Object
Data's Quarters Keyboard
A compact, desk‑scale keyboard at Data's personal workstation in his quarters: low‑profile matte keys with precise tactile response and faint backlighting, mounted on a cluttered surface of filters and black boxes. Data taps the keys with mechanical exactness; each keystroke issues a command, the input panel blinking as it locks onto and boosts a weak transmission.
1 appearances
Purpose
Provide manual command entry for Data's personal workstation—entering diagnostic commands, initiating com‑link locks, and controlling signal‑processing routines.
Significance
Functions as the physical instrument that allows Data to isolate and secure the forbidden signal, catalyzing his illicit emotional correspondence and raising the episode's central moral and procedural stakes.
Appearances in the Narrative
When this object appears and how it's used