Who got the surface area of a sphere wrong by an order of magnitude ("Relics"), though that an intert lump of rock possesed dangerous magnetic fields ("The Pegasus"), and got himself killed because he forgot that shuttles have transporters ("Nemesis"). Data's as much of an idiot as the rest.Monroe wrote:Data?
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Well, maybe he thought he'd survive like the other 17 times he's died.Captain Seafort wrote:Who got the surface area of a sphere wrong by an order of magnitude ("Relics"), though that an intert lump of rock possesed dangerous magnetic fields ("The Pegasus"), and got himself killed because he forgot that shuttles have transporters ("Nemesis"). Data's as much of an idiot as the rest.Monroe wrote:Data?
Perhaps his head survived the explosion.
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Hey, I think Data's death was great - esp. his final word - because I like brevity. But Spock's had the same sense of self-sacrifice, along with the foreknowledge of a slow, tortuous death... and he didn't blink an eye.
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Spock had logic and friendship. Data went against logic. I would have just set a phaser to over load and then gone back out the way I came, but that wouldn't make for a good story.Mikey wrote:Spock may have quoted a maxim of Vulcan logic, but his was just as great an act of loyalty. I still think they're neck-and-neck.it was because of loyalty and friendship.
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Spock died because the engines were broken and there was no other solution but to enter the reactor chamber, radiation and all.
Data died because he forgot about the shuttle transporters.
Data died because he forgot about the shuttle transporters.
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Pfft, forget the shuttle transporter stupidity.
Don't the ones in the cargo bay run off a seperate power source?
Could he not have just taken more than one of those transporters with him?
Why did Picard have to go on his own? A heavily armed strike force would have prevented that whole scenario. Hell, they could have just beamed a bomb over.
Did the Scimitar not have transporters of its own?
Why shoot a phaser into the thelaron core? Did Data forget about timers? I think Janeway's stupidity is spreading...
Don't the ones in the cargo bay run off a seperate power source?
Could he not have just taken more than one of those transporters with him?
Why did Picard have to go on his own? A heavily armed strike force would have prevented that whole scenario. Hell, they could have just beamed a bomb over.
Did the Scimitar not have transporters of its own?
Why shoot a phaser into the thelaron core? Did Data forget about timers? I think Janeway's stupidity is spreading...
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True, but they might have been included in Geordi's comment that transporters were down.Rochey wrote: Pfft, forget the shuttle transporter stupidity.
Don't the ones in the cargo bay run off a seperate power source?
That was the only prototype. Stupid I know, but that's Starfleet/B&B for you.Could he not have just taken more than one of those transporters with him?
A heavily armed strike force? A bomb? That involves thinking.Why did Picard have to go on his own? A heavily armed strike force would have prevented that whole scenario. Hell, they could have just beamed a bomb over.
Probably knocked out during the battleDid the Scimitar not have transporters of its own?
Don't forget who sent them to Romulus in the first place.Why shoot a phaser into the thelaron core? Did Data forget about timers? I think Janeway's stupidity is spreading...
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Maybe she told them, "Do what I would do," and they all assumed that meant acting without any regard for consequence, and at all costs avoid thinking of any alternatives before acting.Captain Seafort wrote:Don't forget who sent them to Romulus in the first place.
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