Time's Arrow story
A 500-year-old artifact is uncovered on Earth: Data 's severed head. The Enterprise investigates alien involvement in Earth's past and Data fulfills his destiny.
12 total · 3 choice · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI point of view | choice | Data :: Data was complacent about finding out he will die |
| android | choice | Data, Soong Type Android :: Data |
| time travel | choice | crew travel back to 19th century San Francisco |
| coping with mortality | minor | Data :: Data |
| duty vs. friendship | minor | they initially put duty before saving Data but then rationalize going after him anyway somehow |
| facing death | minor | Data took comfort in the supposed fact that he would travel back in time to the 19th century to his death. |
| future point of view | minor | Data to 19th century folk |
| humanity's place in the universe | minor | Mark Twain explained how earth is the only place in the universe capable of supporting life. |
| life force draining being | minor | Devidian :: Devidians |
| one cannot cheat fate | minor | After having discovered his own severed head, Data considered that he was destined to die and thus reminded Picard that “one cannot cheat fate”. |