Does anyone ever feel like Data or Spock from Star Trek?

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I feel like Seven of Nine sometimes. She struggles with her humanity.

Not Data. Maybe Spock. Spock is logical, but actually possesses some emotions, although he does try to keep them from affecting him at all.

Used to think I was Vulcan ...
then I saw Q,
and it was like looking at myself in a mirror.

I immediately understood
Q's strengths, weaknesses, motivations.

So saying, here is a photo of me as my natural Q self:

Spock, Data, and Seven are the three great originals of Star Trek. Ship captains have been stock characters for 3000 years, but these three are creations of original genius. Seven had some of the best ST lines of all.

To me Data was always the one most avidly trying to be more like an average person. Always trying to understand conceptual things like metaphors.

I wish I was as smart as Spock.

The human side of Spock sometimes revealed itself, and made him seem complex.

He is a consummately useful being.

I used to identify strongly with Spock. When the crew took the mickey out of him and he couldn't understand why they were trying to insult him, I was on his side. I firmly agreed with his decision not to bury their dead when they were stranded on a dangerous planet and every second was needed to ensure they escaped. I felt that Bones was way out of line in constantly getting angry about Spock's logical behaviour.

<--- "Spock here."

I'm more like Spock or Seven than Data.

Spock when I am just humming along blissfully.

Data when I trip myself up and wonder if I miscalculated (I even cock my head slightly in consideration, like he does).

But, Spock doesn't verbally download like Data does. So, Data in that respect, too.

As a kid, I used to equate heavily to Spock to the point of idolizing him. Mork from Ork was another emotionless character from my child hood that I envied for being emotionless.

I feel like Spock. I even got a bunch of tattoos to symbolize my Vulcanness. I love their religion, which emphasizes logic over emotion. That's me all the way. I also long to be "human" and can sort of understand NTs but fall short. I think Spock is half Vulcan/half human so I identify with him--so close yet so far away.

I could identify with aspects, but none as a fully developed character.
In chronological order:
1) Spock the logic and the desire not to be bothered with things that he deemed unworthy (Special interests and logic)
2) Data with the desire to be what the rest of the crew were. Organic and able to function socially.
3) 7 of 9 because what she was was not of her making and her trying to make sense of it all

And, none of them because no matter what, they were able to still function in ways I cannot.

I've associated myself with a lot of Star Trek characters, though it's usually dependent upon my current mood, which is to say that the feeling of association is constantly shifting.

Data and Spock? Nope, I've almost never felt like them, at least not when I first started watching the show.