#data tng

I rewatched In Theory, and I want to try to explain my thoughts as clearly as I can. In Data's Day, I saw an innocent, friendly, curious Data, someone who was learning about life through people. Here, though, something feels different.

At the beginning of the episode, Jenna likes him exactly as he is. She is drawn to his attentiveness, his gentleness, and his emotional balance. But later, after studying literature and history, Data starts modeling his behavior on old romantic conventions. The relationship begins to resemble something out of a 1950s romantic comedy, and because he is an android, it comes across as deeply artificial, even a little unsettling at times, despite the fact that Brent Spiner's smile is incredibly seductive.

My point is that this isn't how Data normally behaves.

When he kisses Jenna and tells her that he is thinking about many things at once, constantly analyzing, I don't actually see that as a problem. Human beings think about countless things all the time, even during intimacy. That part felt honest.