Published on 12, July, 2020
I noticed that someone on this board recently described themselves as like Commander Data from Star Trek. Very able intellectually but struggles emotionally and socially. It was something like that and I can't remember who wrote it.
But I thought Commander Data was a good metaphor for how I feel and behave- able intellectually but struggles emotionally and socially. Does anyone else feel like that? Data was my favourite character in Star Trek, this must be why!
I liked Data as a character. And I liked the paradoxical nature of him, because on the one hand he supposedly doesn't have emotion, yet he wished to feel emotion, which, could be argued is a sort of emotion in itself.
Yes, I can never understand that about androids etc. Why on earth do they want to feel emotions and be human? Surely being an android is far superior and easier.
I'm very much like an android - I really don't 'do' emotions - I'm 100% logic all the way.
If I try to do emotions, I get very messed up and unpredictable - just like Mr Data.
In fact, if you remember the episode where he built a daughter, I malfunction like she did when they wanted to dismantle her. Even thinking about it makes me tearful and upset.
Oh no, I'm not logical at all really, I tend to go by instinct and find logic hard to understand. Maybe something is logical, maybe it isn't. Each time is different for me.