This scene always low-key bugged me because Data obviously hands the bar back to Riker in that awkward double handed manner specifically so the cheap prop they're using doesn't spring back out.
It would also be a cool subversion to have Data say he was designed to be human and doesn't have super human strength. Or the motors for micro control are tuned for precision and not torque. Anything to undermine the trope that robots are superior to humans in every way.
That would actually make more sense to say Dr Soong was totally focused on the positronic brain, they already had plenty of things like the DOTs to do physically demanding tasks so making Data super strong wouldn’t be a priority.
Wait, which one had the mustache for realsies? I saw them in the closet and I forget which one had it before and after they made out but well you get the idea.
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teft@piefed.social · 44 pts · 70d
Data B. Rodriguez
*the B stands for Bending
hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 70d
Data Bending nee Soong.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 70d
Data Bending Rodriguez-Soong
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 70d
Data: "Bite my dull grey ass!"
Tasha Yar: "I already did, babe 😏😘"
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 70d
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 69d
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 69d
Knowing the rapport they have now on Dropping Names, I love this clip just a little bit more.
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 70d
I'm gonna make my own Data! With blackjack! And hookers!
scutiger@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 70d
I could bend a girder to any angle! 30 degrees, 32 degrees, you name it!
31 degrees...
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 70d
But I couldn’t go on living after I heard what the girders were for
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 13 pts · 70d
Making suicide booths.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 23 pts · 70d
The greatest thing about this scene is that Spiner actually bent a real, solid bar of titanium to show off. 😌
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 69d
It wasn't easy finding an actor with the superhuman strength of an android!
DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 70d
This scene always low-key bugged me because Data obviously hands the bar back to Riker in that awkward double handed manner specifically so the cheap prop they're using doesn't spring back out.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 70d
It would also be a cool subversion to have Data say he was designed to be human and doesn't have super human strength. Or the motors for micro control are tuned for precision and not torque. Anything to undermine the trope that robots are superior to humans in every way.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 69d
That would actually make more sense to say Dr Soong was totally focused on the positronic brain, they already had plenty of things like the DOTs to do physically demanding tasks so making Data super strong wouldn’t be a priority.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 70d
Also, that metal would be rather hot from undergoing that much tension in such short a time.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 70d
Nah these girders are the same material they use for the self-sealing stem bolts.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 70d
That would make Lore Flexo. But Flexo is not the evil twin sooooo
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 70d
Wait, which one had the mustache for realsies? I saw them in the closet and I forget which one had it before and after they made out but well you get the idea.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 70d
Data Rodriguez Soong
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 70d
I'm convinced. Can't be sentient life if it can bend things.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 70d
Still can't beat Bender's stretchy arms.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 69d
Bending is my middle name
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 70d
https://youtu.be/Ss_J_4F_nIM
Sxan@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 68d
Alara Kitan would like a word