Still no covers for Cold Equations??

[BillJ]

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I doubt Data will be back. I mean, it's already been made quite clear that B-4 is technologically no way near as advanced as Data was. B-4's positronic network is just not capable of handing the sophisticated programs of Data. They'd need to build a better positronic brain, something that Federation technology is just not capable of yet.

Didn't they replace a portion of a humanoid brain with a positronic one on DS9? If so, I'd say the technology has grown quite a bit over the years.

And just because the hardware isn't as advanced doesn't necessarily mean its incapable of running the software. It may simply not be as efficient.

[Paris]

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...They'd need to build a better positronic brain, something that Federation technology is just not capable of yet.

How do we know? Sure...they weren't capable in the 2360's & 2370's, but who's to say that advances haven't been made in the interim by people like Maddox. Quantum Slipstream was beyond their capabilities as well...but that's not the case any more.

[Sci]

^^ No one is contesting that the authors are unable to construct a narrative whereby Data is revived by new advances in Federation technology. But it would be an awful idea that undermines what little dramatic integrity Star Trek: Nemesis has and would continue the trend of bowlderizing mortality in the Star Trek Universe.

[BillJ]

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^^ No one is contesting that the authors are unable to construct a narrative whereby Data is revived by new advances in Federation technology. But it would be an awful idea that undermines what little dramatic integrity Star Trek: Nemesis has and would continue the trend of bowlderizing mortality in the Star Trek Universe.

Dramatic integrity left the Trek universe long ago...

[Ben]

BillJ wrote:

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Dramatic integrity left the Trek universe long ago...

Heh.

And I think Data was too high a price to pay for some drama in a movie that I rarely ever want to watch. The same isn't true of, say, TWOK.

[Sci]

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Dramatic integrity left the Trek universe long ago...

Then it should be the role of Trek lit to bring it back, not contribute to its loss.

[Hartzilla2007]

Sci wrote:

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Then it should be the role of Trek lit to bring it back, not contribute to its loss.

Agreed.

[Mage]

BillJ wrote:

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Didn't they replace a portion of a humanoid brain with a positronic one on DS9? If so, I'd say the technology has grown quite a bit over the years.

And just because the hardware isn't as advanced doesn't necessarily mean its incapable of running the software. It may simply not be as efficient.

I think it was stated in Nemesis that B4 would never fully integrate Data's datatransfer, his technology simply was to...simple, compared to Data.

As for the half humanoid/half positronic brain, that was Vedek Bareil. He died a few days later....

[Edit_XYZ]

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I think it was stated in Nemesis that B4 would never fully integrate Data's datatransfer, his technology simply was to...simple, compared to Data.

As for the half humanoid/half positronic brain, that was Vedek Bareil. He died a few days later....

An obstacle VERY easy to overcome by two whole sentences of technobabble.
It happened at least twice in tie-in fiction; both times, it was underwhelming (despite the technobabble being convincing by trek standards).

If that's your argument for Data's resurrection not coming to pass...well, they say 'hope springs forever'. Of course, 'grasping at straws' is more appropriate as a saying.

[Mage]

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An obstacle VERY easy to overcome by two whole sentences of technobabble.
It happened at least twice in tie-in fiction; both times, it was underwhelming (despite the technobabble being convincing by trek standards).

If that's your argument for Data's resurrection not coming to pass...well, they say 'hope springs forever'. Of course, 'grasping at straws' is more appropriate as a saying.

Well ofcourse they could change anything with a few lines of whatnot. I still feel that David Mack won't resurrect Data. Sure, it can still happen, and if it does, it does. Personally, I'm a bit 'meh' about the entire Data-subject by now. I prefer for him to stay dead, since death is death. But Trek has shown to overcome that little obstacle when it serves... well what really? Fan pressure? Plotlines? I don't know. All I know is, I used to be quite against bringing Data back. And I still doubt they will. But if they do, and write it well, I'm sort of ok with it.

David has never really disappointed me sofar (only ZSG was something I didn't really like by him), so if he does decide to bring Data back, I trust him to make it worthwhile.

[tomswift2002]

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Then it should be the role of Trek lit to bring it back, not contribute to its loss.

And while they're at it, they should bring back Tasha Yar.

But with a lot of trilogies I read I find that many people will read books 1 and 3, but then skip book 2 altogether. I remember when I bought the 'Millennium' trilogy, the copies of books 1 and 3 I received (and this was about 3 years after the series was first released) were 2nd printings, but book 2 was a first printing. This wasn't he first trilogy that I bought like that.

[Hartzilla2007]

You know I find it funny that people are expecting a resurrection in a Davis Mack trilogy of all places, I mean we are talking about the guy who has no problem what so ever killing one or more characters if it served the story.

If anything I'm wondering if someone is going to die in this trilogy.

[Mage]

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You know I find it funny that people are expecting a resurrection in a Davis Mack trilogy of all places, I mean we are talking about the guy who has no problem what so ever killing one or more characters if it served the story.

If anything I'm wondering if someone is going to die in this trilogy.

Ok, that made me chuckle.

Although, I have a sneaky suspision that by the end of this trilogy, the E-E may have a new captain. With some of the talk in other novels about Picard feeling he is in a different place in his life then he thought he would be (husband, father), I can't help but wonder if he'll stay on much longer.

[Markonian]

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Although, I have a sneaky suspision that by the end of this trilogy, the E-E may have a new captain. With some of the talk in other novels about Picard feeling he is in a different place in his life then he thought he would be (husband, father), I can't help but wonder if he'll stay on much longer.

Dare I say it? Captain Data! (so far, TrekLit has not counteracted Countdown)
If Picard retires, he could still be part of the series without being captain. On the other hand, Vulcan isn't the most exciting place in the galaxy...
If Worf becomes captain, Geordi would finally make it back to command track. By the way, why is he a mere Lieutenant Commander on the cover?
If Data returns, he would probably become first officer and a full Commander, the next logical step on his way to E-E captaincy in 2387.

[Hartzilla2007]

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Dare I say it? Captain Data! (so far, TrekLit has not counteracted Countdown)
If Picard retires, he could still be part of the series without being captain. On the other hand, Vulcan isn't the most exciting place in the galaxy...
If Worf becomes captain, Geordi would finally make it back to command track. By the way, why is he a mere Lieutenant Commander on the cover?
If Data returns, he would probably become first officer and a full Commander, the next logical step on his way to E-E captaincy in 2387.

Again this is made on the assumption that David Mack would resurrect a character when he is known to do just the opposite, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Data to come back at least in this trilogy.