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Renowned cyberneticist, born in the late 23rd century, known as Earth's foremost robotics scientist. Soong's early achievements were overshadowed by his highly publicized failures when he tried to construct a positronic brain. Following that downfall, the reclusive Soong disappeared from public sight, traveling under an assumed name to the Omicron Theta colony, where he continued his work in secret. While on Omicron Theta, Dr. Soong met and married Juliana O'Donnell, who was one of the Omicron Theta colonists. With his wife's assistance, Soong developed a series of positronic androids. However, the first three "died" of positronic matrix failure. Perhaps his greatest success there was the creation of the humanoid androids Data and Lore. Soong and Juliana escaped from Omicron Theta just as the colony was destroyed by the Crystalline Entity, leaving behind a dormant Data and the disassembled Lore. Soong's wife was injured in the escape. The Soongs were able to travel as far as Terlina III, where Juliana fell into a fatal coma. Unable to face the thought of living without the only woman he ever loved, Soong made an extremely advanced android replicate of her, and programmed it with Juliana's memories and peronality. The android believed herself to actually be Juliana. Soong took great pains to ensure that she would never discover otherwise. Unfortunately, the android Juliana grew disenchanted with her husband and left him. Noonien Soong was first seen in "Brothers" (TNG). |
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