Would Jesus be a follower of Islam?

[vulcanlogician]

Yea not as far as the writers history. There was no Data when Gene Rodenberry wrote the original series.

Actually, the writers are the ones responsible for them knowing each other. Spock was still alive during TNG, and the writers wrote an episode in which they met.

But even if they hadn’t physically met, it seems impossible that Data would not have known about Spock, since the later was at that time one of the most famous and widely regarded figures in the Federation.

*adjusts nerd hat*

Boru

Edit: By the by, what’s the answer to your coin question?

I think Brian's original point was good though. He just wasn't up on TNG lore.

My old roommate and I were serious Trekees. And we would get into debates about what was cannon in Trek etc. We would instinctively try to fill in plot holes any way we could. For example in "All Good Things" (great episode btw) there was a plot hole in that, Picard & company created an anomaly that grew backwards through time. However, in the episode they Picard & company go back to the anomaly which had grown forward in time in order to destroy it.

That's not really what the anomaly was supposed to do. But my roommate and I reckoned that (even though it wasn't specified) the anomaly grew both forward AND backward in time.

Very similar to the death of Judas. Two different accounts of how he died in the Bible. But Christians are just as adept at filling in those plot holes as my roommate and I were.