Star Trek: Picard Explains Adam Soong's Future Confederation Statue
Warning: SPOILERS forStar Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 5 — «Fly Me To The Moon»
There's a surprising explanation in Star Trek: Picard season 2 for why Dr. Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) has a statue in the 25th century of the dark Confederation future. When Star Trek: Picard season 2's timeline was changed by Q (John de Lancie), a statue honoring Adam Soong appeared in San Francisco Bay, near the headquarters of the Confederation of Earth. Star Trek: Picard season 2 later revealed that Q recruited Dr. Soong in 2024 to help him target Renée Picard (Penelope Mitchell), the ancestor of Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), who is the divergence that Q uses to alter the timeline.
In 2024, Dr. Adam Soong is a brilliant geneticist living in Los Angeles in Star Trek: Picard season 2. Soong finds himself in dire straits when his funding is cut due to his illegal experiments into eugenics, which was banned as a result of the Eugenics Wars that produced genetically-engineered tyrants like Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán). But Adam's desperation to continue his work is to save his daughter, Kore (Isa Briones), who was born with a rare genetic disease where exposure to open air and the sun's ultraviolet light turns her blood to fire and will kill her. Knowing of the Soongs' predicament, Adam was easy prey for Q, who promised the geneticist a cure for Kore's disease in exchange for his help in eliminating Renée Picard from the timeline. This potentially puts Adam Soong on a collision course with Picard and his motley crew, as well as Tallinn (Orla Brady), a Supervisor like Gary Seven from theStar Trek: The Original Series episode «Assignment: Earth» whose mission is to protect Renée.
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