Mar 24
thinking about how Lal's positronic brain is basically a copy of Data's brain, and yet she was able to use contractions and later developed emotional awareness.
...makes me wonder if Data could, as well.
Soong said in Brothers that he and Lore are "practically identical, except for a few lines of programming." maybe in order to make Data emotionless, he removed the lines of code, but everything else is identical to Lore's own pathways? and Data actually does have "android emotions", which he just can't identify because he's longing for human ones?
#the emotion chip just puts these lines of code back#I don't know. just a random thought#that has probably been talked about years ago already#also Picard's line “it's a life Data. it can't be activated and deactivated simply. this is a most stupendous undertaking” has me losing it#because that's literally what they did to Lore#seeing Lal learn basic things always makes me imagine Lore and Data in their infancy...#especially with Lore I imagine his growth was very similar to Lal's#just that he had emotions from the start#as in. he talked like her in the beginning. which is such a cute mental image#what I would give to see baby Lore...#it's still my hc that the prototypes Soong made also suffered neural system failure#Lore somehow escaped that fate... I still wonder if it could theoretically still happen...#now I'm just rambling#mike.txt#startrek.txt#tng.txt#offspring.txt#lal.txt#data.txt#lore.txt#soong.txt#star trek#star trek tng#star trek the next generation#s3 ep16 the offspring#lal soong#data soong#lore soong#android#noonien soong