Major design flaw

Dr. Noonian Soong, idiot savant.

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He chose to go with a slightly autistic positronic brain which can't (or won't) do contractions, over the previous model, which was too suave to the point of becoming sociopathic.
Should've gone with smaller corrections, perhaps, but Data works quite well.
Even when he's malfunctioning.
- Alternatively: hmm, okay Lore was evil... What if I model the next one after a Vulcan personality, but don't tell anyone so he develops an identity crisis lol
- I was a little surprised that Worf didn't want to sing. It sounds a lot like a Klingon drinking song

Except when he does, but we will just pretend we did not hear that.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1KdQNodN0
  
  Ok, after S01, it only happened again 5 times out of 152 episodes (of a total 176)— not including Future Imperfect when it was holo-Data. That’s a pretty great record for slip-ups if you figure the rule simply wasn’t established until S02 episode Datalore.
- He has exceeded his programming, without knowing it.

It is a bit of a contradiction that he can't use contractions. It's a contraction contradiction. A contracdiction!
- *cannot
- If he can’t use contractions, what would happen if he tried to use a portmanteau?
  
  Geordi would look at him confused for a sec, then Data would explain that he was using a portmanteau, he'd combined two unrelated words to create a third with a new meaning, that- and Geordi would cut him off because he knows what a portmanteau is, he'd just never heard Data do that and it was unexpected. This aside would lead to a revelation about the A plot of the episode. By technical space jargon, mashing two things together to create a new third they can technical space jargon and separate Riker from the alien he was boning that week.

you think the Borg queen tempted Data with the pleasures of the flesh, but they actually had to cut the scenes where she was tempting him with the freedom to say "ain't".. it was too powerful.. too moving..
- Now I really want to hear Data say:
  Ain't nobody got time for that!

Wasn’t there an episode that establishes Lore was first, but hit an uncanny valley that people didn’t like? The response was to make Data more robotic including no contractions.

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