![]() While in this simulation, Data's mind continued to be alive and to acquire knowledge of the outside world, so he was aware that he died fighting Shinzon in 2379. In a way, Data's quantum simulation is his own version of the Nexus, the space ribbon that briefly transported Picard and Kirk into a realm of "pure joy" in Star Trek Generations. As Data himself explained to Picard while Jean-Luc's own synaptic straits were being uploaded into his new synthetic body, the Golem, Soong placed Data's essence inside a "massively complex quantum simulation" - basically a private holodeck for Data's personality (which somewhat resembled the study of Sherlock Holmes within TNG's holodeck that the android enjoyed cosplaying in). So, while Data was dead, Star Trek: Picard's retcon enabled the character fans knew as Data to continue to exist in a virtual world. Altan Soong, the son of Data's creator, Dr. Bruce Maddox (John Ales) stole a single positronic neuron (containing Data's essence) from the brain of B-4 and fled to Coppelius with Dr. Thus, when synthetics were banned by the United Federation of Planets in 2385, Dr. This was the necessary Star Trek pseudo-science reason Star Trek: Picard needed to both explain how Soji and her synthetic family were created in Data's mold, and also to justify how Data's personality could still be "alive" in the computers of the planet Coppelius 20 years after he died. After a few moments of shock and sadness, the film simply ends with a hint that Data may be resurrected in the body of B-4 (which Star Trek: Picard confirmed didn't happen).ĭata's physical body and his positronic brain were indeed destroyed in Star Trek: Nemesis, but his essence and memories (up to the point where he sacrificed his life) survived because the android downloaded his memory engrams into B-4, his imperfect android "brother". Data's death was abrupt and came after a prolonged action sequence that depleted the audience by the time the android died, there was little chance to register its emotional impact. ![]() On his own initiative, Data beamed aboard the Scimitar and fired a phaser at the thelaron device, which exploded and instantly killed him. In Nemesis, the evil Romulan Praetor, Shinzon (Tom Hardy), who was a clone of Jean-Luc Picard, activated his thelaron weapon, which would destroy both the Enterprise-E and his own flagship, the Scimitar. Enterprise gave up his life to save his ship and its captain from a lunatic's doomsday weapon after a devastating starship battle in a nebula. In both films, the emotionless member of the U.S.S. It’s not like you can feed a 1980s-era CP/M word processor format into Microsoft Word, so Cobb personally converted each file to a readable text file.It's no secret that Data's heroic sacrifice was Star Trek: Nemesis' blatant ode (or ripoff, many Trekkers have complained) of Spock's (Leonard Nimoy) death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Once DriveSavers had recovered the data, the data had to be converted into a format the estate could open. No, only small batches of the disks were doled out at a time, and each batch was hand-delivered to DriveSavers’ secure facility in Novato beginning in 2012. The estate wasn’t going to just drop all 200 disks in a FedEx box and pray to the shipping gods they wouldn’t get lost. ![]() ![]() As luck would have it, Cobb said most of the physical damage was over empty portions of the disks and he believes about 95 percent of the data was recovered.īesides seeking the technical expertise required for the task, the estate also wanted high security, according to Cobb. To make matters worse, about 30 of the disks were damaged, with deep gouges in the magnetic surface. DriverSavers Data RecoveryĭriveSaver’s Mike Cobb and Jim Wilhelmsen with Gene Roddenberry’s dead computer and a pile of the floppy disks they helped recover. That alone took three months to reverse engineer Cobb credits his own “Scotty,” Jim Wilhelmsen, with figuring it out. As the data recovery firm couldn’t get Roddenberry’s old computer to power on, it had to sleuth the physical layout of the tracks on the disk. ![]()
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