[ If people want broadly acceptable levels of social skill, they'll have to turn to... well, there must be one person in this truck who has them. Data falls more towards Brainy's end of this particular scale.

His android business has been out in the street since the moment Starfleet first reactivated him. ]

You are correct; my skin was made with bioplast sheeting. [ Credit where cybernetic skills credit is due. It's rare to be recognized as exactly what he is, beyond simply being registered for what he's not. Even rarer for someone to ask about something as relatively mundane as his skin before anything else.

This conversation has rapidly climbed its way towards top priority. Data perks up, much as he ever tends to. ]

Can you tell me about the synthetic species you referred to? Would you consider yourself familiar with them, or is their learning process simply common knowledge in your universe? Are they constructed with flash-cloned cutaneous tissue?

[ Asking only the most important questions. All of them. They are all important questions. ]