I seem to recall a scene of Data being emotional and saying “…when pricked, do I not leak?”
He was riffing on Shylock’s big speech from Merchant of Venice. It was in The Naked Now.
‘If you prick me, do I not… … Leak?’
For what it’s worth, the Son’a, without the apostrophe, is a
If the intent was to evoke that meaning somehow, it makes less sense than Ferengi. At the risk of teaching grandma how to suck eggs,
And since I’m on that Wiki page anyway. . .
Personally, I thought that Insurrection would have made a fine episode; it just lacked the scope for a proper movie. In a movie, I expect them to be saving the Galaxy, or the Federation. Or, if they’re only going to save a single planet, it’d better be Earth. Just saving some random planet we’d never heard of before? Episode. Even if it does have the Fountain of Youth.
Not just Tasha. Don’t forget he had a proper girlfriend at one point too.
Yeah, that’s right. It didn’t last too long, but I assume that wasn’t a platonic relationship. What was up with that?
She decided she’d rather marry an alien named Sam Francisco.
Oh, and this thread isn’t complete without a link to the Sexy Data Tango.
I’m not convinced they ever sealed the deal. She got upset about the many things he was processing during a kiss. They hung out and made out, but I don’t think it got much farther than that before her infatuation wore off.
No they weren’t, the Ba’ku did have warp knowledge, and they were the same species as the Son’a anyway. The Ba’ku are kind of like the Amish - they know about technology but they choose not to use it. That’s fundamentally different from not having access to the knowledge or technology at all.
“At that particular moment, I was updating the engineering security software, preparing a checklist for an operational diagnostic, calculating optimal thrust range and amplitude, assimilating the most recent astrometric database…”
Well, I don’t want to get into a pissing contest about this (wars have been fought over less), but First Contact is not the same as the Prime Directive.
Note that over 40+ years of ST, the implementation of TPD is been inconsistent at best.
I bring this up all the time but Janeway invoked the prime directive to destroy a space station about to be overun by aliens. As both parties were warp capable and SF had no hand in the conflict it appears the PD even covers stopping mean aliens from acquiring tech it would be better they not have.
Just how excited do you think Tasha was?
Aside: Did anyone else giggle when they saw someone named Teela Brown commenting on Data as if he was a real person?
I was going to say 10W30.
The Prime Directive is odd in that it apparently has two different parts, one for warp-capable civilizations, and one for others. The latter is merely more familiar. The former is that the Federation does not meddle in purely internal affairs and must obey local laws–it’s why they couldn’t help out in the Klingon civil war. and why they couldn’t just beam Wesley up when he was scheduled for death on that pleasure planet.
The main problem is that it’s anti-Trek, which is about how technology makes the world better, not how life is better in an idealic time.
Though why they wanted to destroy the planet is simple: you can’t fly everyone out to the planet to stay long enough for the effects to work. The idea was that, if this worked, Federation citizens would effectively be immortal. It’s like telling people to eat willow bark instead of taking aspirin.
And it shows how selfish the Baku are: they could just move, let Starfleet do what they want, and then they and everyone else could use the stuff to stay eternally young. It’s just a temporary disruption to their lifestyle.
That’s a simple reason? I was under the impression that being on the planet for a week or so would have obvious rejuvenating boob-lifting effects, but if you wanted effective immortality, you had to stay there. Blowing up the planet in a particular way would release a wave of technobabble radiation that would undo the aging process in one big shot, though why one would prefer this over just settling permanently on the planet (and it’s not there isn’t room) escapes me.
I always understood it as one rule for all. If the planet is stagnating, you may meddle, if it’s growing, let it do so under its own steam. The Klingon Civil War was not exactly stagnation but change, hence the limited involvement.
As for Wesley being abandoned, well, it was Wesley 
If there hadn’t been a law requiring the abandoning of Wesley, I’d’ve written one on the spot.