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She reveals that one thing she and Soong couldn't possibly have anticipated was that Data didn't mind being naked, although some of the colonists certainly did as he is anatomically correct. The Soongs asked him to dress, but he didn't feel it was necessary as he didn't "suffer from the elements." With a laugh, Juliana concludes that they had to resort to writing a modesty subroutine just so Data would keep his clothes on.

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[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 77 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: Odo runs around naked 100% of the time.

[-] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Doesn't Odo lose his *surprising ability for part of the show? I imagine he had to start wearing clothes.

Edit: *shapeshifting... I feel like autocorrect made the sentence better. I like it and it kind of works so I'm leaving it.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 22 points 1 month ago

Yes; he said that the real clothes itched, and Garak said that's the wool, you'll get used to it.

[-] Odelay42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

"surprising ability" haha. I love that autocorrect.

[-] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Edited, lol. Autocorrect actually did me a favor this time.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago

As was Anya in The Dauphin

Westley noticed.

When you stop to think about it, we are all naked in front of the eyes of the Prophets, my child

[-] kbal@fedia.io 25 points 1 month ago

As a child of the 20th century, so did I.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

They should have raised him on a nudist colony. With all the other whacky "human" colonies out there I bet at least one of them hangs dong all day long.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

"People will be naked in the future and no one will care" was such a common sci-fi trope by the 1980s that I'm actually surprised they didn't have censor-friendly naked people on TNG at times.

[-] django@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 month ago
[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

When he lets one nipple out it means he’s in the mood.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

His poor ear looks like it's been infected with space ticks, though.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

[Insert SpongeBob diaper meme pointing out the Edo people, Betazoid weddings, Ferengis' treatment of females, that time Lwaxana took Alexander to a holodeck mud bath, "decontamination" on Enterprise, etc.]

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

Fionnula Flanagan .... one of my favorite Irish actresses, she's amazing.

Played in my favorite Irish film ... Waking Ned Divine

I was totally blown away when I realized I had already seen her in TNG years before when I first saw 'Waking Ned Divine'

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I saw that film in the theater and I have to say I remember absolutely nothing about it. I do remember it reminded me of the Welsh comedy, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

If you haven't seen it, you should look up: The Secret of Roan Inish

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I haven't. Thanks. I admit, I haven't seen a huge number of Irish films, looking at a list of Wikipedia films. I've seen some of the big ones like The Commitments, My Left Foot and Michael Collins, but that's about it.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The Secret of Roan Inish is a top five movie for me. Mick Lally doing traditional Irish storytelling is truly amazing.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Not sure if you saw my edit, but I actually have seen it. It's just been a very long time. Again, I don't remember a lot about it. I'm going to have to watch these films again.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh cool! It came out in the 90s, so hardly anyone has seen it. I've yet to meet anyone who has. It's such a beautiful film all around.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I worked a part-time job as a projectionist at an art house/indie/foreign film theater for a while in the 90s, and I was a regular patron before that, so I saw a lot of smaller movies in that era.

It's funny because I've seen hardly any new movies since my daughter was born. Too hard to go to the theater for years and I just sort of fell out of the habit of watching them.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I was a projectionist at a 12-plex in late high school through college!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nice. This was a small time operation. They didn't even have a permanent theater location. We moved 16mm projectors between a nightclub which showed the films twice a week and a theater on campus which they did some sort of deal I knew nothing about in order to show films there. And there was a separate theater on campus that also showed movies, so that was extra weird.

We usually had two projectors and had to wait until the reel ended on one, started the other ASAP, rewound the reel on the first one and then put the third reel (or did this process more than that if it was a longer film) on the first projector.

The nice thing for me was that the nightclub often did standup after the movie and I would stick around and hang out with the host who, also ran the sound board, became friendly with the comedians and eventually became the host myself, which got me into standup comedy and that got me a decent career doing comedy writing and other comedy-related things in L.A., so it all worked out pretty well.

On the other hand, it almost landed me in the hospital once when they decided to have a special outdoor showing of Rocky Horror at one of the dorms on their lawn and it was a particularly humid day and I saw all the moisture building up slowly around the projector as it got darker and darker out until the lamp blew up and the fireball narrowly missed me.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain

That's a delightful movie as well.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: the movie is based on a folktale, but it turns out the "mountain" is actually a burial mound and they now have to stop people from trying to climb it so they don't damage it.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I hadn't heard it was a burial mound. That's kind of cool actually.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Great movie.

I loved realizing that no child in the entire village lacks red hair.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Waking Ned Devine is excellent

Actually I think I could use that movie in my life right now... I might watch it tonight or tomorrow.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Waking Ned Divine is one of my favorite movies ever. It's such a delightful movie!

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I insist with my Irish Canadian wife that we watch it every St Patricks Day ... she's getting sick and tired of it because she thinks its so cliche ... but once we watch again, she thoroughly enjoys it every time with me.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Waking Ned Divine is amazing. I love the movie and it had my favorite version of The Parting Glass on its score.

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 17 points 1 month ago

It took an arrest and restraining order to get me to stop so in comparison data was already being modest

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why did they give an information robot genitals?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Mostly so that they could come up with an excuse for him and Tasha to bump uglies.

[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

If you're gong to make a robot you might as well make one that fucks.

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