Spot's fate

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

In Memory Alpha's article on Spot, it mentions apocryphal (non-canon, according to MA) info about Spot.

In the TNG relaunch novel Before Dishonor, Worf has assumed the role of caretaker for Spot after Data's death. Worf, after Spot assists with hunting down an alien infestation on the Enterprise, states that he finds her to be a warrior, who simply lulls people into a false confidence of a cat.

Yet I recently read The Sky's The Limit, whose short stories include "On The Spot", which apparently depicts this incident (Spot nabbing a gestalt alien). Is it mentioned in Before Dishonor too? Or does this page conflate the two?

 

[Jinn]

I don't recall Spot being mentioned in Before Dishonor and the Kindle search function doesn't find any mention of the word "Spot" in the German translation of BD.

 

[Idran]

In Memory Alpha's article on Spot, it mentions apocryphal (non-canon, according to MA) info about Spot.



Yet I recently read The Sky's The Limit, whose short stories include "On The Spot", which apparently depicts this incident (Spot nabbing a gestalt alien). Is it mentioned in Before Dishonor too? Or does this page conflate the two?

That's just a mistake; it was in The Sky's the Limit, they just misidentified the book.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Okay, great. I know Trek books and stories make reference to each other more often than they used to because of sites like MA and MB.

 

[JD]

Have we heard anything about Spot since Data came back?

 

[ryan123450]

I'm assuming he's still alive. Cats can surely live longer in the 24th century just like humans.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

In 2384, upon Data's return, Spot stayed with Worf as Data didn't feel obligated to rejoin Starfleet due to the fact his father disliked the idea. By this year, Spot was seventeen years old and was expected to live another decade. (TNG - Cold Equations novel: The Persistence of Memory)

 

[Lonemagpie]

In Memory Alpha's article on Spot, it mentions apocryphal (non-canon, according to MA) info about Spot.



Yet I recently read The Sky's The Limit, whose short stories include "On The Spot", which apparently depicts this incident (Spot nabbing a gestalt alien). Is it mentioned in Before Dishonor too? Or does this page conflate the two?

It's On The Spot - they just have the wrong attribution.

 

[marsh8472]

I would think B-4 would claim ownership of him/her.

 

[JD]

I doubt B-4 could take care of himself, much less a cat.

 

[Paul Weaver]

THe only mention of spot in Persistence was when Worf woke up, gave her some food, then Choudhury came in and said Spot was in charge. There was no mention of a spot/data interaction.

"She (spot) was roughly seventeen years old by his estimate, and despite the preventive care she received from the ship’s veterinary medical specialist, she was showing signs of her age. With proper care and nutrition, she might live another decade, but he (worf) sensed in the cat a spirit almost Klingon in its fierce pride; he knew it would offend her dignity to prolong her life after its quality had expired. As he procured her favorite dietary formula from his replicator with the press of a button, he promised himself that he would safeguard her honor as he would that of any true warrior. There will come a good day to die, my friend. But for you, this is not that day."

At this stage Spot had been with worf for 5 years.

 

[Lonemagpie]

I wish I'd read that at that time - it reminds me of my Bel, (yes, named after B'Elanna) who died aged 17 last year. She'd been showing signs of being on the way out over the previous few days, stole ham out of my wife's sandwich, and a couple of minutes later her legs gave out and she died in my arms, purring. No vets or stress - maybe not a good day to die, but definitely the best way for a cat. When she was younger she was probably the main reason I wanted to write a Spot story...

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

So how do you reconcile Spot being described as male and female at different points in the cat's life?

 

[Idran]

So how do you reconcile Spot being described as male and female at different points in the cat's life?

Avoiding the usual joke since it's a little cruel, I don't. Writers screwed up, and since Spot had kittens, she was always female. References to her as male didn't happen in-universe. (I would say that they were misspeakings, except that while Geordi might've done so not knowing Spot's gender, I can't see Data doing so.)

 

[Nyotarules]

After the efforts of a Feline rights lawyer from Cait, Spot was granted full Cait citizenship and is part of the relief work on Risa after the Borg invasion, her assistant is named Elvis Presley.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

I tend to think that Data just had multiple cats, and that he used the same name for them all - he'd call it using a familiar pattern or something like that, I'd call it sentimental attachment.

I don't know what precisely happened to each preceding Spot in this scenario (there are unpleasant possibilities), but I like to think that it was Data offering the cat to a crewmate who he believed needed companionship more than he did, then finding himself missing having Spot around, so he got a new one.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Part of his growth towards humanity? I could see that.

Careful, though; you're treading towards story suggestion territory, @DGCatAniSiri. Maybe put a spoiler tag up?

 

[The Wormhole]

I would think B-4 would claim ownership of him/her.

Spot chose Worf in the deleted scene from Nemesis.

 

[F. King Daniel]

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[marsh8472]

I doubt B-4 could take care of himself, much less a cat.

I was under the impression that B-4 would just become Data after he's absorbed all of his memories. At that point he would just feel like Spot belongs to him.