History Literature / StarTrekImmortalCoil

** Much, around Vaslovik. For starters, the fact he's an old man in the Soong flashbacks, which were ''decades'' before the main story, and yet is still around and active during the modern parts, something a little suspicious even with the longer ages of people in ''Star Trek'', especially considering that Graves and Soong, who were much younger than Vaslovik appeared to be, have both died as old men in the intervening years. Also, the fact he doesn't like Starfleet captains (especially gung-ho types).

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In a variation, Vaslovik is generally not fond of Starfleet and Starfleet captains in particular, but he's willing to give Picard some benefit of the doubt because Picard defended Data in "The Measure of a Man".

** Much, around Vaslovik. For starters, the fact he's an old man in the Soong flashbacks, which were ''decades'' before the main story, and yet is still around and active during the modern parts, something a little suspicious even with the longer ages of people in ''Star Trek'', especially considering that Graves and Soong, who were much younger than he appeared to be, are both dead. Also, the fact he doesn't like Starfleet captains (especially gung-ho types).

* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe, while not known to the general public, among roboticists, Daystrom's M-5 has roughly the same reputation as Frankenstein's Creature.
** Also in-universe, the ship gets into a battle while Troi has the bridge. La Forge's first comment after she briefs him? "I was worried you were [[Film/StarTrekGenerations steering us into a planet]] again." Troi's reaction even {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s it; she immediately thinks to herself, ''I guess I'm never going to live that one down.''

* SummonBiggerFish: The ''Enterprise'' and a space station owned by the immortal Flint come under attack by rogue androids trying to capture a sophisticated prototype android. Luckily for Picard and company, Flint has spent the last century or so collecting other artificial life-forms and AIs, including Richard Daystrom's M-5 computer. Data plugs the M-5 into the station's weapons array, and turns it loose to engage in its primary objective - survival. It mops the floor with the android fleet.

* CameBackWrong: It was already implied in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", but ''Immortal Coil'' confirms that the transfer of Korby's consciousness was imperfect, causing the android to exhibit different traits than the human Korby.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: [=McAdams=] suggests that maybe what allowed Data and Lore to work where other androids haven't was either luck or some desire for them to work. Data asks if that means he didn't want Lal to live.

** Picard thinks, seeing Data's reaction to grief, about the moment in "First Contact" when he told him to turn off his emotion chip, feeling that, though it was justified because he was unnerving everyone else, it probably was not a good thing for Data himself. Shortly after in the conversation, he thinks about their talk in ''Generations'' in the Enterprise-D's stellar cartography section.

** Also in-universe, the ship gets into a battle while Troi has the bridge. La Forge's first comment after she briefs him? "I was worried you were [[Film/StarTrekGenerations steering us into a planet]] again."

** Much, around Vaslovik. For starters, the fact he's an old man in the Soong flashbacks, which were ''decades'' before the main story, and yet is still around and active during the modern parts, something a little suspicious even with the longer ages of people in ''Star Trek''. Also, the fact he doesn't like Starfleet captains (especially gung-ho types).

* TheFogOfAges: Ruk had been waiting fifty-thousand years for someone to show up on Exo-III, and Ruk wasn't exactly a genius to begin with, so he's started to forget an awful lot by the time Roger Korby's ship crash-landed on his doorstep.
* ForegoneConclusion: Watching the memories of Soon, Data momentarily gets so caught up in the experience he forgets that Soong, Graves and Vaslovik get out safely.

** Picard thinks, seeing Data's reaction to grief, about the moment in "First Contact" when he told him to turn off his emotion chip, feeling like it was a jerk move (if justified because he was unnerving everyone else). Shortly after in the conversation, he thinks about their talk in ''Generations'' in the Enterprise-D's stellar cartography section.

* RobotPsychopath: [[spoiler:The Exo-III androids wanted to be able to grow, but they're also completely, hopelessly, psychopathically ''angry'' at everything. Data and Rhea agree that helping them become more intelligent would not be a good idea.]]

* KilledOffForReal: Lore's brain was destroyed in the crash of the Enterprise-D, because Data had set up a security system designed to prevent anyone from stealing it, and the crash set it off.

** Riker and Picard discuss the events of "Measure of a Man". Riker's still feeling lousy about having to play prosecution against Data.

A novel in the Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse, written by Jeffery Lang.

* FogOfAges: Ruk had been waiting fifty-thousand years for someone to show up on Exo-III, and Ruk wasn't exactly a genius to begin with, so he's started to forget an awful lot by the time Roger Korby's ship crash-landed on his doorstep.

* RoboticPsycopath: [[spoiler:The Exo-III androids wanted to be able to grow, but they're also completely, hopelessly, psychopathically ''angry'' at everything. Data and Rhea agree that helping them become more intelligent would not be a good idea.]]

** Among the artifacts in the robot collection is Norman, who is noted to still have the expression he had when Kirk and Mudd fried his brains.

* GrowBeyondTheirProgramming: Data has finally managed to grasp intuition.

* GrownBeyondTheirProgramming: Data has finally managed to grasp intuition.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: The Juliana Tainer android]].

* HiddenInPlainSight: How do you disguise an advanced prototype android with a sophisticated AI that everyone and their brother is looking for? Why you just [[spoiler: give it a fake Starfleet record and stick it on the Federation flagship as its Chief of Security, of course!]]

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler: Rhea [=McAdams=]]].

--> '''Data:''' Under the circumstances, it seemed like our best chance to stop the androids.
--> '''[=McAdams=]:''' Yeah, not to mention our best chance to get killed in the process. You know that M-5 is crazy, don't you?

* TheBusCameBack: Bruce Maddox reappears, and he's [[TookALevelInKindness gotten slightly nicer in the interim]].

* IncrediblyLameFun: Ruk spent most of his time alone on the planet picking up two rocks of similar structure, one in each hand, and seeing which hand would successfully crush the rock first. Thousands of times...

* LudicrousPrecision: ...which he has been keeping a very precise count of.

* KilledOffForReal: Lore's body was destroyed in the crash of the Enterprise-D, because Data had set up a security system designed to prevent anyone from stealing it, and the crash set it off.