Jokes ain’t easy. || closed with ask-blue-arrow
Data was looking confused as he looked down on the PADD he was holding in both his hands. “ha...ha”, he quietly tried out a noise he had heard before. It sounded off and not at all like a laugh - very mechanical.
He looked up at the stars in confusion and tried to find a reason behind these “Jokes”. A Mechanic had given him the PADD after Data had asked a question about the laughter of said crewman after another crewman had told him a joke.
Now he was sitting in one of Enterprises shuttles, they were assigned to take a probe of some spores on a planet.
He looked over to his assigned crewman, a young and intelligent woman as Commander Riker had pointed out. For a moment Data wondered if he could ask her about the meaning behind jokes, but he hesitated. As often, he wasn’t entirely sure if his question about an human aspect was appropriate.
Maybe he had stared a bit too long at her, she seemed to notice his stare now.