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Spock, definitely. 3nodding

Somehow, "I am attempting the hell to communicate." pwns "Oh, s**t.". whee

As much as I love the Ode to Spot,
the second line isn't a question.
(It's commonly mis-punctuated online.)
He's stating this.

Further,
I was just thinking about the poem during a slack moment,
and it occurred to me that Spot is an EXOTHERMIC quadruped,
not an ENDOTHERMIC quadruped.

An EXOtherm gives off heat, and feels warm to the touch.
An ENDOtherm absorbs heat, and feels cold to the touch.
Mammals are exothermic.

I concluded that, if this concerned me, I'd be taking my Trek too
seriously. smile

BTW,
I don't have the link handy,
but there's a website with video clips of all Spot's appearances,
and it includes Data reading the Ode at the beginning of "Schisms".

They're both so awsome and sexah wink hmm It's a tough choice, Spock maybe, or Data... mmm I think the ears may have won though wink

I can't choose. Data has this child like innocence going for him. But Spock is totally hot. Who could possibly choose between them?

Endothermic means you produce your own heat, commonly called warm-blooded. Example, human.

exothermic is a lot like ectothermic, biologically speaking, it means you need to absorb heat from the things around you, commonly called cold-blooded. Example, snake.

Mammals are endothermic. Of course, this way of looking at temperature regulation is a bit black and white.


Spok. It isn't just that was Leonard Nimoy born on March 26 *points to profile.* The ears, the presence, the arrogance tempered with a strong desire to do good but in a logical way, he did too much LDS in the 60s (Mormons?), and he ticked people off. Who did Data tick off? Only girls that got frustrated that he didn't feel anything towards them so they couldn't have a meaningful relationship. Spok ticked people off. And he was a match for the computer at chess. How cool is that? I say it's pretty darn cool.

Then again, Data has a lot going for him. The crazy parentage, the evil identical brother, the humanity despite the lack of being human. He's got a cat, and his lack of humor is comical in that he doesn't understand why it's funny to people, as opposed to Spok who knows why it's funny to others but doesn't agree that it is.

I still think I need to go with Spok, though. He ticks people off daily. That makes it all worth it. I can't say that the humanoid touch outshines a computer, because Data's not just a bundle of technology to me. But that's one of my "Man, that's deep," lines of reasoning. Not that it's very deep.

Who cares if their hot
Data is the greatest Trek character of all time. The only two that even come close to competing with Data are Doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy and Lieutenant Commander Worf

Data because hes so funny xd His mom had to make a program or else we wouldnt put on his clothes