Object

Data's Glass Flower Vase

A modest, narrow-necked glass vase—about six inches tall—sits on the low table of Data's quarters. Its surface gleams faintly under ambient light; a single cut flower nests in the neck, stem trimmed to balance upright. Data lifts the vase with careful, precise hands and presents the bloom to Lal, who leans forward to inhale as the lesson on smell unfolds.

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Purpose

To hold and display a cut flower, serving as a domestic container for a floral stem used in a sensory demonstration.

Significance

Functions as a tactile anchor in Data's parental lesson: the vase and its flower enable the smell exercise that furthers Lal's sensory vocabulary and catalyzes the intimate moment when Lal names Data 'Father', marking emergent personhood.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S3E16 · The Offspring

First Lessons at Home — Data Teaches Lal

A single cut flower in a glass vase is used for an olfactory lesson: Data lifts the vase (and flower) to Lal's nose, instructs 'Inhale,' and elicits Lal's recognition of 'Smell,' thereby teaching the link between object, action, and sensory label.

Before: Resting in a low table vase within the quarters, arranged as part of the domestic set dressing.

After: Lifted and presented to Lal by Data; subsequently returned to its place (intact) but now associated with Lal's learned concept of smell.

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