10 Reasons Why Data Was A Dangerous Threat To The Enterprise
8. His Creator Was Unhinged
By the time Doctor Noonian Soong showed up in an episode of TNG he looked like a rotted, old jack-o-lantern. Seriously, can we take a minute and question what was up with the make-up department when it comes to Soong?
They only needed to make Brent Spiner look a few decades older. Instead, they made him look like a potato with a droopy face, bald head, and ghost-white mullet. It’s disturbing.
Back to Soong as a character, though. He’s a genius, for one, the first person to build an android as advanced as Data. His techniques were so groundbreaking that Data, and others like him, are called Soong-type androids.
While Soong was a respected scientist, and definitely a genius, some of his decisions were questionable. Chief among these was his failure to destroy Lore, one of his early creations.
Lore was an android with much of the capabilities of Data, but one slight difference. Because Lore was kind of a homicidal maniac.
Lore once lured the Crystalline Entity to the colony where he and Soong lived. The Entity arrived it destroyed the colony, killing almost all its inhabitants. This wasn’t a mistake. Lore knew what would happen. It was his goal, in fact.
But, when Soong fled with other colonists, he disassembled and left Lore, trusting the dangerous android would never be reactivated. Lore was activated and went on doing his homicidal thing.
Also, Soong’s wife, Juliana was killed in the Crystalline attack. Instead of mourning her, Soong built a perfect android replica of Juliana. He also never told Juliana she was an android. Then, he neglected her for his work leading to the couple’s divorce.
Juliana later remarried, never realizing she was a robot. So, the wife he literally brought back from the dead, left him for another man.