I never know what’s going to trigger my emotions these days. Tonight I was watching one of the best Star Trek: Next Generation episodes, “The Offspring.” Data creates another android that he considers his child. In the end, the child, Lal, has a massive malfunction and dies. This perhaps understandably made me very emotional. And at the end, simply and beautifully, Lal says to Data something I would like to say to my own mother.
“Thank you for my life.”