I really don't see how the crew can find that poem boring; it's a brilliant inside look into his mind, scientific and categorizing. I would at least expect them to find it amusing, but certainly not boring (at least not after just twenty seconds, what kind of attention span does this crew have?)
there's a reason for Riker's reaction (his sleepyness relates to the plot of the episode), everyone else more surprised by the very unusual poem, that was more a non-sequitor and too literal a scientific description of a cat with a few phrases that rhymed. Sure it was creative but a little awkward and too literal.
Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature, an endothermic quadruped carnivorous by nature? Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations, a singular development of cat communications that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection. A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents; you would not be so agile if you...
... lacked its counterbalance. And when not being utilized to aide in locomotion, it often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion. O Spot, the complex levels of behaviour you display connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
What is quite interesting about this little ode is that you could just about sing it, specifically to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Modern Major-General". It doesn't quite scan, but it's still very close. Either way, it's a wonderful poem! Nicely done, Data!
On the other hand, if you're saying the definition of morality is not relative, then fine. But even on this question there is dispute. There are plenty of people, and plenty of philosophers, who argue that one may make moral judgements concerning the treatment of animals. If it were simply a matter of your dictionary definition, then there could be no dispute - but yet there is. Because morality concerns the moral sense of individuals, and many individuals have a moral sense regarding animals.
It goes without saying, for example, that you do not agree with every religion. This does not mean that you don't accept that they are religions. What you are doing is tantamount to "proving" that Islam is not a religion by pointing out that the definition of religion excludes Islam - and this despite the fact that almost everybody else accepts that Islam is a religion even if they think religion is a good thing but hate Islam.
A definition of moral statements is derived from nothing more than the sum total of moral statements. Even, for example, philosophers who don't agree that torturing animals is wrong accept that considering torturing animals to be immoral is a moral judgement. What is moral or not is relative. What is less relative, and what the subject of our debate is, is what constitutes a moral statement. This is a matter of language and definition, and your definition is completely at odds with common usage.
The first sentence of your syllogism is not correct. This is not the definition of a moral statement. Almost nobody else believes it is. Therefore your argument is faulty. And if you're suggesting that a moral statement is anything other than something in that category of things that people consider to be moral statements, your going to have to tell me where you're getting your inside information about objective truth from.
I'm not trying to convince you to believe that eating animals is wrong. I'm saying that when I say eating animals is wrong, it is part of a moral code - and you agree that it is part of a moral code Therefore it is not impossible to make a moral decision regarding an animal, since I do so every day of the week when I refuse to eat meat. And on another issue, you say that a sperm whale is not a moral agent - then how can you try to JUSTIFY humans eating meat by adducing what a sperm whale does?
But for all we know some people may apologize when they eat a salad. That may be their moral code. Even if you don't agree with other people's morality, you can't deny that somebody who considers killing or eating animals to be immoral is in possession of a moral code. So there are plenty of moral agents, including me, who apply moral decisions to animals. And anyway you continue to reinforce my original point by insisting the behaviour of sperm whales and humans simply can't be compared.
Being a moral agent is not the same thing as being capable of having moral decisions applied to you. It is perfectly valid to consider it immoral to torture an animal, even if the object of that sentiment is not itself a moral agent. And if you see an animal suffering, and in spite of your natural empathy fail to find it disturbing because your intellect tells you that it's not a moral agent, then you're probably a psychopath.
Look up some pig abattoir videos on youtube and get back to me. The only way you can be sure the animal hasn't suffered is if you've killed it humanely yourself. Is there a difference between throwing a rock off a wall and throwing a dog off a wall? If there is, then they're not the same thing. Just because animals aren't moral agents doesn't mean we shouldn't act morally towards them. Would you throw a baby off a wall because it's not a moral agent?
I think that all creatures are sentient to some level. Even a fly. But I think that some animals have such a low level of sentients that I don't really care. Out of curiosity, why do you say pigs are sentient and other animals not? When I say nature, I mean our (and other animal's) inherent and biological ability to eat meat being a reason too. Just because the animal kingdom does it does not mean it's right. Logically, I think that eating animals is wrong. Unfortunately, my stomach disagrees.
I agree with your "idea", but just because other animals eat other animals doesn't mean we should. Assuming (you may not agree) that animals have some sentients (to a lower degree then us) it is cruel to eat them. They have feelings too. I hate when people us "nature" as a reason why cruelty is ok (which, to me, is sort of what you're saying). Nature is about who survives and not what "nature" intended. It can't intend anything. By the way, I'm not a vegetarian.
All of the evidence points to animals being sentient. Though I love star trek, there is a flaw in this logic. How are random creatures from all around the galaxy somehow sentient, but a cat is not? But I love my cat and I eat meat. You're judging people way too much. Also, assuming there is a such thing as sentients (which I don't actually believe anyway) it would make sense that the smarter a creature is, the more sentient. I mean, a computer or a germ is too "stupid" to be sentient.
It's called poetic licence, nothing to do with eating meat. Relating to the idea that Spot doesn't 'comprehend' in order to rhyme with 'friend', ie. 'not being sentient' can be taken to mean a lower level of awareness. If all 'factually incorrect' poems were thrown out then not many would remain - yet they are enjoyed on a different level than that - as Geordi tried to explain to Data later in this episode, that merely rhyming (eg. 'comprehend' / 'friend') is not the only way to write a poem.
@amitabho123 I noticed that too. Keep in mind this is not the REAL Ode to Spot; in the alternate universe where a reasonable parallel of these events is taking place I'm sure Data used a word that actually made sense. Yes, I'm probably crazy. But I'd like to believe there are infinite universes where infinite things are happening. Thus everything that happens in any television show, book, dream or daydream, is happening in another universe somewhere. Even Data using the right word.
DL is what makes the work of Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Remus" stories) so cool. Harris saw an entire way of communication changing before his eyes (albeit for the better) and sought to preserve the familiar and beloved sounds of his childhood stories as they were told. Since the invention of recorded sound was still 20 years away (and practical application some 50 years in the future), Harris reproduced that unique manner the only way he could--by spelling phonetically.
While adverbs can normally go either before or after verbs, the use of "to" with the verb indicates an infinitive verbal, and it is NEVER correct to split an infinitive, no matter WHAT James Tiberius Kirk said. It "sounds" right because it is one of the most common grammatical mistakes by native English speakers. In the immortal words of Prof. Henry Higgins: "Why can't the English teach their children how to speak...In America, they haven't used it for years!"
The poem is, of course, not an accurate depiction of a relationship between a cybernetic faux organism, but it is a reflection of the complexities of the assigning concepts of sentience and emotionality to a member of the class carnivora by a member of the dominant species of the class primata. I salute the screenwriter for the erudite poem and the actors for the charming exposition of the difficulty of the modern intellectual in a paramilitary environment.
You claimed that morality is not relative, and you adduced the existence of ethics as proof of this. This is like saying that absolute morality must exist because people are looking for it. That's like saying the remote control must be under the couch because I'm looking for it under the couch! Or that unicorns must exist because some people are looking for unicorns.
But that's not the issue because we're not talking about the contents of moral codes - we're talking about the definition of morality. Some people, like me, happen to that think morality and aesthetics are quite similar. You seem incapable of understanding that morality can be relative - that people generally don't agree with each other about it!
Repeating the same thing over and over doesn't make it more true. My own morality says that it is wrong to torture chickens because chickens probably suffer. Is that not valid? Anyway, morality is only a matter of personal opinion when you come right down to it. However what constitues a moral code is probably not, and your definition of that is too restrictive.
it's the only poem to ever use the words 'taxonomic', 'nomenclature' and 'endothermic quadroped'! In a later episode there is a computer glitch that causes Riker to read this poem instead of the Shakespeare play he is practicing.
O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend. LOL!
Data's memory array must have... glitched on thedefinition of the word word "obviates"... it does not mean what he* thinks. Ahh well no one/no thing is perfect. *okay,jk, I mean what the writers think
They've all been listening to his poems for hours (being an android he can write a LOT of poems very quickly n he recited them all). Riker was sleeping because in this episode he barely gets any sleep due to the plot
This is from episode "Schisms", when Riker was abducted every night by an interdimensional species for energy sucking (if i remember correctly). That's why he can't stay awake! The "Ode To Spot" poem is spotless!
An equivalent statement to that might be: unicorns must exist, because otherwise they do not exist, which is in direct conflict with the purpose of unicorn-searcherism, which is to find unicorns.
Prove to me that the statement "it is wrong to torture chickens" is not a moral statement. Since almost everybody in the world thinks it is, it'll have to be quite a convincing and counterintuitive proof.
@LaEB815 Right, just as dogs are "canis lupus familiaris." The "familiaris" distinguishes them from wolves. I suspect it's the same for cats and other larger felines with the "domesticus" part.
Guys... You're arguing morality over a poem written by an android for it's feline companion. Can we please just watch the video & giggle like idiot humans together?
@Susie7760 Good episode, but funny? Maybe this scene, but the episode was fucking creepy. Those aliens kidnapping the personnel to experiment on them while sleeping...
Well that's your opinion, and nothing else. The point of my comment is that what the sperm whale does is irrelevant to what humans do. And you seem to agree.
Prof. Higgins, though, took it to a comical and annoying extreme (no one could read it but him--and maybe Col. Pickering). Dude definitely needed a life! :D
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents. You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance. And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion. Oh Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display Connote a fairly well developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient Spot and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by Nature Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations A singular development of cat communications That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection For a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.
@ObiJoe808 It wasn't Riker's fault! Every night when he goes to sleep aliens abduct him to saw his arm off and reattach it, and they tranquilize him with something. That's why he was so tired in this episode, I shit you not.
i still don't get why the people in that room don't like it...
as soon as i was finished with the episode i copied the poem and saved it in word^^
lol, It's the delivery.
That's got to be the most beautiful poem ever made. And it uses words like taxonomic nomenclature. GO DATA!
That is hilarious when Data says, "Commander, you have anticipated my denouement. However, the sentiment is appreciated. I will continue."
BEST SCENE EVER! It never gets old for me either.
I always watch it with a growing smile.
The thing in TNG that never ever fails to make me laugh is Riker's various reactions to Data. X-D
I really don't see how the crew can find that poem boring; it's a brilliant inside look into his mind, scientific and categorizing. I would at least expect them to find it amusing, but certainly not boring (at least not after just twenty seconds, what kind of attention span does this crew have?)
I never understand why this poem was not well-received. It is perfectly and pleasingly formed. :D
Riker - hah!
there's a reason for Riker's reaction (his sleepyness relates to the plot of the episode), everyone else more surprised by the very unusual poem, that was more a non-sequitor and too literal a scientific description of a cat with a few phrases that rhymed. Sure it was creative but a little awkward and too literal.
the internet has ruined it for him
Good point, I'd forgotten that the plot of the episode was Riker's difficulty sleeping.
Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature,
an endothermic quadruped carnivorous by nature?
Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses
contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
a singular development of cat communications
that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
you would not be so agile if you...
I've never heard such vocabulary used to describe a cat. It would be awesome of everyone spoke as well as Data.
... lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aide in locomotion,
it often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
O Spot, the complex levels of behaviour you display
connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
What is quite interesting about this little ode is that you could just about sing it, specifically to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Modern Major-General". It doesn't quite scan, but it's still very close.
Either way, it's a wonderful poem! Nicely done, Data!
This is a freaking awesome poem. I seriously can't understand why the crew isn't marveling at it.
This poem makes me grin every time I hear it. XD
This poem is beautiful! I can't see why the crew don't find it so :( poor data
I don't get why they're all so bored after 30 seconds, though :D
love Data
I love it! Only Data!
I memorized this poem for my class last week. :) They loved it.
That is easily the most awesome thing they ever had on that show. :-)
Data would make a killer rap artist in this century.
I love this. :D From first seen to even now.
*sniff....beautiful
On the other hand, if you're saying the definition of morality is not relative, then fine. But even on this question there is dispute. There are plenty of people, and plenty of philosophers, who argue that one may make moral judgements concerning the treatment of animals. If it were simply a matter of your dictionary definition, then there could be no dispute - but yet there is. Because morality concerns the moral sense of individuals, and many individuals have a moral sense regarding animals.
It goes without saying, for example, that you do not agree with every religion. This does not mean that you don't accept that they are religions. What you are doing is tantamount to "proving" that Islam is not a religion by pointing out that the definition of religion excludes Islam - and this despite the fact that almost everybody else accepts that Islam is a religion even if they think religion is a good thing but hate Islam.
A definition of moral statements is derived from nothing more than the sum total of moral statements. Even, for example, philosophers who don't agree that torturing animals is wrong accept that considering torturing animals to be immoral is a moral judgement. What is moral or not is relative. What is less relative, and what the subject of our debate is, is what constitutes a moral statement. This is a matter of language and definition, and your definition is completely at odds with common usage.
The first sentence of your syllogism is not correct. This is not the definition of a moral statement. Almost nobody else believes it is. Therefore your argument is faulty.
And if you're suggesting that a moral statement is anything other than something in that category of things that people consider to be moral statements, your going to have to tell me where you're getting your inside information about objective truth from.
I'm not trying to convince you to believe that eating animals is wrong. I'm saying that when I say eating animals is wrong, it is part of a moral code - and you agree that it is part of a moral code Therefore it is not impossible to make a moral decision regarding an animal, since I do so every day of the week when I refuse to eat meat.
And on another issue, you say that a sperm whale is not a moral agent - then how can you try to JUSTIFY humans eating meat by adducing what a sperm whale does?
But for all we know some people may apologize when they eat a salad. That may be their moral code. Even if you don't agree with other people's morality, you can't deny that somebody who considers killing or eating animals to be immoral is in possession of a moral code. So there are plenty of moral agents, including me, who apply moral decisions to animals. And anyway you continue to reinforce my original point by insisting the behaviour of sperm whales and humans simply can't be compared.
Being a moral agent is not the same thing as being capable of having moral decisions applied to you. It is perfectly valid to consider it immoral to torture an animal, even if the object of that sentiment is not itself a moral agent. And if you see an animal suffering, and in spite of your natural empathy fail to find it disturbing because your intellect tells you that it's not a moral agent, then you're probably a psychopath.
Look up some pig abattoir videos on youtube and get back to me. The only way you can be sure the animal hasn't suffered is if you've killed it humanely yourself.
Is there a difference between throwing a rock off a wall and throwing a dog off a wall? If there is, then they're not the same thing. Just because animals aren't moral agents doesn't mean we shouldn't act morally towards them. Would you throw a baby off a wall because it's not a moral agent?
I think that all creatures are sentient to some level. Even a fly. But I think that some animals have such a low level of sentients that I don't really care. Out of curiosity, why do you say pigs are sentient and other animals not? When I say nature, I mean our (and other animal's) inherent and biological ability to eat meat being a reason too. Just because the animal kingdom does it does not mean it's right. Logically, I think that eating animals is wrong. Unfortunately, my stomach disagrees.
I agree with your "idea", but just because other animals eat other animals doesn't mean we should. Assuming (you may not agree) that animals have some sentients (to a lower degree then us) it is cruel to eat them. They have feelings too. I hate when people us "nature" as a reason why cruelty is ok (which, to me, is sort of what you're saying). Nature is about who survives and not what "nature" intended. It can't intend anything. By the way, I'm not a vegetarian.
All of the evidence points to animals being sentient. Though I love star trek, there is a flaw in this logic. How are random creatures from all around the galaxy somehow sentient, but a cat is not? But I love my cat and I eat meat. You're judging people way too much. Also, assuming there is a such thing as sentients (which I don't actually believe anyway) it would make sense that the smarter a creature is, the more sentient. I mean, a computer or a germ is too "stupid" to be sentient.
It's called poetic licence, nothing to do with eating meat.
Relating to the idea that Spot doesn't 'comprehend' in order to rhyme with 'friend', ie. 'not being sentient' can be taken to mean a lower level of awareness.
If all 'factually incorrect' poems were thrown out then not many would remain - yet they are enjoyed on a different level than that - as Geordi tried to explain to Data later in this episode, that merely rhyming (eg. 'comprehend' / 'friend') is not the only way to write a poem.
@amitabho123 I noticed that too. Keep in mind this is not the REAL Ode to Spot; in the alternate universe where a reasonable parallel of these events is taking place I'm sure Data used a word that actually made sense.
Yes, I'm probably crazy. But I'd like to believe there are infinite universes where infinite things are happening. Thus everything that happens in any television show, book, dream or daydream, is happening in another universe somewhere. Even Data using the right word.
DL is what makes the work of Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Remus" stories) so cool. Harris saw an entire way of communication changing before his eyes (albeit for the better) and sought to preserve the familiar and beloved sounds of his childhood stories as they were told. Since the invention of recorded sound was still 20 years away (and practical application some 50 years in the future), Harris reproduced that unique manner the only way he could--by spelling phonetically.
While adverbs can normally go either before or after verbs, the use of "to" with the verb indicates an infinitive verbal, and it is NEVER correct to split an infinitive, no matter WHAT James Tiberius Kirk said. It "sounds" right because it is one of the most common grammatical mistakes by native English speakers.
In the immortal words of Prof. Henry Higgins: "Why can't the English teach their children how to speak...In America, they haven't used it for years!"
The poem is, of course, not an accurate depiction of a relationship between a cybernetic faux organism, but it is a reflection of the complexities of the assigning concepts of sentience and emotionality to a member of the class carnivora by a member of the dominant species of the class primata. I salute the screenwriter for the erudite poem and the actors for the charming exposition of the difficulty of the modern intellectual in a paramilitary environment.
You claimed that morality is not relative, and you adduced the existence of ethics as proof of this. This is like saying that absolute morality must exist because people are looking for it. That's like saying the remote control must be under the couch because I'm looking for it under the couch! Or that unicorns must exist because some people are looking for unicorns.
But that's not the issue because we're not talking about the contents of moral codes - we're talking about the definition of morality.
Some people, like me, happen to that think morality and aesthetics are quite similar. You seem incapable of understanding that morality can be relative - that people generally don't agree with each other about it!
Repeating the same thing over and over doesn't make it more true. My own morality says that it is wrong to torture chickens because chickens probably suffer. Is that not valid? Anyway, morality is only a matter of personal opinion when you come right down to it. However what constitues a moral code is probably not, and your definition of that is too restrictive.
The end is so adorable.
Spot is sentient. He simply lacks higher-order cognition. Data should have known this.
it's the only poem to ever use the words 'taxonomic', 'nomenclature' and 'endothermic quadroped'! In a later episode there is a computer glitch that causes Riker to read this poem instead of the Shakespeare play he is practicing.
O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend. LOL!
Data's memory array must have... glitched on thedefinition of the word word "obviates"... it does not mean what he* thinks.
Ahh well no one/no thing is perfect.
*okay,jk, I mean what the writers think
They've all been listening to his poems for hours (being an android he can write a LOT of poems very quickly n he recited them all). Riker was sleeping because in this episode he barely gets any sleep due to the plot
This is from episode "Schisms", when Riker was abducted every night by an interdimensional species for energy sucking (if i remember correctly). That's why he can't stay awake!
The "Ode To Spot" poem is spotless!
Sorry...I meant I watch Star Trek for Data AND Spot
An equivalent statement to that might be: unicorns must exist, because otherwise they do not exist, which is in direct conflict with the purpose of unicorn-searcherism, which is to find unicorns.
Prove to me that the statement "it is wrong to torture chickens" is not a moral statement. Since almost everybody in the world thinks it is, it'll have to be quite a convincing and counterintuitive proof.
@LaEB815
Right, just as dogs are "canis lupus familiaris." The "familiaris" distinguishes them from wolves. I suspect it's the same for cats and other larger felines with the "domesticus" part.
Guys... You're arguing morality over a poem written by an android for it's feline companion. Can we please just watch the video & giggle like idiot humans together?
@Susie7760 Good episode, but funny? Maybe this scene, but the episode was fucking creepy. Those aliens kidnapping the personnel to experiment on them while sleeping...
Well that's your opinion, and nothing else. The point of my comment is that what the sperm whale does is irrelevant to what humans do. And you seem to agree.
Prof. Higgins, though, took it to a comical and annoying extreme (no one could read it but him--and maybe Col. Pickering). Dude definitely needed a life! :D
my very very faveorite poem every!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and my very favorite android ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and my favorite ever program ever!!!!!!!!!!
haha, Troi and Riker in this scene are hillarious, so is Capt Picard and the Female Ensign next to him, their faces say it all! lol
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents.
You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion
It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
Oh Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
Connote a fairly well developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient Spot and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by Nature
Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations
A singular development of cat communications
That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.
And while Data told a tale of Spot
With language broad and deep
Mighty Riker merely closed his eyes
And snored, and fell asleep.
Picard looks like he's trying to decide if its worth setting the self destruct just to give him an excuse to get out of there.
Yes, because I find latex inflatables really hot when they are dressed up in things I would find on the floor of your closet.
@Susie7760 CHEERS GOOD CAT FELLOW!!!! definitly intelligent creatures.. they know mann.. they just prefer not to say... ;3
@ObiJoe808 It wasn't Riker's fault! Every night when he goes to sleep aliens abduct him to saw his arm off and reattach it, and they tranquilize him with something. That's why he was so tired in this episode, I shit you not.
If almost everybody believed it was a religion, then the definition of religion would change to include it.
After studying many poems in my english class I can safely say none of them are anywhere near as good as this.
I have memorized this entire poem and i can recite it at top speed...however i cannot remember my homework
@cockroachafro IDK ,but it was one of the special effects people on the show. They did an intriguing job!!!
In a later episode there is a computer glitch that causes Riker to read this poem instead of the Shakespeare play he is practicing.
Why the hell would you fall asleep during someone's performance
naaaaaw I am dyin inside ^^ orsomething... I can not feel all that good :P But data is so cuuuute!
@p00pynuggeteer You plagiarized Data's work! He would be so disappointed in you, you plagiarizer.
Who's the actress in the blue dress sitting next to Picard, she was in a few episodes as an extra.
Man after listening to the rap rendition so many times, hearing the original is just so slow.
That's got to be right up there with "resistance is futile" as one of the classic TNG moments!
Brent Spiner is simp[ly brilliant in the role of Data - a joy to watch over and over again!
@CatCommunication Yeah, I am. Riker goofed up and did it too in 'A Fistful of Datas'. ;^D
Dude, I don't know why they're all acting bored. This poem makes me laugh every time. XD
@GypsyCupcakes I SURE AM! If I could write poems like that I'd be rich! Or doing poems for star trek, either way, awesome. lol :)
Riker is mad enough that Data cloned his beard, now Data has to own him in poetry too.
Look at Riker's face at 1:00: he's thinking, "Uh-oh, Data's going to kick my butt!"
Well, you have to admit, no poem has better reflected the personality of its author.
Alien abduction in the 24th century..dang
@terminat1
denouement - It's french, means the conclusion of something usually.
Pathetic as it may be, I actually have this memorized.... I love Data and Spot. 8D
This could rank alongside Vogon poetry! See also Dalek poetry, e.g. Daffodils; "Daffodils! Exterminate daffodils!"
LOL at Riker.
Ode to Spot kicks ass, I'm going to learn it and recite it somewhere to see if someone catches on.
Good poem, funny episode...one remark in defense of cats, they are sentient.
I loved when they gave nods to prior episodes or current (or past) pop culture
Oh cats understand. They just act all superior. LOL. Too funny. ROTFLMAO even.
yyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwnnnn, i mean yay go data awesome...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Hey God created it all, and after Noah he gave us animals for food. Eat up!
@amitabho123 I don't think he did mispronounce it. How do you pronounce it?
Data could give William the Bloody a run for his money in terms of poetry.
not only that its utterly brilliant as far as content goes
*snap snap snap
I watch Star Trek for Spot
It's entirely somebody's opinion whether torturing animals is immoral.