10 Star Trek Characters Who MUST Return (2025)

5. Soong Of The 23rd

As we know, Brent Spiner has already played an entire slew of the Soong family photo album — the ascendants and descendants of Noonien. We're sure he'd be up to portray one or two more. Doctor Adam was of the 20th and 21st centuries. Doctor Arik was of the 22nd. Doctors Noonien and Altan were of the 24th. That does leave a rather glaring gap.

"Cybernetics. Artificial life-forms. I doubt I'll finish the work myself. Might take a generation or two," said Arik Soong before putting pencil to paper at the end of The Augments. Picking up the pencil, at least one of those generations must have intersected with Those Old Scientists. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds could show us the Soong on a midway to Data.

That Soong might also want to get down in the Mudd. By the 2250s, Harcourt already had several android copies of himself. Connection unknown, by 2268, Fenton was the self-proclaimed king of his own self-named robot planet, once inhabited by the 'Makers' of the Andromeda Galaxy. One Soong would have a Stella time! There is also the little matter of those, but especially that android, which Doctor Roger Korby was getting to.