Dr. Noonien Soong

Noonien Soong was the human cyberneticist who created Data (also played by Brent Spiner). Soong has created three complete androids in the known Star Trek universe, Data, Lore, and a replica of his dead wife Juliana, which is technically superior to his previous models, as well as three proto-type androids including B-4 (in the same design as Data and Lore). Early in Dr. Soong's career he was widely hailed as Earth's foremost robotic scientist, but he became a recluse after apparently failing to create a positronic brain and was thought to have been killed with other colonists on Omicron Theta. The scientist actually settled on Terlina III and summoned Data there to fit him with his final invention, an emotion chip. He inadvertently also summoned Data's brother, Lore, who attacked him after obtaining the chip. Soong survived, but was nearing death and elected to remain on Terlina rather than go aboard the Enterprise for medical care.

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Noonien Soong was the human cyberneticist who created Data (also played by Brent Spiner). Soong has created three complete androids in the known Star Trek universe, Data, Lore, and a replica of his dead wife Juliana, which is technically superior to his previous models, as well as three proto-type androids including B-4 (in the same design as Data and Lore). Early in Dr. Soong's career he was widely hailed as Earth's foremost robotic scientist, but he became a recluse after apparently failing to create a positronic brain and was thought to have been killed with other colonists on Omicron Theta. The scientist actually settled on Terlina III and summoned Data there to fit him with his final invention, an emotion chip. He inadvertently also summoned Data's brother, Lore, who attacked him after obtaining the chip. Soong survived, but was nearing death and elected to remain on Terlina rather than go aboard the Enterprise for medical care.

Subject ID: 70157

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