Do you miss Data?

[Kilana2]

I don´t know how you feel about Data.

I feel like all the fans who didn´t want Spock to die in SWOK.

I also know that Brent Spiner didn´t want to play an ageless Android while getting himself visibly older.

I simply ask you. Do you miss our favorite Android or not, or are you even indifferent about it?

Logically, he saved Picard´s life in Nemesis and therefore is a hero. But that scene filled me with wistfulness.

We will have stories in the Litverse involving Data and Lal and I´m looking forward to reading them.

 

[Relayer1]

Thesedays, the Litverse is at least as 'real' to me as the TV shows were.

And is generally better written.

 

[Kilana2]

Thesedays, the Litverse is at least as 'real' to me as the TV shows were.

And is generally better written.

That´s true, most of the time.

So, do you miss Data?

 

[Relayer1]

I did until David Mack's superb Cold Equations trilogy resolved that particular issue...

 

[Kilana2]

I did until David Mack's superb Cold Equations trilogy resolved that issue...

Then you can easily vote "No".

I still miss him, but I´m going to read the aforementioned novels. So this feeling will pass one day.

 

[hux]

I would only miss him if TNG was still being made (TV or films) but Data wasn't a part of them. That isn't the case though so there's nothing to miss.

He'll be there like always next time I watch the show

 

[Kilana2]

I used to miss Data during the time shortly after Nemesis and the novels by David Mack and Jeffrey Lang. They are due to be released in German in the next several month. I came to realize how I missed him even in the novels.

It is not only Data, it´s also Lal. It´s nice to see the Soong family again.

 

[Kor]

Nemesis basically set it up so that B9 (or whatever his name is) would *become* data. Any sense of loss was immediately nullified by that.

And Nemesis never happened, anyway.

Kor

 

[Kilana2]

Nemesis basically set it up so that B9 (or whatever his name is) would *become* data. Any sense of loss was immediately nullified by that.

And Nemesis never happened, anyway.

Kor

That was the spirit and purpose.

B 4 was his name......

And I never bought Janeway´s demise, either.

 

[RoJoHen]

If the TNG movies had continued past Nemesis, and if Data had never returned, I might miss him.

As it is, Data died like 5 minutes before the end of the movie, and then we never saw ANY of those characters again. So no, I don't miss him. Not any more than I miss any of the other characters.

 

[C.E. Evans]

If the TNG movies had continued past Nemesis, and if Data had never returned, I might miss him.

As it is, Data died like 5 minutes before the end of the movie, and then we never saw ANY of those characters again. So no, I don't miss him. Not any more than I miss any of the other characters.

My sentiments too.

 

[Relayer1]

And I never bought Janeway´s demise, either.

Oh, I was hoping that one would stick...

 

[2takesfrakes]

Data was not my favourite character, but there were too many great moments in TNG involving him to be dismissive of this android. The last scene with Riker and Data in Measure of a Man has always scored very highly with me, for example. But there are too many times in the series, especially, when Data's just used to underscore what Tonight's Episode was all about. It's like ... you know ... it's not that hard! Yes, people should be nicer to eachother ... unsuprising ... why is Data rehashing all this, at the end? And some of his explorations into "being Human" were either banal, or childish, really and didn't do much to endear him to me. Alot of that just seemed to be there to run the clock, basically.

But he still "belongs" to the show and I would feel uncomfortable if, say, he had been blown up in the 5th season, because Brent hated the makeup that bad. Why change the formula NOW? It doesn't make a lot of sense. And in that context, yes I'd "miss" him, I suppose. But his death in NEMESIS was so poorly executed, so badly placed and the timing, the pace of it, is so off, that it robs me of any feelings towards it. When Picard's toasting his memory later on and LaForge and Troi are weeping in a bucket, then it tugs at the heartstrings, a little. And in that moment, I suppose, yes ... I "feel" Data's "loss."

 

[Finn]

I'm a bit mystified by this. There hasn't been a TNG follow up since Nemesis, unless you count TATV, and his voice was in that one...

If we had a bunch of TNG movies after Nemesis, or Data was killed well before TNG ended....perhaps. But we all haven't seen the cast since Nemesis...

 

[trekshark]

I also know that Brent Spiner didn´t want to play an ageless Android while getting himself visibly older.

which would be fixed by a single short scene and a few lines of dialog
"I have developed an aging program to slowly change my exterior appearance, to better fit in with my friends"

not much different from his beard which definitely happened and his skunk streak from all good things which may have actually happened or just been a Q illusion

 

[Starborn Dragon]

I don't see the point of his death if he's going to have a copycat character replace him.

I also don't understand why he was so eager to die either.

 

[Timewalker]

I don't miss Data in the slightest, since I never liked him in the first place.

For people who do miss him, there are always the novels and fanfic.

 

[Kilana2]

I don't miss Data in the slightest, since I never liked him in the first place.

For people who do miss him, there are always the novels and fanfic.

I could easily buy the English originals of this novels, but I wait for the German translations. Time is dragging on, though.

I´m looking forward for the novels and I´m resistant against spoilers, but I have the impression that Data will be different.

B 4 on the other hand is only a shell, lacking Data´s personality.

Despite of that I´m happy to see him again in the novels as there is no on-screen Data anymore. So I miss Data at least until I´ll read Cold Equations.

I should have asked though: Do you miss Lore ????

 

[Kilana2]

I also know that Brent Spiner didn´t want to play an ageless Android while getting himself visibly older.

which would be fixed by a single short scene and a few lines of dialog
"I have developed an aging program to slowly change my exterior appearance, to better fit in with my friends"

not much different from his beard which definitely happened and his skunk streak from all good things which may have actually happened or just been a Q illusion

What about his "mother" Juliana? Did she get physically older? I guess so. You´re right, there could be an ageing program.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I also know that Brent Spiner didn´t want to play an ageless Android while getting himself visibly older.

which would be fixed by a single short scene and a few lines of dialog
"I have developed an aging program to slowly change my exterior appearance, to better fit in with my friends"

not much different from his beard which definitely happened and his skunk streak from all good things which may have actually happened or just been a Q illusion

What about his "mother" Juliana? Did she get physically older? I guess so. You´re right, there could be an ageing program.

In TNG's "Inheritance," it was mentioned that Data did have an aging program like Juliana did, but Spiner probably forgot about that having done so many episodes since then (I don't think any Trek actors really remember anything from various episodes other than often-repeated or the most outlandish stuff).