this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2023
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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
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This is not a new idea
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Many times at conventions, kids will come up to my table when I’m signing photographs and tell me they have Asperger syndrome, and that when they were growing up, Data was the only character on TV they could relate to. That’s an incredibly moving experience. Had I known, I might have encouraged the writers to write more towards that, but it might have blown the whole thing and lost the connection.