All My Data Fics – Masterpost
Plants Don’t Need You To Smile
Data x gender-neutral Reader
Part 1 of the Book Series
You’re a botanist aboard the Enterprise, far more comfortable with alien plants than with people.
Understanding emotions has never come easily to you.
Unfortunately, that becomes a problem when an away mission forces you to be in a shuttle with Data for four days — the android who studies humanity with endless curiosity.
And lately, that curiosity seems focused entirely on you.
Or:
Four days alone in a shuttle with Data lead to awkward conversations, unexpected closeness, and feelings you’re not entirely sure how to name.
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(A book series about alien plants, falling in love with an android, and life in Starfleet as a neurodivergent person.)
Seedlings and Subroutines – Additional Stories
In this series, you find missing scenes, small stories, one-shots, and other things that wouldn’t fit in the main series. (They contain some spoilers but can be read even when you haven’t read the “Plants Don’t Need You To” series.)
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Nesting Behavior
Three days ago, you decided to live in the arboretum. In a tree where you carefully constructed a nest.
Now all that is missing is your mate — Data.
Or:
When Captain Picard and Data return from a three-day mission, they find the crew of the Enterprise de-evolved. You like living in trees and throwing nuts at captains — especially when they interrupt your skillful seduction of the boyfriend you currently don’t really recognize.
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Only Five Missions
You quickly notice that Deep Space Nine, with all its noise, people, and smells, is not exactly your cup of tea.
Oddly enough, the mint tea Garak serves you is.
OR:
Data means well when he wants to spend some time with you on Deep Space Nine before seeing you off to your new posting aboard the USS Voyager. Unfortunately, every corner of the station has more people, more noise, and eventually a tailor who does not really seem like only a tailor.
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Overpowered
Dark fic, mirror!Data
Contains violence and non-con
You are the leader of Terran Rebel Base 257 — until one crate meant for General Riker changes everything.
Inside waits an android named Data.
And once activated, he doesn’t just take control of the base. He takes control of you.
Or:
You open the crate. You wake the android. And before the day is over, you realize you have unleashed something far worse than an enemy.
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Overruled
You are good at your job as an engineer aboard the ISS Enterprise.
But then your android master has other plans. Suddenly you are no longer a soldier or an engineer. Perhaps not even yourself. Just very pregnant with his child.
Or:
Data decides to impregnate you and keep you fertilized. Meanwhile, you slip away more and more until you are no longer the manipulative monster everyone feared.
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High Potency
After opening a vial that appears to be empty, you are sure the entire Enterprise crew wants you.
Meanwhile, you only want Data. And he really needs to claim and mark you. Like… now.
Or:
A Caitian mating hormone makes you feel like asking your boyfriend in front of the bridge crew to claim and mark you is a very good idea. And while Data seems normal, he might not be.
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Lost Not Dead
Data calculated the odds, but that does not mean he believes you are gone.
No. You are lost. Not dead.
Or:
Voyager has vanished with you aboard. While Data is informed by Captain Picard and Counselor Troi of your now-official status, he offers to tell your best friend Vrena himself. It turns out that androids and Andorians might handle grief very differently.
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Sleepealker
Data’s newest obsession is dreaming. His most recent experiment: using Vulcan meditation to prevent nightmares.
Instead, he starts sleepwalking through the Enterprise.
Or:
Your boyfriend can dream, but you can’t sleep. And then you end up following him around the Enterprise in the middle of the night. And you are not the only one interested in a sleepwalking android.
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Required Maintenance
Data has been unable to focus all day.Good thing you are more than willing to run a full diagnostic on your android boyfriend.
Or: A routine diagnostic turns into roleplay when Data, quite innocently, asks you to look at his code and make sure his memory buffer does not need cleaning.
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It Never Happened
You never thought you would meet Tasha Yar. And you definitely never thought you would have to convince her that you are a Section 31 agent in order to save an alien you met in a vent.
Or:
After a Traveler sends you back in time, you are forced to work with the woman who slept with your boyfriend long before you ever met him. Now the two of you have to solve a problem that may only be solvable with the help of a certain android.
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Purple Skies
A man with golden eyes offers you water. And somehow, you feel safe immediately. Do you know him? And more importantly: where are you?
Or:
You are stranded somewhere with someone who is very strong, never seems to get hungry or thirsty, and speaks with unusual precision. And somehow, it doesn’t take long for you to fall in love with this caring stranger.
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Stories Unrelated to the Book Series
More Of You
Your job is it to watch bacteria reproduce.
Data‘s job is, apprently, watching you gain weight.
Or:
After coming in contact with alien bacteria your food intake has increased in a way that makes zippers come undone in Ten Forward. And the science officer assigned to oversee your project makes your growing body his own.
Of cource only out of scientific curiosity.
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The Dormant Program
Data x Male OC
A strange presence seeps through the Enterprise, blurring the line between thought and desire.
Counselor Troi senses emotions that shouldn’t exist. Captain Picard dreams of a planet he’s tried to forget. And Data—programmed to be without emotion—finds himself at the center of an awakening he cannot explain.
When a Romulan diplomat with his own secrets steps aboard, the crew must confront what happens when the subconscious stops sleeping.
Attraction. Shame. Memory. Code.
Nothing stays buried forever.
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Curiosity Helped the Cat
When a runaway kitten keeps reappearing aboard the Enterprise, Data’s curiosity about feline behavior turns into an unexpected lesson in empathy, logic, and companionship. Between crawling through walls, puzzling over human idioms, and meeting a Caitian ambassador with a temper, the android officer learns that not every connection can be quantified — and that sometimes, even hissing makes perfect sense.
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