Should AGT be "redone" partially (cast-wise)?

[T'Cal]

Kegek said:

K-Star said:
Spiner's WAY too old to play Data by now, and Data's supposed to remain unchanged in the future (except that gray streak he added).

Very true. The makeup may be less convincing than actual aging, but I think it works well enough and the performances more than make up for it. In particular Spiner's, as he's playing essentially a different variation of Data in each time period.

As I recall, Data's mother aged despite her being an android. Couldn't this been addressed with Data? Perhaps in NEM, when he links with B4, Data acquires some of B4's programming including an aging program. I also though it might have been interesting if they changed Data's appearance after FC, as was rumored. Since he could easily be made to look like another humanoid (see TNG's Unification), why couldn't they make him look human, i.e.: like Spiner? Changing his appearance to human and adding the aging program would've allowed Spiner to continue to play the role if he would've wanted to. Still, as much as I really like Data as a character, I wish at least some of the movies had focused on Riker, Troi and Beverly more.

 

[Kegek]

T'Cal said:
As I recall, Data's mother aged despite her being an android. Couldn't this been addressed with Data?

Actually, it was, in that very same episode, where Data refers to his artifical aging. Which is exactly what it sounds like: A cover to explain why Spiner visibly aged as the series wore on. But accepting that there are limits, and I think Spiner passed them a while back.

 

[CaptainStoner]

An interesting idea but I tend to agree with the others, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[Mott the barber]

No way. Don't touch that episode.

 

[Squiggy]

Agreed. If you wanna mess with anything, mess with Future Imperfect. The timing is a bit right.

 

[Malleus]

^^^ As a teaser ep for the "remastered" TNG?

 

[Squiggy]

Sure.

 

[Jamee999]

Re: Should AGT be "redone" partially (cast-wise)?

How good would Yesterday's Enterprise, Chain of Command, First Contact, and All Good Things have been as the 4 TNG films!

 

[Anwar]

Re: Should AGT be "redone" partially (cast-wise)?

Berman said that if the staff had known they'd be doing TNG movies when they first started, they'd have saved "Yesterday's Ent" for the first movie.

 

[Photoman15]

Re: Should AGT be "redone" partially (cast-wise)?

and it would have been the NCC-1701A that came thru the rift with Kirk and Company

 

[Anwar]

Re: Should AGT be "redone" partially (cast-wise)?

Yeah, but then that would mean that the Feds had been at war with the Klingons for like 80-90 years, not just 20. That's way too much.

Maybe they change the story so that after the Feds beat the Klingons the Romulans and Cardassians took their chances and went to war with them as well, so the entire Alpha Quadrant has been one giant warzone between EVERYONE for the last 80 years, not just the Feds at war with one power.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Re: Should AGT be "redone" partially (cast-wise)?

They should fix Data's rank (in the past scenes, he's erroneously shown wearing Lieutenant J.G. insignia, where as we all know he was a LCDR for the entire series), but that's it.

 

[RandyS]

Re: Should AGT be "redone" partially (cast-wise)?

Berman said that if the staff had known they'd be doing TNG movies when they first started, they'd have saved "Yesterday's Ent" for the first movie.

Now, an expanded version of this is something I'd love to see.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Re: Should AGT be "redone" partially (cast-wise)?

I don't suppose it might be possible to replace the future Enterprise-D with another ship, perhaps the Enterprise-E? (To bring AGT's future in line with the destruction of the D in Generations)

 

[SiorX]

Re: Should AGT be "redone" partially (cast-wise)?

I don't suppose it might be possible to replace the future Enterprise-D with another ship, perhaps the Enterprise-E? (To bring AGT's future in line with the destruction of the D in Generations)

Canonically though, Q's timeline has already been contradicted though, hasn't it? With Deanna marrying Riker and everything? So inconsistencies in ships and uniforms and things don't really matter.

 

[Anwar]

Re: Should AGT be "redone" partially (cast-wise)?

Yep, theories are that it wasn't the future at all but rather a construct created by Q based on events as they were occurring, ie a very extensive projection of possible events.

But once Picard saw it he told the crew and averted that future.