Data is attempting to make sense of his own mind after the episodes Descent and Descent, Part II.

Geordi should be here. Data had insisted from the moment he informed Geordi of his plan to have a child that this would be theirs, if Geordi wanted it. Geordi wanted it. Geordi should be here. Data pried open Lal’s head again. She was not going to last. He needed to go get Geordi. Lal was going to die.