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> The writers were always adamant that Data had no emotions... but quite often made faces reflecting the mood of the room or indicating he understood jokes made by other crew members.

This doesn't seem too different from how our current AI chatbots don't actually understand humor or have emotions, but can still explain a joke to you or generate text with a humorous tone if you ask them to based on samples, right?

> "Hey computer, we're all about to die, solve the plot for us so we make it to next week's episode!"

I'm curious, do you recall a specific episode or two that reflect what you feel boiled down to this?