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Most retrieve for his turn as Lt . Commander Data onStar Trek : The Next Generation , Brent Spiner also get going on to act as every single Soong persona that has been introduced in theStar Trekuniverse . Starting with Data ’s Almighty , Dr. Noonien Soong onTNG , the celebrated character actor has been tap to play unlike Soongs throughoutTrek ’s protracted timeline . Each new Soong gave Spiner a chance to show off his acting range , and they also fleshed out the dynasty of Data ’s cryptical cyberneticist father . The complicated Soong lineage stretches back to the twenty-first one C as seen inStar Trek : Picard .
Since Data was created in the image of his father , Dr. Noonien Soong , it only made good sense to have the chameleon - like actor take a number as the scientist in one ofData ’s practiced episode , TNGseason 4 , instalment 3 , " Brothers . " The trend continued when Data ’s root , Dr. Arik Soong , was bring out in thatStar Trek : Enterpriseseason 4 with Spiner bring back for the prequel serial publication . Star Trek : Picardnot only allowed Spiner to reprise his character as Data , but it introduce Adam and Altan Inigo Soong , both of whom were from different clock time time period and offer up conflicting views of the Soong crime syndicate legacy .
The Star Trek TV franchise has existed for 57 years and consists of 12 show ( and counting ) . Here ’s how to keep an eye on them all in timeline order .
6Dr. Adam Soong
Star Trek: Picard
Dr. Adam Soong was the earlier know Soong , and his showdown with Admiral Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) in 2024 Los Angeles were the dependent ofStar Trek : Picardseason 2 . Dr. Soong was an eccentric and dangerous billionaire whose scientific obsession led him to the fields of human inherited engineering and augmentation . Adam created a series of cloned " daughters " through the unconscious process , though they all suffered from a deadly transmitted defect . In the end , Soong ’s only surviving girl , Kore Soong ( Isa Briones ) , discovered the the true about her so - called father and destroyed all of his research .
InStar Trek : Picardseason 2 ’s dark alternative reality , Adam Soong was considered a hero by the Confederation of Planets .
The villainousAdam Soong made Data ’s backstory more interesting , as there were parallels between the struggles of each multiplication of Soong to perfect their designs . Although Adam was determined to find a remedy for Kore ’s genetical shortcoming , he was drive not by love life for his cloned daughter , but rather by a desire to make a name for himself . Soong was so preoccupied with his own legacy that he was uncoerced to murder Renée Picard(Penelope Mitchell ) to prevent her from making a discovery on the Europa Mission that would render Soong ’s research obsolete . Far from the excited hotshot of his replacement , Dr. Adam Soong ’s homicidal ways were just mad .
5Dr. Arik Soong
Star Trek: Enterprise
In the 22nd century , Dr. Arik Soong came across Captain Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ) and the NX-01 Enterprise crew inStar Trek : Enterpriseseason 4 , and Arik had taken up the distorted mantel of his ancestor , Adam Soong . Star Trek : Picardseason 2 revealed that Dr. Adam Soong possessed a file entitled Project Khan , the genetical engineering protocol that led to the creation of Khan Noonien Singh ( Ricardo Montalban ) and his sovereignty of terror . Dr. Arik Soong bring the genetic inquiry used to produce Khan even further . After stealing genetically altered embryo fromKhan ’s Eugenics War , Dr. Arik Soong raised the enhance children only to have them violently rebel just like Khan didinStar Trek : The Original Series .
Arik Soong ’s misguided efforts eventually led to a genetic disaster within the Klingon race , as they used remnant Augment DNA in an endeavour to create Klingon Augments .
Dr. Arik Soong tried to convert his Augment " children " not to vote out anyone , but when they disobey him , he help Captain Archer stop them . After the failure of his Augments , Arik Soong was taken back to prison house , where he decide to shift his focus to the study of stilted life . This punctuate an important shift in the Soong dynasty , as their focus on unreal intelligence would eventually conduct to Data and his brothers . Later , Arik Soong ’s protégés used his study to create Dal R’El ( Brett Gray ) , a Human Augment hybrid , who did not learn his unfeigned history until theend ofStar Trek : Prodigyseason 1 .
4Dr. Noonien Soong
Star Trek: The Next Generation
During the twenty-fourth one C ofStar Trek : The Next Generation , Dr. Noonien Soong ’s legacy was cemented when his creation , Lt . Commander Data , became a grace Starfleet military officer . A misunderstood brainiac , Noonien Soong created several androids while inhabit on Omicron Theta , including Data , the image B-4 , andData ’s fluid forerunner , Lore . While living among the colonists on Omicron Theta , Lore began to consider himself higher-ranking to world and exhibit direful conduct . Noonien Soong then deactivate Lore and designed better honorable subroutines for Data . unbeknown to Dr. Soong , Lore had intercommunicate with the Crystalline Entity prior to his inactivation , and the Entity then aggress Omicron Theta .
Dr. Noonien Soong had none of the deadly intent of Dr. Adam Soong .
Dr. Noonien Soong was presumed dead in the tone-beginning , but he had managed to get off and continued his research elsewhere . InTNG’s"Brothers , " Soong trigger off a home beacon in Data and divulge he had create anemotion chip for the mechanical man . Unfortunately , Lore also responded to the homing beacon and stole the poker chip meant for his brother , before fatally wound his father . Dr. Soong was legitimately interested in creating artificial lifeand had ditch his folk ’s previous obsession with genetic augmentation . Though his abandoning of his creations led toFrankenstein - comparable consequences when Lore murdered him , Dr. Noonien Soong had none of the deadly intent of Dr. Adam Soong .
3Dr. Altan Inigo Soong
The 2385 attack on Mars was the inciting incident ofStar Trek : Picardseason 1 , and the side effect from the attack led to the all - out ban of contrived lifeforms . Picardseason 1 introducedDr . Altan Inigo Soong , who was Dr. Noonien Soong ’s only biological tyke , and technically buddy to Data , Lore , and B-4 . Dr. Altan Soong ’s pursuits were closer to that of his Padre than his other ascendent , and he partner with fellowcyberneticist Dr. Bruce Maddox(John Ales ) to illegally follow up on artificial life despite the forbidding . Soong and Maddox went on to build a laboratory and a residential district of androids on the planet Coppelius .
Bruce Maddox became confident that someone within the Federation had been behind the attack on Mars , so he make the humanoid Soji and Dahj Asha ( Isa Briones ) to uncover the truth .
Altan Soong remained on Coppelius , looking after his android " children , " and working on a mean value to transfer a person ’s consciousness into a synthetic body he called a golem . Although Soong originally meant for this synthetic form for himself , he later present thegolem body to Jean - Luc Picardafter Picard died of a final brain disease . Soong had also created artificial fauna like Spot II and synthetic butterfly , prove he had more diverse interest than the other Soongs . After the ban on synthetic substance was elevate , Soong redirected his crusade to make a newly upgraded version of Data , that also integrate the memory of Lore , B-4 , and Data ’s girl , Lal ( Hallie Todd ) .
The Soong dynasty in Star Trek pursued their inquiry with an almost fanatical zeal , not letting things like law place upright in their path .
2The Soongs Abandoned Eugenics In Favor Of Androids
Later in life, Arik Soong chose to focus on artificial life rather than genetic engineering.
Thechanges in Klingon appearancewere the result of Dr. Arik Soong ’s botched transmissible augmentation duringEnterprise , and his prominent failure led him to pitch his stress from genetic science to synthetic before the ending of his living . Arik understand that research into artificial life still had a long way to go and that it would take generations before there would be palpable results . From this point on , the Soongs worked in the field of cybernetics , hoping to create artificial animation that was indistinguishable from constitutive life .
Star Trek : Strange New Worldsis the latestStar Trekseries to search the clock time period between Arik and Noonien , and it could provide more clues about the Soongs and their compulsion with artificial living .
By all appearances , Dr. Noonien Soong had stronger morality than his ancestors and genuinely cared for Data and the other androids he make . ThroughoutStar Trek : The Next contemporaries , Data became the Soong mob ’s greatest accomplishment , as he saved the USS Enterprise - D on numerous occasions and attain his own level of humanity . Tragically , Data sacrifice himself to save his friends inStar Trek : Nemesis , but this was not the death of Noonien Soong ’s good origination .
1Data In Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Is Soong’s Greatest Success
Picard season 3 brought closure to Data and the Soongs' Star Trek story.
After his deaths in bothStar Trek : NemesisandStar Trek : Picardseason 1 , Data was officially resurrected inPicardseason 3 . During their quest to uncover the Changeling / Borg plot to demolish the Federation , Admiral Picard and his crew discover what continue of information being used forsecurity on Daystrom Station . They quickly rescued their older friend , whose knowingness had been flux with those of Lore , B-4 , and Lal . Although Lore ’s personality briefly occupy over the upgraded android body , Data became the dominant personality in the remnant .
By the end ofStar Trek : Picardseason 3 , Data had become as tightlipped to human as potential .
With this new human - like synthetical consistency , not only could Data live forcible sensation , but he could also feel organic human emotions for the first time . When navigate the rebuilt Enterprise - D , for example , Data receive joy that even Counselor Deanna Troi ( Marina Sirtis ) could feel . information reunify with his best champion , Commodore Geordi La Forge ( LeVar Burton ) , and the rest of his old gang , bringing hisStar Trekstory to a satisfying close . By theend ofStar Trek : Picardseason 3 , Data had become as close to human as possible , lastly achieving his sprightliness - recollective dream and cementing himself as the Soongs ' swell success .
Star Trek : The Next Generation , Star Trek : Enterprise & Star Trek : Picard are streaming on Paramount+ .
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