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News Brent Spiner Returned for "Picard" (and you could do the CGI better in 15 minutes, we get it)
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Oh, its definitely B4 then? I was wondering if they were going to be using flashbacks or something but its interesting they went the route Nemesis left open for them.
I remember at the time how unoriginal it was to kill off Data, only to plant seeds for his return in the future. Why bother killing him off in the first place? Well it was a different time; I guess.
17 years then since Nemesis came out so there has been quite a long time to build the nostalgia and treasure the good memories I have of his character.
I'm really looking forward to him anyway. And Seven and Hugh as well.
I remember at the time how unoriginal it was to kill off Data, only to plant seeds for his return in the future. Why bother killing him off in the first place? Well it was a different time; I guess.
17 years then since Nemesis came out so there has been quite a long time to build the nostalgia and treasure the good memories I have of his character.
I'm really looking forward to him anyway. And Seven and Hugh as well.
It’s B4 is in the drawer yes, but Spiner said he’s playing Data, not B4.
He calls Picard captain, not admiral and might be wearing a FC uniform, so it might be a hologram or all in Picard’s head.
They basically did the same thing they did with Spock. At the time of Nemesis, they were already beginning work on the script for the 5th TNG movie, and I believe Spiner had some involvement on that script, but I could be misremembering.
I don't think Data really can be killed off. In "Thine own Self" he is killed, buried, then retrieved some time later and repaired. In "Time's Arrow" he is killed, and restored using his head that sat in a cave for 500 years. I'm sure Data "died" in other episodes that I can't remember also.
I found a relevant quote:
https://trekmovie.com/2010/10/06/pa...ovie-video-images-from-a-life-in-the-theatre/
Patrick Stewart said:
https://trekmovie.com/2010/10/06/pa...ovie-video-images-from-a-life-in-the-theatre/
What's more frequent, times a main character died or times Enterprise was destroyed?
Neither is permanent
That's one of the things that bugged me about Nemesis; the ending felt like a purely warmed-over TWOK/Spock's death. It was such an average way to go out.
But yeah, different times indeed. I'm excited that he's back. That particular era has been well rested, and with new creatives in charge I have faith it could be good.
But yeah, different times indeed. I'm excited that he's back. That particular era has been well rested, and with new creatives in charge I have faith it could be good.
I am really hoping that the Picard show can help undo the extremely disappointing ending to the TNG that Nemesis was. Not "undo" it from a plot sense, but rather provide a meaningful and sincere sense of closure we were denied.
From Memory Alpha:
"“One of the ideas that John Logan and I had about what the next film would have been was a Justice League of Star Trek. Something would bring all the great Star Trek villains together, from Khan to Shinzon, and Picard is the only person who could stop them and he actually has to go through time and pluck out the people he needs to help him. He goes back to the moment before Data blows up and takes him back to get Kirk and Spock, and go even further back and get Scott Bakula's character, Archer. The problem with that more than anything is cost – how do you pay for that?"
All the villains?! So far-fetched, even for Trek!!
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Undeveloped_Star_Trek_projects
Correct. Because he felt that he couldn't realistically play Data anymore. But I doubt that he was aware that 18 years later, CGI deaging would be a thing.
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In the TNG episode "Inheritance," it was stated that Data (and the Juliana Tainer android) has programming to make him appear to age physically.
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