Holy shit you're ridiculously awesome

It's because of the way robots have been portrayed by the media on RET (robot entertainment television). Most people don't know real robots, so they get all their stereotypes from tv. Data is the recipient of the behavior resulting from this.

How else will he learn to act human??

I think that was the point. They weren't allowed to have ridiculous caricatures of actual nationalities like the original Star Trek, so they made Data the official Token Not-Us. Discriminating against androids totally isn't racism, right?

Even though he is the token outsider, he's the best character on the show. Data handled Riker's rude interruption with wit and grace, proving that he is indeed superior.

I had lunch with Mega Man at Threepio's the other day, and I was amazed at how well the robots were acting. No one was jumping up and going "Provide this unit with additional iced tea, maternal fornicating organic scum!" I think andriod-americans are beginning to think for themselves.

No.
No, we're not. Xenocide.

Thats ridiculous, don't get all sanctimonious and act like robots just recently got sentience. They been providin' correct calculations since the 60s, people like you just haven't been listening.

I'm fine with robots, as long as they stay in their own neighborhoods.

I'm frightened to discover that I still actually remember this, but in this episode Riker was having difficulty sleeping.

That was the episode where Riker was stuck up all night not getting laid.

I think it was the episode where some chick has control of his brain and sneaks into his cabin at night to steal his juices and then he wakes up and his pillow is mostly gone and then Troy comes in and says she's totally not jealous but then she goes back to her cabin and touches herself.

Livejournal killed poetry, fool. There are actually some pretty clever rhymes in here, and Data's affection for his little buddy is sincere and heartfelt.

those nice rhymes make Whitman role in his grave

Oh don't worry about that. Whitman's grave is empty. I checked.

The poetry's supposed to be bad. A robot wrote it.

Robots fucking suck.

The irony of criticizing someone's writing while failing to spell the word "roll" is making O. Henry spin in his grave.