Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation’s android science officer, shared his starship quarters with a sleek cat named Spot. Data wanted to be human, wanted to understand what makes some of us choose chocolate over vanilla, what makes us giggle when tickled, the strange and etheric connections that tie our species together. A cat’s fiercely …
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Data’s Dog
December 13, 2009 – 8:00 pm
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By Birdie
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Posted in Featured, Star Trek, The Daily
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Tagged 726, brent spiner, compassion, data, dog, humanity, sissy, Star Trek, tap dance
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When my youngest son, Martin, chased gap-toothed girls through a dusty schoolyard, he carried a tiny Star Trek shuttlecraft in the front pocket of his jeans. “Vroooooooooom! Ba-ba-ba-ba-bing! Bing!” The shuttlecraft — torpedos armed and ready — made the noise of a boy’s pursed lips. It flew graceful arcs, one hand over head, around body, swooped …
December 12, 2009 – 2:17 pm
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By Birdie
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Posted in Star Trek, The Daily
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Tagged 726, captain janeway, Star Trek, the next generation, the original series, trekker, trekkie, voyager
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