Data and Spock Emotions

Learn about emotions from and android and a vulcan!

[@philswaim392]

Imagine data who can process so many calculations, sensory inputs, and analysis routines per second. Now imagine having that usefulness drastically reduced because your emotions are now an input taking up processing resources while youre trying to do important things. He contemplates those emotions which feed back as input into the emotion chip which produces more emotional input. He feels what depressed and anxiety disordered people feel. It causes him great fear ehich causes him to doubt his usefulness and ability to go on. Data asked to be deactivated. He was asking someone to kill him essentially. Picard helped data through a suicidal episode and panic attack. That was all expertly played by these 2 great actors

[@dreadcthulhu5]

I can say from experience that that depression and anxiety really sucks. It should also be noted that Spiner has mentioned in interviews that he has a fear of heights and being up on that scaffolding was scary. I'm sure he used that in the moment to draw from and express the necessary fear.

[@muttleycrew]

The Data-Picard relationship has always had a paternal-filial character which was also just a bit off-centre and that balance between father and captain, son and commander made the chemistry kind of mesmerising.

[@korvusgaming4927]

Data with emotion is just Brent Spiner.

[@petejones879]

Correct assumption

[@stevenlennartz5815]

Who

[@BridgesofMC]

​@@stevenlennartz5815 the actor that plays Data. That's his name.

[@marinamincheva1200]

Fr

[@adgtheone]

Data's sense of duty and loyalty is beyond admirable.

[@The_Gallowglass]

I dunno how Geordi wasn't cracking up. lol LeVar must have had to retake the scene a few times.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

6:56 HOW DO YOU FEEL ? '' With the nerves in my hands. " is the correct response. :-)

[@thedirtinyoureye2133]

It also sounds like a bumping electronic tune from a daft punk disco

[@DenkyManner]

Data with the emotion chip is the funniest character we've ever had.

[@andy-1998]

I find datas laugh...contagious

[@awsomewe360]

I love how TNG looks like the Enterprise D as we grew up with, but in films the lighting gets so much better. Its actually distractingly different going from one to another.

[@prince-solomon]

Not better, different, darker, less practical.

[@misterlau5246]

I remember this data with laughter attack at the cinema, and that creepy face just before collapsing was incredible!

[@paulschrum4727]

Brent Spiner is underestimated in his acting gift. He rally is brilliant. What fortune that Roddenberry got both Leonard Nimoy and Brent Spiner on his casts. Then had them meet and talk.

[@misterlau5246]

@@paulschrum4727 I also saw Nimoy in mission impossible TOS. But since I liked his Spock character, I think it was better with Landau. Oops Space 1999 first season, Rolling Hand and Cinammon! 🤣

[@paulschrum4727]

What a great mashup of the literary study of human emotion. This video is basically a wordless essay on a great theme of literature, with Star Trek being the classic extended novel under study.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

6:20 Spherical Chess would be a very interesting game.

[@petejones879]

As much as I love TNG... and I do... TOS series with Kirk and Spock will always be my favourite

[@VulcanOnWheels]

What an apparently random collection of scenes.

[@mrnobody.4069]

It seems all of them even Lore have strong emotions or maybe it's just Data remembered everything in exact detail and remembered everything funny but his disappointment in himself was probably being new to it!

[@davidking6750]

6:10 and I though Paypal wanting to test me when I sign in was extreme

[@aav_n]

my heart is throbbing in my throat first watch _very-very_ powerful

[@djbabbotstown]

Keep it together Spock.

[@Locktrap]

BEST VIDEO EVER!

[@davidking6750]

8:48 ... yeah well whoever designed that square and pointy corner chair was totally illogical!

[@NoMoreHeroesAnymore1334]

SOMEBODY here knows where the best DataXLore is. And ain't NOBODY TALKING. BOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Boo. In all seriousness I adored Data from the beginning and watching him struggle with this was hard. AND. THUS. REWARDING. Back in MY day, whippersnappers, we had characters that EVOLVED. Now GTFO "my" lawn.

[@cherylsterrenburg5562]

They missed my favorite one! Spock touching the plant in the pilot episode :)

[@at1with0]

Brent Spiner needs to play a Batman or comic book villain.

[@okbruh]

He voiced the Joker.

[@thedirtinyoureye2133]

I'm a surgeon, not a sensible person!

[@calvinmasters6159]

"Nothing unreal exists" is incorrect. Reality is a subset of existence.

[@borgxxxboy]

Honestly, I didn't like the "emo" data. Much better without the emotion. And I say that mostly because Brent Spiner went on to do other movies where he was the "mad scientist" like Independence Day and I didn't like him in those either. Maybe Data should have just stayed an emotionless machine.

[@timothygibney159]

It felt out of character and distracting

[@TheRivrPrncess]

@borgxxxboy Data having emotions wasn't a bad thing. As with anyone who takes an emotion farther than it needs to be, that is irritating to most people. Emotions need to be balanced and we have to learn how to do that.

[@sgshaday]

I didn't like the idea of the emotion chip, as I always thought that Data had been built consciously to understand things from a logical manner and then have subroutines open up for him to feel these things. But eh, it works with Soong going 'You have 153 updates" XD That moment in stellar cartography was powerful, though as he felt he was a liability if he couldn't control his emotions and the crew needed him then and there. Pull yourself together, as humans do, and get the job done. There should have been more of those scenes.

[@johnrohlfs4185]

Barack Obama's Trek

[@timothygibney159]

Terrible acting.

[@questionmark4877]

TAKE IT BACK RIGHT THIS INSTANT OR ELSE

[@stevenlennartz5815]

Fitst windows ever in space

[@grizstockman8002]

Dad Picard is pretty intimidating...