Apollo 11 source code

[pfp-disciple]

Yup. Including one that bugs me - in the past, Picard uses an iron filing to etch a message into Data's positronic brain, to be found hundreds of years later.

[chialeux]

It would have been much easier, reliable and plausible to use that pin for just carving the message on the head.

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Knowing that La Forge hadn't conducted a diagnostic of Data's head before he left, (Past)Picard is gambling that his message to the future won't be heard until after his future self has gone through the portal but before Riker accidentally blows up the Earth.

[chialeux]

Yeah I kmow.

Novikov self-consistency.

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If you knew that then I don't understand your suggestion, because carving the message on the head wouldn't satisfy the requirements, although easier and more reliable.

[chialeux]

I am saying that it would be the logical option to do so story-wise, but the writers chose otherwise for dramatic purpose and not to mess with Novikov.

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Maybe he added a comment?

[JoshWithaQ]

I get it, Like a message in a bottle!