In the fictional Star Trek: The Next Generation universe, Dr. Noonien Soong is a human cyberneticist who is the creator of the regular android character Data. He is played by the same actor who plays Data, Brent Spiner. Arik Soong was Noonien Soong's great-grandfather; the two share similar ambitions. Noonien Soong, Arik Soong, and Khan Noonien Singh were named after a man named Kim Noonien Singh whom Gene Roddenberry knew during World War II. ^[1] Image File history File links DataSoongolder. ... Data,[1] portrayed by Brent Spiner, is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe. ... Brent Jay Spiner (born February 2, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television and movie series Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... In the Star Trek science fiction universe, Humans/Terrans (Homo sapiens sapiens) are one of the races undertaking interstellar travel. ... Gender in common usage refers to the sexual distinction between male and female. ... The shield and spear of the Roman god Mars, which is also the alchemical symbol for iron, represents the male sex. ... Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ... Brent Jay Spiner (born February 2, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television and movie series Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... The title as it appeared in most episodes opening credits. ... Cybernetics is the study of feedback and derived concepts such as communication and control in living organisms, machines and organisations. ... Data,[1] portrayed by Brent Spiner, is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe. ... Brent Jay Spiner (born February 2, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television and movie series Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... Soong in prison at the beginning of Borderland. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American scriptwriter and producer. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Appearances

Soong is first mentioned in the first season episode "Datalore", in which Data and the USS Enterprise crew discover a hidden laboratory, and learn of Soong's existence on the colony world Omicron Theta, on which Data had been discovered. The Enterprise databases contain mention of Soong: Early in Dr. Soong's career he was widely hailed as Earth's foremost robotic scientist. He claimed he could make Isaac Asimov's dream of a positronic brain come true and set about trying to do exactly that, and was popularly thought to have failed miserably and largely disappeared from academic and scientific circles shortly thereafter. ”Datalore” is a first season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, first broadcast January 18, 1988. ... The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) (or Enterprise-D, to distinguish it from prior starships with the same name) is a 24th century starship in the Star Trek fictional universe and the principal setting of the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series. ... Omicron Theta is a fictional star from the Star Trek universe located in the Alpha quadrant. ... Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920? – April 6, 1992, IPA: , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов) was a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ... A positronic brain is a fictional technological device, originally conceived by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. ...

Soong's backstory is further elaborated on in the seventh season episode "Inheritance", in which Data and the Enterprise crew come across Juliana O'Donnell, Soong's ex-wife. O'Donnell had accompanied Soong to Terlina, later leaving him and marrying Pren Tainer on Atrea IV. O'Donnell was in fact an android duplicate of her that Soong had made after her death (she had been injured in the attack on the colony and never recovered). Inheritance is the title of an episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. ...

He appears in the fourth-season episode "Brothers". He had escaped the attack on Omicron Theta that had wiped out the colonists and settled on Terlina III, where he lived in isolation while following the exploits of Data. He summons Data with the use of a homing signal, so that he can fit Data with his final invention, an emotion chip. He also inadvertently summons Lore, who ultimately kills Soong after posing as Data to acquire the chip. The chip eventually makes its way to Data, who finally fits himself with it in Star Trek: Generations. Brothers is the title of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, from the fourth season, written by Rick Berman. ... Star Trek: Generations (Paramount Pictures, 1994, see also 1994 in film) is the seventh feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ...

References

External links

• Noonien Soong article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.