Data B. Rodriguez
*the B stands for Bending
this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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Data Bending nee Soong.
Data Bending Rodriguez-Soong
Data: "Bite my dull grey ass!"
Tasha Yar: "I already did, babe 😏😘"
It's very smooth, too ...
Knowing the rapport they have now on Dropping Names, I love this clip just a little bit more.
I'm gonna make my own Data! With blackjack! And hookers!
I could bend a girder to any angle! 30 degrees, 32 degrees, you name it!
31 degrees...
But I couldn’t go on living after I heard what the girders were for
Making suicide booths.
The greatest thing about this scene is that Spiner actually bent a real, solid bar of titanium to show off. 😌
It wasn't easy finding an actor with the superhuman strength of an android!
This scene always low-key bugged me because Data obviously hands the bar back to Riker in that awkward double handed manner specifically so the cheap prop they're using doesn't spring back out.
It would also be a cool subversion to have Data say he was designed to be human and doesn't have super human strength. Or the motors for micro control are tuned for precision and not torque. Anything to undermine the trope that robots are superior to humans in every way.
That would actually make more sense to say Dr Soong was totally focused on the positronic brain, they already had plenty of things like the DOTs to do physically demanding tasks so making Data super strong wouldn’t be a priority.
Also, that metal would be rather hot from undergoing that much tension in such short a time.
Nah these girders are the same material they use for the self-sealing stem bolts.
That would make Lore Flexo. But Flexo is not the evil twin sooooo
Wait, which one had the mustache for realsies? I saw them in the closet and I forget which one had it before and after they made out but well you get the idea.
Data Rodriguez Soong
I'm convinced. Can't be sentient life if it can bend things.
Still can't beat Bender's stretchy arms.
Bending is my middle name
Alara Kitan would like a word