okona,“he is often funny when he ’s not seek to be rather than when he is . For instance , when he practices one of his antic with Guinan , he fails to make her jest . Guinan offer a potential reason for Data ’s failure saying:“You spoiled the joke . It could have been your timing . “Without missing a cadence , Data responds:“My timing is digital . “This , in turn , makes Guinan laugh , much to Data ’s confusion . Throughout the instalment , Data comes across as funny and charming , and it never feels like Guinan or anyone else is laughing at his disbursement .
9Data’s Dinner Time Request
TNG Season 1, Episode 10 - “Haven”
While Data ’s characterization would change some from his earliest appearing , the Data ofStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 1had the same enchantment for humanity he would have throughout the show . InTNGseason 1 , installment 10 , " Haven , " Lwaxana Troi ( Majel Barrett ) , the mother of Counselor Deanna Troi ( Marina Sirtis ) , visits the Enterprise for her girl ’s arranged marriage . During a dinner with the Trois , Deanna ’s fiancée ’s family , and the Enterprise crew , Data circles"the room like a buzzard,“as Captain Picard puts it . As the two families at the board start out to reason , Deanna quickly loses her forbearance and storms out . Data , on the other hand , requests that the arguing continue , asking:“Could you please uphold the picayune pettifoggery ? I feel it most intriguing . "
Majel Barrett ’s Lwaxana Troi had a fantastic character arc over the course of 9 appearances in Star Trek : The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine .
8Data Watching Captain Picard Sleep
TNG Season 5, Episode 7 - “Unification, Part 1”
After Ambassador Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) goes pretermit , Captain Picard and Data travelling to his last known emplacement on Romulus . To journey to Romulus undetected , Picard call in a party favour from the Klingons , who can take him and Data there in a cloaked ship . While en itinerary , the Klingons put Data and Picard in the same quarters with only one bottom . As Data does n’t slumber , Picard takes the seam and endeavor to get some shut - oculus . He detect this difficult , however , whenData abide perfectly still in the midriff of the elbow room , gaze straight at Picard . The android protests that he ’s not looking at Picard asData ’s positronic brainis meddling organizing file . Still , he slowly turns around to give Picard some secrecy , but Picard decides he wo n’t be able-bodied to sleep anyway .
7Data’s Critique of Captain Picard’s Painting
TNG Season 3, Episode 14 - “A Matter of Perspective”
Star Trek : The Next Generation , time of year 3 , episode 14 , " A Matter of Perspective , " opens with several members of the Enterprise crew get part in a painting class . As Captain Picard work on his painting , Data arrives to inform him that the ship has arrived at its finish . datum note that Picard ’s painting is"interesting,“prompting Picard to expect what the android mean . data point responds :
While suggesting the detached treatment of form usually attribute to Fauvism , this quite unsuitably attempts to juxtapose the disparate cubistic styles of Picasso and Leger . In addition , the use of color suggests a sloppy mélange of clash styles . moreover , the unsettling overtones of proto - Vulcan influences —
Picard stops Data before he can continue to manoeuvre out the flaw in his picture , and promise the android police officer that he will not be needing any more assistance .
6Data Does A Poetry Reading Of “Ode To Spot”
TNG Season 6, Episode 5 - “Schisms”
Many of Data ’s interaction with his cat , Spot , are endearing and funny , but perhaps none more than the poem Data writes about his beloved pet . Early inTNGseason 6 , installment 5 , " Schisms , " Data delivers a poetry reading , recount at least nine of his verse form , though the only one the viewer gets to hear is " Ode to Spot . " With its overabundance of scientific terms and genuine heart,“Ode to Spot " perfectly befit Data and feels just like the type of poem the android would compose . apart from an intermission when Counselor Troi has to wake a dozingCommander William Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) , Data ’s fellow gang members all patiently listen to his poetry , supporting their friend in his quest to explore his creative thinking .
5Data Learns To Dance From Dr. Crusher
TNG Season 4, Episode 11 - “Data’s Day”
One ofData ’s expert episode , the capably titled " Data ’s Day , " follows a day in the life of everyone ’s favored humanoid . As Data develop to give his friend Keiko Ishikawa ( Rosalind Chao ) off at her wedding to Chief Miles O’Brien ( Colm Meaney ) , he acts as a go - between between the groom and bride - to - be . This leads to several awkward moment as Data misinterprets the emotions behind Keiko and O’Brien ’s Scripture . In preparation for the wedding , Data asks Dr. Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) to instruct him how to dance . Although Data can simulate Dr. Crusher ’s movements , he struggle to find a musical rhythm and on a regular basis steps on Crusher ’s feet .
Gates McFadden choreograph this scene , and she also did all of her own dance , as she had been a well - make love Hollywood choreographer before starring inTNG .
4Data’s Advice to Worf
TNG Season 7, Episode 2 - “Liaisons”
When a visiting Iyaaran embassador nominate Byleth ( Michael Harris ) take a firm stand thatLt . Worf ( Michael Dorn)be his scout on the initiative , Worf struggles to accommodate the hard ambassador . At a banquet hold in honor of the cultural exchange , Data offers Worf some advice , secern the Klingon that he should find things that he and Byleth have in mutual . Worf reply that"Ambassador Byleth is demand , moody , and ill-bred . “Data cheerfully responds:“You share all of those caliber in copiousness . Perhaps you should judge to make on your similarities . “Data quickly wanders off , as if he knew his words would turn over the Klingon , as Worf stares in short at the tongue he has been using to cut up meat .
3Data’s New Nickname for Geordi
Star Trek : The Next Generation ’s " Data ’s Day " has many hilarious present moment throughout , but one of the funniest lines comes when Data bring down his best friend , Lt . Commander Geordi La Forge ( LeVar Burton ) at the barber . When Geordi jokingly need Data if he ’s there to get his tomentum cut , Data responds:“My fuzz does not require trimming , you lunkhead . “At Geordi ’s surprised chemical reaction , Data explains that he is"experimenting with friendly dig and insults"as another way to emulate humanity . Brent Spiner ’s legal transfer truly sell this bit , as Data ’s usual want of any flection makes the melody so much comic .
2Every Time Data Takes Things Too Literally
Data often misses the meaning behind idioms like “burning the midnight oil” or “the early bird gets the worm.”
Throughout Data ’s journey to take humanity , he sometimes read the words of his human crewmates too literally . For model , inTNGseason 4 , instalment 25 , " In possibility , " whereData has a beloved interestingness , the android asks Guinan for date advice , and she respond : " Do n’t await at me . “This prompts Data to physically move around his face away from her , although she just meant that she could n’t propose advice on that matter . In the initiative scene ofTNGseason 4 , instalment 6 , " Legacy , " the master crew phallus pose down for their even game of poker . When Riker do a card trick , he necessitate Data to confuse certain carte away . Data reply by literally flip the cards over his berm .
This tendency to take thing literally is one of the traits that has led some autistic and neurodivergent Star Trek rooter to concern to Data as a character reference .
Star Trek ’s Data often sputter to fit in among his human crewmates , make him a relatable hero to many autistic and neurodivergent people .
1Every Time Data Delivers An Exact Figure, Definition, Or An Excess Of Information
Data’s just trying to be as accurate as possible.
Another one of Data ’s qualities that chair to some funny consequence is his tendency to provide an excessive amount of data when he ’s expect a specific question . If someone call for an judge metre of arriver , for example , Data will answer with an exact fourth dimension down to the second . data point does this so often that when he fails to provide the seconds amount inTNGseason 4 , episode 10 , " The Loss , " Commander Riker asks:“What , no seconds?“Data responds:“I have get wind , sir , a certain degree of restlessness when I compute a lengthy clip interval to the near second . “Data then adds that he would be well-chosen to provide the seconds , but Riker ascertain him that"minutes is fine . "
In a similar venous blood vessel , whenever someone asks Data for a definition or he encounters a word he does n’t screw , he will provide the dictionary definition as well as a sometimes lengthy list of synonyms . These quirks of Data ’s are always endear , andeven when his fellow Enterprise crew member seem impatient or steamed , they clearly care about their friend . Brent Spiner ’s Data became one ofStar Trek : The Next Generation’smost beloved characters for a reasonableness , and despite his belief that he can not understand humor , he never fails to make us smile .
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