This is your reminder that Data walked around his colony completely naked until he was specifically programmed to stop doing it with a "modesty subroutine."

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Data meets Juliana Tainer, former wife of Dr. Noonien Soong and Data's "mother," but she holds a shocking secret that even she doesn't know she carries. "Captain's log, stardate 47410.2. The Atrean government has requested assistance in averting a natural disaster. Two of their geologists have come ...

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

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- 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.
  
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  Yes; he said that the real clothes itched, and Garak said that's the wool, you'll get used to it.
  
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  "surprising ability" haha. I love that autocorrect.
  
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- As was Anya in The Dauphin
  
  Wesley noticed.
  
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- When you stop to think about it, we are all naked in front of the eyes of the Prophets, my child
  
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As a child of the 20th century, so did I.

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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.

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- "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.
  
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  [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.]
  
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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'

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- 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.
  
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  If you haven't seen it, you should look up: The Secret of Roan Inish
  
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  The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain
  
  That's a delightful movie as well.
  
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- 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.
  
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- Waking Ned Divine is one of my favorite movies ever. It's such a delightful movie!
  
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  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.
  
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- Waking Ned Divine is amazing. I love the movie and it had my favorite version of The Parting Glass on its score.
  
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It took an arrest and restraining order to get me to stop so in comparison data was already being modest

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Why did they give an information robot genitals?

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- Mostly so that they could come up with an excuse for him and Tasha to bump uglies.
  
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- If you're gong to make a robot you might as well make one that fucks.
  
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