never get a tympanic tickle from an amateur

i have this theory that data can feel emotions, but he's unaware of it because he cant feel the physical symptoms of emotions. like when we're anxious we sweat, hands shake, we get nauseous, face flushes– if i couldn't feel those physical symptoms would i even be able to tell the difference between anxiety versus sadness versus excitement etc etc...? i would feel very robotic about it too. i dont know, our thoughts are filtered through a body and they expect data to have those same body filtered emotions. i think he has the capacity to be even more in tune with his emotions and wants and needs than a biological human because he cant rely on the physical symptoms, he has to truly know whats in his brain.

idc data's sunset poem is genuinely the most emotional heartbreaking beautiful thing ive ever read. do not tell me there's no emotion here. its loneliness its passion its longing its unrequited its admiration its

everyone reblog with a star trek headcanon you refuse to give up. for me i know in my soul data and geordi regularly played 4D minecraft in the holodeck

alright bear with me for like two seconds. theres a scene in time's arrow where everyone thinks data is going to die, and riker tells troi that data once defined friendship as "as i experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. the inputs eventually are anticipated and even missed when absent." except when data originally said that in the ep legacy, riker was on the other side of the bridge having a different conversation. just casually fifteen feet away ignoring his job to listen and memorize word for word how his buddy defined friendship. dont touch me

data wasnt bad at being a human he was just weird because he was a poet

do androids get apps in their head like does data get flappy bird in there

data tried mood rings at least once. you know he did. its canon now shut up

me: :(

datas shiny poker visor: ✨

me: :)

forever angry that they explained away datas awkwardness as being an android when probably most of it was just the fact that he grew up bullied by his entire town, only ever hung out with his deranged brother and egomaniac dad, then was abandoned and got amnesia, forgetting any social skills he might have learned. of course he doesn't understand metaphors you goons

me watching picard and hearing "bruce maddox" when i thought we left that racist little man in 1989

petition for data to get a scene in picard where he finds the people who tried to kill dahj and says this Exact Line

so when picard isolates himself to a field in the middle of nowhere to mourn data for 15 years he's "wracked with guilt" and "still one of the finest captains in starfleet" but when i do it i "need to manage my emotions" and im "being dramatic over a character"