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Author: ShadowHog

Sep 18th 2012 at 5:32:13 PM

Also not sure if this counts, but I might as well toss 'em out here for you to be the judge:

* Not a ''limb'', per se, but [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Lt. Commander Data]], who was utterly incapable of feeling emotion, gains an emotion chip that his creator, Noonien Soong (no relation to [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan Noonien Singh]]), created to overcome this design limitation. He first gets a taste of emotion in the two-part episode "Descent", when his twin brother Lore (who'd stolen the chip in the earlier episode "Brothers") uses it on him remotely. Recovering the chip at the end of the story, he then installs and activates it outright in ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'', and then spends the entire film reveling in them.
** For a ''slightly'' more straight example - but still not 100% straight - in the next film, ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', Data is captured by the Borg and then has patches of organic matter - actual ''skin'' - grafted onto his exterior and integrated into his systems by the Borg Queen. Notably, when he tries to escape, one of the patches is cut, allowing Data to experience ''pain'' for the first time; the experience confuses and fascinates him so much that he agrees to allow the Borg to graft more of it onto him.

I'm pretty sure I've seen the first one mentioned in another trope somewhere on the wiki, though (specifically the "That's it! I ''hate'' this [drink]! It is ''revolting''!" "More?" "''Please!''" scene), so I'm not really sure if it's this trope or not - emotions aren't exactly something physical (unless you're an android, I guess).