Warning: the following contains spoilers for the post-Nemesis, post-Destiny novelverse TNG novelverse!

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Some spoilery thoughts on TNG Cold equations book one:

That’s how you bring back Data! I thought that was very well done. He’s not quite the same, but (so far) in all that matters, he is Data.

Data with a mission. In a twist, Data here understands why his father didn’t want him to join Starfleet and he feels he owes it to him to explore other possibilities. But now he’s on the hunt for Flint and his reactivated mother. His ultimate purpose now is to bring Lal back to life. As was shown in previous novels he’d kept All’s body, Lore’s body (his brain basically destroyed when big D crashed in Generations) and the three nameless prototypes. When Data died, all those and poor B-4 were turned over to the Days from Institute (setting the stage for this book)

Data now has Lal’s memories, Lore’s, and Doctor Soong’s. Meanwhile B-4 has some actual progression to make as Soong improves what he could on an android that wasn’t meant to last. I wonder how that’ll turn out.

Worf, poor Worf. I’m not sure how I feel about them offing Choudhury, I get that everyone happy makes boring storytelling but still. The manner of her death also clearly rankles Worf. He’s becoming a black widow Carter.

And we have a freighter full of program less Lores just running around. Not good.

But good stuff. A lot has now happened in the 4 year span since Nemesis (or 9 since WYLB). I love it