july-19th-club:

bev is always like…playing this little game in her head where she tries to catch data using a Feelings Word and she’ll be like ‘this is kind of a scary mission i bet you feel …uh, worried about geordi’ and data who is worried as hell but has never been in the headspace to confront his own emotional experiences is like ‘i am..Strongly Motivated’ and she’ll be like ‘i’ll get you next time you had to think on that one’ or when lal’s alive and he seeks her parenting advice and she’s like ‘oh, you know, all parents want to …feel like they’re doing the best for their child’ and he’ll think about this, agree with it, and at the same time push the little automatic ‘i-am-an-android-i-do-not-feel-a-single-thing’ speech button in his brain which lives right next to a big panel labeled ‘emotions i have’ and bev will like. do this arch little eyebrow-raise like . next time