From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: macthevorlon@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >  "Mac Breck"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>>  Wickeddoll  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >>>>>  "David E. Powell" wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Here's an idea for "Nemesis" that they could have done.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Drop the whole Reman thing and drop the whole clone thing.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I still don't understand the purpose of the clone, except to   
   >>>>> somehow mirror Data and his retarded cousin, that they murder   
   >>>>> right after the film ends.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> They didn't kill Special Data that I remember - but don't make me   
   >>>> watch it again.  Just looked like we'd see Data live and learn as   
   >>>> the previous Data did.   
   >>>   
   >>> Note I said "they murder right after the film ends"   
   >>>   
   >>> In the comic prequel to Crap Trek '09, penned by your buddy Orci,   
   >>> they explain that they took the backup of Data and stuffed it in B4,   
   >>> bringing Data back to life.  It apparently never even occured to   
   >>> them that they murdered B4 in the process.   
   >>   
   >> Who's to say that they didn't backup B4 before they did that?  Maybe   
   >> it was just a chip swap.   
   >   
   > LOL, yeah, right.  Tell you what Mac; I'll cut out your brain and   
   > stick it in a jar and use your body for somebody else's brain, and   
   > you be sure to tell me if you think you're dead.   
      
   Your analogy between Data/B4 and a human being is flawed.  It might be   
   possible in a TNG universe to have a backup of Data or B4, and plug the   
   hardware containing Data or B4 into a new body.  That is not possible   
   with a human being in our reality.  If you plug the backup of Data or B4   
   into a new, android body, is the new combination not Data or B4? It is.   
   You'll have lost only the experiences that happened since the last   
   backup.   
      
   Like I said in the other post, I've never read, nor do I intend to read   
   the Orci comic.   
      
   --    
   Mac Breck (KoshN)   
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   again."   
      
      
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