From: wtm@cck.coventry.ac.uk (NOMAD)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech,rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Why is Data so limited?
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:49:59 GMT
Organization: The quick and witty society of coventry,(who hate clive anderson.)

In article <1992Nov14.215559.2488@news.acns.nwu.edu> markb@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mark Brodsky) writes:
>In article <1992Nov14.192921.11551@liberty.uc.wlu.edu> cwynne@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Colin J. Wynne) writes:
>>Mark Evans (evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk) wrote:
>>:
>>: The odd thing about data is more why having been given a form which is
>>: with in the human norm he is then given a completly odd skin and eye colour
>>
>>This has been answered in the Data-Lore episode.  Dr. Singh created Lore
>>first, and he *was* correct in skin tone and eye colour and all that, but
>>the people felt uncomfortable in dealing with him because, despite his
>>human appearance, they knew him to be an android, and they found this
>>disconcerting.  So, when Positronic Brain Unit Mark II (i.e., Data) came
>>out, Singh deliberately made him identifiable as non-human.
>>
>>CJW
>>
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>>  =====  Colin J. Wynne                     Washington & Lee University  =====
>>  =====  cwynne@liberty.uc.wlu.edu              Lexington, Virginia      =====
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>Wait a Sec, Lore looks EXACTLY like Data. Same strange eye and skin color.
>Nope sorry, wrong answer. The reason is (as stated by Data's grandfather)
>that Dr. Singh has no aestetic taste!


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              MY ZONE..........
	      
    RIGHT i'm not a true treky,i can't give you a list of every ship in the
   federation off the top of my head but i still think that ST:TNG is bloody
   brilliant,and hope you agree!

    Now us over here in blighty are way behind most of you in the series,we
    only just got to see the borg double,(where Picard was nicked!).Now as
    far as inplanting cyber-tech into starfleet staff,that would defeat the
    series!I have always thought that the series was written to show us we 
    can go into the future without sacrificing our humanity!
        As for data (a).Built in weapons would alienate him even more from
	                the crew and humanity and make the message that it's
			not what you are that makes you human but the way you
			act that makes you human even harder to get across,
			obscured by tech. and special effects!
		    (b).Now i can't remember the name of the guy who made
		        Data (ah now i can it's Dr. Soong,i think).
			But i don't think he sat up in bed one day an said
			"oooh i think i'll make an android today for 
			starfleet",so why would he have the foresight to 
			give him an inbuilt comm. or phaser?
			Also as no-one in starfleet has the real know-how
			to do it how would they explain it,"oh sorry captin
			  i turned my back for a moment and it suddenly
			  appered!".

  			   	
    Well thats all from me,hope someone out there decides to agree or
          argue with me......................wtm (NOMAD)
	  
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