never get a tympanic tickle from an amateur

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

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"

i hate trying to describe star trek to people bc it looks like a space exploration politics things blow up blah blah show but this is the series where Q was like "what do i have to do to prove im human" and worf was like "die" and the whole bridge had to hide their giggles