Saturday, June 19, 2021

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations: Book 1: The Persistence of Memory

I started this novel on Friday June 9, 2017. I completed it on Saturday July 29, 2017. It had 385 pages. 385 pp La Forge beamed down to the Deystrum Institute and was at gunpoint of a Telerite until he could identify himself. Maddox was the engineer who wanted to study Data, but earned Data's respect as well as La Forge's Worf's Picards first officer Worf is in love with Choudhury, the new security chief for the Enterprise Maddox was working on the holographic brain when his research was stolen. Maddox taught ethics of cybernetics and biomechanics at the Deystrum Institute .The Enterprise found a copy of B-4. The Breen were orbiting along with the Enterprise . Data gave Spot to Worf. Picard and Crusher had a child, Rene. Geordi realized that the only way to save B-4 when found was to totally erase Data's memories. They planned to get shot in torpedoes to a planet to look for the missing androids. They had no escape plan They found Dr. Noonien Soong. Soong permanently erased some of his memory engrams and put them on the emotion chip so it was one of a kind. "What if this isn't a transfer of consciousness but just a duplication? What if the true me dies on this table and the me that gets up inside that android is just a clever copy? Will I really have cheated death--or merely created a new being that thinks it's me?" After Soong's consciousness and brain have been transferred to the android he blows up the lab and leaves the planet, Noonien was going around as Nomis Sutay, a young Trill. Noonien missed being stuffed after a meal and the affect of alcohol. His tastes have improved, but he can't feel the effects. He sensed he was being followed. He used his chameleon circuitry to change his skin, hair, eyes and hair.. Noonien is going to the Taurus Dark Cloud. He became a Bajorean named Taylon Jull. Complete with a limp from Cardassian imprisonment. Now Noonien was going to Tessah III. The residents of Omicron Theta insisted that Data be less perfect to pose danger then Lore. When the planet was destroyed Noonien tried to save Data but couldn't. "Hope rarely listens to reason." Noonien was asked by the Ancient Galactic Fellowship to join and teach with them. Noonien's talking to a Ferengi named Prak, about opening a casino on Orion. "Curiosity, loyalty, a need to be useful, a desire to live in harmony with all beings--those are all emotions. It's a motive. A reason to act. A sense of duty. An innate desire to acquire and share knowledge; a drive to improve himself." Noonien is searching for Julianna. Emil Vasilock, Noonien's mentor, is six thousand years old. Some of Noonien's aliases are Leonardo Davinci, Alexander The Great, Johannas Brahms, Solomon, Merlin. Data is in love with Vaslorik, a security member of the Enterprise, and the feeling is mutual. Emil Vasilock stole Julienna's positronic brain and hid it in a castle. Noonien followed him. He found Julianna. He wants to build a better android with a holographic brain. Noonien just bought a moon. Noonien discovers Data and feels a great loss. Data died a hero disabling a doomsday weapon. Noonien needs to find B4 before his neural net crashes from an overload of Data's memories. Noonien want to build another Data Maddox just gave androids, such as B4, full citizenship within the Federation This new Data is going to have greater brain power, physical strength, and more chameleon skin properties as Noonien does The Borg attack Noonien's moon He loses Data They destroyed his moon Noonien is searching the cosmos for a new home, while repairing himself Maddox's lab is getting robbed "Sometimes you have to roll the dice and let fortune have its way." The Enterprise is in Breen space and risk being detected but could go into a gas nebula, but then they would be blinded from the away team La Forge found Borg technology on the planet But they were wiped out three years ago by the Caellar They found a factory that was mass producing Soong type androids The facility could hold 50 million The Enterprise was still in the gas giant hiding from the Breen They needed something of the equivalent to a periscope to let them know when it was safe to vacate the nebula So they are going to launch a probe that will act as such The away team found Soong type androids that the Borg were going to inhabit The Enterprise launched probes into the atmosphere The Breen let La Forge and Soong live to enable the droids Soong and La Forge are cought by the Breen and have no escape plan, but are secretly sending messages to the Enterprise. Worf and Choudhury were just captured by the Breen. The Breen had just killed Choudhury. The Enterprise had just received a pre-recorded message from Worf telling them to blow the facility up. Worf killed Kren, the leader of the Breen, but felt nothing. Soong programmed his androids to attack anything that appeared Breen. Soong and La Forge are trying to save B4. "Memories without sentience, knowledge without self-awareness is utterly useless. To make him live he needs the spark of life. That ineffable something that makes us more than the some of our parts. He needs a soul." Soong asked Geordi to put Data's consciousness into his body. Soong gave the new Data life and deactivated himself, Data was reintroduced to Picard. Worf left the meeting abruptly to deal with Choudhurys death. Worf was furious with himself because Choudhury died meaninglessly Data didn't accept his command rank back. Data is going to search for Vaslovik so they can revive Lol. "People don't rebel when they're happy and treated fairly." yeremiah@aol.com Yeremiah Hardt