Caitlin Westgate is a creative writer who often focuses on the struggles of mental illness in her own life and the lives of others. Her work appears in Bridgewater State University's The Bridge, Vol. 14 and The Undergraduate Review, Vol. 12. Find her on Twitter @caitlinwestgat3 and at caitlinwestgate.weebly.com.
In the words of Lieutenant Tasha Yar, Data “see[s] things with the wonder of a child. And that makes [him] more human than any of us.” Perhaps that is why the writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation chose an…