Star trek data creator10/19/2023 From Lore to Data’s father Noonian, and now, Altan, most of the Soong boys are devious and withholding. Overwhelmingly, the most honest person in Data’s family was Data himself. That said, if you’re upset about the fact we’ve never heard of Altan before now, then you should really consider that the backstory of Noonian Soong basically makes zero sense, and mostly involves hiding on planets by himself doing nothing. But having a nearly inexplicable, and backstory is the real kicker. Building androids in secre is the obvious one. Altan Soong is carrying on more than one family tradition. So, like all the mysterious mad scientists before him, Dr. But then again, in the TNG episode “Brothers” it was very unclear what Noonian Soong had been doing for roughly three decades since fleeing Omicron Theta and leaving Data, Lore and B-4 behind. Either way, the question of what Altan was doing with the vast majority of his life during the time of The Next Generation and the intervening years leading up to Picard may never be answered. That said, Altan does imply he and Bruce worked together a little bit before the Synth Ban, which again, suggests that even if Jurati didn’t know about Altan specifically, she may have known Bruce had another partner. She seems surprised by what he’s working on, but one thing we don’t know is just how long Altan has been in hiding prior to linking up with Bruce Maddox after the Synth Ban. Star Trek: Picard Episode 9 Review: Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1 By Kayti Burtĭid Jurati know about the existence of Altan before this episode? That’s not entirely clear. Maddox was actually referring to Altan Soong, not Noonian. At the time, we all assumed he was referring metaphorically, since Noonian Soong was Data’s creator, and that was template for these new androids. In episode 5, “Stardust City Rag,” Bruce Maddox mentioned “Soong,” when he talked about his collaborators in making Dahj and Soji. Interestingly enough, the existence of a new member of the Soong family was already teased out in an earlier episode of Star Trek: Picard we just all missed it. Altan Soong is also creating androids in hiding. Now, in 2399, history is repeating itself. (Who, while she was still human, could have been Altan’s biological mother, but that’s just a guess.) Later, we learned that Noonian had made one more android a synthetic duplicate of his wife Julianna. Noonian Soong was already a legend who had gone into hiding after being presumed dead. By the time of The Next Generation (2360s-2370s), Dr. That episode takes place in 2154, which means, clearly, it took a few centuries (2330s!) for the Soong family of mad scientists to start producing androids. Arik Soong (also played by Brent Spiner) claims he’ll start working with cybernetics instead. In the Enterprise episode, “The Augments,” after failing in his work to create “superior” genetically engineered humans, Dr. In fact, the prequel series Enterprise establishes outright, that Noonian Soong came from a long line of geneticists, who later became cyberneticists. Soong pursued the same line of work as his father, Noonian Soong, it’s actually not that weird. But when was Altan born? One good guess would be sometime in the 2320s, which would make him a little younger than Picard, which would dovetail with the real ages of Brent Spiner (71) and Patrick Stewart (79) respectively. Data was “activated” in 2338, after an attack on the Omicron Theta colony, but he (along with Lore and B-4) were created sometime before that. Weirdly enough, it’s actually a little tough to figure out exactly how old Altan is, and whether or not Data had actual memories of him. For longtime fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation, seeing a human “relative” of Data is pretty weird, if only because we were never aware that Data’s creator had any human offspring. Jurati that he’s more focused on the bodies of androids than the minds. Like his father, Altan is a cyberneticist, though, he later tells Dr. Noonian Soong the reclusive scientist who built Data. When Picard and the rag-tag crew of the La Sirena make it to the planet Coppelius in Picard episode 9, they meet not only a huge group of androids, but also, a human named Altan Inigo Soong, who claims to be the biological son of Dr. Soong? There’s actually more than one answer… In its latest twist, Star Trek: Picard has brought back a familiar name to its complicated canon. Data was not brought back to life, and now, it appears, Spiner’s other involvement in the series isn’t at all what we expected. And, it turns out, we were all totally wrong about every single theory. This article contains major Star Trek: Picard spoilers.Īlthough fans knew Brent Spiner would be appearing in the first season of Star Trek: Picard, nobody ever really knew exactly how all of that would work.
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