Good point. I’ve actually never seen Goonies, but the Astin-Quan Goonies connection occurred to me while watching, then I forgot about it while writing. Sounds like a reworked version of this could have been a route to a legacy sequel if the masses or shareholders demanded it.

Goonies 2 won’t happen and it should not happen, but if it were, Data growing up to be a reformed supervillain isn’t the worst prompt. Maybe they ought to have done that.