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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostwind" data-source="post: 530611" data-attributes="member: 3060">Brent Spiner indicated during pre-production that he did not want to play Data anymore because of typecasting issues and the fact that his increasing age would be too hard to disguise (since Data does not age). He felt the character should be killed off in an appropriate manner. I don't know if this was what he had in mind, but they did kill him off.Despite the door being left wide open, I severely doubt we will ever see it happen. But then again, money talks.Yeah, it's about as original as the Enterprise getting another butt-whooping in every movie since ST VI.Don't you just hate those overly redundant safety systems that always interfere with common sense?? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Remember, the screenplay was written by John Logan (who wrote Gladiator). He probably still had his head stuck in Roman times...Didn't you know this was standard protocol? It's been brought up before in other movies going back to ST:TMP and even in a few of the various television episodes (although at least Voyager's information was somewhat dated).Well, you know... Secret race, secret ship... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think they had the potential to do so much more with the movie and the characters. I think if Paramount was smart, they would release a director's cut DVD when it comes out so we can all benefit with a much better script. I am willing to bet that most of the good stuff wound up on the floor.  The franchise is in dire need of a major hit and I am not sure it can do it with the current writing/production staff. The whole franchise has strayed away from the epic sense that Roddenberry gave everything to the 2-minute soundbyte we see today. There's a lot always going on in the galaxy and it would be nice to see a movie that was truely epic in scope but original in story. [/end hallucination]  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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