Immortal Coil
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Immortal Coil is a Star Trek: The Next Generation
novel
written by Jeffrey Lang, published by Pocket Books
in February 2002.
is destroyed, Lieutenant Commander Data helps investigate the incident and who is responsible. During the course of his search he discovers he is not as unique as he once believed.
During the run of the original Star Trek
series many other robots and androids were seen, yet Data is often referred to as the only android in existence during the time of Star Trek: The Next Generation
. Immortal Coil explains what happened to those other robots and androids, and how Data fits into their histories. The story references several previously-seen artificial intelligences and characters:
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
written by Jeffrey Lang, published by Pocket Books
Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.- History :Pocket produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in America in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry...
in February 2002.
Story
When a newly-developed android developed by StarfleetStarfleet
In the fictional universe of Star Trek, Starfleet or the Federation Starfleet is the deep-space exploratory, peacekeeping and military service maintained by the United Federation of Planets . It is the principal means by which the Federation conducts its exploration, defense, diplomacy and research...
is destroyed, Lieutenant Commander Data helps investigate the incident and who is responsible. During the course of his search he discovers he is not as unique as he once believed.
During the run of the original Star Trek
Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
series many other robots and androids were seen, yet Data is often referred to as the only android in existence during the time of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...
. Immortal Coil explains what happened to those other robots and androids, and how Data fits into their histories. The story references several previously-seen artificial intelligences and characters:
- Exocomps from the TNG episode "The Quality of Life"
- Androids from the TOS episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
- The M5 computer from the TOS episode "The Ultimate Computer"
- Flint and Reyna from the TOS episode "Requiem for Methuselah"
- Doctor Ira Graves from the TNG episode "The Schizoid Man"
- Commander Bruce Maddox from the TNG episode "The Measure of a Man"
- Dr. Noonien Soong, Data's creator, first seen in the TNG episode "Brothers"