Captain_Welcome aboard to Enterprise.
I'm Captain...
Tam_Captain Picard, right?
Here, you wanna to know about your mission.
Everything on there, orders, briefings, destination,
headings all that.
Dee, I sensed you were out here.Have you been?
troi_I've been fine, but aren't you on chandra
five?
Sir?
Who...what are you?
I am Data, an android.
Incredible an android. I can't read you at
all. It's like you are not here.
Data.
Oh. You better hurry up to the bridge with
it. Captain wants you to run the orders scan
the technical schematics and let him brief
it in ten minutes. Right?
Number One.
Riker here.
Meet Mr.Data on the bridge.
He has an orders and new heading.
Aye, Sir.
And assemble bridge staff for a mission briefing
in 15 minutes.
You do a lot of your work here?
Yes. I have configured these instruments
to display information with greater speed
than deficiency stations used by the others.
Nice. A little spartan.
Spartan?
Lots of work space. Not much room to live.
I don't guess you sleep.
I have tried it from time to time. But you
are correct. I do not require rest.
But you paint.
The creature's anatomy appears most peculiar.
In what way?
It is indeed laid out as a vessel with a
lot of chambers and corridors in internal
environment suitable for carbon-based life-forms
is being maintained. Yet there is no evidence
of a crew aboard. Tin man is a living being
which has been bred or adapted itself to
serve a propose. I find that interesting.
Why?
Must living beings have a purpose?
Or do we exist for no reason but to exist?
I am not remained qualified to express an
opinion.
Ah, Data, you're uniquely qualified. You
think a great deal about humanity and you're
an honest researcher. You don't treat anything
as trivial or irrelevant. You want to try
it all.
You said in transporter room you could not
read my mind.
True enough. But I think I understand you
pretty well. It worries you that I can't
read your mind?
Perhaps there is nothing to read. Nothing
but mechanisms and algorithmic responses.
Perhaps you're just different. It's not a
sin, you know. Though you may have heard
otherwise.
You sent for me?
Yes, Counselor.
It was Tam's final request that I explain
his decision to the crew. But I believe it
was his hope that you would understand.
What did happen?
I witnessed something remarkable. Individually
they both so...
Wounded, isolated.
Yes, but no longer. Through joining, they
have been healed. Grief has been transmuted
to joy. Loneliness to belonging.
Data, you do understand.
Yes, Counselor. When Tin man returned me
to the Enterprise, I realized this is where
I belong.
