Star Trek: TNG: ‘Time’s Arrow’, Data talks about how comforting the knowledge that he will die is.
LaForge:So, do you want to talk about it? Data:Are you referring to the foreknowledge of my death? LaForge:Yeah. Data:I have no particular desire to discuss the matter. Do you need to talk about it? LaForge:Yeah. Data:Why? LaForge:Data, this has got to bother you a little. Data:On the contrary. I find it rather comforting. LaForge:Comforting? Data:I have often wondered about my own mortality as I have seen others around me age. Until now it has been theoretically possible that I would live an unlimited period of time. And although some might find this attractive, to me it only reinforces the fact that I am artificial. LaForge:I never knew how tough this must be for you. Data:Tough? As in difficult? LaForge:Knowing that you would outlive all your friends. Data:I expected to make new friends. LaForge:True. Data:And then to outlive them as well. LaForge:Now that you know that you might not? Data:It provides a sense of completion to my future. In a way, I am not that different from anyone else. I can now look forward to death. LaForge:I never thought of it that way. Data:One might also conclude that it brings me one step closer to being human. I am mortal.
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u/TightValue315 7d ago
Would be a curse everyone you would ever know would die before you can you can't really make connections because they would always die