Object
Data's Desk-Top Viewer
A compact, desk-mounted visual display used by Data to flash images and words; the device produces sharp stills and short sequences on a flat screen, responds to manual clicks, and sits within arm's reach on Data's quarters desk. Data manipulates the viewer rhythmically while Lal watches and imitates.
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Purpose
Teaching aid / instructional device used to present images and words to translate Lal's databanks into recognizable human behaviors and to coach specific gestures like blinking.
Significance
Functions as the practical instrument of a tender, diagnostic lesson: it scaffolds Data's attempt to instill human signals in Lal, highlights the mechanistic nature of her mimicry, and thereby contributes to the scene's stakes about Lal's developing personhood.
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