From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   In article ,   
    "Mac Breck"  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   They overwrote B4.  He's dead, Jim.   
   >    
   > Like I said in the other post, I've never read, nor do I intend to read   
   > the Orci comic.   
      
   Wise choice.   
      
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