You would think a blog post for this
topic would be very broad and kind of vague. I mean after all, just
how much data is in the world? How many giggaquads or whatever? But,
no, to me this topic is easily narrowed down. Narrowed down so much
in fact, that it refers to one character in particular.
Lieutenant Commander Data, the android
Chief of Operations officer and third in command on board the USS
Enterprise NCC-1701 D and the E, and he was the captain of the F at
one point in time. At least according to Star Trek Online h was the
captain of the Enterprise F. The one in charge of the ship until the
Andorian captain Val'kel Shon took over due to a sitation totally
outside of the capacity of a fictional universe to take care of.
For some reason, CBS
won't release the rights for the Star Trek androids to be used in the
MMORPG. This is something Cryptic and Perfect World (the developer of
the game and the owners respectively) have been working to resolve
since Star Trek Online first launched. This is also a topic I could
really run off on a major tangent on, so I'm going to nip that in the
bud right there.
So,
what else is there to talk about?
Well,
Data is technically the third of his kind, and is the most perfect of
the three Soong androids. B-4 was the first and most imperfect
android. B-4's only appearance was in Star Trek Nemesis, the last
Next Generation movie and the last one before the Abrams reboot. He
was basically a plot bunny placed in the movie to make it possible to
revive Data in later films. It's like when Spock touched McCoy and
said remember.
Where
Spock passed his Katra (life force or something like that) on to Dr.
McCoy, so that he could be revived when his body was basically cloned
on the Genesis planet. Yeah, and that's a tangent all on it's own.
My
brain stopped.
Anyway,
Data's programming overrides B-4's and he takes over as the dominant
personality in the body. And, with how primitive B-4's positronic
network is, Data probably erases all traces of his “special”
brother.
That
being said. It could be entirely possible that none of this is
accepted as canon.
Why?
Not
because Disney just bought it and nixed the entirety of the extended
universe. Nope, it's just because of how canon works with Star Trek.
With
Star Wars the canon was pretty well open, seeing as there were only
three movies out when the EU started, and those movies were rather
vague on what took place before the movies and what would happen
afterword. So, those creative individuals who were interested took up
their pens and pencils and breathed life into the EU.
When
it comes to Star Trek there have been 5 television series and 12
movies. There's plenty of “official” material that out weighs the
other material produced. The novels and video games, the comic books,
and all the other fan made products have no bearing whatsoever on
what happens in upcoming Star Trek products.
This
might change, however. Star
Trek: Renegades is a fan
produced pilot for a new television series set to air in the fall.
It's hoped that the ratings and the turnout will be enough to move
Paramount & CBS into picking up the show and making it a regular
series. The next Star Trek series.
But,
still, none of this points towards a canon conclusion of what
happened with Data. GRAH!!!
Ryan
6-6-14
PS: I
didn't realize how far off topic I went... but oh well. Maybe I'll
cover the rest in a later post. Lol.
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