well I've always taken the fact that she's more deactivated rather than dead. But i suppose it depends on your own personal point of view.
Is Lal Dead?
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well I've always taken the fact that she's more deactivated rather than dead. But i suppose it depends on your own personal point of view.
Some might question, Maddox maybe, that was Lal ever alive?
Like Picard said in 'The Measure of a Man', "we, too, are machines, just machines of a different type"
Are we alive? What is life? Who determines what life is? Those are things which that episode tackled, I'm not the one to say is Lal alive or not... just wondering.
Are we alive? What is life? Who determines what life is? Those are things which that episode tackled, I'm not the one to say is Lal alive or not... just wondering.
Well Tasha's still dead. She seems to be the only one who has remained in her coffin.
Her brain went into melt down - so she's dead. Clear cut.
Data and Lore are more complicated. Clearly Data is dead too from Nemesis but before that if you switched him off -- is he dead as well? Lore's the same -- he was put on a shelf and all you need to do reassemble him and he's back to his old dastardly self. Is Lore's time on the shelf "death"?
Data and Lore are more complicated. Clearly Data is dead too from Nemesis but before that if you switched him off -- is he dead as well? Lore's the same -- he was put on a shelf and all you need to do reassemble him and he's back to his old dastardly self. Is Lore's time on the shelf "death"?
Lore was dismantled.
As for Lal, in a way no. She was in Data, and Data now is in B-4.
As for Lal, in a way no. She was in Data, and Data now is in B-4.
This. The David Mack novels go the route of "the info is preserved but the essence is lost". Even after:
Data is resurrected by using the memory imprint he left in B-4 on a new android shell formerly occupied by Soong, he's NOT the same old Data as before, though very similar. I haven't read the later novels where Lal is brought back using Flint's cure for cascade failures, so not sure if this is true if an android is restored in their original positronic network.
Data said he could not fix the problems in Lal's positronic brain, that system ceased to function, Lal died.
Then, Data downloaded Lal's experiences into his memory.
In my opinion, I'm sorry to say, Lal died. Her memories exist in Data's memory.
Then, Data downloaded Lal's experiences into his memory.
In my opinion, I'm sorry to say, Lal died. Her memories exist in Data's memory.
What is the big change the novels made but then undid?
Lal is not dead, but must let the world think she is dead, until she can control the raging beast within.
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