Spoilers Brent Spiner in Star Trek Picard
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it's noonian in an android body. he just pulled an ira graves right before he died.Because of spoiler policy couldn't put the name of character in the title. Will do it in this poll.
So, another great performance by Brent Spiner. But who was this character he was playing, Dr.
Altan Inigo Soong. Someone who he actually claimed, or something/something else?
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And yes, biased poll is biased
1. I think Spiner having a role on the show was a given, especially with this storyline and plot. We've already seen him reprising Data (in dreams) in the first couple episodes.
2. Bringing back Data, while probably a popular enough move with the fandom, totally nerfs his sacrifice and story-arc in Nemesis. Besides, if they wanted a way to bring him back, the books did it better.
3. Spiner is getting old too, and probably doesn't want to deal with hours in the makeup chair, so this was a compromise solution. Although, I'm sort of also tired of another flesh and blood 'Soong' showing up, being played by Spiner.
2. Bringing back Data, while probably a popular enough move with the fandom, totally nerfs his sacrifice and story-arc in Nemesis. Besides, if they wanted a way to bring him back, the books did it better.
3. Spiner is getting old too, and probably doesn't want to deal with hours in the makeup chair, so this was a compromise solution. Although, I'm sort of also tired of another flesh and blood 'Soong' showing up, being played by Spiner.
I gather a descendant of Arik Soong would be able to customize even an otherwise naturally born kid to his spitting image if and when he so desired. I wonder if this isn't part of mankind's heavy genetic engineering taboo, much more so than any latent fear of supermen...
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
Regarding Spiner's aversion to makeup standing in the way of a permanent return of Data, they could have gone the organic android route, with Maddox using fractal neuronic cloning to create a new, flesh-and-blood Data. I half expected NuData to be what Picard and co. would find on the synth planet, but instead we got another Soong. I'm not sure which option I prefer, but I'm definitely anxious to see how it all shakes out.
Bejazzle
Kirk really isn't really as big a player as everyone thinks.
Bio son. It doesn’t matter who his mother is unless it’s relevant to the story.
On a special Mother's Day episode of Star Trek: Picard...
I think it'll be revealed that he's also a synth, a humanoid-looking one similar to Dahj & Soji.
And most likely being created from Lore's matrix - since there's only a small portion of Data's fragment left, while Lore has a plenty since he used to be stuffed in a drawer at Daystorm. Maddox took him when he ran away after the synth attack
Or June Wheeler
My name is Inigo Soong. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
The Dread Pirate Rios
Noonien's second wife matters if she imparted information to her son that his father did not know.
I agree that bringing Data back nerfs his sacrifice, but how did the books do it better if it was never actually done on screen?
He's his son. That way Brent can get older and not wear makeup.
Trek has pulled family members out of nowhere from the beginning.
I think Spock telling Kirk that Ambassador Sarek was his father was the first use of this "plot twist".
I think "Data" type synths will now become common in Star Trek story telling from this point on.
Trek has pulled family members out of nowhere from the beginning.
I think Spock telling Kirk that Ambassador Sarek was his father was the first use of this "plot twist".
I think "Data" type synths will now become common in Star Trek story telling from this point on.
Does it seem if he takes after Arik versus Noonian in behavior?
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