By taking megabytes.
What if I am on the holodeck enjoying a program for a few hours and suddenly I need to take a dump? Now there might well be a washroom (say I am running a program where I am inside a house) and I could use the toilet. But the toilet is just a holographic projection, is it not? But my crap is REAL. If I suddenly said “stop program” would there be a pile there on the floor of the holodeck?
You wonder why there was a revolution in France? When your king lists “mechanical duck crap” as an expense?
TAA is the only series worth watching!
Giant Vulcan! Teddybear fangs! Slaver weapon and Kzinti! More Mudd, MOAR WIMMINS!
I thought that was what he meant.
That’s because of his binary programming; there is no number 2.
Since Data can’t do contractions, an actual bowel movement may be difficult to simulate.
Includiling the kiddilies?!
Say, if Data doesn’t eat, what powers him? Does he need to recharge his batteries periodically or run down?
A possible answer, scroll down to the Insurrection transcript post
This is just a personal opinion, but I always assumed that data was a hybrid organic/mechanical device. He had actual organic flesh and organs, layered over some very strong metallic frame, and with lots of electronic processing horsepower. That gave him full human functionality along with his computer-like intellect and machine-like strength. That’s just my personal interpretation, but it covers the questions about how he can do things.
FWIW, Robert Foxworth as Data’s predecessor in The Questor Tapes had a stomach that acted as a “nuclear furnace” and “burned” whatever food and drink he consumed. I don’t know if this was his primary source of energy, or just a means of recharging his batteries.
But Andrew Martin had to develop an anus.
You must be male.
Waaay back in the later neolithic when I was a child a popular toy for girl children was a doll that you could shovel “formula” in one end (somewhat like applesauce) and have it emerge a short time later from the other end of the doll. If Matel could come up with that in the mid-20th Century I’m sure by TNG era the Federation’s technology could do at least as well
Aside from the question of whether he has a dick and does it actually work, Data has a mouth and two hands, yes, he can engage in various sex acts popular even among humans with working dicks and vaginas.
[nitpick] The correct term is “beehive”, not “bee’s nest”. [/nitpick]
If they hadn’t the 1960’s American audience wouldn’t have had a clue what they were talking about.
The frightening thing is that the “role of women”, just like the “role of black people” was actually far more progressive/liberal on the show than in the reality of 1960’s America.
So I’m guessing you’re also under 40.
No, I don’t think that describes a being that can be deactivated for long periods and then activated again – even when his head has been separated from his body for centuries.
Unless he’s made of Spam
I have tried to imagine what it would be like to have sex with Data (surely a gay chip could be inserted under his fingernail, just for one night) but the deal breaker would be whether or not he has a human body temperature. I am now 67 years old and I have come to realize that one of the things we enjoy the most in sex is the feel of mamalian-warm skin against our skin. Doing it with someone whose skin is room temperature would be disturbing and downright disgusting.
Don’t the actual toilets have “reclaimators” that just turn the poop into “protomatter” or whatever it is the replicators use to make food, dishes, teacups, etc. I would assume a holographic toilet could just beam the poop away similarly.
No assumptions needed. Just ask Tasha.
. . . OK, unless they’ve found a way around the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, that still leaves the question of where the cells get the energy.
That’s what his dick is for.