So why replace himself with himself if he is too old to be data.

This suggests that Data and the brother he also played will both leave the series… I hope they replace him with a hot Vulcan chick… I miss the blonde security officer… Lt Yar or something.

The main reason I watch the Star trek movies is the contrast with British Sci Fi. Red Dwarf has idiots on an enormous ship with little or no control basically relying on the ships computers and the enormous stores to keep them alive. Star Trek is clean and shiny and the have the answer for everything… I do miss the going where no man has gone before though.

The other minor problem with Next Gen is that they spend so much on SFX that the movies just seem like double episodes at the pictures. The original star trek with card board sets really came to life in the movies with decent budgets etc etc.

A friend told me about a spinoff series starring Scot Bacula (spelling) where everything isn’t perfect and they are afraid to use the teleporters. I wanted to learn more but by the time I got around to trying to see it the series had finished here. 🙁

The whole idea of teleportation in Star Trek has always disturbed me. The amount of energy required to scan every quantum particle in your body and every attribute of those quantum particles and then seperate them and transmit them and then reassemble them somewhere else just seems wrong to me. Basically what you are doing is totally destroying someone and then using the material they were made of to reassemble a clone somewhere else… minus small amounts that were lost in transmission. Seems to me more energy efficient to anhialate (spelling) the person being transmitted and then store the material they were made of on board the ship. Then send the data to the destination where new matter would be used to recreate the person. The actual material would not be sent and you could set up a system like on the internet where if a packet of info is corrupted the source is just asked to send the info again to verify. Once all of the info is ready then you can create the person using the subatomic particles of that days left over food or the dust and dried up skin cells collected in the ships airfilters.

I have a few questions too… photon torpedos… a photo is a packet of energy we call a light ray, so a photon torpedo is a laser beam? Or did the writers just get a science dictionary and think it was a neat sounding word and they wanted to use it…

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