![]() ![]() Lang for addressing the minor discontinuity between David McIntee's novel Indistinguishable From Magic and the later TNG novels with regards to Laforge's relationship(s). The friendship between Data and Laforge has certainly changed, but still retains many of the elements of the close relationship they had in TNG. The characters in this novel are a real treat to read about. And Jeffrey Lang is able to craft his voice perfectly. As user "Deranged Nasat" put it on TrekBBS's Trek Literature board, "Data 2.0 is both greatly familiar and alarmingly unpredictable." This is not exactly the Data we've come to know and love, but something new. The new Data, not quite the same as the original.Ī lot of the elements that made Data Data are there: the sometimes child-like innocence shows through occasionally, but it is definitely tempered by an "edge" that his character didn't have before. And as troubling as this may be, the answer I was forced to come to was no. That's the question I kept asking myself while reading The Light Fantastic. Regular followers of my reviews will remember than I very much enjoyed the books that preceded this one in the telling of Data's story: Jeffrey Lang's own Immortal Coil, as well as the Cold Equations trilogy by David Mack that finally returned Data to the land of the living. I had a great many thoughts while reading this novel. Returning to the story begun in the novel Immortal Coil and continuing in the bestselling Cold Equations trilogy, this is the next fascinating chapter in the artificial life of one of Star Trek’s most enduring characters. Moriarty wants the solid form that he was once told he could never have, and seeks to manipulate Data into finding another android body for him to permanently inhabit. ![]() ![]() Long believed to be imprisoned in a memory solid, Moriarty has created a siphon into the "real" world as a being of light and thought. Enterprise-the holographic master criminal Professor James Moriarty. Having resigned his commission, the former Starfleet officer now works to make his way on an alien world, while also coming to grips with the very human notion of wanting versus having a child.īut complicating Data’s new life is an unexpected nemesis from years ago on the U.S.S. He was perhaps the ultimate human achievement: a sentient artificial life-form-self-aware, self-determining, possessing a mind and a body far surpassing that of his makers, and imbued with the potential to evolve beyond the scope of his programming.įour years later, Data’s creator, Noonien Soong, sacrificed his life and resurrected his android son, who in turn revived the positronic brain of his own artificial daughter, Lal. ( DIS: " Anomaly (DIS)") In 3190, it was used to resurrect Gray Tal by transferring his consciousness into a golem after unjoining Gray from the Tal symbiont.Spoilers ahead for The Light Fantastic, Immortal Coil, and the Cold Equations trilogy ! However, the mind transfer procedure had a low success rate, leading to it being abandoned by the 32nd century. The procedure of transferring a consciousness to a golem became known as the " Soong Method". ( PIC: " Penance")ĭaystrom Android M-5-10 had a golem body, giving Data the ability to feel sensations such as pain for the first time after taking full control of the android body. ![]() In an alternate timeline where a more xenophobic Earth had founded the Confederation of Earth, Picard's counterpart had still had his consciousness uploaded into a golem by 2401, having suffered fatal injuries at the hands of Gul Dukat. Picard was also able to link into the Collective by plugging a cable into his neck, something that appeared to cause him no lasting harm aside from the pain that Picard experienced while removing it. ( PIC: " Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2") Even as a golem, Picard retained a residual link to the Borg Collective which helped guide him while Picard was looking for his son. The only enhancement the golem provided Picard was a lack of the brain defect that had killed him in all other respects, it was virtually identical to his Human body, since Soong knew Picard did not want to be immortal and would not want to have to adjust to any new superpowers at his advanced age. ( PIC: " Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1")īefore the brain death of Admiral Jean-Luc Picard, his consciousness was transplanted into the golem Soong had prepared, at the cost of Soong not being able to use it himself. Agnes Jurati in the completion of this project. Soong had intended to place his consciousness into the body of the golem through a mind transfer. In preparation for the event of his passing, Dr. It was invented by Doctor Altan Soong at Coppelius Station in 2399. A golem was a type of android constructed from organic material and designed to function more-or-less identically to the lifeform it was modeled after, including, optionally, the processes of aging and eventual death. ![]()
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