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Data's Journey
By : K_nz
Category: Star Trek > The Next Generation
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A few days had passed since Neara and Data’s return to the Enterprise, and Neara was feeling like her old self again. The time on Ahmria had really helped speed her recovery.
Data had returned to duty and was talking to the new ensign on navigation, Ro Laren. He was sharing how he was to be married during their next maintenance stop on Earth in two months.
“You’re getting married?” she asked incredulously.
“Yes,” Data stated as a matter of fact.
“But you’re an android,” Ro said.
“One does not preclude the other,” Data contended.
“Are you marrying a Vulcan?” she questioned.
“Why do people assume my intended must be a Vulcan?” Data was baffled.
“Well, it does seem the logical conclusion,” Ro asserted with a grin. “So what species is your intended?”
“She is Ahmriana,” Data informed.
“Oh, from Ahmria. Those people with the blue eyes,” she recalled. “I’d really like to meet the person who would marry an android. I’m sure she’s a very unique individual. Do you think I could meet her?”
“We are joining some friends at 1900 hours in Ten Forward this evening. Would you care to come?” Data offered.
“Yeah, I would. Thanks!” Ro accepted.

Troi, Riker, Crusher, Worf, Data, Neara and Reggie were at a table together. Neara had invited Reggie, because he had graciously taken care of Spot while she and Data were away for her healing. Ro walked up and joined them.
“Ensign Ro Laren, this is my fiancée Neara Na Ahta,” Data introduced.
They greeted each other and Ro said, “So you’re the woman who would marry an android.”
“Yes, I am very fortunate. I do not know how he puts up with my scatter brain!” she laughed and Ro laughed along.
“You’re different than I thought. I thought you’d be more like a Vulcan,” Ro expressed.
“Opposites attract,” Riker intoned.
“I guess so,” Ro agreed.
The group started chatting, and Ro was very interested in how Data and Neara met, how long they’d been together, who asked whom to marry, and why they were having their ceremony on Earth rather than Ahmria.
The conversation then turned to other topics. After a while, Neara asked Ro if she had difficulty learning English. Ro said she had learned it as a child, so it wasn’t difficult for her. Neara than began to explain her experience.
“The Ahmrian language is musical,” she related. “The same word will have a different meaning depending on the pitch you sing it. We grow up with this, so this is all we know.
“When I first came to the Federation, I learned the English words, but I naturally started singing them to people – like I was in a musical. People would give me strange looks, and I would not understand.” She started singing an example, “Why do they look at me so? Did I not use the right word? Or perhaps I need a different tone.” She than sang in a lower pitch, “Maybe I should go lower with this word.” Ro and the rest laughed. Data did not laugh, but he was fascinated – he had not heard this story before.
She continued singing, “But still they look at me. Something is different. Something sounds different in what I do. What is it? I listen carefully. They are somehow less musical.” She sang the next phrases all on one note, “I will sing in one tone. No, that is not it. What is it?” As she slowly spoke the next words, the musicality drained from her speech, “I will imitate them. This is what they do when they speak. This is how to speak English. Oh, I hear it now.” She began speaking normally, “And then, I am speaking proper English. I must be careful, I find myself wanting to sing again just doing this example. Too easy to slip back!” she laughed and everyone, except Data, joined in.
“Wow, that’s quite a learning curve,” Ro exclaimed.
“I am glad I figured it out. It was starting to become annoying, people staring at me as if I were a mad woman,” Neara confided. “But that is not the only problem. When I get here, Will placed me in engineering. This is fine, I can fix things. Except, I do not know the names for these things. Geordi will say, ‘Na Ahta, will you fix the tah-seh-dak-tha on the tah-seh-dak-tha. Tah-seh-dak-tha is how Ahmriana think English sounds.” Data had not known this fact either.
“So I would give him a blank stare, and he would have to explain to me as a child and show me. I know it is very frustrating for him. He probably hates Will for putting me there. I imagine him explaining yet another thing to me, then going off to some private place and shaking his fist in the air yelling, ‘Riker!’ as loudly as he can. I would not blame him.”
“Wow, is it really that bad?” Riker asked.
“I would like to think it is not these days, I have learned some names. But it definitely was that bad at the beginning, poor Geordi,” Neara said.
“Well,” Riker reflected, “I’ll have to tell him I owe him one when I next see him.”
“I believe you would owe him many,” Data stated, and everyone laughed.
Data thought he knew all salient information regarding his ka’sha. That was, everything except Neara’s psi injury, about which he hoped to eventually gain her confidence. Now he was finding there were additional things he did not know. Perhaps this was the nature of an intimate relationship. Perhaps one was always learning new things about the other. Perhaps that was how relationships grew. He smiled with satisfaction and focused on the conversation going on in front of him, secure in the knowledge he would always be learning and growing with Neara.
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Data's Journey	By : K_nz Category: Star Trek > The Next Generation Views: 1352 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Data's Journey