#b-4

☀️ 𝓑𝓵𝓾𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝔂𝓼, 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶 𝓰𝓸𝓷𝓮. 𝓝𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓫𝓵𝓾𝓮 𝓼𝓴𝓲𝓮𝓼, 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓸𝓷. ☀️

In episode Datalore (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Tasha mentioned that Dr. Soong wanted to make Asimov's dream about positronic brain come true:

Now, the positronic brain was indeed introduced by Isaac Asimov in his series Robots (which I'd like to point out is my OC Diana's favorite). And across books of the series and movie I, Robot (which surprisingly differs from the OG book. Although I admit, it'd be hard to make it into the movie, it reads like series of oneshots) that the three laws of robotics are ingrained into every positronic brain that it's impossible to root them out.

For remainder, these are the Asimov's Laws of Robotics:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Now, we do know that robots and androids are different. While androids are type of robots, they're humanoid shape and thus are meant to emulate humans. Robots on the other hand were more meant as tools for humans (which is shown in Asimov's works. There are exceptions but Robots like Daneel Olivaw could technically be classified as androids due to human appearance. And both him and Sonny from the movie could bypass the Laws. "Robot" as term was first used in Chech play R.U.R. and it signifies "slave" or "forced labor", which is probably why Data doesn't like being called that 😅.)

Crazy thought

a brilliant man who fathers androids in his own likeness, more concerned with the continuation of his legacy and research than with showing love to his own children

a kind woman with so much love to give but her husband and children can't love her back in the same way (except maybe lore, but we know that at some point she came to fear him and he was deactivated)

[spoiler] the eldest android, one of noonien's first prototypes, who lacks the positronic net his younger brothers are built with. i can only assume he was treated differently by his father for the "failure" he built him with

the middle child who is designed with all the faculties of someone who can experience the best and worst of humanity and is punished for becoming wayward as a result, with little to no guidance or help ("you could have fixed me!")

the youngest android who is perfectly suspended behind the window of humanity and spends his life trailing after it, constantly in search of fitting in when he's aware it may never happen. if this father truly loved any of them, data was the most loved - which begs the question: was noonien so afraid of showing love that he required a son who couldn't know the difference?

and then you've got:

data not remembering anything about his family (wiped clean) but he has all the memories of the colonists who feared him ???

[spoiler] juliana's memories and humanity being unknowingly transferred into an android because her husband couldn't bear the thought of losing her, something which data learns after he meets her decades after the memory-wipe, but noonien still ends up losing her when she leaves years later and remarries

[spoiler] the conflict of morality when choosing whether to tell your mother she is now an android because you're desperate to have some sort of a family to share your life with, and not telling her to save her happiness !!!!!!!!!!!

data being left behind out in the cold on omicron theta while the crystalline entity destroyed the colony and all organic life on the planet, because juliana was afraid that he would turn out like lore and she couldn't bear the thought of damning another son to a life of misery

lore and data clearly feeling some sort of sibling connection but neither of them being well equipped to be the perfect brother. lore is on a crusade for a satisfaction that he'll never achieve without his family's help and data is too rigid to fully understand the intricacies. there have been too many betrayals and too much hurt for data to let lore in willingly (+ vise versa but the Mentally Ill edition)

b-4 being entirely too good for this world. he deserved so much more