Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Soongs
This family, played entirely by Brent Spiner, has changed the history of Trek countless times.
The Soongs are one of the most famous families in Star Trek history. Since the 20th century, they have been responsible for some of humanity's greatest technological achievements (and some of their worst mistakes).
Adam Soong was one of the earliest genetic engineers, Arik Soong continued research on Human augments after the science was banned, Noonian Soong created the first positronic brain (which allowed androids like Data to exist), and Altan Inigo Soong expanded on Noonian's work and developed a method to transfer consciousness into an artificial body. All four were played by Brent Spiner, who brilliantly managed to portray a unique personality for each of them.
Throughout the franchise, the stories of these four men combine together to tell a story of multi-generational scientific discovery that started with a desire to improve humanity, and eventually culminated in the creation of a new species of artificial lifeforms. So, while their accomplishments speak for themselves, this list will take a look at some of the lesser-known facts about the Soong family that you may have missed or forgotten.
10. Adam Soong Worked On Project Khan
One of the biggest reveals from Star Trek: Picard's second season was that Adam Soong was directly involved with Project Khan, the series of scientific experiments that produced Khan Noonien Singh and the other earliest genetically modified Humans. This project later sparked the Eugenics Wars, where augmented Humans tried to take over the world using their superior abilities.
After Adam's cloned daughter Kore hacked into his computer and deleted most of his files, the physical copy of the Project Khan notes was one of the few pieces of top-secret research he still owned. We can assume that Adam revived the project (which was dated June 7, 1996), eventually leading to the conflict Spock talked about in the Original Series episode Space Seed.
Spock had said that the Eugenics Wars started in the 90s, but we can assume that either everything was classified up until after 2024, or Spock got the timeline wrong because records of that time period are so incomplete.