Lal and Data in “Unfinished Business”

I watch them and I can do the things they do but I will never feel the emotions. I'll never know love.

Data

It is a limitation we must learn to accept, Lal.

Then why do you still try to emulate humans? What purpose does it serve except to remind you that you are incomplete?

Data

I have asked myself that many times as I have struggled to be more human - until I realised it is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are, Lal. It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yields its own rewards.

You are wise, Father.

Data

It is the difference between knowledge and experience.

I learned today that humans like to hold hands. It is a symbolic gesture of affection.