TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

He actually thinks the masks episode was one of his weaker episodes because he had almost no prep time. It's basically all personalities he made up on the spot. But thats why he's so great, because I never would have known.

The other episode is Masks.

Brent was even pretty great in Enterprise no? As

Not sure about that one film though

He's a better human than most.

My wife does this. She technically has a southern accent, but since she lives near Philly she mostly has the standard mid Atlantic accent, sometimes a Philly accent, but she's only the phone every day doing customer support and she'll switch to British accents, Hispanic accents, Indian accents... she just does that. Over the phone not as awkward, but in person can be quite weird. Makes it extra fun when we play D&D though.

I used to do this unintentionally while working in a call center. We dealt with a lot of folks from the south who had similar accents. I'm Canadian, eh?

My coworkers used to say that when I'd show up to work, I was (my name), and by the time I be left, I was farmer (my name).

I honestly didn't intend to do it. I'm just so used to mirroring the people around me.

I do the same. Three days in London and it's "Pass me the ba'a mate!"

I always super identified with adata growing up, awkward social interaction, and I, myself did the mimicry thing, still catch myself doing it when meeting new people. I found out I'm autistic 3 years ago, and Data is a SUPER autistic coded character.

This might be legit. Brent Spiner said in interviews that he was consciously keeping track of Data’s growth during the series. He intentionally made him feel like a blank canvas that behaved in an uncanny way at first, and slowly introduced more and more human mannerisms and warmth to his character.

Without instruction, for seven years & four movies. He was probably doing the same thing during Picard.

You'll see him mimicking behavior throughout the series. One of my favorite examples is in Starship Mine aka "Star Trek does a Die Hard" with Data's attempts at small talk.

Sucks to have to work that hard just to hang out.