Commander Data from Star Trek

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!

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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