About five minutes before the new Star Trek movie ended, my friend looked at his watch and realized if I didn’t leave now, I’d miss the last bus of the evening. So I’d like to know what happened after I fled the theater.
Here’s I saw: the movie pretty faithfully followed the plot of Galaxy Quest up until that point. Picard killed his clone with the conveniently located Wall Spike, and Data comes in, teleports Picard away, and shoots the doomsday device right as it’s about to fire (“It stopped at 1. . . of course! It always stopped at 1 on the show!”)
Then we see Deanna clutch her husband and say, “Data’s dead!”
Then I left.
So what happened after that? Is Data really dead? Do we ever see Worf naked?
That was it. There was a scene where Picard explained to B4 what Data had done, and B4 was clueless. He picked up a shiny thing from Picard’s desk and started to play with it; while doing that, he started humming “Blue Skies.” Picard sang a couple words, and B4 sang the next line, indicating that even if Data was gone, all his knowledge lived on in B4. Roll credits.
I recall only a couple scenes after you left; first the senior staff gathered in Picard’s ready room to toast Data. Then, there’s a scene where Picard tries to explain Data’s sacrifice to B-4. He doesn’t get it exactly, but then he begins whistling “Blue Skies,” the song Data sung at the wedding. Picard is happy, because it looks like at least some of Data may be recoverable from B-4.
While we’re at it, how did Generations end. I mean, last I saw, Picard used the Nexus to travel back in time and prevent himself from going into the Nexus. But that’s just silly!
No, he used the Nexus to snag Kirk and then the two of them travelled back to just before Malcolm McDowell launched the rocket to blow up the star. Together Kirk and Picard kill McDowell, then Kirk and Picard begin arguing about who was the better captian. Kirk points out that in his entire career only once did the Enterprise get blown up, and that was a desperate and dirty measure that killed a bunch of Klingons, while Picard seemed to get his ship blown up on a weekly basis. Picard pointed out that he’d never made a lame-ass Star Trek movie like the one Kirk did in Star Trek V, and thus was the better captain. At this point, Data sneaks up behind Kirk and strangles him with his own toupee. Okay, it didn’t end that way, but my version’s better. Trust me.
Well, at least he’s not yelling, “Young pup! Young pup!” to Maud’Dib like he was in Dune, The Musical.
B4 should’ve been whistling Pop Goes The Weasel.
At the absolute very end of Nemesis, we see a static shot of all the dwarves with that little kid holding The Map to the Universe’s Shortcuts ™. While Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls played and the credits scrolled by…
Yes, Data is really dead, but we’ve got B4 as a sort of backup device (just in case they can talk Brent Spinner into reprising his role in the future).
Data was always my favorite character, and it shocked me that they killed him off, but IMHO having B4 around ruined the emotional impact of Data’s death, because you know that they can turn B4 into “Data version 2.0” any time they want to.
They put Riker in command of the USS Titan. Riker was my second-favorite character, and it’s nice to see him finally get his own ship.
I don’t know… so far it’s been established that the Klingons have ridges on their chests and feet in addition to their brows… I’m morbidly curious as to where else they might pop up.
I thought the B4 thing was to allow someone else to play B4 and become “Data 2.0” because Spiner wanted out, plus the fact that he was getting too old to play an unaging android.
Spiner may be getting too old to play an android but if he ever decides to play Data again, you know the writers will make up some sort of reason as to why Data is suddenly bald, a hundred pounds heavier, and as wrinkly as a baby left in the tub for three hours.
I doubt we’ll ever have Data back like we got Spock back. Rather if we see B4 in the future it will be more along the lines of Dax in DS9 who went from Jadzia to Ezri.
In DS9, the character of Dax was a big slug that resided in an abdominal cavity of Jadzia. When Terry Farrel wanted out of the series, it was easy to write her out and bring in Nicole De Boer… just take the symbiont out of the former and place it in the latter.
With B4 and Data, you have two characters played by the same actor. Do androids have plastic surgery?
