ummthatguy

Yeah, the article's writer was really grasping at straws with this one.

I'd never considered Data to be an inversion, but rather, the analogous carryover from TOS. Much in the same way that Pulaski is seen as another Bones.

Regarding the main argument that B'Elanna is his relative equal at least has some teeth. For the most part, she rejects the need to have a particular connection to her Klingon or Human heritage. That part I actually like better then feeling obligated to being beholden to either... (cough, Worf, cough)...mi scusi. She draws upon both as needed, like in s6e14 "Prophecy", where she goes along with the notion that her unborn child was to be heralded as the savior to a band of refugee Klingons. She's an engineer at heart, and as such, is more pragmatic about what part her lineage plays in her life.

This is the result of having too much buffer time traversing the Delta.

A bygone era of wholesomeness.

Regarding the franchise after the original trilogy:

"When?"

"All the time."