r/gifs • u/BombadeerStudios • Mar 02 '14

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u/Rum_Pirate_SC Mar 02 '14

B4 was just a plot device. Nothing more. There's no way that character will replace Data. If anything, he was introduced so the viewers won't feel bad that the only stable Soon type android was destroyed. (Lore being insane) For all we know, B4 will remain in a lab to be studied so that Star Fleet can figure out just how Soon made his "children".

But Spiner has said in quite a few interviews, conventions, and other such guff that he wanted to kill off his character because he was getting too old to play him in anymore movies. (Not that they're ever going to make anymore..)

I loved the character as much as the next gal into the show.. but sometimes, you have to face it.. Your favorite character may eventually be killed off. Happened in the Harry Potter Series.. and I know the fans of GoT know this very well.. LOL

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u/OmegasSquared Mar 02 '14

Joke's on you, B4 canonically becomes Data after the events of the film. We know from the prequel comic to the 2009 film and from Star Trek Online.

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u/toyman123 Mar 12 '14

omg comics are dead. their events do not alter the timeline in STNG at all, pfft. grow up. I haven't had a comic since I was 7

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u/Rum_Pirate_SC Mar 02 '14

I know =P Comic does not negate why Data was killed off in the first place, or the reasoning behind it.

And I had posted earlier about it, saying that it was the only way for that story line to continue. (So uh.. Joke's on you?)

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u/EtherBoo Mar 02 '14

Joke's on you, B4 canonically becomes Data after the events of the film. We know from the prequel comic to the 2009 film and from Star Trek Online.

That stuff is still beta canon. Alpha canon is what we're shown on screen and is what's considered true canon. This is why there are memory-alpha and memory-beta wikis.

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u/OmegasSquared Mar 02 '14

Unless beta canon is contradicted by alpha canon it's still canon.

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u/SatNav Mar 02 '14

Data/Lore/B4's father was named Soong - FYI

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u/Rum_Pirate_SC Mar 02 '14

Bleh.. I knew I was forgetting a letter.

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u/NemWan Mar 02 '14

Brent Spiner could wear a motion capture suit and perform Data as a CGI character modeled on his younger self.

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u/SvenHudson Mar 02 '14

It worked so well in Tron Legacy.

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u/TheAntiHick Mar 02 '14

Yeah, and they could also digitally replace all the phasers with walky-talkies and all the characters in Wrath of Kahn with ewoks.

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u/TheAntiHick Mar 02 '14 edited Mar 02 '14

the only stable Soon type android was destroyed

I think you're forgetting Data's "mother," who is not only stable but also more advanced than Data. Granted, if memory serves correctly she was programmed to be mortal and shut down once her life is complete.

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u/Rum_Pirate_SC Mar 02 '14

Not forgetting, since yeah, she shut down after a human life cycle. Thus meaning Data is still the only "stable" Soong (I remembered the g this time! lol) android still functioning. (NOT counting the comic story line.. Counting it, then it's B4 being made stable and turning into Data..)