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This is not a spoiler, but a speculation...
I've read that Spiner feels that Data can't continue in the series, because as an andriod, he can't age...but Spiner is. Does anyone else think that Star Trek X will feature Data becoming permanently offline?
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He could be destroyed and they rebulid him looking different, à la Kryten. :-)
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That's always been my thought. Data would be crushed like the Terminator or something, and Geordi would have to rebuild him. The story could feature Lore. They bring him back to try and get the parts right but accidently reactivate him. It'd be Brent Spiner's last movie and he'd actually be playing Lore most of the time. It could end with the new actor assuming the role of Data.
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How about if they covered Data with skin, like the Borg Queen offered? This way, you wouldn't have to worry about Brent Spiner aging, because the skin would age as well!
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I think that if Data dies, no one should replace him. No one can do Data like Brent Spiner. He has built that character, it wouldn't be right for someone else to take over IMO.
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I have to agree with Black Knight. mabey something should malfunction in data, with no way to repair him so they shut him down to preserve his life, that way, he's still alive somehow.
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The problem isn't with finding a way to make Data age. They already coped out on that by saying he has an aging program (he must also have weight gaining program). The problem is that Brent Spiner doesn't really want to be Data anymore IMO.
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I am torn on this issue. I'd hate the next movie, which quite probably will be the last we ever see of the TNG crew, to be burdened with such a depressing theme as the death of a main character. Sure STII did, but ST3,4 etc did a reset on that. Generations too had Kirk's finale, which certainly left my sister in a bad way afterwards (she cried for hours, and she was 17 at the time!)
On the other hand, the problem with Data is he is effectively immortal. He will live to see everyone he knows die, and quite probably long enough to see the "fall of the Federation" if we believe in historical cycles, etc. That can't be much fun. Would it be so cruel to give him mortality, since it is now one of the few pieces of "humanity" which he is still without? As Picard said, "It is our mortality that defines us."
Hmmmm.
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I just had an idea. What would it be like to see them be forced to download Data's consciousness, or hook up his brain, to the ship, a la Ghost in the Shell and Neuromancer? That would be a fantastic concept movie, or (pay attention Series V writers) a great SINGLE episode for any series set in the far Trek future - along the lines of the Spock, Scotty eps for TNG. Just think, a roving intelligent ship.
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Maybe Q should come along and grant Data's wish to be a real human. Of course, before that, he would have to bring Soong back to life, and Soong and Data would get trapped in a whale, and Data's nose would get longer every time he lied...
Oh, never mind. That's been done. :-)
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