Data's Journey | By : K_nz Category: Star Trek > The Next Generation Views: 1351 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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It was the night of the Ahmrian dance party. Wesley Crusher was back for a visit from Starfleet Academy and, earlier in the day, kindly helped Neara program the holodeck as a dance club. All the crew had been invited, and Neara hoped that many of them would come. She missed dancing with her people and was really looking forward to the evening.
She entered the holodeck with Data, Wesley, Beverly, Deanna, Will, and Geordi. She had personally asked Worf if he wanted to come, but he declined. He said he did not dance and would work the night watch.
Neara had chosen only human music, as the majority of the crew were human. A control pad held the various selections, and she placed it on a ledge beside Wesley. The group was standing around in a circle when she told Wesley he could go ahead and choose the music. He picked a song, Rihanna’s “This Is What You Came For” and Neara and Data started dancing. He was used to dancing with her in the evenings. When the song stated, “but she’s lookin’ at you,” Neara went to Deanna who was standing beside her and began dancing with her, twirling her around. Deanna started laughing and enjoying herself. When it went to the next, “but she’s lookin’ at you,” Neara went to Will and did the same, and so on around the circle. The group was now smiling and laughing and dancing with each other.
Then people began to arrive. Neara flew over, took them by the hand while greeting and talking with them and led them in, dancing with them as she went. She would take turns twirling them around and they would smile and laugh. More people arrived and she did the same thing. The room was filling up.
Neara was like an infectious butterfly, spreading joy and laughter as she flitted from group to group, dancing with them, then welcoming more people into the holodeck. Data was captivated, watching the effect she had on others, while he danced with his friends.
Wesley was continuing to DJ and Neara came back to their group. The song he had chosen was rather raunchy, Sisqo’s “Got To Get It” and when he heard the lyrics, he looked embarrassed. Neara pointed at him, “This is your music. Human music. I find lots like this, so there is more. Very sexy eh?” and she winked at him. And indeed, along with the lighthearted music, there were also songs with suggestive, or downright explicit, lyrics.
Neara was dancing with Wesley when she heard Geordi talking to Will, “Oh, there’s Jenna. I wasn’t sure if she was going to come. She was feeling a little awkward since Data’s dating Neara, but I told her it would be OK.” Neara knew Data had previously dated a woman named Jenna, and she looked over to see. It was the same woman she had met the other day in engineering working on the project with Data. She instantly flew over to her and her male companion.
“I am an idiot. I did not put together you were the Jenna that dated Data,” she exclaimed as she hooked her arm through Jenna’s and led them into the holodeck. “I would say he has good taste in women, but then I would compliment me as well, ha ha,” then she laughed with Jenna in earnest.
Geordi and the group looked on, curious as to how the interaction would go between the two women. Neara brought Jenna and her companion to a spot with some room to dance. Jenna seemed a little uneasy, but then Neara started dancing with her. It was different than how Neara had danced with the other crew, she looked like she was flirting with her. And Jenna looked like she was being flirted with – a little nervous, shy, giddy.
After dancing to one song, Neara stroked Jenna’s face and smiled and said something. She placed the companion’s hand in Jenna’s and then moved on to dance with another group. Jenna was left with an elated smile on her face.
Data watched the interaction. He knew that most of Neara’s relationships had been with women. He asked her if this was because she had a preference, and she had responded that women tasted better. This seemed as good a reason as any for sexual inclination. He had no particular orientation, but given the prevalence of heterosexual humans in Starfleet, he reasoned he would have a better chance finding a relationship with a woman. And this proved to be true.
That being said, he did ask Neara if she would prefer him in a woman’s body. She told him that his was the face she fell in love with, and she did not want to change that. She was very happy and, as it was, he had no particular flavor, and that would not change regardless of gender. She assured him she would have wanted a relationship with him no matter what sex, if any, or body type, depending on the being he was. She knew they would have found ways to demonstrate their desire and please one another. But she seemed very satisfied with his body, his soul’s packaging as she called it, which was good, because he had become accustomed to it. Still, he hoped she would not eventually leave him because she missed the flavor of a woman.
Later in the evening, Captain Picard came in with Guinan. He wasn’t going to come because he didn’t dance, but Guinan had a way of getting him to do things. He stood with her and shuffled in place – that was as much dancing as she could expect from him.
Neara flitted over with her beaming smile and greeted them. She started dancing with Guinan to Outkast’s “The Way You Move.” When the song got to the lyric, “now they got me in the middle feeling like a man whore,” Neara and Guinan sandwiched Picard between them. He was not amused, to begin with. Because as Neara started dancing with him, he became joyful. He couldn’t explain why, the feeling just grew in him. She danced with Guinan some more and then flitted off, but the joyous feeling remained. Maybe this dance would be better than he expected.
When the Vanessa William’s song “You Gotta Go” began, Neara went back to dance with Data. Data had become a very proficient dancer of late with their daily dancing. When she moved him, he learned every motion. He was now able to anticipate her moves without the need of her psi instructions.
They twirled around the floor and people made space for them and looked on. They looked like figure skaters without the need for ice, they moved so fluidly. They spun so fast, then Data would lift Neara and slowly bring her down. She could of course fly, but she enjoyed the feeling of being lifted. It was a novel sensation for her. Sometimes Data would spin her down to the floor, and she would let gravity take her. Data would stop her fall millimeters from the ground. It was exhilarating. The dance ended and people applauded. Neara was not expecting that. She laughed – humans were funny.
Everyone continued dancing, Neara going around the room taking turns joining them. Guinan was marveling at the sight, “We’re so lucky to have a Weaver on the ship.”
“What do you mean?” Picard asked.
“Just look,” Guinan gestured to the room. And Picard looked and saw a happy gathering. A very happy gathering. A jubilant gathering. And Neara was in the center of it. Was Neara changing the harmonic for the good?
“Are you saying she would come on board the ship just to do this?” Picard asked. “It doesn’t seem enough of a reason.”
“No, it doesn’t,” Guinan agreed, “but it certainly is a nice side effect.”
The song “Wake Me Up” by Evanescence began playing and Neara floated up above the crowd. Data had seen this before, Neara was letting herself be taken over by the music. She said her whole family did this when they heard a song that moved them. They let themselves be possessed by it.
Data watched with everyone else as Neara flew, first elegantly, her arms outstretched, her garments flowing. Then powerfully flipping, turning, cartwheeling, spinning to the floor stopping before she hit. Then floating up towards the ceiling like she was floating on water. It was amazing. When the song finished, people clapped. And Neara laughed again at how funny humans were.
Dancing continued and it was finally time for the last dance. Neara decided on Katy Perry’s “Chained to the Rhythm” and took Data by the hand and had him take Deanna’s hand and Deanna take Will’s hand and so on until there was snake of people on the dance floor. She went under the arms of a link in the snake and the rest followed her through, everyone laughing. She did this a couple more times and then went to the tail and held hands to form a circle. She moved her arm up and the next person moved their other arm up and then she put her arm down and the rest followed. The circle became like one undulating being – a ripple flowing across it. They put all their arms in the air and walked into the middle of the circle, then put their arms down and walked backwards. The did this twice more and then put their arms up with a cheer and released hands.
The dance was over.
Everyone started leaving, all with smiles on their faces, chatting happily. Neara went to get her control pad. She said her goodbyes and thank yous to people and waited until the holodeck was empty. Picard, Guinan, Data, and Neara were the last to leave.
She chose the song “Magic” by Olivia Newton John and floated in front of Data facing him as he walked down the hall, Guinan and Picard following. The control pad was hovering beside them and they were staring deeply into each other’s eyes, Neara’s arms around Data’s neck and his hands on her waist, as she mouthed the words to the song.
“Ah, so that’s why she’s here,” Guinan observed. “I’m glad she’s doing something for herself. She deserves it.”
Picard looked on but didn’t understand what Guinan was seeing. Did Neara come all this way just to be in a romantic relationship with Data?
“I don’t understand. Why is she here?” he asked.
“Just listen. And if you still don’t understand, you soon will,” Guinan replied in her cryptic fashion.
Guinan waited, and then looked over to see Picard’s confused face. “Don’t worry,” she assured him, “it’s all good. Very, very good.”
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