Ode to Spot

[OiseauHiver]

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[chakorn1]

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[SuperSatan801209]

Is you're taxonomic nomenclature flowmen naptic clomen nature?!

[MrKennedy86]

I see Data's graduated from the William McGonagall school of poetry.

[p00pynuggeteer]

I stole this poem for english class. Perfect A.

[OiseauHiver]

@p00pynuggeteer You plagiarized Data's work! He would be so disappointed in you, you plagiarizer.

[p00pynuggeteer]

@OiseauHiver Fun fact: I didn't say it was by me. And I said it was by Data. I stole it and used it to share with the class. We were allowed to share/write some of our favorite poems.

NNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRR­RRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!

[OiseauHiver]

@p00pynuggeteer Then I take back my previous remark. You are amazing.

[amitabho123]

Translation: Common cat, art thou known as a warm-blooded quadruped, naturally carnivorous? For your eyes, nose and ears contribute to your hunting skills and your natural defences. I'm intrigued by your purring, a development of cat communication that makes it obvious* that you want to be stroked. *'Obviate' doesn't mean 'make obvious', by the way; it means 'makes unnecessary'. Data needs to install a dictionary. yes, I am king of grammar nazis

[amitabho123]

@amitabho123 Your tail is essential for your acrobatic talent, you wouldn't be so agile without its counterbalance. And when you're not using it for movement, it's often used to represent your emotions. Oh Spot, the complex emotions you display connote a developed intelligence. And though you're not sentient, Spot, and don't understand, I still consider you a true and valued friend. (he mispronounced cognitive, damnit)

[OiseauHiver]

@amitabho123 I don't think he did mispronounce it. How do you pronounce it?

[amitabho123]

@OiseauHiver Put vowel stress on the first 'o' in cognitive.

[OiseauHiver]

@amitabho123 I suppose I don't have as finely-tuned an ear as thou hast.

[OiseauHiver]

@amitabho123 I noticed that too. Keep in mind this is not the REAL Ode to Spot; in the alternate universe where a reasonable parallel of these events is taking place I'm sure Data used a word that actually made sense.

Yes, I'm probably crazy. But I'd like to believe there are infinite universes where infinite things are happening. Thus everything that happens in any television show, book, dream or daydream, is happening in another universe somewhere. Even Data using the right word.

[LikeAMacho]

O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display

connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.

And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,

I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend. LOL!

[chrisig187]

hornoxe.com/ode-to-spot/

[logician360]

"You have anticipated my denouement"

That's what she said.

[ABlackbirdOnline]

dan bull has made a great remix of this poem...

[DogsAreCoolRight]

Datas poems are clever and so was his haiku was clever, and his sonnet was..clever. But did it evoke an emotional response? To be honest, no, I don't think so.

[OneDarkAutumn]

6 people are dog people.

[Relesy]

Lol love it.

[Shwoodge]

the episode is "Schisms"

[jilliegirl1000]

Data, I freaking love you.

[gearsofhaloauto]

yyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwnnn­n, i mean yay go data awesome...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[redplague]

Who's the actress in the blue dress sitting next to Picard, she was in a few episodes as an extra.

[Avalonevideos]

epiode?

[Avalonevideos]

which episode???

[WolfySnackrib666]

0:12 - Whaaaat theeee fuuuuck?

[lifeofawarrior]

I have memorized this entire poem and i can recite it at top speed...however i cannot remember my homework

[longbluefingers]

Data says: "you've anticipated my..."what? :( can't make it out...

[TheNewVitalOrgans]

@longbluefingers

I think he says, "dénouement".

[longbluefingers]

@TheNewVitalOrgans thank you!

[shoecat42]

@longbluefingers dénouement ... it is french for ending.

[evilegg288]

What is quite interesting about this little ode is that you could just about sing it, specifically to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Modern Major-General". It doesn't quite scan, but it's still very close.

Either way, it's a wonderful poem! Nicely done, Data!

[ObiJoe808]

ryker is a dick! as if he fell asleep that was a well good poem!

[WolfySnackrib666]

@ObiJoe808 It wasn't Riker's fault! Every night when he goes to sleep aliens abduct him to saw his arm off and reattach it, and they tranquilize him with something. That's why he was so tired in this episode, I shit you not.

[danielt776]

ODE TO SPOT I kinder like this part it kinder made me laugh my ASS OFF. Its not every day some one does poems of they cat and riker he fell a sleep during the performace.

[startrekkin1701]

I memorized this poem for my class last week. :) They loved it.

[terminat1]

Look at Riker's face at 1:00: he's thinking, "Uh-oh, Data's going to kick my butt!"

[terminat1]

1:03: Can someone please tell me how to spell "dana ma?" I'd like to include the word/phrase in a book I've written.

[DioIon]

@terminat1

denouement - It's french, means the conclusion of something usually.

[MissMopPop]

OMG YOU CAN BUY THIS ON TEE SHIRTS!!! ...life is now complete

[Susie7760]

Good poem, funny episode...one remark in defense of cats, they are sentient.

[brav0wing]

@Susie7760 Good episode, but funny? Maybe this scene, but the episode was fucking creepy. Those aliens kidnapping the personnel to experiment on them while sleeping...

[OswaldsNightingale]

@Susie7760 CHEERS GOOD CAT FELLOW!!!! definitly intelligent creatures.. they know mann.. they just prefer not to say... ;3

[Manakuuchiha]

If I ever have to write a paper about a poem, it will be this one. :)

[Phelan666]

1:05 Best. Posture. EVAR.

[nepomusik]

Riker is mad enough that Data cloned his beard, now Data has to own him in poetry too.

[warriorkittymaster]

Data=MOST WIN EVAH!!!

[829101A]

[Transcribe Audio]

....postbox

the complex levels of behaviour you display,

a fairly well developed car contemporary...

[Roobitz]

... lacked its counterbalance.

And when not being utilized to aide in locomotion,

it often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.

O Spot, the complex levels of behaviour you display

connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.

And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,

I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

[Roobitz]

Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature,

an endothermic quadruped carnivorous by nature?

Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses

contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.

I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,

a singular development of cat communications

that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection

for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.

A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;

you would not be so agile if you...

[seatbelttruck]

Ok, this is hilarious in and of itself, but try watching it with Youtube's "captions." It's hilarious!

[Suramen]

Data would make a killer rap artist in this century.

[startrekmakesmehappy]

A Question: what happened to spot when Data was (sniff sniff) blown up?

[C3P0meetsData]

@startrekmakesmehappy This is just a theory, but remember that episode, Phantasms when Data had Worf babysit spot? Perhaps Worf was made spot's permanent owner because he already knew that spot had to be fed, and given a sandbox, and talked to. I mean, that would be a logical inheritor of the cat ;).

[LaurentheWeirdo]

EPIC.

[xGAARAxGIRLx]

i like to recite this to myself sometimes

[SpecterReflector]

Brings occular fluid to my organic photoreceptors.

[seatbelttruck]

@SpecterReflector I thought I was the only one :)

[noahtron]

it's not riker's fault: he was being kidnapped at night by aliens who live in subspace :B

[Naturality]

Data made me smile. Closed captions made me rofl.

[jenlinkitty]

I love this. :D From first seen to even now.

[PatrickStewartTNG]

one of the best poems mankind has ever heard. far better than this traditional stuff!!

[NodDisciple1]

Fuck that hater Riker!  This poem was great! XD

[floopowder1028]

mehhh... im mad at riker. he needs to die in a hole i love the poem... its so.... data, lol

[666DarkEgo]

Felus Catus is your taxinomic nomaclature an endothermic quatroped carniverous by nature

your visual ofactry and auditory senses contribute to your hunting skills and natural defences

i find myself intruiged by your sub vocal ossilations a singular development of cat communication that obviates your basic hidonistic predolection, for a ryhtmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection

a tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents, you would not be so agile, if you lacked its [rep]

[666DarkEgo]

@666DarkEgo [rep] counterbalance, and when not being utilised to aid in locomotion, its often serves to illustrate, the state of your emotion

oh spot, the complex levels of behaviour you display, can note, a fairly well developed cognitive array, and though you are not sentient, spot, and do not comprehend; i none the less consider you, a true and valued friend

LYRICS OF ODE TO SPOT

[focusandcreate]

YESSSS!!! Best poem ever!!!! You guys can all shutup if you don't think that was the best poem ever!!!!

[wazithefreak]

Riker:zzzzz! Lols.



[11magicmel11]

This poem is beautiful! I can't see why the crew don't find it so :( poor data

[faetrn]

@11magicmel11 because it was about an animal, and not about something "meaningful"... :(

Great poem, though!

[teychiful]

LOL!!!

[georgenoory]

Riker's a dick.

[DazeWolf]

This is a freaking awesome poem. I seriously can't understand why the crew isn't marveling at it.

[Luke8185]

BEAUTIFUL POEM, JUST BEAUTIFUL. THE RHYMING SCHEME IS JOST WONDERFULLL! JOST WONDERFULLL!

[Diskatopia]

Data's memory array must have... glitched on thedefinition of the word word "obviates"... it does not mean what he* thinks. Ahh well no one/no thing is perfect.

*okay,jk, I mean what the writers think

[childproofed]

i wish i could rhyme like data.

[SuperKoolaidgirl]

Data rlue

[major600]

Well, you have to admit, no poem has better reflected the personality of its author.

[javert84]

I'm loving Troi's expression of cold horror at the very end.

[mattlar14]

"if you lacked IT'S counter balance" -- data cannot use contractions. major flaw lol

[mattlar14]

I apologize, not a contraction. my mistake

[rayray1993]

i find myself intrigued by your sub-vocal osculations.... rofl......

[PeterRabid]

Data could give William the Bloody a run for his money in terms of poetry.

[LancetheNG]

The writers of TNG were awesome.

[MaidenMarian]

Wish I could write poems that awesome.

[xNatALi3xz]

Lol @ the crew.

Everyone's just like silently going 'NUUUU!'

[IguanaMom]

One of my 16-year-old cat's is named "Data Spot".

[VendettasD]

Will Riker: The man with The tact of a king.

[Monica17N]

Sorry...I meant I watch Star Trek for Data AND Spot

[Monica17N]

I watch Star Trek for Spot

[TRUMPER007]

Brent Spiner is simp[ly brilliant in the role of Data - a joy to watch over and over again!

[JediJehu]

The look on Geordi and Worfs face lmao!

[Morgaine845]

who wrote this episode??

[Archedgar]

LOL at Riker.

Ode to Spot kicks ass, I'm going to learn it and recite it somewhere to see if someone catches on.

[collective9466]

Picard is being tortured at the center of his very being

[Neropoo]

This should be in the broad-way musical Cats... The one best poem there is...

5/5 of course

[CoOoler1991]

Riker is just fukin hilarious

[necromanzer52]

After studying many poems in my english class I can safely say none of them are anywhere near as good as this.

[WinterbornSalem]

@necromanzer52 They dont use BIG WORDS!

[masere]

Rikers "zzzzzzz" at the end makes this even better!

[issu999]

i know it by heart. is that wrong?

[gbg112]

So do i ,your not mad ay the pink elephant is back.

[Bllasae]

Lol, Riker just randomly claps.

[ICEBreakerDX]

It's actually a very good poem. Why do the characters seem to find the poem bad or boring?

[indyjones0098]

because they had to listen to like a hundred other ones before this. this is the full one that we heard so yeah. plus we just love Data.

[PrFTW]

They've all been listening to his poems for hours (being an android he can write a LOT of poems very quickly n he recited them all). Riker was sleeping because in this episode he barely gets any sleep due to the plot

[sara31700]

i loved Data, poem very funny, jajaj riker slep, i love brent spiner

[drenandtarb]

my very very faveorite poem every!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and my very favorite android ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and my favorite ever program ever!!!!!!!!!!

[Jairdan]

I love Data and his cat...The writers certainly did a good job on this...Never heard such an (un)interesting, hilarious cat poem...

O Spot, the complex levels of behaviour you display connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

[Tuskin38]

Ironically Brent Spiner hated cats. lol

[ChaosDarkie]

Pathetic as it may be, I actually have this memorized.... I love Data and Spot. 8D

[breenap33]

Data is the most hilarious character sometimes.

[MsMaeC]

Picard looks like he's trying to decide if its worth setting the self destruct just to give him an excuse to get out of there.

[brav0wing]

This is from episode "Schisms", when Riker was abducted every night by an interdimensional species for energy sucking (if i remember correctly). That's why he can't stay awake!

The "Ode To Spot" poem is spotless!

[1amsm1th]

Its not felis catus its felis domsticus.

[LaEB815]

@1amsm1th I believe that it is "Felis Cattus Domesticus." Latin nomenclatures for animals consist of 3 words. Data merely shortened it for use in his poem.

[1amsm1th]

@LaEB815 I see. My bad.

[redconversetheorem]

@LaEB815

Right, just as dogs are "canis lupus familiaris." The "familiaris" distinguishes them from wolves. I suspect it's the same for cats and other larger felines with the "domesticus" part.

[BazzTheBoss]

that was funny and adorable!

[SaintofSound]

I loved that

Riker's just jealous of Data's awsomeness

[Chris82bc]

I've never heard such vocabulary used to describe a cat. It would be awesome of everyone spoke as well as Data.

[WillsMillsAlexandFox]

I. Love. DATA!!!

[Dredsina]

The end is so adorable.

[translucentorb]

In the word of Picard:

"Agreed"

[alextoob1]

Best Poem ever written, sucks to shakespeare. The end.

[Submarinervideos]

"Taxonomy" is the practice and science of classification.

"Nomenclature" can refer to a system of names or terms, or the rules used for forming the names, as used by an individual or community, especially those used in a particular science (scientific nomenclature)

"Quadrupedalism" is a form of land animal locomotion using four limbs or legs. An animal or machine that usually moves in a quadrupedal manner is known as a quadruped, meaning four feet.

"Facinating." quote from Spock.

[pierrepepi]

haha, Troi and Riker in this scene are hillarious, so is Capt Picard and the Female Ensign next to him, their faces say it all! lol

[marksparky22]

Riker is being experimented on by aliens in his episode thats why he is falling asleep and seems bored!

[b0lly]

haha "i will continue" :sits up straight:

[GypsyCupcakes]

Riker is just jealous of Data's mad poetry skills :)

[cilayin]

@GypsyCupcakes I SURE AM! If I could write poems like that I'd be rich! Or doing poems for star trek, either way, awesome. lol :)

[smiggedy]

best poem ever! ha!

[nerrrrr]

lol yes i dont get why they are all so borred about it. its the most priceless thing ever.

can't stop laughing everytime i see it

[Cahluah]

I lol`d so much at this. xD

[kittyanimeluvr90210]

LOL Cahluah. EPIC WIN IS EPIC.

[SamaCWNS]

I love it! Only Data!

[wickedfeylady]

Riker is like KILL ME PLEASE

LOL This makes me want to hear Data rap

[kvn8907]

Search "star trek white and nerdy". It's not HIM rapping, per se, but the next best thing.

[plasticine86]

Rofl when Riker starts clapping.

[wetpotat0]

SEXY POEM

[AceProgrammer]

OMG!

[jedimasterbooboo]

How did the writers come up with this? It's great.

[Herecomestheland]

I love that poem. =)

[cockroachafro]

Does anyone know who the writer was who wrote the poem?

[FuzzyOrangeHat]

@cockroachafro IDK ,but it was one of the special effects people on the show. They did an intriguing job!!!

[Abena20]

eat your hear out, Shakespear!

[Gopeno]

lol

[shadeylane]

Even though he's so technical, he still shows his cat some love :D

[CatCommunication]

Has anyone ever noticed that he recites the first line as a question? Grammatically, it is NOT a question... That always bugged me.

"Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature

An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature"

^^ That's not a question. It just says "Your scientific name is Felis Cattus: a warm-blooded, meat-eater with 4 feet."

Anyone else ever bothered by that?

[adamgroup88]

Grammatically, 'to boldly go' is also inaccurate. However, it sounds better than 'to go boldly'. I imagine the same is true here; it just sounds good.

[CatCommunication]

Hmmm I always figured the actor just read it wrong.

"To go boldly"... "to boldly go"... I am pretty sure an adverb can come before or after the verb it modifies...

"I often comment on youtube" is a correct sentence... and often would be the adverb, right?

[catspringginny]

While adverbs can normally go either before or after verbs, the use of "to" with the verb indicates an infinitive verbal, and it is NEVER correct to split an infinitive, no matter WHAT James Tiberius Kirk said. It "sounds" right because it is one of the most common grammatical mistakes by native English speakers.

In the immortal words of Prof. Henry Higgins: "Why can't the English teach their children how to speak...In America, they haven't used it for years!"

[CatCommunication]

Touché!

What do you think of the concept of "descriptive linguistics"?

[catspringginny]

DL is what makes the work of Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Remus" stories) so cool. Harris saw an entire way of communication changing before his eyes (albeit for the better) and sought to preserve the familiar and beloved sounds of his childhood stories as they were told. Since the invention of recorded sound was still 20 years away (and practical application some 50 years in the future), Harris reproduced that unique manner the only way he could--by spelling phonetically.

[catspringginny]

Prof. Higgins, though, took it to a comical and annoying extreme (no one could read it but him--and maybe Col. Pickering). Dude definitely needed a life! :D

[FuzzyOrangeHat]

@CatCommunication Yeah, I am. Riker goofed up and did it too in 'A Fistful of Datas'. ;^D

[LittleNerd]

I never understand why this poem was not well-received. It is perfectly and pleasingly formed. :D

Riker - hah!

[bbnflpn]

not only that its utterly brilliant as far as content goes

*snap snap snap

[LittleNerd]

Precisely! A work of art :)

Hmm. It is hard to please certain people.

[Burtonite42]

I totally fell in love with Data when I was a little girl.

This is the best poem ever. <3

[GarthisTheStrong]

Oh my Riker...

[BeatleSoph]

I don't get why they're all so bored after 30 seconds, though :D

love Data

[mellowman36uk]

if i remember the episode correctly, it wasn't Data's first poem of the evening

[awakeningcry]

you are quite correct... and i've been looking for that first poem, but to no avail!

[Charmolution]

Picard seems rather amused at 00:50.

[UnnamedAirsoft]

yes it would seem that wouldnt it...

[shrinerspark]

This poem makes me grin every time I hear it. XD

[CatCommunication]

Heehee, this episode was on when I signed up for my youtube account...

[TrekkieAtlantis]

I think I am going to poast this scene as well:)

[OloEopia52]

Data is hilarous!!! i love it!

[sweetxlovexstory]

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE SO FUNNY!!

[jjho8]

I love this poem, I read it at my schools poetry slam.