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---
title: "Data's Poetry"
-category: "star-trek-tng"
+category:
+- star-trek-tng
+- star-trek
abstract: Poems by Commnander Data
date: 2023-11-16T23:30:00+01:00
draft: false
---
-Poems by Commander Data
+{{<img-pull-right "st-tng-data.png">}}
+Data, our Operations Officer aboard USS Enterprise was a Soong-type android.
+He was sure that his goal in life was to learn what it means to Human; to experience the world like his cremates.
+One attempt to achieve that was by writing poetry.
+Below are two poems he wrote as a result.
-## Schisms
+## A Sunset Bloom
+Beginning part of the poem is considered to be lost.
+
+> [...]
> "Then we sat on the sand for some time and observed
> How the oceans that cover the world were perturbed
> By the tides from the orbiting moon overhead
@@ -24,8 +33,8 @@ Poems by Commander Data
## Ode to Spot
-Spot was Data's cat.
-This poem was written in his honour.
+Spot was cat Data kept aboard the USS Enterprise.
+This poem was written in his honor.
> "Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
> An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;