Inheritance

Did you know Data has a mom? Yeah, neither did Data. She is aboard the Enterprise, looking to share with him and make up for lost time. But the two of them have more in common than even she realizes. Also, a planet is going to blow up or stop spinning or something. Truth and truths in this week’s show, when we put Inheritance in the Mission Log. I thought she went back to her career of being the Federation arm wrestling champion. I remember watching this first time and never seeing the twist coming. Another reasonable s7 episode. After the next few I think it takes a dive until the finale. As an aside did Ken call himself a human orgasm or organism?!?!! Yup…the “Descent” will continue w the exception of 2-3 episodes, most of them are just turds…. Also, regarding that recording: When did Soong transfer her memories into the android; after her death? That would be, a) kinda creepy, and b) mean that Soong has access to some never before seen technology to recall and transfer memories from the brains of the dead. And why hasn’t he shared this technology with the rest of the galaxy before? Am I the only one, who thought about ‘WestWorld”? and the idea of sex w an android? How husband Pran would feel if this secret was revealed? Just interesting…. Remember that Data’s “grandpa” (from The Schizoid Man) had a nearly-flawless memory transfer procedure and claimed to have taught Soong “everything he knows”. It’s possible that, Soong being Soong, he improved on that procedure in his spare time when he wasn’t building nudist androids. This episode, like so many from season 7, just escaped my memory. That was a period in my life where I had recently reached the legal drinking age and was having too much fun maybe. Anyway, I would like to know if I was a android. I just wouldn’t want the government to know. Geordi has some line about why would someone impersonate your mother. We had an episode with an alien doing this very thing to Geordi. I think Soong could have put in the same thing that he used to bring Data back to him. He could have just activated the “recall” function and then updated the recording and then blanked her memory of being “recalled”. By the way I enjoy this episode…flaws and all. Great work on the recap, morals, and messages. Am doing another rewatch to pay special attention to those flaws in Noonien Soongs holographic interaction with Data…thanks Ken… 🙂 Men and women are so different!! Lol, my takeaway was “Westworld”- Pran had sex w an android!!!- hahahahaha Congrats to Ken & John on the new gig! I guess with all the extra quatloos, you guys will be filling your homes with tiny ships and yummy mail meals. I look forward to listening to your new show… about THE new show! There are great TNG episodes, and bad ones. And then there are these. In these episodes, it is often the case that the more interesting the theme, moral or message, the duller the episode. Fans will love to hear about the fact his mother wanted to – well you know. Because that’s what they got crusher to do here. Even if all she did was stay silent. John didn’t mention Fionnula Flanagan had another important sci fi television connection. She played Eloise Hawking on Lost, mother of Daniel Faraday (who shot him), wife of Penny’s father Charles Widmore, was a member of the Others and was also associated with the Dharma Initiative’s California station The Lamp Post. Not one of the main characters but a significant member of the Lost universe. Father. Mother. Brothers. Daughter. Was there any main character in Star Trek for whom we saw more family members than Data?(There is one, but to maintain my point, I’m not going to say who.) Is this some sort of deliberate irony to do with his ‘created’ nature? And for further irony, what’s the only episode of TNG in which Data doesn’t appear? To me it really highlighted how Data and Worf we’re given SOOOoooOOOoo much backstory and Geordi and Crusher sooOOOoooO little. Squeezing Geordi’s Mom, Dad a