Who Is Brent Spiner's Picard Season 2 Character? It Isn't Data
Star Trek: Picard season 2 will see Brent Spiner returning to the franchise in yet another new role. The Star Trek: Picard season 2 trailer shows Spiner interacting with the all-powerful, often annoying Q, but very little is known beyond a few quick images about the role the Star Trek alum will play. Though Spiner has appeared in several different Star Trek series, films, and formats, he's made it clear that he doesn't wish to play Data any longer. And according to the actor himself, he will be playing a completely new character this time around. Audiences have been left wondering who the long-time Star Trek actor will portray as Picard returns to Paramount+ for its sophomore season.
Spiner has long been accustomed to role-jumping within the Star Trek franchise. The actor first appeared as the Soong-type android, Data, on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987 and appeared in 177 episodes of the long-running series. He reprised the role in four feature films, as well. Spiner also appeared as Lore, Data's manipulative android brother, in three separate episodes throughout The Next Generation. In Star Trek: Nemesis, he starred as B-4, a prototype android. Spiner also appeared as Data's creator — Dr. Noonien Soong — on Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005, as well as Noonien's ancestor, Arik Soong, in 2004. In season 1 of Picard, Spiner appeared as Altan Inigo Soong, who was considered Data's human brother as the biological son of the android's creator, as well as a few scenes in which he portrayed Data.
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The answer to who Spiner will appear as in Picard’s second season couldn't be any muddier. However, despite the secrecy surrounding the actor's next role, several possibilities
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