DATA CREATOR STAR TREK SERIES

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 CREATOR STAR TREK SERIES

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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