Gonna be a bit AFK again this month. Moving back to Newfoundland and this shit is expensive and time consuming. Will be posting updates and stuff to Mastodon and over on /c/Stamets <3

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    5 months ago

    Thinking about it, maybe they could have done a Doctor Who thing and wrote reasons for him to need to transplant his brain into a new body and got new actors to play the role. Could have been interesting to have Data pop up in far future stories.

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      Or just get actors who look similar enough to Spiner. They’ve done it with any number of other characters.

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        Yeah, but the body swapping would give them a bigger pool of possible talents. They could also play with swapping gender and race and what that would mean for an android.

        Also, imagine a five thousand or five million year old Data “thinking” himself to the point he has Q level power. “Adult” humans stop changing or maturing at adulthood. Or rather children change more easily then adult. Data’s struggle was starting in a relatively stable mental state and learning to change over time. What if the ability to change never stops? Never settles in?

        The actor swap wouldn’t just be a convince for callback, but a real foundation to discuss scifi/social concepts.