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This collection details the aftermath of Data’s disappearance, focusing on his creator Noonien Soong’s decision to resurrect his son and the reunification with his daughter Lal, an android with a positronic brain. As Data struggles to find a new purpose, he confronts the holographic criminal Professor James Moriarty, who has escaped a memory solid and now seeks a corporeal vessel. Moriarty’s aim to inhabit a new body involves manipulating Data into finding an android chassis—potentially even Data’s own—creating a tense conflict that blends ethical questions about artificial life with the familiar intrigue of TNG’s universe.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Jeffrey Lang
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