Stuff that make you wonder but not own thread worthy

[Adventerprise]

I suggested a different origin (in ode form). https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/lauras-fiction-contest-entries.313279/

 

[SantaTom]

Watched Datalore.

Got to wondering... if Lore didn't work out... why did Soong redo everything from the ground up when making Data?

Surely he could have just made a new head (with a new positronic brain inside)?

Why make new hands/feet/legs etc. if you're just going to make exactly the same hands/feet/legs again?

Why did Wilton Knight build KITT from the ground up instead of reprogramming KARR? Building entirely new models of was just a thing among the genius scientist set, apparently. At least Soong disassembled Lore. Wilton Knight just stuck KARR in a garage.

 

[Mojochi]

Watched Datalore.

Got to wondering... if Lore didn't work out... why did Soong redo everything from the ground up when making Data?

Surely he could have just made a new head (with a new positronic brain inside)?

Why make new hands/feet/legs etc. if you're just going to make exactly the same hands/feet/legs again?

He planned to get back to Lore. Said so himself. He planned to get back to all of them... eventually. He needed one that worked right first lol... and even Data was still in the experimental stages of operating without fully emotional function. (Which took a lifetime) Then everything went bad. The wife died. Sh*t hit the fan, & he went off the rails for a while

But if he had the resources to build all the parts, & eventually all of them would need all of their parts, & those parts were apparently already made as well as they could be, then why would he repurpose their parts? They're their parts. He hadn't given up on any of them. He just didn't know WTF to do with them, at the moment. They were still going to be people he'd made, and had a right to their bodies