Star Trek TNG: Data's study of poetry.

S07E03

[@terak4786]

Geordi was a great friend. He gets invited to basically stare at a blank screen quietly for more than half an hour, and actually accepts, to support his friend in his hobbies.

[@Dowlphin]

Do we know that is how the situation unfolded? 😉

[@Ozzy_2014]

@@Dowlphin it goes into Geordie denying there was a reason for the visit. Data taking him litterally then telling Data he should have pushed back on that denial. Yes he does want to talk. About what I don't know. Or I don't recall. If I knew the episode I can know the plot. Then I could say.

[@kellyweingart3692]

Interface

[@kellyweingart3692]

Season 7, Episode 3

[@KneedleKnees]

"You may experience the emptiness with me if you wish" is how I invite my friends to meet me at the bar

[@seanwebb605]

I don't drink alcohol. Trying inviting your friends out for a night of sobriety. Phone rings. It's my scheduler for work. Why yes, yes I can come to work OT Saturday night. Plans? Oh I think they'll understand.

[@Dowlphin]

"It is the emptiness inside that gives it meaning. Life flows through it." - Try that as a pickup line. 😄

[@kellyweingart3692]

😂😂😂😂

[@Novasky2007]

All this clip needed was 47min of blank screen after the clip :D

[@Dowlphin]

Meta art is not many people's forté. 😄

[@Novasky2007]

@@Dowlphin its certainly my fithté

[@Red__Law]

Have the entire episode as Data and Geordie staring at the blank screen.

[@allpossibleworlds]

This is what I love about Data. He is just so open to everything. Most people (myself included and I love poetry) would be like, "Fuck that pretentious meta bullshit" and would move on to the next part of the poem. But not Data. He has to experience everything as it is intended to be experienced.

[@BuzzKirill3D]

+allpossibleworlds I guess it helps when you're biologically (technologically?) immortal and literally have all the time in the world

[@allpossibleworlds]

BuzzKill Ha, I suppose. Though Data isn't completely indestructible and working on the Enterprise isn't exactly the safest endeavour. . .

[@kurtreber9813]

@@BuzzKirill3D and energy

[@c.s.7097]

Using the word "meta" in a sentence is pretentious.

[@mandelorean6243]

You have many experiences yet to be had.... get on with them so you can mentally grow

[@aesthetic_wreck5574]

"you may experience the emptiness with me if you wish" mood

[@skullketon]

Geordi: "Data, there's nothing on the screen." Data: "Actually..."

[@Aurora2097]

Data's poetic skills are great, he just ... did not realize he was doing dadaism, not Dataism.His spot poem is pure gold!

[@teehundeart]

You see professor, the reason I handed in an empty page is...

[@seanwebb605]

I tried that once. You would be surprised at how many people don't want to experience the nothingness with me.

[@Dowlphin]

I wouldn't. It's a basic theme of human folly and the spectacle of the material world.

[@robertquiggleiv8696]

Data: "I am listening to a piece by 20th century composer Yoko Ono titled, 'Two Minutes Silence'. I will replay the portion we just talked over."

[@donaldthomas7070]

If Yoko Ono is performing, the more silence, the better.

[@clintoncook6082]

As mundane as this situation is, watching an android taking the time to study lacunae to understand a deeper meaning of nothingness kind of makes you wonder how often we, as human beings, actually slow down long enough to observe the curiosities around us.

[@seanwebb605]

Reading the work of Lucunae wouldn't have taken him much time. He can process "data" very quickly. Exercising the ideas of Lucunae is another story.

[@MyoclonicJerkCough]

I try to stop and experience my surroundings but people ask me if I'm high or tell me to stop fcking around and get out of the road

[@BeeBee-uc6wz]

​@@seanwebb605"lacunae" isn't a person, it's the plural of lacuna, which is an empty space, like a rest in music.

[@seanwebb605]

@@BeeBee-uc6wz He spoke of a race studying the idea. He can study the works of lacuna by this race or study lacuna quickly. As he is an android and is programmed in binary code with ones and zeros the zeros being basically an off, he can process the data of the works very quickly. In one of the movies when he was tempted by the Borg with flesh Picard asked him how long he considered it. And it was a very tiny amount of time but he said that for an android it was a long time. My statement stands.

[@BeeBee-uc6wz]

@@seanwebb605 Buddy, you thought lacunae/lacuna was a person given that you capitalized the misspelling as if it were someone's name and referred to " the work of Lucunae"

[@georgoussnowsaintfullysinn9975]

Data is awesome

[@seanwebb605]

Spoiler alert. Was. He was awesome.

[@nettrawler1202]

When your neighbour's wifi cuts out...

[@MyoclonicJerkCough]

If the screen was white Data could have said he was looking at "FFFFFF!"

[@MichaelFreckelton]

0:46 when I hit up my friend while feeling down and she's feeling down too

[@HereticDuo]

47 minutes? Correct me if I'm wrong but isnt that the original run time of that episode without commercial breaks?

[@sobreaver]

Touché ;)

[@carolynm8421]

That's what real friends do, sit in the darkness and partake of the emptiness with you. I love Geordi and Data's friendship. They were always their for each other. I went to the MET and there was a black canvas hanging someone was studying intensely. I thought it was stupid and pretentious at the time. I preferred looking at the Van Gogh or Waterhouse. Reminds me of this but, at least Data is trying to understand different culture's poetry. He wasn't capable of of being pretentious. #friendshipgoals

[@wuweiJ]

Sounds alot like yin/yang to me, the emptiness of the poem is the passive element. Kinda like a cup is only useful when empty

[@mattabraham3549]

Space is after all not nothing ~Alan Watts

[@HarPlayer]

ancient dozardarines of course I knew that ; )

[@cherubin7th]

To be fair, the empty spaces work better when you start the poem from the beginning.

[@Arkalius80]

Well this is weird. The word of the day on dictionary.com for the day I watched this video is Lacuna (singular of lacunae which Data is referencing). Fun coincidence.

[@jozefgurzynski7380]

Serendipity.

[@RUBBER_BULLET]

Inviting the blind guy to stare at nothing for a few minutes...

[@minguyen-rl7sn]

I believe this is call neditation

[@greencello599]

Or Data made the whole thing up and wanted to see if Geordi would actually do this.

[@Mamonar]

Data should learn from Calculon for he knew the power of the DRAMATIC....... PAUSE!

[@Mark-uk8wz]

My english teacher

[@victorsalisbury3554]

Realize 60 miles speed every thing

[@JordanBeagle]

This video should've been 48 minutes long, missed opportunity

[@sobreaver]

Seems like Geordi, although very altruistic and supportive, didn't not 'appreciate' his experience :P

[@Ozzy_2014]

He wants to talk.

[@victorsalisbury3554]

300 000 books

[@doomakarn]

Wait, he accepted?

[@haweater1555]

The Galaxie's most boring poetry only a computer can appreciate.

[@ajmittendorf]

Speaking as a poet, such "lacunae" (and, yes, they do really exist) are little more than impressive-looking pseudo-intellectual lazy writing for folks who want the Ooos and Aaahs of the poet without having either the know-how or the discipline to actually compose something. I sincerely hope that, if we do make it to the 23rd century, people will have seen through such pretentious nonsense.

[@PelicanOfDeath]

You aren't an ancient duzidarian though.

[@ajmittendorf]

@PelicanOfDeath True, but neither is Data or Geordi. Neither are some of the pseudo-poets who employ lacunae in their "poetry."

[@BeeBee-uc6wz]

I've seen your work -- I'd call lacuna-employing "pseudo-poets" more artistically valuable than anything that will cross your lips or fingers.

[@ajmittendorf]

Yeah, right. I'm singularly unconvinced that you've seen my work. @@BeeBee-uc6wz