The only characters we saw in the S3 teaser were Picard and Riker, everyone else was voiceover only. And Spiner’s line definitely didnt sound like Data, both in delivery and content. More like Yet Another Soong. Or Lore I suppose.
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The only characters we saw in the S3 teaser were Picard and Riker, everyone else was voiceover only. And Spiner’s line definitely didnt sound like Data, both in delivery and content. More like Yet Another Soong. Or Lore I suppose.
Hmmm... I guess I need to go back to TrekMovie and give it another listen.
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I'm betting on Altan Soong returning.
Was Altan the one in S1? I heard someone referring to him as Coppelius or something. It's been a while since I saw the show.
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Altan Inigo Soong was the one in season one, yes. Son of Noonian Soong and therefore flesh-and-blood brother of Data, Lore, and B4. Coppelius is the planet he set up his android colony on.
Option C sounds good.Matalas replied to tweet that it might be a third option:
Ah, I see the mistake in name then. Thank you for the clarification, I'll pass it on to my other boardmate who keeps referring to him as Coppelius!
Matalas replied to tweet that it might be a third option:
Now that has me definitely interested, considering Spiner said he'd like to never play Data again because of the make up.
Option C implies that Brent Spiner would be playing an entirely new character, so not Data, not Lore and not another Soong. I agree that is intriguing and promising. Jeffrey Combs has played a host of unrelated characters. It would not be unprecedented. And Brent Spiner is a very talented actor. It would be interesting to see him play an entirely new character. Maybe Brent Spiner plays an alien or maybe he plays the villain in S3?
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Option C implies he won't be playing yet another Soong. Altan is not "yet another" Soong, he's an "established" Soong. Though I freely admit that my desire to not see him play another new character is entirely based on the fact that he's played enough of them already.
I'm thinking that Altan creates another golem for himself and extracts another of Data's positronic thingys from B4 to combine with his own consciousness. And just like that, we get (a version of) Data back with none of Spiner's aged appearance concerns. 
Problem is, he's kind of been type-casted within Trek has absolutely needing to be either a Soong or a Soongdroid. Those characters (save Data, really) are about some seriously narcissistic motherfuckers...
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Ah, I see the mistake in name then. Thank you for the clarification, I'll pass it on to my other boardmate who keeps referring to him as Coppelius!
If he doesn't believe you show him this
I think people would react more viscerally to green bloodshot eyeballs though. You connect with an actor's eyes in a way you don't with fake wounds applied on the skin.
I'm not convinced the energy being emitted was only in that straight line beam we saw. But even if it were, the anomaly appears to have formed within a star system, since people could see it from the surface of a planet.
I'm new here (Hello!) and I have a question, haven't had a chance to go through this whole thread and hope I'm not repeating, but... near the end, Q was losing his powers, he was snapping his fingers and nothing happened, and he looked distraught about it. Then, all of a sudden, at the end, he restores everyone to their proper time and place, restores Elnor, etc, all with a single well-timed finger snap. Am I missing something? Was the "sickness" a ruse? or was the plot messed up?
I think Q mentions that with Rios staying behind, that's one less person that needs to be snapped back to the present. So it gave him a little bit of extra energy, just enough, to return the rest of the characters to the present.
My impression is that the continuum blocked his earlier snaps and then allowed the last one
Unless it was supposed to be like the old Iron Man disruptors from the comics. They were supposed to get bigger and more powerful the further they traveled. (Obviously they needed to run out of steam at some point, right?).
I agree that like many other things in Star Trek, a few seconds more exposition would have helped without going too Treknical.
Maybe it turns out to be 10C all over again (for the first time?), except this time it's their galactic level garbage disposal wreaking havoc.
The one time we actually saw his snap not working (leaving out how long it took him to find Guinan), was with Renee. My impression there was Tallinn was protecting her on some level.
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