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Oh I agree 100% with this being good writing with this very intent, was strictly trying to justify her prejudice purely in-universe.
Ah gotcha. I get the whole trying to explain in universe motives but sometimes I feel like that sort of thing needs too much detail and feels like it reaches too far. But for that exercise… hmmm… my Worfs razor would be that she is genuinely, to her core, all about life and healing it. Maybe just humans but that would introduce another personality flaw, but we’ll say just life. But it needs another angle because it’s not enough to simply be so pro-something that you become anti something else (without negative personality traits like racists), so maybe she had an experience when younger that really showed her that the computer that talks to her wasn’t alive and over time those two perspectives created the riff that we see when she meets Data. So close to your explanation I guess lol
Mind you it’s been a minute since I watched tng.