Watched the movie last night and i was annoyed amongst other things about Data’s death. Although IMHO it was better than the other 3 films of the series it’s sad watchin them taking their final journey.
Going back to Data, they really boobed in choosing to kill him off, i kept hoping up until the end it was Data’s brother B-4 who was sacrificed but NO that would have been tooooo easy…
Are they making another?? if so they could generate another Data because his positronic net would have been saved in B-4 head or the Enterprises Mainframe computer…..
By: Arabella-Cox - 15th August 2003 at 05:48
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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By: futurshox - 14th August 2003 at 20:35
As I understand it, Brent Spiner (who plays Data) was concerned about the fact he looked like he was starting to age, and androids should not age, so he decided to end the character before he got too old.
By: tenthije - 13th August 2003 at 21:03
BTW, Alex…
I think you and I need a good chat about your sig. “There are two types of people I can’t stand, […] and the Dutch.”
😮
(loved the movie though) 😀
By: ad0nis - 13th August 2003 at 20:39
Mixtec give me a break buddy, the sig is true to form, i can sit here and give you many examples of Greek accomplishments but they are well documented anyway……
By: mixtec - 12th August 2003 at 21:23
“if Christiannity and Turkish occupation didnt stopped the Greek civilization from its advanced progress in mathematics , chemistry and physics the Greeks could have been to space 600 years before the Americans”
(Arthur C. Clarke)
I have to comment on your sig- First off I think it was the Romans who finished off Greek civilisation and they werent a Christian empire. Later the Turks or more accurately the Bizantines were the most advanced and cultured civilization of the middle ages. Most all the great minds of Greece studied at foriegn universitys in Egypt, Persia and Babylon. Infact alexandria had the greatest library in that age. The Greeks were not very good at giving credit for origen of their information, for example the Pathagarian theorm was known in Babylon thousands of years before the existance of Greece.
BTW-Were you in an auto accident or not?
By: tenthije - 12th August 2003 at 18:08
Oh, common Data will be back.
His brother’s body is still in one piece and working. I seem to recall data’s brain had been downloaded into the ships computer for maintenance (long time ago since I saw the movie, so I am not sure). Knowing Geordie he probably made umpteen backups so they can just download data into his brother.
Another option would be to let the whole data thing start over again. Learning how to behave, emotions whatnot. The first episode with Data started with him trying the sing, this movie ended with “whatshisname” trying to whisttle.
They are starting it all over again. As if Star Trek isn’t repeating itself already… :rolleyes:
I used to be a big fan of ST, but they are really getting desperate to keep the franchise alive. ST, ST-TNG, DS-9, Voyager, Enterprise, 14,5 movies etc.
By: alex - 12th August 2003 at 15:48
What happens to Data anyway…sorry but I can’t be bothered to watch the movie cos I don’t exactly like Star Trek but I am curious.
By: ad0nis - 12th August 2003 at 14:20
Hi Guys! good to be back, i wasn’t away that much it’s just that i felt the forum was gettin a little stale that’s all….
Back to the subject….what did u make of Nemesis?? seems like they have forgotten the threat of the Borg.
By: Geforce - 12th August 2003 at 13:58
Nerd-alert :p
Sorry, nice to see you back!
I’m a Star Wars fan, less nerdish I think, right?
By: Hand87_5 - 12th August 2003 at 13:31
Hey , welcome back Adonis , how are you doing ?
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