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   Message 76,451 of 77,414   
   Tim Bruening to Timothy Roy   
   Re: Inheritance: Data's Aging Program? (   
   19 Feb 15 00:59:45   
   
   From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Monday, December 13, 1993 at 10:57:02 AM UTC-8, Timothy Roy wrote:   
   > On Wednesday December 08 1993 05:23, Craig Allen Campbell wrote to All:   
   >   
   >  CAC=> From: craigc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig Allen Campbell)   
   >  CAC=> Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin -   
   >  CAC=> Milwaukee   
   >   
   >  CAC=> Sorry to burst your bubble, Jeff, but as far as I am concerned, Data   
   >  CAC=> does NOT have and aging program.  In "Time's Arrow", Data expresses   
   >  CAC=> his knowledge that he could conceivably live indefinately.   
   >   
   >      Nope.  He has an aging program.  He probably will live forever, but he   
   > will look somewhat older.  One does not necessarily preclude the other.   
   >   
   >  CAC=> Of course, it could be that the writers just screwed up big-time.   
   >  CAC=> That couldn't happen, could it?!?   
   >   
   >      The writer was probably directed to put this in there to explain the   
   fact   
   > that Brent Spiner will eventually get a little long in the tooth.  Something   
   > like this is probably one of the reasons Spot was called "she" in a recent   
   > episode.  (hint, hint, *SPOILER*).   
      
   How would Data's aging program cause a cat sex change?   
      
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