Dada.
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Thanks for reminding me of the best In Living Color sketch ever. “You need be a Nah-saw scientist to get inside this thing!”
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It is and always is pronounced day-ta. Just like the word Date (day-te). The vowel at the end of the word makes the first vowel a long one. The often used dat-ta when talking about mobile phones is incorrect. There is only one T in data. The only way to have Data pronounced dat-ta, would be to add a T. The second consonant makes the A a short sounding one.
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Some of the later-season episodes made note of Riker’s apparent disinterest in pursuing his own command, but maybe the real reason he didn’t want the Captain’s chair was that he couldn’t find any way to swing his leg over it.
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Either of which are solid contributions to civilised humanity, which absolutely count towards the knighthood.
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Anybody else notice how on the early episodes Picard would say “shed-u-al” and then later it changed to the American “sked-u-al,” and then later changed BACK to “shed-u-al?”
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extroverted data brent is very unnerving
edit: actors are people
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Patrick Stewart can do whatever he wants…
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The Latin word is “datum” (singular), “data” (plural). In English, “data” has essentially become a mass noun. The word “datum” can be used to refer to a single data point (vector or scalar) in most English-language technical communities, but as you can see from Avery_Thorn’s comment above, use of the Latin singular has been delegitimized in American data-oriented discourse communities in favor of “data point” as part of a general rejection of Latin singulars/plurals of borrowed technical terms.
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The “ay” in “day-ta” is a peculiarly English pronunciation of the long “a” - in most languages, the long a is pronounced “aahh.” Since “data” is a borrowed Latin word, some English speakers pronounce it according to the Anglo-Latin pronunciation “da-tah” (in Latin it’s a short a), some as a hypercorrected “dah-tah” (as if the Latin had a long a), and some with the more Anglicized pronunciation “day-tah.” I suspect (this is me talking out of my, well …) it’s a class marker in England (classical education tends to imply upper or upper-middle class) and a clique marker in America.
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Yes. Another example of Data showing human emotions, notice the smirk at the end.
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To be fair, by the time Insurrection rolled around he did have an emotion chip installed.
Speaking of Brent Spiner’s Patrick Stewart impression, I have no idea how I originally came across this clip (it was a small eternity ago in internet time), but there was apparently a bit on a Dr. Demento show where he played Patrick Stewart at a McDonald’s drive-thru:
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That sounds like a terrible idea for a movie and I’m very happy it was never made.
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No, no, he has a point! While First Contact was, unfortunately, the only Star Trek movie ever made using the TNG crew, there is reference made to his having an emotion chip. It’s generally believed it was likely the one he took back from Lore in late season TNG, but was reluctant to install.
They really should think about releasing some tie-in material to cover the gap between the end of the show and First Contact. We still don’t know how the Enterprise was destroyed after all, and it’d be good for them to rule out that it was, indeed, an epic battle or act or heroism, and not something really really stupid.
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Thanks, I hate it.
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Nope nope nope.
Just about the only thing Dr. Polaski’s character was good for was her trademark “memory wipe” procedure.
I’m confused… what does that have to do with their being four TNG films instead of just one?
The same reason we’re all better off knowing that there was one Matrix movie and Lucas never got around to making those prequels he was talking about.
Or, to put it in TNG terms: remember that episode where the crew woke up and gradually realized that they’d had their collective memories erased, and Data was trying to keep them in the dark for their own good? It’s kind of like that.
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