#and then reactivated data's first word being Geordi's name

[annakie]

Thank you Star Trek: Picard season three for giving Geordi and Data the chance to show how deep their friendship was and how much Data’s death affected Geordi, something the last moments of Geordi in Nemesis and first season of Picard completely forgot about.

[calliecat93]

ST:TNG Season 6 Finale/Season 7 Premiere Watchthrough

Descent: Well folks… this is the final finale/premiere two-parter of the series. So let’s go ahead and hop to it.

Part One: The Enterprise encounters the Borg once more… but they are acting differently. Namely, they are acting emotionally and individually. They even have names/use singular pronouns when referring to themselves. That’s crazy enough but to make it worst, Data is also having sudden emotional bursts. Yeah, folks, we’re getting a follow-up to I, Borg. There’s a 50/50 chance that the show will follow up on something so I am very glad to see the Borg plot continuing~! And holy Hell folks… this was wild. The Borg plot is enough o get me interested especially without the question of if the changes are happening due to Hugh? Which Starfleet makes it very clear that if those conditions happen again, he is to initiate his original ‘destroy the Borg’ plan from I, Borg no matter what his morality says. Data is struggling with re-provoking the anger he felt and I like how Troi told him that emotions are not inherently positive or negative, it’s the actions we take when we feel them that determine if they’re good or bad. That is so true… although it gets horrifying when Data admits to feeling pleasure when he killed a Borg. Then a Borg they captured manipulates him into betraying his friends to feel again… just holy shit. Like when Data says that he’d be willing to kill Geordi to feel again, just… I’m positive that something funky is going on, but still. That was just chilling. It only gets worst when we find out who the true villain of the piece is. After over two seasons of waiting… Lore has returned. Yeah, the tension is massive compared to Time’s Arrow and even Redemption. We have the Borg. We have Lore. We have everything happening with Data. If I was watching this weekly when it was airing, this certainly would have made me stay tuned for the next part. Speaking of, can P2 bring us a satisfying conclusion? We shall soon see. 4.5/5.

Part Two: Things could NOT be worst for our heroes if they tried. Picard, Geordi, and Troi have been captured, Crusher’s been left to captain the Enterprise and forced to flee by the Borg, Riker and Worf are left on their own with no aid, and Data has betrayed his friends and joined Lore. As it turns out, Lore is essentially using the Emotion Chip to drug/brainwash Data with emotions and is planning to take over the Federation an kill ‘inferior beings’ with Data at his side. I’ll go into my thoughts on this part of Data’s plot in the Overall. Again, this was intense. There is a Hell of a lot going on. We even get Hugh back! Again, more on him and what his return with his newfound individuality caused in the Overall, but it’s so nice to see him again~! It honestly gets hard to watch like with Chain of Command, though not quite as hard to stomach. Data slowly killing/almost lebotimizing Geordi and with Geordi’s VISOR taken from him on top of it… Lore, I felt bad for you in Brothers but after this? After what you did to your own brother? F*** you! There are a lot of really cool moments like Crusher being a badass Acting Captain and everything regarding Data and Lore’s final standoff once Data’s come to his senses. I also loved Taitt, both cute and intelligent~! I assume that this is the end for Lore consideirng that this is the final season, and… I kinda wish that it was a bit more epic or he’d gotten at least one more appearance prior to this to truy build-up to it. Though him corrupting a group of vulnerable Borgs is certianly a good endgame direciton for a villain like him, it just needed a bit more build-up to be just a bit more impactful. Still this was one hell of an episode and a perfectly good way to end this chapter of Data’s saga… sort of, but again Overall. I was still happy with it and as a second part/series premiere, it worked perfectly. 4.5/5.

Overall: So how does the episode stack up when judged together? Holy Hell, it was intense. There is so much happening. We find out what happened with Hugh and the Collective when he was sent back. Essentially, chaos happened. They don’t ignore the consequences of what the choice would cause and Hugh is certainly unhappy that the crew allowed it though he does still care about Geordi and their friendship which saved the day in the end. But these events left the remaining Borg of that Cube vulnerable for Lore to swoop in and sway them to his side save a few like Hugh. He was always an emotional manipulator, but getting the Borg under his command? Just… damn. Then we have Data’s plot. So… I’ve made my feelings on Data’s emotions clear. In hat he has them, he just expresses them differently than the ‘norm’. So it’s always been frustrating when it seems that the show can’t decide if Data has emotions or not. But the one constant is that at the very least, Data doesn’t believe that he does. He felt anger very intensely, and it worries him. This, the drugging/brainwashing caused by Lore, and his eternal struggle to become more human left him prime and vulnerable to be manipulated and corrupted like he was. Lore purposefully feeding him his negative emotions, turning off what is essentially his conscious… as I said above, this made me thoroughly detest Lore. Again Iw ish his end was a bit more epic, but as sad as it had to be for Data, Lore was dangerous, manipulative, and at this point a genocidal monster. Did he mean his final words expressing that he loves his brother? Maybe it’s true to some extent, but even then Lore has proven a manipulative person who will only harm Data. Data reactivated/reassembled him all the way back in S1 because he was his brother… ut, in the end, there was no chance of Lore redeeming himself or being forgiven. Data deactivated him once more, and that is how Lore will remain forever. As for the emotional ship… I’m gonna save it for whenever I get to Generations for now. I’m not inherently against the idea of Data holding onto it even though IDT he needs it, but… let’s just say that I’m gonna have words cause I know how this will go, but I wanna be fair and save it for the correct time and place.

If I was going to rank all the finale/premiere two-parters it would be The Best of Both Worlds first, then Descent, then Redemption, and finally Time’s Arrow. The last one was fun, but pretty low stakes and tame compared to the others. Redemption has a strong first half, but the second half just kinda fizzled out. IDT I need to explain why The Best of Both Worlds is the best, getting the tension, drama, caracter develpment, and thrill exactly right and working perfeclty as both a finale/premiere and as an whole episode. Descent lacks the epicness despite Part 1 doing a good job in setting it up, but Part 2 just couldn’t quite match it. But it does succeed in everything else. It’s exciting, it’s dramatic, it has character development, and it serves it’s purposes both spitu-up and put together well. It was hard to see Data put through this, especially towards Geordi. i eman Hell in P1 he tried to get Geordi to remove a Holodeck safety when re-creating the fight even though it could kill him with Geordi understandably disturbed by such a request. But as a sucker for thesekinds of plots, it was done well. In the end, second place is a pretty good place to end up. 4.5/5.

And thus, that concludes Season 6 and begins the seventh and final season of TNG. Yep folks, only 25 episodes left to go. After three months, even longer if you count me starting in Spring and then stopping for several months after finishing S1, the end is near. I’ll muse more in the upcoming Top 5 Best/Worst list, which will be up sometime tomorrow morning once I have it queued. But if all goes well. by this time next week aside from the films, TNG will at last be finished. But that’s for then, for now time to work on wrapping S6 up~!

[looneyllama-archive]

Stupid Crossover Idea: Circuits and Starships AU

This started as crack, but now I’m invested, so…

FNAF and Star Trek TNG

Timeline:

The five kids are murdered.

Instead of being possessed by the spirits of the children, the animatronics were turned into Borg-like creatures by the Purple Guy. Fredbear is unsuccessful due to the child being too young and small to be properly incorporated, but the rest gain new intellect–and use it to seek revenge.

In the Star Trek universe, there is a 3rd World War; right before it began, the animatronics were put into storage due to the bits of ‘87 closing the diner. Amidst all of the destruction, the warehouse remains intact, albeit buried: a perfect time capsule.

Eventually, archeologists unearth the warehouse, and begin selling and donating the finds, thus splitting up the four remaining animatronics.

Freddy was sent to a cybernetics museum and put on display. He remained entirely dormant until the sound of a child’s cry awakened his programming. The child’s name? Molly O'Brian.

Keiko was already friends with Data, and thus accustomed to the idea of a synthetic sentient. After seeing Freddy interact with Molly, she recognized the spark of intelligence in him, and asked Data to investigate.

Once Freddy’s true Borg-like nature is revealed, Picard becomes nervous; be that as it may, he acknowledges that Freddy is a sentient being, and helps defend him.

Freddy doesn’t trust the crew of the Enterprise at first, but he likes Molly and Keiko, and he recognizes Data as a fellow “animatronic,” so he cooperates.

Data convinces Freddy to allow him and Geordi to preform repairs, and to expand his voicebank so he can speak beyond preprogrammed words and phrases.

As Freddy bonds with the crew, they begin a rescue mission for the other three animatronics.

Chica is found in a laboratory, about to be taken apart for study. Upon reactivation, she behaves violently toward her rescuers due to a hatred of humans, but respects Freddy’s leadership, and backs off. Unable to sense the emotions of the animatronics, Troi studies them by observing their behavior instead; the incident with Chica makes her think that the animatronics have an animalistic pack mentality, but as Chica comes to trust the others, she eventually realizes that they are more akin to a captain and a crew.

Foxy is found in a history museum after he is caught stealing artifacts from other exhibits. While everyone gets a good laugh out of this, it makes them wonder what the animatronics will do moving forward, since the target of their revenge is long dead and the diner is gone (and piracy is certainly out of the question).

As it turns out, Bonnie was still stuck in the warehouse; he had managed to break out of his packaging, but was badly damaged as a result. He was more willing to cooperate with the Enterprise crew than the others, since he was so desperate for repairs. It’s a slap to the face for everyone; the other three were so carefully preserved, so no one had really come to terms with how much time had passed.

With the four reunited, they begin looking for a new purpose.

Holy shit this is STUPID.