I hope he was getting those cats out of the replicator. He wasn’t even consistently getting the same gender.
Computer, cat, orange, alive.
The first time he forgot to specify alive, that was a horror
He wasn’t sad, but boy was it a time consuming mess.
Why not just teleport the mess somewhere else?
Computer, cat, orange, hot.
Oh dear.
And that’s how Data found out he was a furry.
He’d just ask O’Brien to take one out of the pattern buffer.
We know they do actually take animals from planets to study them, so it honestly wouldn’t be surprising if they just stored patterns of alien creatures. O’Brien is playing intergalactic Pokemon
The transporter doesn’t have the storage space for that except in special circumstances when the plot depends on it.
And let’s not forget that the Holodeck on the Enterprise D cannot create highly realistic characters which display sentience without super cybernetic alien enhancements except when it can.
(I love Moriarty, but the idea that the ship’s computer could create a sentient life form on the Holodeck because Geordi misspoke is ludicrous.)
Gotta catch em all.
And they were all the stupidest actors Brent Spiner had ever worked with:
So one cat with 3 more lives left.
Spot is a Founder.
Replicated to test the Schrodinger compensators.
Sure maybe Data went through a few Spots, but also maybe Spot got his/her atoms rearranged by any one of the dozens of space/time anomalies or capricious demigods the Enterprise encountered over the years.
Ever since the 22nd century, vanilla cats were going out of fashion, to be replaced by chameleon cats.
Isn’t that just the same cat, but older?
