Star Trek: Picard's New Brent Spiner Character Fixes A Big Data Problem
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 6 — «Two of One»
Brent Spiner’s new character in Star Trek: Picard season 2 fixes a big problem with Data from the previous season. Set in 2024, Picard season 2 finds Q (John de Lancie) enlisting the aid of one of Data’s ancestors, the eugenicist Adam Soong (Brent Spiner), to change the course of Picard’s family history. In season 2, episode 6 “Two of One”, Jean-Luc comes face to face with Soong at the Europa mission’s pre-quarantine party. Despite having played Picard and Data for decades, it’s a testament to Spiner and Stewart as actors that Adam Soong feels like a brand-new character.
The newest addition to the Soong family tree allows for Spiner to still be part of Star Trek: Picard without having to try and pass as an ageless android. Adam Soong's complicity in creating the Confederation is the work of a complex, troubled character, who believes himself to be a good man, but whose actions suggest differently. In “Two of One” it’s revealed that Kore, the daughter he’s desperate to save, is genetically engineered. Worse still, Soong attempts to run over Renée Picard, but instead hits Jean-Luc. While not as obviously villainous or ruthless like his descendants Arik and Lore, there is still darkness inside him, something which Spiner clearly relishes playing.
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As much as Star Trek audiences may want to see Lore return in Picard, the harsh truth is that Spiner is simply too old to convincingly play an ageless android. Picard season 1 already proved this with the Data dream sequences, in which the character looked visibly older, despite the visual effects work. Within the narrative,
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