I know it's a meme but there's an actual answer: because humans have them, and Dr. Soong wanted Data to feel human. That was the whole point of the project from what I understand.
Then he has a perfect excuse to hunt down Section 31 agents while trying to establish control of a new clean energy source. And he won’t be fooled by an agent pretending to be a statue. Also he can assemble and disassemble his golden phaser faster than most people can blink.
Damn, I wish I had the writing chops to run with this.
There’s no photo evidence of it I can find, and I’ve been given a good reason to search for “start trek data nipples”. You all saw it. This was justified.
But seeing as some people are super insistent, I’ll have to conclude that it’s A CONSPIRACY!!!
Birds aren’t real, the earth is hollow and Data has no nipples!
The ships computer, Eddie, becomes unable to accept new processing requests because it is running at full capacity after being told to make “Tea, with Data’s breast milk” by William Riker.
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