Primary, secondary, and tertiary systems, all in different areas,
have shut down.
The vast majority have to do with control.
There are a few, though, that exist in a section Data is unaware of.
His father wasn't entirely done with tweaking parts of Data. Emotional
development was an area he had explored addressing in various ways. An
emotion chip was one idea; it would serve as a shortcut around a problem
that was difficult to address: how to make the intelligence aware of
emotional growth taking place and to identify emotions being felt. How to
let the person he'd created not just feel, but know that he'd
felt--and to allow the emotions, then, to naturally, without the need of
thought (even at the speed of thought a positronic brain is capable of)
have those emotions influence actions.
Dr. Soong would give a great deal to be able to have observations of this
interaction, along with all possible test results Dr. Crusher will have in
the end. Even if Data's emotional growth lacks the maturity to know when
not to act on his emotions.
But then, everyone on the ship is acting out a bit.
Data spreads his legs slightly apart and tugs her towards him so she's
standing between both, one hand resting on her right hip.
The other picks up her left hand and carefully presses a kiss to it. He
doesn't calculate how much pressure to use, nor does he analyze the
chemical traces of several things she's touched that day.
(Later, after he's been told It did happen, he will allow himself
to remember. Then he will realize that he took in that information without
registering it at the time, because it was unimportant. He had
behaved...naturally. Not naturally for him; naturally as a creature of
nature, rather than technology.
He will not be able to replicate the experience. And he will register
regret for the fact that he cannot tell Tasha the gift she gave him.
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Date: 2016-10-03 03:48 am (UTC)The vast majority have to do with control.
There are a few, though, that exist in a section Data is unaware of.
His father wasn't entirely done with tweaking parts of Data. Emotional development was an area he had explored addressing in various ways. An emotion chip was one idea; it would serve as a shortcut around a problem that was difficult to address: how to make the intelligence aware of emotional growth taking place and to identify emotions being felt. How to let the person he'd created not just feel, but know that he'd felt--and to allow the emotions, then, to naturally, without the need of thought (even at the speed of thought a positronic brain is capable of) have those emotions influence actions.
Dr. Soong would give a great deal to be able to have observations of this interaction, along with all possible test results Dr. Crusher will have in the end. Even if Data's emotional growth lacks the maturity to know when not to act on his emotions.
But then, everyone on the ship is acting out a bit.
Data spreads his legs slightly apart and tugs her towards him so she's standing between both, one hand resting on her right hip.
The other picks up her left hand and carefully presses a kiss to it. He doesn't calculate how much pressure to use, nor does he analyze the chemical traces of several things she's touched that day.
(Later, after he's been told It did happen, he will allow himself to remember. Then he will realize that he took in that information without registering it at the time, because it was unimportant. He had behaved...naturally. Not naturally for him; naturally as a creature of nature, rather than technology.
He will not be able to replicate the experience. And he will register regret for the fact that he cannot tell Tasha the gift she gave him.
But that is later.)