Other Androids

[Nerys Myk]

I do wonder whatever happened to the various androids models from TOS and what influence if any they made have had on Soong family's or Maddox's research. I mean the golem tech seems derivative of the stuff from Exo III and Sargon's people, transferring or copying consciousness into an android body. The Andromedan androids seem like an intermediate step between basic non-sentient androids seen at Utopia Planetia and Soong-type androids. Also, wouldn't those Andromedan androids still be active in the 24th century? As the last living representatives of an extinct civilization, I would think that would entitle them to some sort of protection.

I think there was a novel that had N. Soong looking into previous android technology.

 

[Orphalesion]

I think there was a novel that had N. Soong looking into previous android technology.

There's some novel for everything in Trek. And their solutions are often very unsatisfactory and often just don't feel right for the TV continuity(imo).

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

From an audience perspective, it would've been confusing if Data (or anyone) were talking to a fellow android like a replicator or some other piece of technology, no matter how well it was explained in-show.

Of course, when they did introduce smart machines - like the exocomps - it become a fight for their rights. So it seems that the writers understood the audience would react that way, and they only introduced smart machines for the sake of elevating their status like Data's. We saw how that played out in VOY with the Doctor as well.

(And as for Fair Haven's residents, with Voyager returning to Earth and ending up as a museum, no doubt Voyager's holodeck came to life at night for the residents of Fair Haven, providing the museum's night guard with a mild scare and then endless boredom, as befit Fair Haven.)

 

[matthunter]

I think there was a novel that had N. Soong looking into previous android technology.

Yes, I mentioned it in post 4.

 

[JoseNoodles]

Yeah I know about the novel. I mean I wish on TNG or Picard that TOS-era androids were mentioned, like an off-hand comment in regards to Soong's or Maddox's work.

 

[dupersuper]

Interestingly, early scripts for TNG (when Data was still made by an unknown civilization) featured other androids. Like early drafts of Homesoil (I think it was home soil) had an early version of Minuet be an android of Data's kind who lived among humans, keeping her true nature hidden.

If it was Minuet it would've been 11001001.

 

[Orphalesion]

If it was Minuet it would've been 11001001.

No. In the early scripts of TNG elements were shifted around between episodes. Plus, she was posing as a human in the early version of Homesoil.
She was removed and put into 11001001 when she stopped being a secret android and started being a holographic bar floozy,