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[dolari]

Laal: I watch them, and I can do the things they do, but I will never feel the emotions. I'll never know love.

Lt. Cmdr. Data: It is a limitation we must learn to accept, Lal.

Lal: Then why do you still try to emulate humans? What purpose does it serve except to remind you that you are incomplete?

Lt. Cmdr. Data: I have asked myself that many times, as I have struggled to be more human. Until I realized, it is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are, Lal. It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yields its own rewards.

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[my-real-head.livejournal.com]

That's incredibly beautiful, and at the same time, it almost sounds like the kind of thing a genuine sociopath would say. ("I'm very good at faking human interaction.") Which is, of course, not the context at all.