How relatable is Data? Star Trek Next Generation discussion.

[EmmaRainboe]

So yesterday I participated in a large group watch party of an episode of Star Trek next generation. During the whole episode all I could think about was how relatable Data was. In the way he didn’t quite understand Social norms and ques, as well as his inability to process and relay human emotions. I thought everyone would be feeling this way, as I thought he was created to be a relatable character, but after the episode when I brought up how relatable he was, nobody quite understood. They couldn’t understand what was relatable about him. So here I am, asking if anyone else finds Data the most relatable character, of practically any TV show. This title used to be taken up by Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang for me, but Sheldon has just moved down to second place.



@electrycmonk you’re the only person I can think of off the top of my head who is probably a big Star Trek fan.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Not relatable in the least.
I'm from a different generation. I grew up in the real word. Kids now days grow up in a cyber world.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Not relatable in the least.
I'm from a different generation. I grew up in the real word. Kids now days grow up in a cyber world.

Are you insinuating that access to the internet has correlation to an inability to understand and communicate human emotions?
That’s an interesting take. I’ve never thought about it that way.

 

[Brooks_]

* Next Generation. Which episode?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

* Next Generation. Which episode?

Whoops, sorry.
”Data’s Day.”

 

[The Moonshiner]

Amongst other things yes.
I bet if you look into it since the cyber world became a thing especially social media that the social disorders have sky rocketed.
Youngsters don't know how to interact with real people in the real world. It is truly sad and concerning.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Data and Spock. I think most INTJ's and INTP's relate to them (and Sheldon)

 

[azurbanclucker]

Amongst other things yes.
I bet if you look into it since the cyber world became a thing especially social media that the social disorders have sky rocketed.
Youngsters don't know how to interact with real people in the real world. It is truly sad and concerning.

It predates the internet, we just see it more now because shared access to that information is far readily available than when our news sources were the newspaper, daily 6/10 news, and the library.

 

[The Moonshiner]

It predates the internet, we just see it more now because shared access to that information is far readily available than when our news sources were the newspaper, daily 6/10 news, and the library.

What does?

 

[electrycmonk]

Not relatable in the least.
I'm from a different generation. I grew up in the real word. Kids now days grow up in a cyber world.

Dude, Brett’s character named “Data” from STNG (that’s short for Star Trek the Next Generation) was a TV series over a full decade(1987) before “cyber” was a coined term….. it was a series I watch in high school.

/facepalm