Why the heck did they kill Data?
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They were trying to emulate Wrath of Khan, plain and simple. They needed the heroic character death. In the case of the TNG movies, however, they always viewed Data, not Riker, as the other lead after Picard. So Data sacrificed himself. And B4 was the android version of transferring the katra.
Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart, et al have admitted that had they done another film, B4 would have ended up being Data. So it obviously wasn't truly that Spiner felt that he looked too old or didn't want to play the part anymore. It was simply yet another attempt to duplicate what they perceived as the formula that made TWOK work.
Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart, et al have admitted that had they done another film, B4 would have ended up being Data. So it obviously wasn't truly that Spiner felt that he looked too old or didn't want to play the part anymore. It was simply yet another attempt to duplicate what they perceived as the formula that made TWOK work.
One of the many disasters in that movie. Just terrible.
It was for a dramatic effect that just went horribly wrong. Unlike the genuine sadness felt when Spock died in TWoK, I heard people in theatre chuckling and muttering that they had an out with B-4 if there was another movie. Just download the file, and there is Data again. As Mott stated, just one of many disasters in the movie.
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As others have said, just an attempt to do another TWOK.
I think it would have been more emotionally moving if it had been Picard that died. After years of whinning that he never had a family he finally realizes that the Enterprise crew is his family. He then sacrifices himself to protect those he loves. Now that would have been moving.
I think it would have been more emotionally moving if it had been Picard that died. After years of whinning that he never had a family he finally realizes that the Enterprise crew is his family. He then sacrifices himself to protect those he loves. Now that would have been moving.
As my handle insists, Data lives.
He is a professor in the future, with several cats and a silly grey streak in his hair. Remember?
They would not have gone to the trouble of inventing and showing B4 and showing Data transferring all of his memories to him and ending with him singing the wedding song if this were not the case.
I understand Spiner being worried bout the aging thing.... but there was no way they actually had to kill him off. Stewart was done making the films, anyway. And, as the OP pointed out, there are aging programs available... although it would be silly to use one on Data.
But, do not worry. Geordi will pour every last ounce of effort into upgrading the positronic system in the B4 unit in order to revive Data. He will team up with Maddox and track-down "Data's Mother" he will analyse Lore's unit, (salvaged from the Ent-D wreckage) he will go back in freaking time to the cavern underneath Sanfransisco to get his head.
Someday, B4 will blink, sit up, and then Data will ask Geordi if everyone is okay and if Earth is safe.
DataLives.
He is a professor in the future, with several cats and a silly grey streak in his hair. Remember?
They would not have gone to the trouble of inventing and showing B4 and showing Data transferring all of his memories to him and ending with him singing the wedding song if this were not the case.
I understand Spiner being worried bout the aging thing.... but there was no way they actually had to kill him off. Stewart was done making the films, anyway. And, as the OP pointed out, there are aging programs available... although it would be silly to use one on Data.
But, do not worry. Geordi will pour every last ounce of effort into upgrading the positronic system in the B4 unit in order to revive Data. He will team up with Maddox and track-down "Data's Mother" he will analyse Lore's unit, (salvaged from the Ent-D wreckage) he will go back in freaking time to the cavern underneath Sanfransisco to get his head.
Someday, B4 will blink, sit up, and then Data will ask Geordi if everyone is okay and if Earth is safe.
DataLives.
^Works for me. I like it.
If I do not read it in the novels soon, dammit, I will write it myself.
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An even easier fix. When the Titan gets to Romulus, Riker is presented with Data's head, recovered from the wreckage of the Scimtar as a show of good will by Donatra. For diplomatic purposes, the Enterprise is diverted to Romulus after the refit, where Geordi 'pops B-4's top' and replaces it with Data's head and, ta-da. Data lives.
An even easier fix. When the Titan gets to Romulus, Riker is presented with Data's head, recovered from the wreckage of the Scimtar as a show of good will by Donatra. For diplomatic purposes, the Enterprise is diverted to Romulus after the refit, where Geordi 'pops B-4's top' and replaces it with Data's head and, ta-da. Data lives.
B-4 is called the 'lifeline' for Spiner just in case Nemesis made millions upon millions. Don't believe otherwise.
Who said they remain unchanged? Remember, they are (cloned) human flesh over metal endoskeleton. Which means that if the terminator that Arnie was supposed to be in T3 was older (because he was from further in the future), it isn't inconceivable that that "human flesh" would look more aged.
Meh. Keep B4 in one piece. Take Lore's body. He won't be needing it...ever.
I think a lot of people would have rathered we had a quick comment explaining data's aging than having him kill himself.
It's amazing how much Nemesis is so much a ripoff of TWoK it's not even funny.
And they allow the retarded brother to die, in order to bring back their friend from the dead.
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