Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 45397.3. Two days ago, Starbase 514 lost
contact with the Research Vessel Vico, which was sent to explore the interior
of the Black Cluster. We are en route to investigate."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. A young boy, shielded from our initial
sensor scans, has been discovered pinned beneath a fallen beam. The degree of
damage to the Vico is making our rescue attempt difficult."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Riker: "It's going to be okay."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "Are you going to lift that?"
Data: "Yes."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "How can you lift something so heavy?"
Data: "I am an android. My strength is many times that of a human."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "It is going to be...okay."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. A thorough search of the Vico has
revealed no additional survivors. We have begun the process of counseling
the boy with regard to the tragedy."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Beverly: "You've got your work cut out for you."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Troi: "His world is gone, Data. You're going to have to help him build a new
one."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "Geordi, as a child, did you ever experience a traumatic event?"
LaForge: "You're wondering about Timothy?"
Data: "Yes."
LaForge: "I was...caught in a fire once. I must have been, I don't know, about
five, I guess? It was before I got the first VISOR. And, it was only a
couple of minutes before my parents found me and pulled me out. And nobody
got hurt, but...I tell you...that was the longest couple of minutes in my
life. It was a while after that before I could even let my parents get out of
earshot. It was like...I absolutely needed to know that they were there, you
know?"
Data: "Timothy no longer has that kind of support."
LaForge: "Yeah."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Teacher: "Dara and her brother found themselves in the land of Targus, where the
ruler, Eliamos the Magnificent, had proclaimed his law, 'No children will be
tolerated within the great kingdom.' When Dara saw the proclamation she just
laughed, and said, 'How magnificent a ruler, to be frightened by the likes of
us!'"
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Teacher: "Timothy, we're done with sculpture for now."
Timothy: "It's not finished."
Teacher: "We'll come back to it next period. Why don't you pick up your
mythology book and follow along?"
Timothy: "But it's not finished!"
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "What do you think?"
Data: "Do you wish a frank evaluation?"
Timothy: [Nods yes]
Data: "It lacks the harmony that characterized this particular temple, and the
Docharan culture in general."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "You hate it."
Data: "No. I am not capable of hatred."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "I can't do anything right."
Data: "You are making an unwarranted extrapolation."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "Incredible."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "Data, how come you can do that?"
Data: "I am designed to exceed human capacity, both mentally and physically."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "Androids are better than humans?"
Data: "'Better' is a highly subjective term. I do not for example possess the
ability to experience emotion as humans do."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "No emotions? You mean you can't be happy...or sad?"
Data: "That is correct."
Timothy: "Why not?"
Data: "My positronic brain is not capbable of generating those conditions."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "Data, can we build something else...later?"
Data: "That would be acceptable."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "'I am designed to exceed human capacity.' 'That is correct.'"
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Troi: "Hello, Timothy. Are you ready to go?"
Timothy: "Yes, Counselor, I am ready."
Troi: "How do you feel?"
Timothy: "I am functioning within estabished parameters."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Troi: "'Established parameters'? You sound like Data!"
Timothy: "'I am an android.'"
Troi: "I see. Well, let's go for a walk, shall we?"
Timothy: "'That would be acceptable.'"
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Troi: "So, what would you like?"
Timothy: "Androids do not eat or drink. However, we sometimes like to taste
things."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "Would you like anything, Counselor?"
Troi: "No, I'm fine, thank you."
Timothy: "As you wish."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Troi: "So, you're no longer human."
Timothy: "'I am an android.'"
Troi: "When did this happen?"
Timothy: "I've always been an android."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Troi: "What's it like being an android?"
Timothy: "'I am designed to exceed human capacity, both mentally and
physically.'"
Troi: "You don't? No emotion at all?"
Timothy: "'That is correct.'"
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Picard: "Data, I would like you to make Timothy the best android he can possibly
be."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "Timothy, your head movements are counterproductive. Can you be still?"
Timothy: "But you do it."
Data: "The servo mechanisms in my neck are designed to approximate human
movements. I did not realize the effect was so distracting."
Timothy: "I like it."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "Data, are there any other androids in Starfleet?"
Data: "No. I am the only one."
Timothy: "How come you're not captain?"
Data: "My service record does not yet warrant such a position."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "Data, what's the most scariest thing that ever happened to you?"
Data: "Fear is not a quality that I possess."
Timothy: "Because you're emotionless."
Data: "Correct."
Timothy: "Well, what, what if you, you had a nightmare?"
Data: "I have never had a nightmare. I do not require sleep. Are you having
disturbing dreams?"
Timothy: "'I do not require sleep.'"
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "Is that satisfactory?"
Timothy: "It's perfect."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Beverly: "Transfer circuits are functioning properly."
Timothy: "Within established parameters?"
Beverly: "Absolutely. Input processing, pattern recognition, all 'within
established parameters.'"
Data and Timothy: "Thank you, Doctor."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "Perhaps you should return to your quarters."
Timothy: "I'm fine. 'The servo mechanisms in my...' mouth '...are designed to
appoximate human movements.'"
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: [Practices yawning]
Timothy: "That is not bad."
Data: "Thank you."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "Timothy, you understand that you may speak to me about anything you wish
...any subject."
Timothy: "I understand."
Data: "At times, I too find it...difficult to share my thoughts with others. I
am not always confident that I am...expressing myself in a manner which humans
can comprehend."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "He laughed."
Troi: "Yes, it's nice to see, isn't it?"
Data: "It is certainly not consistent with his android persona."
Troi: "I'd say that he is beginning the process of letting go of that fantasy."
Data: "Hmm. Then my work with him is done."
Troi: "No, I, I don't think it is, Data."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "This is great. How is yours?"
Data: "The complex polysaccharides, in reaction with the carbon dioxide,
produces an unusual combination of texture and effervescence."
Timothy: "But how does it taste? Is it good?"
Data: "I am not capable of tasting in the manner you suggest. However, I can
analyze the composition of a dessert, then make comparative conclusions about
its possible effect on the human palatte. But I neither like it, nor dislike
it."
Timothy: "Oh, I didn't realize that."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "I have often wondered what it must be like to have one's mouth...water in
anticipation of the arrival of a confection. Or to feel the pleasure I have
observed in humans as they consume it."
Timothy: "You sound like you don't want to be an android."
Data: "I am an android. That will never change."
Timothy: "But if you could change, would you?"
Data: "I have often wished to be human. I have studied people carefully, in
order to more closely approximate human behavior."
Timothy: "Why? We're stronger and smarter than humans. We can do more than
they can."
Data: "I cannot take pride in my abilities. I cannot take pleasure in my
accomplishments."
Timothy: "But we never have to feel bad either."
Data: "I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could
...taste my dessert."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "Timothy, androids do not lie."
Timothy: "It was...me."
Data: "Please explain."
Timothy: "It was me. I killed them all."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "That's how it was...when it started on the Vico."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "Sir, drop the shields."
Riker: "That's suicide, Data."
Data: "Captain, *drop* the shields."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Picard: "Make it so."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Troi: "Timothy's a boy feeling a great deal of pain. But, he is a boy again.
Is this difficult for you, Data?"
Data: "'Difficult'?"
Troi: "To watch him, moving away from being like you."
Data: "That would require an emotional context which I cannot provide."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "Hello, Timothy."
Timothy: "Hi, Data. How are you?"
Data: "I am operating within established parameters."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "I, I think that was pretty silly when I had my hair like yours and
everything."
Data: "I have been told that imitation is the highest form of flattery."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Timothy: "Can we still do things together? Even if I'm not really an android?"
Data: "I have many human friends. I would be pleased to count you among them."
Timothy: "'That would be...acceptable.'"
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3