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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

If his glutes were fused it'd make walking difficult

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Plus he has a fully functional plug for the socket in the wall

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

So he can wear pants

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

He has a functioning cock too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

Oddly, it didn't get it's own display space.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck it, let's go in the opposite direction. We're not obligated to perfectly emulate human anatomy, so why not give him four ass cheeks? Dual crack technology

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

4 ass cheeks, but arranged in quadrants like the galaxy. Still only 1 b-hole right in the galactic center!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

That is exactly what I was picturing, intersecting cracks for maximum output

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Anything you'd do with a single-assed droid, but four times harder

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

At least nobody would accuse you of half-assing it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago

I just noticed how weird it was to arrange all the body parts in that way in that display.

If the ship had been lost, damaged or abandoned or some reason and an alien species had come upon it .... they would have seen this display and wondered what kind of weird crab like creatures inhabited this ship

[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago

If they're supposed to mimic humans you'd want at least the shape of a booty. Otherwise you'd have an android walking around with Hank-Hill-Butt

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

For poopin silly

[–] [email protected] -1 points 19 hours ago

Cuz "woke" somehow im sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

His wife replacement must have pooped. But that story was contrived.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago

What does an android need with a dick?

Simple answer; to be fully functional.

(Also, the definition of android is an intelligent, automated machine made to resemble a human...)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

He's essentially a sex bot, making certain features important for all uses

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Who put the torso on the rack facing forward but the hips facing backwards?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Because the prop department didn't wanna fabricate a gold dong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

You can hang up the hips simply by drilling a hole into the rack

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago

Someone aware of which body parts do what to a show's age rating I imagine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, he does eat and drink to try and be more human. Where did you think it went?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Well, he doesn't digest. He doesn't need to digest. So there are several options:

  • temporary internal storage pouch, regurgitated later for recycling, or teleports it directly from his storage unit
  • raw material for some matter:energy converter.
  • mechanism, like a replicator. He takes in food and produces worthless but dense platinum.
  • he's got some simplified equivalent to a digestive system that breaks down biological material.

I lean toward the first. It's the most space efficient, and wouldn't bother him. The second is unlikely because he'd be able to function as an insanely powerful, world destroying bomb. The third is a very Star Trek solution. The fourth seems like a gross waste of space to no end. Is pooping that integral to understanding humans?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Didnt he say at one time he converts some of what he ingests into lubricant or coolant for his internal mechanisms?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

You may be right. I don't recall, but I believe it if you say so. Maybe Tasha liked him so much because he was "self-lubricating."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, I think, Occam's Razor, he's got a rudimentary, non-functioning facsimile of a digestive tract that takes all the food he mashes up in his mouth and pushes out his poop-shoot when he wants to empty himself. That would allow him to have a mostly human-like eating experience, which would aid him in his quest to be more human. I think Soong would have argued pooping is integral to the human experience (After all, he made Data able to pointless eat, drink, and fuck. Why draw the line there?), but even if he didn't, having Data lean over a sink and regurgitate everything he swallowed at the end if the day feels pretty inhuman.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

regurgitate everything he swallowed at the end if the day feels pretty inhuman.

There's an ED joke in here but I'm not nearly spicy enough to make or post one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

having Data lean over a sink and regurgitate everything he swallowed at the end if the day feels pretty inhuman.

I take it you've never known a bulimic.

Not implying it's healthy or normal, but it's not uncommon nor inhuman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but it seems weird to program that in. Part of his journey to becoming more human should be developing his own body dysmorphia, not having one assigned to him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Doesn't everyone with body dysmorphia have it imposed by external sources? Media, social group, peers, parents... if it weren't for external sources, would anyone have body dysmorphia?

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