Did you ever watch the TNG episode "Birthright"? There is a huge amount of Bashir and Data being adorable. Julian is fanboying so hard.

100% what??

Honestly, I have not been keeping anything from you guys — I have truly only watched the TNG episodes I have mentioned watching! Which is to say these, plus these, and now this, and nowest: BIRTHRIGHT, Parts 1 and 2

Would you like to know what happens in ‘Birthright’ here I’ll tell you:

Part 1

With the Enterprise docked at Deep Space 9 so Picard can attend some Bajoran aqueduct seminar, cocksure nerd Julian “Season 1” Bashir sneaks onboard to poke around their medical equipment and see if anyone tries to, [saucy look], stop him.

It goes better than he imagined.

Or than I imagined.

With a Synthetic Lifeform spot on his Bang Bingo he’s just been dying to fill, Bashir starts flirting about how “personable” Data is, before falling into dorky ecstasies over how his internal systems maintenance is designed to resemble breathing and a pulse. (Admittedly, I got superjazzy about that too.) 

Staggeringly, Data then tells Julian the equivalent of “everyone’s always interested in my mind, but no one is interested in my body — until you.” Well my god.

Julian to himself: “steady Bashir, you just might land this plane”

But then it’s a thorough/thankful veer into the metaphysical, as a weird power surge zaps Data and drops us into an ANDROID DREAM SEQUENCE, scored with some sort of Trek Angelo Badalamenti riff, bless. 

Meanwhile, with Worf, some watery-eyed alien tries to sell him the whereabouts of his father, who maybe isn’t dead (naw he’s still dead, I’ll just tell you now). Worf hauls off to a Romulan prison camp to get to the bottom of THIS, while wearing a very stealth all-black turtleneck & trousers ensemble that I am obsessed with.

Worf’s look would also be suitable for attending the opening of Data’s one-man art show, as after his Experience, Picard kindly suggests he ~look into himself for answers~, and Data takes that to mean speed-painting. What is important here is that I learn Data has a print of Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance hanging in his quarters. Later, I learn Data has a pet cat. This was a great episode for learning things about Data, and also whatever this is

I’m not even gonna.

MEANWHILE, WITH WORF:

Lol.

Part 2

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