Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

This is so funny. Those of you who don't follow my blog over all these years may have a differing opinion. From my perspective, I see the context of recent observations. The context of an observation that leads to another observation and those two observations occur within a small timeframe. And since you probably don't follow my blog then your opinion is not informed as to how I have countered your predictable opinions.

In this case, there was a moment, with the past two days when I was walking up the open staircase of my apartment building. I had to pause at one point because I seemed to have lost track of my footsteps. One thought in my mind was about vertigo. Well, that's no new thought. I don't like heights. But the stairwell doesn't bother me. Not as it did that time within about the past 48 hours. I was really concerned for the briefest of moment. I had to stop while on the ascent of the steps because I couldn't understand where my feet where.

I have watched before this film and this DVD but not very often and today is the first time I have watched it in a very long time. And that is such a trivial scene and dialog.








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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)


GALLATIN: There is an alternative to an all-out assault. Isolinear tags would allow our transporters to lock on to them.

RU'AFO: We'd have to tag every one of them. That would take time and we don't have it. The Enterprise is only nineteen hours from communications range with the Federation.

DOUGHERTY: I'll order Riker to turn around.

RU'AFO: Picard's first officer. Do you really believe he'll listen? My ships are capable of intercepting the Enterprise before it reaches the perimeter. I could send them to ...to escort it back, ...but Commander Riker might not want to come.

DOUGHERTY: Send your ships.

[Ba'ku planet foothills]

ARTIM: Do you like being a machine?

DATA: I aspire to be more than I am.

ARTIM: I know why. So people like us won't be afraid of you any more.

DATA: ...Perhaps?

ARTIM: Don't you ever get tired?

DATA: My power cells continually recharge themselves.

ARTIM: I can't imagine what it's like to be a machine.

DATA: Perhaps it would surprise you to know that I have often tried to imagine what it would be like to be a child.

ARTIM: Really?

DATA: Really.

ARTIM: For one thing, your legs are shorter than everyone else's.

DATA: But they are in a constant state of growth. Do you find it difficult to adapt?

ARTIM: Adapt?

DATA: A child's specifications are never the same from one moment to the next. It is a wonder that you do not ...trip over your own feet.

ARTIM: Sometimes I do.

DATA: My legs are exactly eighty-seven point two centimetres in length. They were eighty-seven point two centimetres the day I was created. They will be eighty-seven point two centimetres the day I go off line. My operation depends on specifications that do not change. I will never know the experience of ...growing up or ...tripping over my own feet.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:04 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 16 December 2016