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!Coppelius
!!Synthetics

[[folder:Data]]
!!Data
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-> '''Played by:''' Creator/BrentSpiner

Former Lieutenant Commander of the ''Enterprise'', an android created by Noonian Soong, and a dear friend of Picard. Data was destroyed at the end of ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', and Picard still mourns for his old friend and dreams of him.\\
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For tropes relating to his prior appearances in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', please see its [[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGeneration character page]].
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* TheAntiNihilist: He acknowledges that life and the things that come with it -- things like peace, love, and friendship -- cannot last forever. Because of this, he considers them all the more precious.
* CerebusRetcon: ''Nemesis'' had Data copy his consciousness into another android, B-4, and ended with the uncertain possibility that Data's memories might eventually resurface and he could live on in B-4 after the destruction of his own body. This series has realistic consequences -- B-4 was not as advanced as Data and his positronic brain couldn't handle the mind of a superior android, so a lot of Data's personality and memories were lost in the transfer. Reportedly, before he was disassembled when the ban on synthetic life was put in place, B-4 was not much like Data at all.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E26S4E1TheBestOfBothWorlds Every]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E24S7E1Descent single]] [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact time]] that Picard had to personally face the Borg, he got captured, and it was Data who actually saved the day, yet a conversation between Rios and Enoch shows that Picard is still the one that gets all the credit. Androids have been banned in the Federation for fourteen years, so its history books seem to have been re-written to diminish Data's accomplishments.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He calmly asks Picard to shut down the simulation he "lives" in, and when he realizes it is happening, he quietly withers and passes away on his sofa with Picard holding his hand.
* FromASingleCell: Bruce Maddox theorized that Data's entire consciousness could be reconstructed from a single neuron of his positronic brain. He was proven correct, and Altan was able to do so.
* PeacefulInDeath: Picard shuts down his VirtualGhost, and he passes away peacefully.
* PosthumousCharacter: He appears in Picard's dreams, but has been dead since the events of ''Nemesis''. Mostly -- his ''mind'' is still functional in Altan's lab.
* TheTell: According to Picard, he dilates his left pupil -- which is actually a distraction from his ''true'' tell, which is when his eyes are neutral.
* VirtualGhost: His mind still exists in a simulation in Altan's lab. At the end of Season 1, Picard shuts it down to allow Data to "die."
* WalkingSpoiler: His current existence as a VirtualGhost is not revealed until the very end of Season 1.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Understanding that human life is precious because it is finite, Data asks Picard to shut down the simulation keeping his mind alive, so that, however briefly, Data may exist as a being with a finite lifespan. Picard does so and Data passes away in seconds.
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[[folder:Dahj Asha]]
!!Dahj
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-> '''Played by:''' Creator/IsaBriones

A mysterious young woman who seeks out Picard for help. She turns out to be an advanced biological android designed by Bruce Maddox, based on the remains of Data's positronic brain.
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* ArtificialHuman: She has an organic body and a positronic brain. Exactly what that entails hasn't yet been completely elaborated on, but she can read and type at super-speed just like Data could, has enhanced hearing, and seems to be able to fight at or above a Khan-like level with no prior training.
* BornAsAnAdult: She and Soji were engineered and then released about three years ago, given fake memories and falsified records by Maddox so they would fit in.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: She was burned by acid strong enough to turn organic matter into ''ash'', ''then'' blown up by an overloading weapon before the acid can completely kill her.
* DecoyProtagonist: Despite the first episode, "Remembrance", focusing on her almost as much as it does Picard, she's killed by Romulan assassins before the end.
* MysteriousWaif: She seeks out Picard at his vineyard in France to help unravel a mystery.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: She is visually indistinguishable from a human woman, bleeds red, and even ''she'' did not realize she was a biological android.
* SuperHearing: After she's activated, she can hear conversations from a city block away.
* SuperStrength: Much like Data and other synthetics throughout the franchise, Dahj displays greatly enhanced strength, and was able to take on multiple larger Romulans (who are stronger than humans) easily.
* TomatoInTheMirror: She starts to be confronted with the knowledge that she is not human, but an advanced android.
* WaifFu: She manages to take down Romulan agents barefoot in melee combat who are substantially larger and better protected than she is -- but this is justified, given her enhanced strength and speed as an android.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She's introduced and killed off in the space of one episode.
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[[folder:Dr. Soji Asha]]
!!Doctor Soji Asha
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-> '''Played by:''' Creator/IsaBriones

The identical twin of Dahj, and an advanced biological android designed by Bruce Maddox, based on the remains of Data's positronic brain.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: She describes the Artifact, a defunct Borg Cube, as "beautiful," much to Narek's astonishment. She also seems to have some small admiration for Borg Cubes when they're fully functional, describing them as "mighty and omnipotent." She also speaks kindly to the "Nameless" Borg drone who has undergone the reclamation procedure.
* ApocalypseMaiden: The Zhat Vash believe that Soji is "the Destroyer," a being from Romulan mythology who will bring about the "Day of Annihilation," a cataclysm that will result in the destruction of all sentient life.
* BackupTwin: In the wake of Dahj's death, it's revealed that the synthesis process for their advanced positronic neural nets always creates (initially) identical pairs. Soji is Dahj's "twin sister."
* BornAsAnAdult: She and Dahj were engineered and then released about three years ago, given fake memories and falsified records by Maddox so they would fit in.
* CharacterTic: She habitually performs a QuizzicalTilt when reacting to new situations, just like her "father," Data.
* DemotedToExtra: Despite the ending of the first season showing her joining the crew of ''La Sirena'', in the second season she only gets a one-scene cameo in the first episode (albeit Isa Briones does get to play the new character of Kore Soong later in the season).
* ExistentialHorror: She is hit ''badly'' by this after learning her true nature. A substantial part of why she doesn't trust Picard in "Nepenthe" is because she has been left completely unsure whether what she's experiencing is even real now that she knows that ''she'' isn't "real." It's not in the least helped by the fact her "activation" was the result of manipulation by a man she thought cared for her and she was falling in love with, nor does she seem to have been programmed with any instinctive trust of Picard like Dahj was.
* LivingLieDetector:
** Invoked by Picard in "Nepenthe" when he coaches her through the various physical cues her enhanced android senses can detect to prove to her that he's not lying. Although she confirms that he believes what he's saying, she still doesn't quite trust him.
** When Narek makes a LoveConfession to Soji in "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1", she acknowledges his sincerity by replying, "I know."
* MsFanservice: She has several underwear scenes with Narek (along with some accompanying mild sex scenes) and a ShowerScene. In "The Impossible Box", there's several close-ups of her bare feet.
%%* MysteriousWaif: Continues to try and unravel the mysteries around her life and finish what Dahj started.
* NeuroVault: While talking to Ramdha, a Romulan woman who is also a former Borg drone, Soji suddenly begins reeling off information about the cube that even Hugh, the director of the entire project, isn't privy to. She has no idea how she knows any of it and tries to rationalize it away as something she must have seen in the masses of declassified information she's read. Later on, she demonstrates detailed knowledge of Borg technology she could never possibly have been told about.
* NiceGirl: She is kind and polite to everyone, including the former drones being held on the Artifact. This endears her to Hugh.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: She states that she's an anthropologist by training, but she's working as a surgical assistant for the Borg Reclamation Project, implying that she has training in biology and cybernetics, and she also has a working knowledge of several languages. Of course, she is an android, so there's really no limit to what she can do.
* QuizzicalTilt: Since her positronic brain is fractally cloned from Data's, she has inherited his recognizable head tilt. Riker [[SherlockScan picks up]] on it immediately when they meet, allowing him to put together her real identity when Picard demurs from telling him what's going on.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Like her twin "sister," Dahj, she is an advanced biological android, virtually indistinguishable from a human woman. Like Dahj, injuries she suffers escaping when Narek tries to kill her bleed real blood. And much like Data, her sexual relationship with Narek indicates she's "[[UnusualEuphemism fully functional]]."
* SixthRanger: Becomes a full-time member of ''La Sirena'''s crew at the end of "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", intending to explore the galaxy with Picard now that she's free to go anywhere and be anything she wants to be.
* SuperHearing: After she's activated, she can hear Romulan soldiers running towards the queencell, and they're far enough away that Picard and Hugh can't detect them.
* SuperReflexes: When the former Borg drone Ramdha attempts to commit suicide with a stolen disruptor, Soji is able to move across the room, grab the weapon, and restrain her before anyone else can even begin to react.
* SuperSpeedReading: In "Nepenthe", she reads Thad's 300-page Viveen dictionary in two minutes.
* SuperStrength: Much like her "father," Data, as a synthetic she possesses greatly enhanced strength. After she's activated, she smashes through a smooth wood floor ''and the deck plating beneath'' with her bare hands to escape a DeathTrap.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: With TheReveal of her true nature, the Romulans bearing down on her homeworld, and no expectation that TheFederation or anyone else cares enough to save it, she reluctantly throws her lot in with the synths of Coppelius and attempts to summon the [[MechanicalAbomination Higher Synthetics]], unleashing the very apocalypse the Romulans want to prevent. Fortunately, Picard manages to get through to her and convince her to call it off at the last moment.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Like Dahj, she also comes to realize that she is not human and her whole life is an artificial construct, although it takes her significantly longer to make the breakthrough than her "twin."
%%Soji does not take it anywhere near as well as her "sister" does when the glass finally breaks, mostly because she's led into it by someone who isn't interested in her well-being.%%
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She's left behind by Jurati at a bar on Raritan IV at the start of Season 2 when Jurati leaves with the USS ''Stargazer'' and is simply never seen again.
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[[folder:Saga]]
!!Saga

->'''Played by:''' Creator/NikitaRamsay

An android of the Coppelius colony.
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* ElectronicEyes: Her memories are stored in her optical processors, but because her eye is damaged, some of the data has been corrupted.
* EyeScream: Sutra kills her by stabbing her in the eye with her own hummingbird brooch.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Her name continues the trend of Soong-type androids having PunnyNames. In her case, "Saga."
* LivingLieDetector: She reassures Soji that she's monitoring Narek's biofunctions, so she'll know if he's lying.
* NiceGirl: In her very limited screen time, she is shown to be helpful because she was the one who gave Raffi the omnitool to repair ''La Sirena'', and when Altan is cradling Saga's body, he laments, "Poor, sweet Saga."
* PunnyName: The latest Soong-type android to have one, "Saga."
* TooDumbToLive: Narek ''almost'' manages to get her to open the cell and give him an opportunity to escape. Soji manages to interrupt her before she can.
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[[folder:Sutra]]
!!Sutra
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/IsaBriones

An android living on the Coppelius colony, she looks identical to Soji and Dahj, but as an earlier-generation android, she has the golden skin and eyes of Data.
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* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: She's fascinated by Vulcan culture; she has read Surak's writings, can play the ka'athyra, and has even taught herself how to perform a mind meld.
* BigBadEnsemble: While the Zhat Vash are on their way to exterminate the Coppelius colony, Sutra wants to call the synthetic lifeform alliance to fight them off, knowing they will likely wipe out all biological life in the galaxy once they get there.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: After performing a mind meld with Jurati and learning the true message of the Admonition, she murmurs, "Fascinating."
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: One of her first lines is to refer to the Romulans as "[[PunyHumans pitiful]]."
* EvilCounterpart: To both Data and Soji -- she has Soji's appearance but with Data's golden skin and eyes. But while she looks like them, her intentions are closer to Data's own EvilCounterpart Lore, the eradication of sentient life. The difference being that she was embittered by the murder of her twin sister Jana, whereas Lore was just sociopathic.
* FailedASpotCheck: As a fully paid up member of the Coppelius colony, she would know that any deactivated synthetic would have their memories downloaded and handed to the surviving twin. And as a synthetic, it's not like it would have slipped her mind. So her letting Altan Soong download evidence of her murdering Saga is a bit of an IdiotBall moment.
* FalseFlagOperation: She lets Narek escape and Saga is killed in the process by her, so she can use the rush of fear and emotion caused by the incident to convince Altan and the other androids that biological beings will never accept them, and they have to call the alliance of synthetic lifeforms for help.
* {{Fanservice}}: Her outfit reveals part of her midriff, waist, and back.
* FantasticRacism: She thinks nothing of wiping out all biological life in the galaxy.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Well, One-Episode Foreshadowing. Rios tells Raffi that Soji looks identical to an android named Jana that he met nine years ago. Since all the androids are created in pairs, this foreshadows that another android that looks like Soji is out there. In the next episode, Sutra appears.
* FreudianExcuse: Unlike her uncle/predecessor, Lore, who was just monstrous to start with, Sutra's bitterness towards organics stems from their murder of her twin sister.
* LivingLieDetector: After she asks Jurati a question, she warns the latter that she'll be able tell if the answer is a lie.
* NumberTwo: She's Altan Soong's right-hand android and appears to be the ''de facto'' leader among her fellow synths.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Her clothing is salmon pink, and she has the most sultry temperament of all the androids. She utilizes her feminine wiles to manipulate Narek.
* SummonBiggerFish: Her plan to stop the Romulan fleet from annihilating her people is to summon an alliance of synthetic lifeforms that will obliterate all biological life in the galaxy. Fortunately, Altan Soong finds out that she murdered Saga and kills/deactivates Sutra, and Picard then persuades Soji to break the beacon that summons the higher synthetics.
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