Prior to Picard, I got hung up on the post-nemesis period. I know the beta-canon plotlines and I find they are a bit saccharine. A ship full of Datas? A new body care of Dad? Yeah nah.
A headcanon? a dreadfully sad headcanon/ficlet?
I initially presumed that the Data seen in the trailers for ST:P was a holodeck version or only in Picard’s dreams. ST:P came through on both counts but I was surprised that everyone got caught up in the tenderness of Picard and Data’s reunion that, to me at least, a major thing was overlooked.
Data, a pro-social android who loved the arts, cultivated friendships, enjoyed cosplay, had ambitions and dreams...has, in one form, been stuck in a quantum simulation for almost two decades and god knows what that neuron was up to when dormant in the shuttered B-4.
Data has stated to Geordi during the televised run that he actually found comfort and reassurance in the knowledge that he will die while telling Picard in the First Contact film that the time he took to consider the Borg Queen’s offer, 0.68 seconds, was an eternity to him.
So, imagine decades without friends, without painting, without a violin, without spot, without Sherlock Holmes, no meaningful or novel interactions.
Data was, for lack of a better term, trapped in Robot Hell.
I don’t think Picard saw it for what it was. Geordi or Deanna might’ve.
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- Geordi could have accepted, coped, and grieved Data’s sacrifice but those opportunities were lost the moment the Captain quietly informed him that Data had likely uploaded the entire cache of his memories into B4.
- Geordi knew that in a matter of days, the Enterprise would face another onslaught; this time by cyberneticists from the Daystrome Institute, led by their head leech, the now Captain Maddox, they would descend on the ship to study and, Geordi assumed, dismantle the last known remaining Soong-type android in existence, regardless of his inferiority to his brothers.
- And here was Picard, putting all his faith in his Chief Engineer could bring Data back to them in some form before that fate could befall B-4.
- At first, Geordi didn’t try to quell the dark curl of satisfaction that came with knowing that Maddox and, if he was honest, Starfleet could still be foiled in their attempts to uncover the secrets of the positronic brain.
- His optimism was cut short as he listened to B-4 sing to no one in particular. It sounded familiar, similar, but not quite right. The volume, the intonation, the pure effort Data put into his hobbies and creative outlets was lacking but Geordi put it down to B-4′s construction until he realised that B-4 was singing the same 6 lines over again.
-Part of the verse, part of the chorus and with each repetition B-4′s struggle to persevere through the song became more evident as he stuttered and the lyrics became nonsensical. Geordi was nearly too late in shutting down the android before he went into cascade failure.
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