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Data’s Evil Relatives: Every Soong’s Biggest Crimes In Star Trek
The Soong dynasty in Star Trek may have been full of brilliant scientists, but they committed a lot of crimes in their pursuit of improving humanity and creating artificial life. The Soong family was first mentioned in Star Trek: The Next Generation season 1, episode 13, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the USS Enterprise-D visit Omicron Theta, the planet where Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) was created. At the time, Dr. Noonian Soong was known as a disgraced robotics scientist, but Data learned that Soong was the man responsible for creating Data and his evil brother Lore. Since Dr. Noonian Soong’s introduction, several ancestors and descendants of his (all portrayed by Brent Spiner) have appeared in various Star Trek shows.