I feel like if Star Trek were truly trying to be authentic data would have eaten at least one cat in some I’ll-fated and misguided attempt To be more human.

Actually, it’s now canon to me that these cats die all the time in well-meaning but misguided experiments with humanity and that the crew of the enterprise just replaces them, like an 8 year old that keeps killling goldfish.

Data: “Ha ha ha, great joke captain.”

Eats spot

The crew stares at data, horrified. He smiles as he looks down at his bloody uniform.

“Apologies everyone, it seems there is a spot on my shirt, I appear to be violating federation dress code”