![]() DC Universe Online somehow delivers on the superhero fantasy that its rival could not.Īmong the survivors is Star Trek Online, which last week celebrated its tenth anniversary. Star Wars: The Old Republic - while considerably younger than most MMOs on the market - continues to draw in fans of George Lucas' universe, while Lord of the Rings Online has gone beyond the story of the original novels. The Matrix Online, Pirates of the Caribbean, Marvel Heroes, Star Wars Galaxies - each of these failed to prevent their userbase from declining and ultimately closed (in some cases, just a few years after they launched). You'd think at the very least, the Ferengi would have a civilization of androids, since you wouldn't have to pay them for their work.When World of Warcraft took the world by storm, engaging ten of millions of fans with an interactive shared world, the potential of the MMORPG sparked the imaginations (and eye-embedded dollar signs) of many a Hollywood IP holder. ![]() The real question, as far as DATA is concerned given that we weren't anywhere close to the first beings to develop WARP capability, how the hell is DATA the only one of his kind? Shouldn't there be android Vulcans, Romulans, Klingons, Bajorans, Cardassians, etc. Even if he would have succeeded, when faced with the reality of a Starfleet without DATA, they would have denied B4 and still gone through with the procedure. B4 would have absolutely failed had such a hearing taken place for him. ![]() DATA nearly failed to establish himself as a life form in "The Measure of a Man". You could argue (since, in the end of Nemesis, we see a reactivated B4 conversing with Picard) that Starfleet would have objected on ethical grounds, but B4's sentience could easily be argued, as his response to most any input was, "I do not understand". DATA must have left behind instructions for his memory integration and his reasoning for B4's indefinite deactivation. This would not have conflicted with DATA's ethical subroutines because in his last interaction with B4, DATA tells him that he is to remain deactivated indefinitely, essentially making him a spare body. That said, it's entirely possible that the Anti-Time Future was not a possible timeline but simply a construct in Q's cosmic sandbox designed to push Picard to the point of breaking or expanding.Įither way, if it never happened, there's no conflict with the events of the movies (Data's Death, the destruction of the Enterprise D, Worf leaving Starfleet etc.)ĭata downloaded his memory when he realized he was going to die, with the intention that it was to be uploaded to his brother, B4. If we go with what we are given in the episode (All Good Things.), it seems Q is testing not humanity but Picard himself. ![]() In Tapestry, Picard encounters Q at the moment of his death and is taught a valuable lesson but is left to try to figure out (a) Is Q God (b) was it an elaborate test/lesson set up by Q? (c) did God appear to him in the form of Q or (d) did he imagine the whole thing? In many of these cases, he would whisk the crew or the captain away to some far off place that might not have existed outside of Q's own mind (the court room, the planet with the pig soldiers in Hide and Q and Sherwood Forest for example) and only rarely sent the crew somewhere "real". For years, Q had been plaguing the Enterprise and Picard. The Anti-Time Future was a construct created by Q. Similarly, Picard changed the future in Time Sqared ensuring the Enterprise was not destroyed. The anti-time future was one such reality but Picard made sure they didn't live it. In parallels, we learn of the existence of a multi-verse with a new reality created every time a choice is made. He caused them to make different life choices, which created new future for the prime timeline He shared his experience of how the future was going to unfold with the crew. The Anti-Time Future was supposed to happen as it was how the original timeline played out. The simple answer (from the episode.sort of)
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