Data’s Dead (Again)
Data died in Star Trek: Nemesis of course, but his death hangs over a lot of Picard’s first season—before he eventually shows up in the finale to have a chat-from-beyond-the-grave with the similarly dead Jean-Luc. Here, Data re-enforces that it’s Picard who should keep on living, not him, and so he sacrifices the last vestiges of his memory once again so Picard can come back in Soong’s new android body.
We know Brent Spiner is back (again, he’s played multiple Soongs as well as Data in Picard so far) for the third season, and intriguingly he’s been described as playing “a character named Lore,” of course a nod to Data’s evil twin android brother from TNG. Could the original Lore be revived from his original de-activation, or maybe we’re going to finally follow up on Nemesis’ tease that some of Data’s memories lived on in his other identical android sibling B-4 at last? We’ll have to wait and see.
