Returning to the story begun in the novel <i>Immortal Coil</i> and continuing in the bestselling <i>Cold Equations</i> trilogy, this is the next fascinating chapter in the artificial life of one of <i>Star Trek'</i>s most enduring characters.<br><br>He was perhaps the ultimate human achievement: a sentient artificial life-form - self-aware, self-determining, possessing a mind and body far surpassing that of his makers, and imbued with the potential to evolve beyond the scope of his programming. And then Data was destroyed. Four years later, Data's creator, Noonien Soong, sacrificed his life and resurrected his android son, who in turn revived the positronic brain of his own artificial daughter, Lal. Having resigned his commission, the former Starfleet officer now works to make his way on an alien world, while also coming to grips with the very human notion of wanting versus having a child. But complicating Data's new life is an unexpected nemesis from years ago on the <i>U.S.S. Enterprise</i> - the holographic master criminal Professor James Moriarty. Long believed to be imprisoned in a memory solid, Moriarty has created a siphon into the "real" world as a being of light and thought. Moriarity wants the solid form that he was once told he could never have, and seeks to manipulate Data into finding another android body for him to permanently inhabit...even if it means evicting the current owner, and even if that is Data himself.<br> <br>™, ®, & 2013 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related marks are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Good story but implausible ending.
"I recovered" This was Data's answer as several times over the course of this book characters who were aware of the fact that Data had "died" and not that he had been "reborn" expressed surprise at seeing him. You might be surprised too if you were not a regular reader of Star Trek Books. The story itself is complicated and goes back to an episode of TNG when Khan Noonien Soong recalled Data to his lab, but also accidentally recalled Lore. Lore gravely injured Soong and destoyed his lab, and we were led to believe that Data left Soong for dead because the Enterprise was desperately needed elsewhere. To make a long story short Soong didn't die there, instead he downloaded his consciousness into a new android body and escaped. He built a gaming empire on Orion and eventually gave over his body in order to download Data's consciousness from B4 into it. So there you have it, Data is alive. Data goes on to locate the body of his daughter Lal and resurrects her as well. Oh, and hey, remember Moriarty from the holodeck? Well he and his wife the Countness were happy in their virtual realm that they thought was real until the Enterprise D crashed and severely damaged it, making their two children disappear. Their program was transferred to the Daystrom Institute where the Moriarty program eventually figures out how to escape and eventually kidnap Lal, believing that Data holds the key to being able to provide him and his wife with android bodies and restoring his family. Here's where it gets weird. Data enlists the help of LaForge and their search for a solution eventually leads them to Harry Mudd. Yes, Harry Mudd. As best as they can describe him he is at least 150 years old and basically a lump in a 24th century wheelchair, but he has something from a TOS episode (I'm sure I saw it years ago but don't remember it at all) that could transfer a human consciousness into an android body, only it is corrupted and won't really work. The climax of the story is where it all fal...
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