Riker literally fell asleep in the middle of his poem, and no I do NOT give a fuck that he was being kidnapped in the middle of the night to be experimented on by an unknown outerdimensional species for days at that point Data deserved his FULL ATTENTION

I hated how that whole episode treated Data’s poetry becuase it was GOOD. Seriously, take the other poem he recited:

It’s a truly beautiful poem.