This is an uncomfortable discussion for both Data and the viewer, the manipulation is clear as day. I forget what exact explanation they give later on if it was just “negative”emotions or patterned on Lore. Also isn’t there a guard there?

You could see how that could sour someone on installing the emotion chip later on.

This was the worst writing. Data may have needed ethical programming when he was a baby who didn’t understand for example why people were uncomfortable when he wandered around nude, but by this stage of his life, god damn it, he is over thirty, he’s a repeatedly decorated Starfleet officer, he is somehow trusted with a highly responsible position despite the outrageously unreliable shit he pulls on a regular basis, AND HE HAS HIS OWN SENSE OF MORALITY BASED ON CARING ABOUT PEOPLE AND NOT WANTING TO CAUSE HARM.

HE LOVES KITTENS AND CHILDREN AND ART FOR FUCK’S SAKE

A corruptive Sneer Worm was introduced in his programming