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