Data's Journey | By : K_nz Category: Star Trek > The Next Generation Views: 1351 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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They got to the coordinates for Donaerua, and the planet wasn’t there. The nearest planets were two light years away.
“Na Soonga, would you come to the bridge please?” Picard hailed.
“I will be right there,” Neara replied.
“I do not understand Captain. These are the correct coordinates,” Data had confirmed with navigation.
“Check for a cloak over the planet,” Riker instructed Worf.
After a moment, Worf informed, “I cannot find any cloaking anomalies.”
“What could it be? Could she have gotten it wrong?” Riker asked Picard. Just then, Neara bounded onto the bridge.
“Are we there?” she questioned with excitement.
“It seems the coordinates you gave us are incorrect,” Picard elucidated. “The planet isn’t there.”
Neara looked at the screen, then went to the navigation console. “May I?” she requested, and the crew member got up and Neara took her place. She closed her eyes and took three quick breaths. Data new she was going into her Weaver mode, as he called it, to look for the planet. She had one hand on the console and other spread out in front of her. She put them down, opened her eyes, and turned to Picard.
“The protection used to hide the planet is a simple one. It is tricking your instruments into thinking they are at the correct coordinates, but the planet is actually two light years that way,” and Neara pointed to the lower left side of the screen. “If you let me direct the ship, I will take us there.”
“Make it so,” Picard consented.
Neara went back into her Weaver mode, and within a minute, the planet appeared on the screen. She turned to Data and said, “I am not certain they will be happy to see us.” She got up and stood beside Data and the navigator returned to her seat.
Picard hailed the planet, “This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise. We would like to speak to you regarding a matter of importance to two of our crew members.”
There was silence. Picard turned to Worf, “Are they receiving our transmission?”
“Yes Captain,” he confirmed.
“Our Commander Data is an android who…” Picard was interrupted.
“Did you say Data?” the voice queried.
“Yes. Lieutenant Commander Data…,” Picard was halted by the image on the screen of a man who looked like a human version of Data. Neara and Data and the rest all looked at each other in surprise.
“Well hello brother!” the man called. “I’m Altan Inigo Soong. I’m sure our father told you about me. I’m glad we finally get to meet.”
“Dr Soong did not inform me he had any biological children,” Data was bemused.
Soong laughed, “That figures. He did like to have an air of mystery. If it wasn’t to find me, what brings you to my corner of the universe?
“My wife…” Data started and was cut off.
“Your wife?!” Soong exclaimed. “I haven’t even been able to manage that. You’ll have to come down and tell me all about it.”
“Yes. We would like to talk to you,” Data accepted.
“I’ll be waiting,” and Soong signed off.
Data and Neara went down on their own. Crusher would wait to join them until they gave the go ahead. They beamed directly into Soong’s laboratory, which was jam packed with beeping, buzzing, blinking equipment. There were three non-sentient androids, seemingly oblivious to their arrival, doing various activites in the lab.
Soong smiled widely, hand outstretched to greet them, “Altan Innigo Soong. It’s a pleasure to finally meet you.” He shook Data’s hand.
“This is my wife, Neara,” Data introduced.
Soong took Neara’s hand, “I’m surprised you’re not Vulcan.” Data was again perplexed as to why everyone assumed he would be with a Vulcan. “What exactly are you, if you don’t mind me asking?” Soong questioned.
“I am Ahmriana,” Neara answered.
“So are your people enamored with logic as well?” he wondered.
Neara laughed, “No, I would not say our people are known for that!”
“No, I imagine you’re known for your beautiful eyes,” he noted. “Come, come, let’s sit,” he beckoned and took them to a set of couches and table in the corner of the room. Data looked at the other androids and Soong noticed. “I haven’t been able to create a sentient android. Haven’t gotten our father’s knack yet.”
Once seated, Data started, “You asked what brought us to you. We have a favor to ask of you, but it would require disobeying Federation regulations regarding developing Borg technology.”
“Well, if there’s one thing that’s consistent with us Soongs, it’s that none of us are rule followers. What exactly are you looking to do Data? Do you want to add a Borg feature to your system?” Soong asked.
Data took Neara’s hand, “Neara and I want to have a child together. We want to create a clone embryo of Neara and implant the brain with a quantum strand of my neural net. Then implant Neara with the embryo so she can carry the child to term.” Soong was stupefied.
“Neara has the ability to search the universe, and she used it to search for the person who could help us accomplish this,” Data continued. “And we found you. It stands to reason the person to help us would have close ties to Dr Soong. Did you work with our father?”
“Yes, early on – until he started having an affair with a doctoral student and left for Omicron Theta with her. He divorced my mother and apparently married the other woman. I stopped talking to him after he left. My mother never forgave him,” Soong explained. “I knew when he left, he was getting very close to creating a sentient android. I of course found out about you later. Regardless of how he left, I’m happy he was finally able to construct you. And I’m even happier I’m finally getting to meet you, and hopefully, help you.”
“So you will help us create our child?” Data queried.
“I’d be excited and honored to help you Data,” Soong confirmed. Neara and Data looked at each other, bursting with joy. “But first things first, I’ll need to have a look at what I’m working with – I’ll need to take a gander at your neural net.”
“Of course,” Data readily agreed. They got up and Soong led them to a chair in the center of the lab and motioned Data to sit. He went to open his cranial unit and couldn’t find the latch.
“I am sorry Altan, I will need to do that. Neara has made it so only I can allow access to my processes,” Data explained. Soong raised his eyebrows in surprise and looked at Neara. She smiled back at him while Data released the latch.
Soong brought over an electronic device on an arm which made a three dimensional scan of his head. He looked at it on a screen and focused in.
“My god!” he sighed. “What’s all this?” Neara looked over his shoulder at the weaving she had done.
“I have been working on giving him emotions,” Neara informed him. “As you know, he had none, because they made Lore unstable. I have had to be very careful, so as not to create instability. It is very delicate work.”
“You can say that again. This is remarkable – the quantum level fibers. I’ve never seen anything like it!” he marveled.
“I am going out to get some air, then I will be back to help you,” Neara said, gave Data a kiss, and walked out.
Soong was still staring at the screen, “Data, I have to warn you now – I want to steal your wife away from you. I’ve fallen in love with her. This is incredible – she’s incredible.” Data did not know what to make of Soong’s comment. He decided Soong was only joking, at least, he hoped he was only joking.
A couple minutes later, Neara came back in. “Alright, we have work to do. We must make the necessary instruments for the procedure. What do we need to make our child possible?” she asked Soong.
“We’ll need some kind of containment field to hold a quantum strand of Data’s neural net to ensure it’s stable before the transfer. And an instrument that’s able to remove and embed the strand while holding it in its quantum state. That could take months, if not years to make – if ever,” Soong said in defeat.
“Data,” Neara beckoned Data to get up. He closed his cranial unit and Neara moved Soong into the chair. She cleared a space on the table in front of them. She took three quick breaths and her eyes turned to blue ice. Soong was startled by the transformation. She placed her hand on top of his head with her other outstretched toward the table.
“Think of what you need, and I will make it,” she commanded.
Soong didn’t know how she would accomplish this, but given the quantum level work he’d seen, he had no reason to doubt her. He started thinking of the containment device, and it began forming on the table in front of him. He looked on in wonder – it was magical.
“No, no,” Neara’s eyes were closed while she built, but Soong realized she somehow knew something was wrong. “You must concentrate. You are not concentrating. Try again.” She waved her hand and the device disappeared. Soong tried again.
“Good, that is good,” Neara encouraged. After a few moments of construction she said, “No, that will not work. What is that? Here,” and the device dissipated until it was just the one piece she was questioning. Soong realized she was right – that wouldn’t work. “Try again,” she instructed, and Soong rethought the device.
Soon it was rebuilt with Neara encouraging, “Good, good,” and, “Yes, that will work.” She opened her eyes, removed her hand from Soong’s head, and with a gleeful smile said, “Perfect! Data will you move this please?” Data cleared space on the workbench behind them and carried the device over.
“Now for the second device,” and Neara placed her hand on Soong’s head. Even though the device was only to hold and embed the quantum strand, Soong thought, with Neara’s quantum abilities, he could create a more expansive device – perhaps one that worked off what a person desired, what they imagined. Their wishes creating from the quantum level up, manipulating the material universe.
He thought of this device and watched as Neara created it. He basically thought of what Neara was doing, put into a device. She was in essence creating her own abilities, distilling them down to a handheld instrument.
Neara could feel what he was doing, so she put in some safeguards. The device could only be used for smaller projects, such as the neural transfer or small repairs. She did the same with the containment field, ensuring it could only be used with one strand of neural net and only Data’s neural net. Of course, Soong would most likely deconstruct the devices, perhaps enabling him to create more powerful ones, but she did try to forestall that circumstance until hopefully he was prepared for the responsibility.
The instruments were ready, and Neara told Crusher it was time to beam down. She asked Soong if there was a place Crusher could create the clone embryo and implant Neara once it was ready. He took her to a back room where there was an inanimate android on a raised table. He had Data move it so Neara could use it for her procedure.
They returned to the lab as Crusher beamed down, medical equipment in hand. Introductions made, Neara took Crusher to the back room to start on the embryo. Data could see Neara had tired from all her creating, but she was very happy, and the joy seemed to buoy her.
Soong escorted Data back to the chair where Data opened his cranial unit for his neural net extraction. Soong excitedly held his new device, eager to see what it could do. He didn’t want to remove any of the new emotion network, but wanted to give the child a distinct part of Data. Perhaps his speed in calculations – that would be fascinating, to see how fast a biological child could compute. He maneuvered the instrument to that area of Data’s brain, thought of the child having that ability, and went to the containment device. He placed it inside, and nothing registered. He obviously had done it wrong. He’d have to try again.
He thought of the strand jumping from the instrument to the containment device. It didn’t work. He tried a few other variations, then eventually visualized snipping a quantum strand that remained attached to the instrument until he placed it in the containment device. It registered – it was finally there!
Crusher came out with medical equipment containing the embryo, keeping it in stasis. She had developed the embryo to six weeks of age, the beginning of the Ahmriana brain. Soong indicated she should place the equipment on the table beside the containment device.
He handed her the imagination instrument. “All you have to do is imagine what you want to have happen, and this device will do it,” he instructed. “But you have to be extremely clear, otherwise it won’t work.”
“OK,” Crusher acknowledged. She was nervous. She had never done anything like this before. It was a new life form she was creating. But she was also excited. If only she could let the Federation know of the incredible procedure she was about to perform. Perhaps one day… in a distant future.
She visualized taking the quantum strand and placing it in the cerebrum – in the thinking and memory areas of the brain. In her mind, she saw it fusing with the tissues. She carefully chose the placement and just as carefully thought of it fusing on the cellular, down to the quantum level. She took her time, just as she would in a surgery, to ensure she did not make a mistake. She visualized it flowing into that area, becoming a part of the very base structure. It would grow as she grew, it would learn as she learned. It would be a part of her nature and being. She was truly Data and Neara’s child.
When she felt she had given sufficient time to ensure it had fused properly, she handed the instrument back to Soong. He brought over the three dimensional scanner and ran it across the embryo. They could see on the screen what looked like a tiny silk thread snaking across the embryo’s brain area.
“Good job Doc!” Soong said and gave Crusher hearty pat on the back.
Data’s mouth was open in wonder, “Thank you Doctor.”
“Alright, I’d better get this little miracle inside of Neara,” Crusher said, and took the embryo into the back room. Data joined her.
Data held Neara’s hand and watched as Crusher implanted the embryo.
“All done,” she announced. “Neara, I want you to stay lying down for an hour. And no penetrative sex for the next two weeks. You two have gone through a lot to conceive this child, so you don’t want to do anything to risk it.” They both thanked Crusher profusely and she left the room.
Neara and Data kissed and Neara smiled broadly. “We are pregnant now Data, we are going to have our baby!” she exclaimed.
“This is wonderful,” he said with deep love in his eyes.
“I would like you to do one thing for me though. Will you give me oral pleasure please?” Neara requested.
“Are you certain that is alright to do?” Data queried.
“Yes, it will help to implant it very firmly,” she assured.
Data went about giving Neara oral sex, and when she reached climax, she let out a great universe very loudly.
Crusher and Soong were sitting on the couches in the front room sipping tea when Soong asked, “Are they having sex in there?”
“It sounds like it,” Crusher concurred. “And if they are, all I can say is, they’d better be following my instructions!”
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