Vadermonkey
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What was the exact color of Brent Spiner's make up for his role as Data?
Data question (TNG)
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trekker670
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If I remember correctly, it was a mixture of Fireworks Bronze, Iced Gold and Aztec Gold.
Not to hijack, but I've always wondered why Data needed a tricorder? Shouldn't he have one built in?
He's an android, not a Swiss Army knife. 
Besides, if he did have one built in, it would've been 18 years out of date by the time the series started.
I saw a video of Mike Westmore opening up an old box with Data makeup in it, and I think he said what it was. Now if I could only remember where I saw it.
Besides, if he did have one built in, it would've been 18 years out of date by the time the series started.I saw a video of Mike Westmore opening up an old box with Data makeup in it, and I think he said what it was. Now if I could only remember where I saw it.
Yeah that's a good question. Despite the obvious fact that he is a computer, he also has to constantly ASK the ship's computer for information, and also has to use input consoles rather than some direct wireless connection. Can't somebody give this guy a bluetooth dongle? :lol
As always, the true implications of having a character who is a computer/robot/android, kind of missed the imaginations of the TNG writers. Instead we got a yellow guy with hatches and blinking lights in his head, who always pined to be "human". :rolleyes
I did like Data however, as a character, and felt that he was a useful part of the TNG crew. The character that REALLY got on my nerves, was the "holodoc" from Voyager. This guy WAS the ship's computer - literally a 3-d manifestation of a program running in the computer. He was not an individual. He was not alive. He did not have "human rights". He could be copied, backed up, stored, terminated. Erased.
Or at least he should have been. Instead the writers seemed to conceive of him as just another human, only disabled by the fact that he couldn't leave the Sickbay. Until they gave him a little box on his shoulder that allowed him to do that even. :rolleyes
As always, the true implications of having a character who is a computer/robot/android, kind of missed the imaginations of the TNG writers. Instead we got a yellow guy with hatches and blinking lights in his head, who always pined to be "human". :rolleyes
I did like Data however, as a character, and felt that he was a useful part of the TNG crew. The character that REALLY got on my nerves, was the "holodoc" from Voyager. This guy WAS the ship's computer - literally a 3-d manifestation of a program running in the computer. He was not an individual. He was not alive. He did not have "human rights". He could be copied, backed up, stored, terminated. Erased.
Or at least he should have been. Instead the writers seemed to conceive of him as just another human, only disabled by the fact that he couldn't leave the Sickbay. Until they gave him a little box on his shoulder that allowed him to do that even. :rolleyes
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I didn't mind the doc so much except for the fact that they WAY overused him, and had him SINGING, yet. Whittle the use of his character and Seven's WAAAAAY down, kill Naomi Wildman and Jim Henson's Borg Babies, and Voyager becomes a much better show.
(erm, I guess we're getting way OT. )
(erm, I guess we're getting way OT.
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Kevin/Collector
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I know the topic is Data's skin color (Spiner's make-up) -- I sat right behind Michael Westmore at Majel's funeral, chatted with him, and didn't ask - silly me.
But this thread has become more interesting and I wished to chime in.
I believe that (in the ST universe) Data was created to not only closely mimic human processes but to not be 'scary' in his abilities and processes.
If data could walk by a computer terminal and instantly interface and control, then that would frighten alot of people.
It makes complete sense to me that he would be contained within his own skin and be (somewhat) limited in dealing with the world around him just as humans are.
Now, he could always upgrade and enhance his abilities but his core personality was to be like those in who's image he was fashioned after - not to be a neat-o, expandable, computer system.
Was that off-topic enough for everyone?
But this thread has become more interesting and I wished to chime in.
I believe that (in the ST universe) Data was created to not only closely mimic human processes but to not be 'scary' in his abilities and processes.
If data could walk by a computer terminal and instantly interface and control, then that would frighten alot of people.
It makes complete sense to me that he would be contained within his own skin and be (somewhat) limited in dealing with the world around him just as humans are.
Now, he could always upgrade and enhance his abilities but his core personality was to be like those in who's image he was fashioned after - not to be a neat-o, expandable, computer system.
Was that off-topic enough for everyone?
Vadermonkey
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Not at all, I think if you at least mention the word "topic" whatever you say after that is all good! :cool
Thanks guys! And if you find that video....:love
Thanks guys! And if you find that video....:love
