Weekday Post #30: Head to Head – Androids

Weekday Post #30: Head to Head 1 – Androids
Both Star Wars and Star Trek feature an Android as a main character, C3PO in the former and Data in the latter. While they both are generally human-like in appearance, the two are far from equal. Which one is better? That’s the question that I’ll answer in today’s Head to Head.

Head to Head 1 – Lieutenant Commander Data vs C3PO

Category	Data	C3PO
Primary Function	Science Officer and 3rd in Command on the U.S.S. Enterprise	Pun Generator
Special Ability	Feels emotion thanks to a specially designed microchip	Operates as normal when head is on backwards
Movement	Fluid and natural and humanlike motion	Herky-jerky waddling
Designed by	Noonien Soong, Earth's foremost robotic scientist	An inbred kid (only one parent, think about it!) whose social skills are limited to yelling “Yippy!”
Design Purpose	Fulfill Isaac Asimov's dream of a positronic brain	Help pick mushrooms
Cohorts	The heroic crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise	Upside down garbage can “robot” with a speaker so primitive that it couldn’t even replicate a ring tone
Referred to by others as	A friend	A ‘droid. (That’s not even grammatically correct! The word is Android!)
Notable Achievement	Sacrificed himself to save his friends	Once generated a pun while whining about having head drug through the sand
Performed by	Brent Spiner, who’s been in several movies including Independence Day, I Am Sam, and The Aviator	Anthony Daniels, who has been in nothing (he suffers from the Star Wars Curse)

Which Android has the advantage? Obviously, Data wins, no contest. Let no one ever tell you that Star Trek and Star Wars are the same because they both have androids in them again!