Episode premise:

Kivas Fajo is determined to add the unique Data to his prized collection of one-of-a-kind artefacts and, staging Data’s apparent death, he imprisons him aboard his ship.

We know that Data is later logically coerced to lie in “Clues” to protect the crew, but this appears to be a decision all his own. Or did he not in fact actually fire the weapon?

  • pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Contrary to popular belief, there is nothing in Data’s programing that would prevent him from doing “bad” things like lying or killing. He has free will just as much as any other Starfleet officer.

    Data is much more human than you might guess at first. He is more akin to a human on the autism spectrum than a robot with hard-coded programming.

    • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Absolutely. Rewatching the series in full as an adult made it more apparent that Data was always closer to his goal than he could comprehend. Just had trouble adjusting to social “norms” more than others.