Stupid Sacrifice: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'', was Data's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] even necessary? Did he have to fire the phaser himself, instead of setting the phaser to overload and beaming out? [[Character Aged with the Actor|Brent Spiner felt that he could no longer convincingly play an ageless character and demanded that Data "die" in]] ''[[Character Aged with the Actor|Nemesis]]''. Curiously, they still introduced an identical twin, who is left alive. And gets all of Data's memories.

:To add an extra layer of stupidity, this was the last TNG film and so the problem of Spiner being too old to play Data any more was not exactly germane. The series actually ''did'' address the issue of Data being ageless, while Spiner obviously wasn't. Data once [[Handwaved]] it by saying he developed a means to appear as if he was aging (making it apart of his quest to understand humanity). May not have been airtight, but most fans were likely not to nitpick this particular issue all things considered.

{{quote|'''Data:''' The transporters conveniently failed after sending Picard, so I'm going to leap across space to get to Shinzon's ship.

'''Geordi:''' What about the transporters in the shuttles?