Data vs Cardassians
This story follows the happenings of Nemesis and this is a sequel of "The Return of Data"
Chapter 1
Data was very happy with Cindy. His life seemed to be "complete" now…He had been promoted to the First Officer of the most important ship of the Federation, the Enterprise, but he had also the love of his wife, Cindy, and of his brother, B-4. Captain Picard, Geordi La Forge and Dr Beverly Crusher were still his friends. But nobody could imagine that an enemy could threat this idyllic situation….
Captain Picard entered into the bridge and smiled to the presents. He saw Data and Cindy sitting together on the seats reserved for the Captain and for the Counsellor. Cindy seemed to have forgotten the strict rules of the behaviour of the officers on the bridge.
- "Good morning, Data! Cindy, I think that you are requested in the school now, because the lessons begin in 5 minutes…"- Picard said with a gentle smile…Cindy replied: - "Good morning, Captain! Sorry, excuse me…I was speaking with my husband about a private question…We were thinking about the possibility of adopting a child, sir." – Picard opened his eyes. – "A child? Oh, it is a beautiful thing! You should listen to your wife, Data! You could be a great father, indeed!" - Picard said gently, but in fact he wanted that Cindy would return to her class as soon as possible. Cindy understood the intention of the Captain, but Data didn't. – "Really, Captain? I think that the androids could not adopt an human child… It should be denied by Starfleet's rules…"- Data said seriously. – "Oh, Data, but the rules are made to be broken, earlier or later…."- Picard answered sitting on his chair. – "Yes, you could be right, Captain…"- Data answered calmly.
Cindy was really thinking about the possibility of adopting a child. She wanted to adopt a little girl, with blond hair and blue eyes, but Data wanted to have a boy, with dark hair and blue eyes. He was persuaded that in the dynasty of Dr Soong was born at least a boy for each generation, therefore he should maintain the tradition. But Cindy was born in a family with a lot of girls and wanted to have a little baby which was similar to her. Dr Bloom spoke about the possibility of creating an artificial DNA which could be similar to that of Dr Soong in order to give to the couple the possibility to have a natural baby…But there were a lot of risks and he should study the problem more accurately.
At the evening Cindy was used to show to her husband the photos of several boys and girls in order to choose one, but Data found always a defect in everybody. He fixed her beautiful eyes and she began to leave her uniform gently and softly…and then they get into their bed and they rapidly forgot this question…