Why did Data want to... (spoilers)
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That's what I'm thinking since he would no longer be an immortal robot who ages for no reason, and no longer has to sit for hours as the makeup is reapplied. They could have also said the artificial biology of the golem just ages without being made to age, and that Data saw it as appropriate, not a flaw. That would have also made the Machine Federation warning a lie, because then we have a machine species who is mortal like any humanoid. He ultimately reprises Data's role twice anyway.
If Data knew there were others out there like him, and wanted to die, why not respect that wish?
Or saying "Oh ****!" But that's when he got his emotion chip that was removed and couldn't be turned off, but by the next movie could be turned off and on at a whim, and then he acts as if it never existed... (so TNG was already foofooing on its continuity. And TBH, Data still gets a halfway decent arc in PIC than he did in NEM... It's easy to understand why Spiner might jump at the opportunity. Especially with the visual aid technology to correct the inevitability of temporal passage. That said, Data being suicidal seems a little weird but it's not that far off the mark...)
The only nitpick is that Data would not be conscious in order to genuinely understand it, but still...
The emotion chip arc is pretty easy to follow. He gets it installed in Generations, gets it fixed to an optional state two years later in First Contact, and finally (perhaps because he was manipulated with it by the Borg Queen) just gets rid of the stupid thing in the two years between First Contact and Insurrection. It was more trouble than it was worth.
It was stated in Insurrection that Data didn't take the emotion ship with him to the Baku planet.
INS & NEM always bothered me, reverting Data to TNG instead of moving forward with emotional Data.
The emotion chip was an aberration, a cheat Data used a couple of times. Data displayed emotions plenty of times without it, even if they were subdued and he couldn't quite realize it. Tossing it away and giving himself time (if only) to develop his humanity more naturally was the right option.
And Data's story is always about learning to be himself, not plastering on a fake smile, copying Johannes Brahms or Ralph Kramden exactly, or stealing jokes from Joe Piscopo. He should make his own jokes, his own art, his own emotions, if he truly needs them.
And Data's story is always about learning to be himself, not plastering on a fake smile, copying Johannes Brahms or Ralph Kramden exactly, or stealing jokes from Joe Piscopo. He should make his own jokes, his own art, his own emotions, if he truly needs them.
And chosing his own death.
A lovely justification for lazy writing that sought to avoid dealing with growth and change and instead reverted the character to a static status quo.
I think they missed some opportunities with the emotion chip like actually having Data fall in love, which would have made a nice contrast to that dating episode where he couldnt actually feel. Would have been cool to have another entire movie dealing with it.
A dating Data literally was an episode.A dating Data. That should be his line: Oh hi there, im......commander dater.
The lesson of which was: who needs a girl when you have a cat.
Yes. And a Data who is carrying on a relationship because he actually loves someone would be an example of growth and change from that episode.
No he was trapped in the Subrosa candle with Heathcliff guy
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