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Data's Journey
By : K_nz
Category: Star Trek > The Next Generation
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[Author’s note: In my version, only Soji and Dahj are Data’s children and they have emotions. The rest are sentient androids created by Soong.]
After the release ritual, Tala requested Uncle Will take her, Soola, and her father to the closest Ahmrian portal planet. She wanted to take her father to Ahmria to cremate him and imbue the planet with his essence.
Once on Ahmria, she contacted her uncle Altan to inform him of his brother’s death. Altan asked if he could have Data’s body to better help him with his work on androids. He thought closer study would allow him to create a sentient one – hopefully many.
Tala wasn’t certain how much help her father’s body could be, given his extensive damage. But she knew her father was a good and helpful being, so he would have wanted to be of use, if possible. So she brought her father to Altan’s planet, Coppelius. Altan was in hiding after the tribunal and was now even more paranoid after the incident on Mars and the resulting ban on artificial life forms. Because of this, only Tala’s immediate family was ever made privy to his location.
When Tala’s mother was alive, she had made a doorway to Coppelius in case there was an emergency with Tala, or if Altan needed to make a hasty retreat to Ahmria. Tala went to Dessa and easily intoned the correct vibration to open the specific portal and took her father over. She only asked that Uncle Altan let her know when he was finished with her father’s body so she could cremate him on Ahmria.
After two years, she collected him. She was surprised to see Uncle Altan had created many sentient androids over that time. She knew this would have pleased her father – his contribution had made a difference. And now, to Tala’s great joy and relief, she finally had others who could understand the android part of her nature.

It had been five years since Data’s death, and here Picard sat, in this quantum state, staring into Data’s strange and beautiful face.
“Am I dead?” he asked Data.
“Yes,” Data answered. “But doctors Soong and Jurati scanned, mapped, and transferred a complete neural image of your brain substrates into a golem. They extracted a single firing neuron from you before your brain functions ceased and placed it into the quantum device with me. They will then place it into the golem, bringing you back to life as an artificial life form.”
“Will that really work?” Picard questioned.
“Altan has not performed this procedure before, but he hopes it will work. I know it will work,” Data affirmed. “Altan approaches the problem from a mechanistic viewpoint, so he only partially understands the process. He sees your one firing neuron as a sort of defibrillator for the brain, that will induce your positronic neurons to respond in kind. Having an Ahmriana wife and living with Ahmriana has taught me much about the vibratory nature of the universe. Your neuron is vibrating with a specific frequency. Once it is brought into contact with the neural net of your golem, its vibration will transfer to the positronic neuron beside it, then that one will transfer it to the next and so on until the vibration is throughout your neural net. This will create a signal that will draw your dimensional energy being to it. Right now, it is drawn to the vibration of your single neuron, and that is why you have not yet moved on to the After. Once Altan completes the procedure, you will be alive as an artificial life form.”
“How come you’re not alive again? If we’re here together in this quantum device, surely your vibration could transfer to a new artificial life form?” Picard wondered.
“When conceiving Tala, Neara helped Altan to create this quantum device. She made it to house one quantum strand of my neural net and only for reproduction. Seeing as you are here, he has obviously managed to alter it to house more,” Data mused. He continued, “After my death, Tala brought my body to Altan to help with his research. He quickly found an undenatured quantum strand of my neural net which he placed in the quantum device. My body, even in its battered state, helped him glean enough information to create sentient androids. Altan was uncertain how to proceed with my quantum strand since he knew it had to be used in reproduction only or the procedure would not work. Then Bruce Maddox came and performed fractal neuronic cloning, cleverly creating twins so the one strand was used to full benefit. They left one single quantum particle in hopes they would be able to use it in the future.”
“So I’ll be leaving you,” Picard said.
“Yes, but before you go, I would like to ask a favor,” Data requested. “Would you please have Altan destroy my quantum particle?
“You want to die?” Picard asked.
“It is not that, exactly…,” Data explained. “This quantum device is creating a sort of limbo for my dimensional energy being. I am already dead and was on my way to the After with Neara, but when Altan found the strand and placed it in this device, I was pulled back to the Now. This single quantum particle continues to anchor me here. I need the signal to be turned off so I can leave with Neara. She has been waiting all this time to escort me to the After.”
“If there’s a way, wouldn’t you like to speak with Tala once more before you go?” Picard questioned.
“Although Altan could modify the device so I could speak through it, I do not believe that would be wise. I think it would bring Tala more pain if she heard from me. She would have a difficult time letting me go. It would be losing me twice – I could not put her through that,” Data reasoned.
“That’s understandable,” Picard agreed.
“Please introduce her to Soji,” Data entreated. “Tala always wanted a sibling. She will be overjoyed to know she now has one.”
“Of course,” Picard affirmed.
“Please know I have had a most wondrous life Captain, and I thank you for the love and support you have given me and my family. I had no idea my life would turn out to be so full – I am grateful to have had this experience in the Now. All this time I have felt Neara’s pull and have longed to be with her. I am relieved I will finally be able to follow her to the next plane of existence,” Data confided.
Picard got up to go. “Goodbye, my friend,” he said with earnest warmth.
Data nodded and smiled his slight smile, “Goodbye, Jean-Luc.”
Picard was moved. It was the first, and the last time Data used his name.
Data was alone and readied himself for his release from his quantum state. He lay on the couch and listened to Neara and his song, “Magic.” Even though, all this time, he could feel her there, he still missed her. It was as if he was stretching to reach her, but she was still too far away. He would be glad to be in her presence again.
As the device shut down, Neara’s presence grew stronger, until he could see her standing beside him. With a beaming smile, she took his hand and he floated from the couch and their quantum forms dissipated into the After.

Tala was surprised to receive an unexpected call from her uncle Jean. They had kept in touch, but he had become reclusive after the Mars incident and even more so after her father’s death on Trarous. Normally she had to initiate contact. She was happy he had reached out.
In a cryptic fashion, more reminiscent of Guinan, he told her he had somebody he wanted her to meet. He needed her to come to Coppelius. Tala was surprised Uncle Jean knew of it. What was happening? Uncle Jean said he would explain everything once she got there.
Tala and Soola took the Earth portal to Dessa, then Ahmria, where she left Soola with her family. Then she went to back to Dessa to Coppelius.
She walked into the compound and was greeted by scores of sentient androids she already knew, and some new ones. It always made her happy to be around her android friends. They had a childlike simplicity to their nature and were very sweet and kind. Uncle Altan had done well.
He came out and gave her a bear hug, “Ah, my favorite niece!”
“I’m your only niece, Uncle Altan,” Tala said in exasperation. “That joke just never gets old.”
“Unlike me. Come in, come in,” he ushered.
Uncle Jean was inside and they hugged and he gave her a kiss on each cheek. Not even an Ahmrian greeting – he had been in France too long.
“There’s someone I want you to meet, but first, I need to explain some things to you,” Picard stated. They went and sat down.
He informed Tala he had died on Coppelius and his being was transferred into an artificial life form. Tala was amazed at how far Uncle Altan’s research had come. Picard continued to explain that before the transfer, he was placed in a quantum device with Data. He related their conversation, ending with Data’s final release to the After.
“I didn’t know – I thought I was being helpful, bringing Dad’s body here. I feel terrible he was trapped all that time,” Tala fretted.
“I feel worse. I did it to him,” Soong lamented.
“Neither one of you knew, and he wasn’t upset with either of you,” Picard noted.
“Still, I wish I could tell him I’m sorry, and I miss him,” Tala said heavyheartedly.
“Your father thought it would be best if he was released from the quantum device without speaking to you. He thought it would be difficult for you to let him go. It would feel like losing him twice,” Picard elucidated.
“He was right, of course,” Tala welled up. “I wouldn’t have wanted to let him go. I would have wanted Uncle Altan to try and bring him back. But I’m glad he’s with Mom now.”
Picard went on to explain how he met Dahj and the sequence of events that lead him to Soji and then to Coppelius.
“So I have a sister?” Tala asked in wonder.
“Yes,” Picard affirmed. “Would you like to meet her?”
“Of course – I’d love to!” Tala said in breathless excitement.
Soji came hesitantly around the corner and Tala stood up.
“Soji Asha, this is your sister, Tala Na Soonga,” Picard introduced.
Tala smiled brightly and Soji stared, her mouth slightly open, a look of awe on her face.
“I love you,” she said to Tala. Tala laughed and came over and gave her the Ahmrian greeting followed by a big hug.
She stepped back, and Soji was still looking at her with that same expression.
“I don’t understand. I don’t even know you, but I feel like I want to make love to you, and I feel protective and nurturing at the same time. It’s very confusing,” Soji admitted.
“That must be a residual impression from your father’s neural net implant,” Soong surmised.
Tala smiled understandingly, “I’m a clone of my mother, so we look exactly alike. Obviously my dad would want to make love to my mother and would feel protective and nurturing towards me.
“So… Asha. Ahmrian for ‘seed.’ Were you using the Ahmrian word Uncle Altan?”
“Yes, I thought it was fitting,” Soong explained, “given the twins were from Data’s seed, as it were. And Ahmrian as an homage to your mother. You know I wanted to steal her away from your father, but she wasn’t having any of it. She only had eyes for him.”
Picard and Soong left the two women to talk. After a time, Soong came back in.
“Just a suggestion here, but I’ve really improved my technique of memory extraction, as evidenced by Picard,” Soong stated. “If you’d like, Tala, I could try extracting your memories so you could share them with Soji. Given your neural net, they should be really clear.”
“I think that’d be great, Uncle Altan!” Tala enthused. “Would you like that Soji?”
“Sure, it’d be interesting to see your memories,” Soji agreed.
Tala sat at the laboratory table and Soong placed a device over her head to perform the extraction. As Soong surmised, he was able to make perfectly clear copies of Tala’s memories. He hooked Soji up to the machine so she could look through them.
Tala stayed hooked to the machine and scrolled through the memories to different times and explained things to Soji. Soji really felt as if the memories were her own. She felt Data was truly her father, and Neara truly her mother. It was remarkable. She let Tala know this.
“I’m glad they feel like your memories. You deserve to know our Dad, and Mom would have loved you as her child. She did want to have more children with Dad, but she died before that could happen,” Tala imparted.
“I see that,” Soji said, and a tear ran down her cheek.
“Yeah, I don’t like to look through that time. It hurts too much,” Tala shared. “But there are plenty of times I do like. See this one?” and she scrolled through to watching Neara and Data’s wedding video. “I love their ceremonies.”
Soji ran through the memory and smiled.
Tala guided Soji through several other memories… being born and her Dad’s awestruck face, her as a baby with Dad singing “Soo Nah See,” Mom nursing her, Mom floating her and dancing as a family, doing the Riaka with her parents, Mom constructing her protective sphere, speed competitions with her Dad – there was so much love and joy in her life. She was grateful she had such amazing parents.
“And now you have amazing parents too,” Tala informed Soji.
“I wish I could have met them in person,” Soji said longingly.
“Me too,” Tala agreed. “Then I would have had somebody to share this with,” and she scolled through to another memory. “See, there’s Mom sniffing on Dad’s head,” and in the memory Data was sitting on the couch with Neara leaning over the back giving him a kiss on the top of his head. “I don’t think he ever noticed, but she would sniff on us all the time. I think she had a fetish!” she laughed.
Tala kept scrolling through to different times her mother was sniffing on their hair, or their necks, or their hands, and Soji started to laugh.
“I think you’re right!” she agreed.
The two women had a wonderful time looking through the memories. Soji really felt she had a father, a mother, a sister… a family.
Tala invited her to come to Ahmria and meet her niece Soola and get to know the rest of her new relatives.
They bid Picard, Soong, and the androids goodbye, and Soji and Tala went hand-in-hand through the portal taking Soji to meet her people.
Her family.
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Data's Journey	By : K_nz Category: Star Trek > The Next Generation Views: 1351 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Data's Journey