Corrected entry: Data sacrifices himself at the end to save Picard and the crew. In the final episode, "All Good Things" where Picard keeps going back and forth through time, Data is in the future era where Picard is an Ambassador/old man. Unless B-4 actually becomes Data (which can be determined by the singing), Data should not exist in those sequences of "All Good Things"
Tailkinker
28th Dec 2007
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
29th Aug 2007
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Corrected entry: If we are to believe Picard's comment that Doctor Soong was being whimsical in naming the prototype android "B-4," then we must accept that Doctor Soong had some foreknowledge of the future - he had to have known it would work and he would be constructing other androids. It's akin to finding a coin stamped "100 B.C."
Correction: If Soong chooses to name a prototype "B-4", he's not mystically foretelling the future, he's merely displaying a (justifiable) degree of confidence in his own ability, telling himself that it's going to work. And, given that B-4 is the prototype, of course his eventual goal would be to build further models. What else does one do after creating a successful prototype? This is nothing more than confidence and Soong's whimsical sense of humour.
10th Apr 2004
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Corrected entry: At one point Data comments that Reman is a difficult language, and we see several examples of Reman language and writing, so why is it at the end, when Picard is aboard the Reman vessel, all of the announcements are in English?
Correction: Picard's universal translator is translating them for him (and, by extension, us).
19th Dec 2002
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Corrected entry: For being one of Starfleet's best and brightest, Captain Picard forgets a key tactical advantage when his ship is compromised by a Reman boarding party. When he first encountered Shinzon, Picard had trouble seeing him because the lights were severely dimmed. Shinzon points out that this is for the benefit of the Remans, who aren't comfortable (perhaps even blinded) in bright light. Yet it never occurs to Picard to brighten up the lights when the Remans board.
Correction: Just because the Remans find bright lights uncomfortable, it doesn't mean that they're unable to function in bright areas. Bringing up the lights would make it easier for the Reman attack force to spot the defenders - this problem would outweigh any possible tactical advantage from raising the light levels.
26th Aug 2003
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Corrected entry: Picard has been captain of the Enterprise for 15 years. His clone is much older than 15 and yet never had his accelarated aging process activated. Thus Picard must have been cloned long before becoming captain of the Enterprise ... how did the Romulans know who Picard was, much less that he would become important enough to warrant a covert operation to clone him?
Correction: Picard was one of the youngest officers ever to captain a starship (the Stargazer), a post which he reached at the age of 28, before most of the other members of the Enterprise crew were even born. As such, he'd undoubtedly be considered a man to watch, one likely to rise to the higher echelons of Starfleet - hence the Romulan plot to clone him.
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Correction: Time travel stories are rarely cut-and-dried. Q showed Picard a possible future; it doesn't mean that it's the future that will eventually become the real one - indeed, as Picard has now seen that possible future, he may well take have already taken steps towards avoiding it, either consciously or unconsciously. Equally, your built-in correction may well be correct - that Data's memories "woke up" in B-4, effectively resurrecting the character.
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