[starbase63]

Here's a time paradox for you...

Since Data's head wound up in that San Francisco cave in the 1800s in TNG's "Time's Arrow," that's centuries before the timeline divergence that occurs in STXI...and therefore is in the past of the "real" timeline that the new timeline splits off from around 2233...

But with the future of the new timeline being completely uncertain since it hasn't happened yet, what happens to Data's head? Does it somehow cease to exist since Data does not exist yet in the new timeline, does it somehow guarantee that he will exist, or does it just become some curious artifact that can't be explained in the 2300s when/if it's found?

[jtrek79]

hi my friend starbase , interesting question u ve got there......i would say datas head is a curious artifact

[jla1987]

Originally Posted by jtrek79

hi my friend starbase , interesting question u ve got there......i would say datas head is a curious artifact

I would say the same. It's tough to tell, as Star Trek never adheres to one theory of time travel...

[Lord Tribble]

It wasn't found until the TNG era anyway. Presumably it wouldn't affect the new timeline until then, when there will probably be picard and co (and one of the Enterprise-D's that appeared in parrallels)

[JSnyder4]

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is hunting squirrels, does it make a difference to the one handed man?

[Captain Tom Coughlin]

countdown spoiler, kinda sorta

If you buy into the whole countdown comic thing, and Data is alive after downloading into B4, then him dying at the end of Nemesis actually benefits him, because now he has a head that is literally hundreds of years younger.

[starbase63]

Originally Posted by Lord Tribble

It wasn't found until the TNG era anyway. Presumably it wouldn't affect the new timeline until then, when there will probably be picard and co (and one of the Enterprise-D's that appeared in parrallels)

Right...found in the TNG era of the "real" timeline.

There is no guarantee the Abramsverse will follow enough of the same path.

[starbase63]

Originally Posted by Captain Tom Coughlin

countdown spoiler, kinda sorta

If you buy into the whole countdown comic thing, and Data is alive after downloading into B4, then him dying at the end of Nemesis actually benefits him, because now he has a head that is literally hundreds of years younger.

Nemesis takes place after the events of "Time's Arrow" in the "real" timeline...that head was lost with the rest of him when the Scimitar was destroyed.

[starbase63]

Originally Posted by JSnyder4

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is hunting squirrels, does it make a difference to the one handed man?

It could make a difference to a certain android...

[That Metal Beastie]

How does Data's head affect theAbramsverse?

Originally Posted by JSnyder4

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is hunting squirrels, does it make a difference to the one handed man?

Great questions both. I'll be waiting for the answer.