Did Kirk sort of die on the Enterprise B?

[sonak]

I’m going to go with the theory that Picard never leaves the Nexus, and his victory with Kirk over Soran, as well as his subsequent victories over the Borg, Ru’afo, and Shinzon, are all simulated à la Ship in a Bottle.

He wanted Data to die?

Though support for this is admittedly noncanonical, Data doesn’t stay dead. Geordi, along with engineers from the Soong Foundation, recover the memory engrams that Data stored in B-4 and overwrite B-4’s mind with Data’s.

Yes, it sounds murderous to me too, but nobody likes B-4, so it’s OK.

One thing I always wondered, why didn't the nexus take the Enterprise survivors with them? The way they showed the people on the saucer just before the planet exploded implied otherwise.

Presumably the Enterprise saucer was too far away from the path of the Nexus. It didn’t envelop the whole planet.

wait, they OVERRODE B-4 with Data? That's creepy. Why didn't they at least re-assemble Lore, take the Data engrams from B-4, and override LORE with them?

 

[Gaith]

Maybe it's just my nostalgia talking, but I really like the idea of the Nexus, and I think it provided a terrific plot bridge to bring Kirk and Picard together. Granted, the ending could have been handled a bit better, but overall I have no problems with the idea of the Nexus despite its ridiculousness. At least it didn't rewrite a major part of Trek lore, like the Borg Queen did (albeit in a considerably better-crafted film).

 

[Rulius]

It would also make sense that the Feds, Klingons and whoever else would want to investigate and use the Nexus for their own purposes. Never hear about it again..