At the end of Stewart Baird's flop in 2002 "Starvala Trek: Neksis", Scrolls for Android (Brent Spinner) sacrifice his life to blow Skimitar, a Romulan armed ship, which was on the verge of destroying USS. The data always strives to be more human, and his victim was the ultimate expression of his humanity. It also fulfilled Spiner's desire to kill data, Something he was looking for from Star Trek: Uprising.

Spine, however, had to have his cake and eat it too. The actor also played B-4, an Android prototype, built before the data. The B-4 was discovered early in "Nezsis", and the data was collected by his long-lost brother on Android, revealing that his brain was a rudimentary version of his own. The B-4 was childish and non-pereceptive, but showed potential. The film ended with Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) talking to the B-4, trying to explain to Android that his brother was dead. The B-4 did not seem to have understood them, but showed some evidence that the data had put his memories in the B-4 brain before his death. The data were dead, but Spinner left the open door "Star Trek", so to speak, if the franchise writers want to hire him to play the B-4.

Spinner returned to "Star Trek" several times after "Immuscles", of course. He appeared on Star Trek: Enterprise, playing ancestor of Data's creator, and data awareness was retained on the hard drive in the first season of Star Trek: Picard. Recently, spanner has been playing human android It was an amalgam of data, B-4, their wicked brother, and several others, in the third and last season of Picard. It was a clever way to resurrect the character of the data without literally resurrecting the character.

Of course, before the data went through the whole drama "Picard", some entrepreneurial authors were resurrected by university into non-Canonian novels and comics. Most important, the 2009 comic strip "Star Trek: Countdown" saw the data completely reintegrated into the B-4 body.

"Star Trek: Countdown" was the title of the comic book, specially written to be conducted in Jey Abrams's "Star Trek" in 2009. While Abrams's film took place during Captain Kirk's early years as Star Trek's officer, the comic was aimed at covering the entire Star Trek timetable. In the second issue of "Countdown", it was explained that the Ordordi La Forz could save the emotions chip of data from the blast that killed it. When Ordordi installs the chip in the B-4 body, it activated all latent memories the data uploaded into it. The data was essentially resurrected. The "countdown" takes place about eight years after Nemesis, so the data missed only a few years of life before returning.

Of course, the comic book "Countdown" is just one non-Canonian future for data and B-4. Other novels also dealt with Androids in interesting ways. In JM's novel Dillard in 2007 "Resistance", It is said that data memories may have been in the B-4 body, but that his personality never appeared. In that book, the B-4, barely aware, was sent to the DayStrom Institute for Studies and Close Care.

David Mac in 2012 "Cold Equations: Memory Persistence", However, he went a step further. That book explained that the creator of the data, Dr. Song, managed to put his consciousness in the youthful body with Android at some point (much older Song died in the episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation"). Android Song was on the body of the B-4 (stored in the "Indiana Ons: Thieves of the lost casket"-cold storage of cold) and took advantage of the memories of the data, transmitting them to his brain. The resulting character was called Song's data, and he went to live his life, away from Starflit, elsewhere in the cosmos.

Of course, when the third season of Picard was broadcast in 2023, the canonical fate of the data was resolved. He was now human amalgam to several creatures with Android.

New novels and comics are fun speculative exercises.