From: steve@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Steven Glinberg)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Jean Luc EXPLOITS android labor!!!!
Date: 27 Sep 92 19:03:29 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

In article <6323@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>In article <1992Sep24.224205.8768@sura.net>, nunn@sura.net (Deborah Nunn) writes:
>
>> I think that we are already seeing the effects of TIL.  Picard was very
>> obviously reluctant to let Data go down to the surface of the planet.
>> He was acting "irrationally" by keeping Data on board the enterprise (as
>> Data pointed out, his death could happen hundreds of years from that
>> time).  IMHO, Picard has already changed.  He very obviously showed his
>> attachment to Data in TAI, much more so than I think he would have
>> before TIL.  It seems to me that Picard is looking around at his current
>> "family" and, having lost one family already, is beginning to realize
>> how much his family means to him..
>
>Let's say YOU owned the ONLY pocket calculator in the whole, wide world and
>somebody called you up and wanted to use it for a door stop at a steam roller
>convention.  Wouldn't YOU think twice?
>
>Picard didn't want to let Data be a Captain of one of the ships in his fleet!
>Why? "Because I thought you'd have duties to attend to on the Enterprise" says
>Jean-Luc.  Ha!  Data is so *valuable* to him as an all-purpose calulator that
>he's reluctant to let him go!  Jean Luc suckered that poor android into
>signing up for his ship and he's NOT ABOUT to let him go!
>
>"Gee, Data, 23 years isn't quite enough to be Captain of a ship, so sorry!".
>It was only when Data forced Picard's hand that Jean Luc finally said,
>"Well, I see that there *is* ONE ship that you could command.  It has faulty
>wiring and spews radiation that will kill the crew if you have to defend
>yourself.  Also, it comes with a first officer that's a bigot!  Sure Data,
>you wanna be a Captain, I can help you out!  She's yours: The USS TITANIC!"
>
>No sir!  Poor Data is nearly a SLAVE to Jean Luc!  He forces poor Data to
>work the Midnight shift in center seat AS WELL AS being the lowly navigator
>on the day shift!  He *knows* that Data doesn't need any sleep and so he
>FORCES him to work double duty.  Sheesh!  Data has been in Star Fleet for
>what, 23 years?, AND HE STILL has to play second banana to that sleazy
>commander Riker?!?  What blatant android discrimination!  I understand that
>he makes Data get him coffee as well as do shopping for him on Mr. Data's
>lunch hour, because he KNOWS THAT DATA DOESN'T HAVE TO EAT LUNCH!!!
>
>And Jean Luc is always testing how accurate Mr. Data is with those "how
>long to starbase 27 at warp 8?" questions.  Yea, when he gets Data alone
>in the turbo shaft, he makes him give him odds on the Steelers/Browns game.
>I understand that Data can beat the point spread every time!
>
>No, you may *think* that Jean Luc likes Mr. Data.  That's just not true.
>He exploits him at every turn!  Anytime there's a dangerous explosive
>substance to be shuttled over to the Enterprise, who does Picard send?
>Why Mr. Data of course!  Let me tell you, Captain Kirk wouldn't *ever* send
>somebody like Mr. Data into a situation like that!  He'd get somebody with
>a RED shirt to do it!
>
>"Naaa, go on Mr Data, go on down to that planet so Geordi can use your head
>as a phase discriminator.  We *still* have a used head up here!" Jean Luc
>wispered under his breath!
>
>Some friend indeed!
>
>Terry ":-P for the humor impaired" Wood

I think you're crazy!