as much as I want to not acknowledge the last TNG movie, this really helps rectify all the damage that it did. I really wish more people knew about this. As much as I hate the movie, I hate the fact it bombed in the box office and caused any ideas for future Star Trek films (excluding the AOS ones) to be scrapped. Iām tired of sad Data edits. Iām tired of people saying his life ended on that fuckass shit tar. Or that he came back in a fucked up body in Picard. This is so much better than anything they came up with.
TLDR: Data came back after the events of N3mesis thanks to Q
Iām going to be extremely blunt because Iām sorry but i disagree
in Picard season 1, did the Federation apparently imposing a āsynth banā and having B4 dismantled protect what happened in Measure of a Man? Is that any better than Data being brought back in b4ās body?
Maybe I just never really cared for B4 because I only loved Data and I knew what B4ās purpose was in the movie. I mean, if a 5th TNG movie happened if the last damn movie didnāt bomb, Data would be back! His memories were put in B4 for a reason!
Maybe they shouldāve elaborated more on what happened to B4 in the book because itās most likely B4 remained inside Data just like Lal did. Like it sucks but before it all happened, the Enterprise had just lost their best officer, Picardās soon to be First Officer, their friend!! B4 was NEVER going to replace Data, and itās not because heās not capable, heās just not Data. I donāt want to spew the āneeds of the many outweigh the fewā argument but thatās what it is.
Q was probably doing a favor because several years beforehand, Data had saved Qās life on the enterprise, back when Q got kicked out of the continuum and was without powers. Q was mourning Data too.
Iām sorry, but if I had to pick between Data and B4, Iād pick Data any day.
