Star Trek Data - Tumblr Posts
I made a really bad tik tok and decided to share it with the star trek side of tumblr, sorry for making yall see this
so. I have found a user who does a funny thing. i thought i would contribute so here is Putting Data in Places he Shouldn't Be In
having some art block lately, so obviously the answer is to draw additional Unsatisfactory Datas (TM)
day 2 of ??
day 1
It’s a well-known fact around here that I have, let’s say, a hard time drawing Data (massive understatement). Whenever I try to draw him, I am just Not Satisfied. I don’t know why it’s like this; it just is!
I also have terrible art block, which means it’s time for part 3 of the Bad Data Experiment. Once again, I am Not Satisfied (hooray)
part 1 part 2
Data gets to be a little sparkly :) as a treat :))
This started as perspective practice, but then I drew his arm really well and couldn't cover it up, so I opened it instead. Now I realize it looks like a phalloplasty incision hmmmm...
I love drawing wires and cables 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
apologies to my followers who don't watch Star Trek but i still cannot get over the way Data enters the bridge in episode 2 of TNG after having just boinked Tasha. look at him. the style. the lean. the confidence.
this is the fruitiest android i have ever seen!
Lore: I ate a cat
Data: If I were not an Android, that statement would have given me the desire to cry. That is (in my opinion) considered quite cruel. But even so, I do respect your opinion.
Lore: I will eat another
(based on this image)
please i need to hear this man infodump about the taxonomic nomenclature of a cat to me and in turn i would infodump about the entirety of Garfield to him,,, we would have the strongest autism connection!!
Reblog if you’d gladly listen to Data infodump
ok so um. i found this really cool brush on ibispaint and decided to do a couple of paintovers of Data and i think they turned out pretty neat :)
this one was done a couple days ago with a limited colour palette of around 6-7 colours (minus the highlighting on his eyes) and was the first one i did. it's painted over this image:
and this is the one i finished today:
this is the image i painted over:
now i absolutely hate doing traditional painting most of the time (it's mostly running out of materials, varying quality of materials, the expenses, stupid thin paints i hate thin paints grrrr) but digital painting? that shit goes hard and i love painting my little monochromatic datas :)
autistic coded men who have orange cats my beloved
hey wait i just had a thought. what would Data's handwriting look like. do you think whenever he has to handwrite he just perfectly prints New Times Roman in size 14 onto the paper in three seconds or something. wait imagine if he wrote in Comic Sans
me when i've been put into a social situation i really didn't want to participate in and i have to pretend that i'm actively enjoying it until i can go home
i've been thinking of making a playlist dedicated to Data Soong, here're some songs i have on the list right now :D
Spiral Staircase - Patricia Taxxon
Systemic Lover - De Staat
Yours Truly, 2095 - Electric Light Orchestra
If I Were Human - BNNY RBBT
Like Humans Do - David Byrne
Are 'Friends' Electric? - Gary Numan
Geocities - Lemon Demon
Within - Daft Punk
Hello World - Louie Zong
Human After All - Daft Punk
Kokoro - Toraboruta
One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21 - The Flaming Lips
Remember - Air
Touch - Daft Punk
i love how early on in the series Star Trek TNG established that Data is fully functional and that he can, in fact, have sex. like as if they knew that was something someone was inevitably gonna ask and they just wanted to get it out of the way first thing. they literally had him bang someone and then act like a drunk idiot immediately after the pilot episode aired and i think that's so fucking funny.
early TNG establishes three main things about Data's character: Data is an Android. Data cannot feel emotions. this Android can FUCK.
was watching Star Trek just now (S5E1 - Redemption II) and man i love the way Data responds to Christopher's request for a transfer because of his concerns about Data being captain due to him being an Android. just immediately hit him with the "request denied". bro really went "i understand your concerns. however, please shut the fuck up and let me do my job."
i have an interesting little piece of Star Trek TNG media to share today, it's pretty obscure and i've seen literally no discussion of it online at all. my dad is a really big fan of Star Trek, especially Star Trek TNG, and he has this DVD box set of season 1 of the show. it was released around 2002-2003 and it's this big bulky gray capsule box that contains a foldable disc sleeve thing, and most importantly, a little pamphlet that holds descriptions for the main characters of the series. it's a really neat little piece of media, but what i want to focus on is how it describes Data, because i think it's very interesting.
(apologies for the glare)
"Data - A unique and super-intelligent android, Data was created by the genius Dr Noonien Soong to be as human as possible. However, powerful though as his positronic brain might be, Data is unable to comprehend emotion."
the language it uses to describe Data and his relationship with emotions is really intriguing to me. it doesn't say he cannot feel emotions, but rather than he can't comprehend them. it's pretty commonly agreed on in the Star Trek fandom that Data can absolutely feel emotions, but he just can't process or express them in a human-like way. the show is not very good at convincing people that Data is an unfeeling automaton, lol. he definitely feels things, but he's convinced that he can't because he doesn't feel things like a human does. i feel like this pamphlet corroborates that in a way. just,, the language of "unable to comprehend" rather then "unable to feel" comes off as a very deliberate choice with this in mind. characters in the show, including Data himself, will always say that he cannot feel emotions first and foremost, and it feels significant to me that a piece of official media would instead focus more on Data having trouble comprehending emotion. comprehending something and feeling something are two very different things. i feel like this is important.
i'll try to see if i can get the whole pamphlet scanned and uploaded online. again, it's quite an obscure piece of media and i can't seem to find it anywhere. i don't know if i'll be able to account for pamphlets that were released with dvds of the later seasons as i think we only have the season 1 box from this set. i hope they all get found and scanned someday!!
this is truly one of my forever favourite pictures from a star trek comic agsfhd
I LOVE THEM SO MUCH 😭
