![]() Soong says he puts a little bit of Lal in this creation, so she is referenced at the very least. That issue was never raised, although I do think Dr. Given the theme of the season is so much about legacy - and I asked Michael Dorn a similar question about Worf's son - was there any discussion or idea to deal with Data having a daughter now? Or even Lal from The Next Generation? But it was a very intriguing and inviting proposition to be on a stage with my family and my extended family, the characters. I mean, I'm thrilled to have been able to work with some of those people and wish I'd been in scenes with all of them cause they were really, really great. And by the way, I think they were a terrific cast, and there's some A+ actors who were in those seasons. Season two, I got to work with some of the other cast members. I mean, season one, I only worked with Patrick and it was great. I mean, that's not to say I didn't enjoy seasons one and two. And it was odd, but only because we were wearing costumes because we've all been in the same room together many, many times since Nemesis. So all being in a room together, it was very familiar. We've been friends for 36 years and the characters are an extended part of that family. It's like, I know all these people so well. ![]() Yeah, it did, just because we're like a family. How did the vibe on set feel compared to the previous two seasons? Did it feel significantly different? You've gone through three different characters, and three different showrunners, and this one brings back everybody else from Next Generation. You're the only other member of the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast, besides Patrick Stewart, who's been involved with all three seasons of this show. So it makes perfect sense for me, for Data, of all characters to keep going on as long as they could make copies of that hard drive. And so the journey continues because they were able to access memories and we are nothing more than our memories and our experiences, and that's what they were able to access. That's the essence, the heart or the brain of the computer and the rest is just a shell. And I've said this to other people, but if your computer crashes or blows up even, and it's still possible for some genius out there to retrieve the hard drive and memories that are on it, that computer still lives. ![]() His death was metaphorical and it was about hard drives and computers and things like that. I mean, Data's not flesh and blood, so he didn't have a human death. I mean, Data, first of all, Data didn't die. Well, it's difficult to describe where this character is concerned as opposed to a regular human being. For you, having that strong sense of ownership, how do you feel that this season changes what Data's story is now that he has died and come back again? Do you feel like it fundamentally changes what his overall arc was, given how you ended it in season one with him saying something along the lines of, "Dying is the most human thing I can do"? Talking to the other cast members, it feels like their relationship with their character differs from person to person. It feels like you feel a great amount of ownership and custodial responsibility for this character. ![]() It was a creative process and we fought over - not really angrily fought, that's just a euphemism for we addressed all the problems that each of us thought we had and came up with what we came up with.Īnd I mean, I must have gone back to them a hundred times and said, "You know what? I know I said, 'okay,' but I'm still having a problem with this moment." And they were right there, and they never said, "Oh, come on, stop." They were like, "Okay, all right, so what now?" And then we would have a meeting of the minds. And in terms of adjustings and tweakings and things like that, that happened all through at least my part of the shooting season, and even prior to that, when I had scripts, being able to - well first of all, the writers, Terry and the writers, all made themselves very available to me whenever I had a thought or an idea or change or wanted a dialogue adjustment, and it wasn't that they just went, "Okay, whatever you want." That didn't happen.
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