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...Conversation Peace, isn't a slam dunk--a few songs such as Sorry and Cold Chill feel oversynthesized and android-like--but all in all, it's another winner for Wonder. The album is more than just a bunch of giggly, commercial-ready love songs in the manner of I Just Called to Say I Love You. There are some bubbly tunes here--like the lovable, Care-Bearish Take the Time Out--but for the most part Wonder's after bigger game. "There's not a lot of peace in the world today," says the singer with his '90s global...
...feeling," Grandin, a realist, tells Sacks over a dinner of spare ribs. But while she has animal rapport, her neurological wiring bypasses most human emotions; the upheavals of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet leave her unmoved. The characters closest to her heart are Star Trek's android Data and his poignant predecessor, the supercognitive Mr. Spock...
...Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series debuts with Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart on the bridge and an android riding shotgun...
Still, he says, "there were some things that existed with Roddenberry that were very frustrating to us. Not to have conflict among your characters makes it very difficult, because all the conflict has to come from outside. On The Next Generation, with the exception of an android and a Klingon, pretty much everyone was human, and they weren't allowed to be involved in conflict, so that was very frustrating for the writers...
...endless parade of evil aliens and perverted civilizations -- from the bellicose Klingons to the pernicious Borg, with their hivelike collective consciousness -- was always contrasted to the civilized humans on board the Enterprise. The most popular characters were the nonhuman ones -- Spock, the "logical" Vulcan, and Data, the soulless android -- precisely because they were constantly being confronted with the human qualities they lacked: the emotions they either scorned (in Spock's case) or craved (in Data...