“You know that I cannot grieve for you, sir.”
Oh, that infallible truthfulness, both endearing and excruciating. I wish everyone were so transparent in their motives as my son. My wondrous son who underestimates himself yet again.
Dr. Soong’s reflections on Data. (via
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Worf scowled “I am not a tree.”
Cold Equations Book 3: Worf is not a Tree
Do what I always do - go bother Picard.
Q to Wesley the Traveler in Cold Equations Book 3: The Body Electric
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
“You know that I cannot grieve for you, sir.”
Oh, that infallible truthfulness, both endearing and excruciating. I wish everyone were so transparent in their motives as my son. My wondrous son who underestimates himself yet again.
Dr. Soong’s reflections on Data.
Reading TNG’s Cold Equations book one: Persistence of Memory, which focuses on the theft of all of Soong’s failed androids and what the doctor’s been up to since his apparent death (hint: he didn’t quite die during “Brothers”). It also draws heavily on Immortal Coil which I’ve had to refresh myself on (thanks memory beta, its been about a decade since I read it). It’s good so far and I don’t think we’ve had a novel from Soong’s perspective (not counting the prologue in Immortal Coil).
