{"id":45125,"date":"2025-08-06T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=45125"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:06:21","slug":"a-droid-is-a-droid-all-the-way-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/08\/a-droid-is-a-droid-all-the-way-down\/","title":{"rendered":"A droid is a droid, all the way down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the <i>Next Generation<\/i> episode \"Measure of a Man,\" which is about defending Data's right to exist as a living being? In that episode Riker detaches Data's arm, and look who was there with him the whole time:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/trekdatartoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/trekdatartoo-111x300.jpg\" alt=\"A zoom in on a photo of the Data arm prop, showing that part of its construction was an R2-D2 toy, painted silver\" width=\"111\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/entertainment.ha.com\/itm\/movie-tv-memorabilia\/props\/star-trek-the-next-generation-paramount-tv-1987-1994-brent-spiner-lore-lt-commander-data-positronic-brain-headpiece-and\/a\/7392-89427.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515#\" target=_blank>via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers Collectors' Club gets mad about knock off toys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/transformers-collectors-club-gets-mad-about-knock-off-toys\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Collectors' Club gets mad about knock off toys<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #33\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-33\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #33<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"$200,000 corporate Lego theft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/200000-corporate-lego-theft\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">$200,000 corporate Lego theft<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin\u2019 Through Previews - September '07\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/flippin-through-previews-september-07\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin\u2019 Through Previews - September '07<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The Sound of Music Awakens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-sound-of-music-awakens\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Sound of Music Awakens<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the Next Generation episode \"Measure of a Man,\" which is about defending Data's right to exist as a living being? In that episode Riker detaches Data's arm, and look who was there with him the whole time: (via) &lt;i&gt;And &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/08\/a-droid-is-a-droid-all-the-way-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[77,26],"class_list":["post-45125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-star-trek","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45129,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45125\/revisions\/45129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}