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Data
Data
Played by: Brent Spiner
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 Star Trek: Nemesis, and Picard still mourns for his old friend and dreams of him.
For tropes relating to his prior appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation, please see its character page.
- The Anti-Nihilist: 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.
- Cerebus Retcon: 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.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Every single 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.
- Face Death with Dignity: 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.
- From a Single Cell: 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.
- Peaceful in Death: Picard shuts down his Virtual Ghost, and he passes away peacefully.
- Posthumous Character: 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.
- The Tell: According to Picard, he dilates his left pupil — which is actually a distraction from his true tell, which is when his eyes are neutral.
- Virtual Ghost: 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."
- Walking Spoiler: His current existence as a Virtual Ghost is not revealed until the very end of Season 1.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: 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.
Dahj Asha
Dahj
Played by: Isa Briones
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.
- Artificial Human: 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.
- Born as an Adult: 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.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: 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.
- Decoy Protagonist: Despite the first episode, "Remembrance", focusing on her almost as much as it does Picard, she's killed by Romulan assassins before the end.
- Mysterious Waif: She seeks out Picard at his vineyard in France to help unravel a mystery.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: She is visually indistinguishable from a human woman, bleeds red, and even she did not realize she was a biological android.
- Super-Hearing: After she's activated, she can hear conversations from a city block away.
- Super-Strength: 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.
- Tomato in the Mirror: She starts to be confronted with the knowledge that she is not human, but an advanced android.
- Waif-Fu: 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.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She's introduced and killed off in the space of one episode.
Dr. Soji Asha
Doctor Soji Asha
Played by: Isa Briones
The identical twin of Dahj, and an advanced biological android designed by Bruce Maddox, based on the remains of Data's positronic brain.
- Admiring the Abomination: 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.
- Apocalypse Maiden: 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.
- Backup Twin: 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."
- Born as an Adult: 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.
- Character Tic: She habitually performs a Quizzical Tilt when reacting to new situations, just like her "father," Data.
- Demoted to Extra: 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).
- Existential Horror: 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.
- Living Lie Detector:
- 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 Love Confession to Soji in "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1", she acknowledges his sincerity by replying, "I know."
- Ms. Fanservice: She has several underwear scenes with Narek (along with some accompanying mild sex scenes) and a Shower Scene. In "The Impossible Box", there's several close-ups of her bare feet.
- Neuro-Vault: 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.
- Nice Girl: She is kind and polite to everyone, including the former drones being held on the Artifact. This endears her to Hugh.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: 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.
- Quizzical Tilt: Since her positronic brain is fractally cloned from Data's, she has inherited his recognizable head tilt. Riker 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.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: 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 "fully functional."
- Sixth Ranger: 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.
- Super-Hearing: 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.
- Super-Reflexes: 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.
- Super-Speed Reading: In "Nepenthe", she reads Thad's 300-page Viveen dictionary in two minutes.
- Super-Strength: 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 Death Trap.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: With The Reveal of her true nature, the Romulans bearing down on her homeworld, and no expectation that The Federation or anyone else cares enough to save it, she reluctantly throws her lot in with the synths of Coppelius and attempts to summon the 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.
- Tomato in the Mirror: 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."
- What Happened to the Mouse?: 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.
Saga
Saga
Played by: Nikita Ramsay
An android of the Coppelius colony.
- Electronic Eyes: Her memories are stored in her optical processors, but because her eye is damaged, some of the data has been corrupted.
- Eye Scream: Sutra kills her by stabbing her in the eye with her own hummingbird brooch.
- Family Theme Naming: Her name continues the trend of Soong-type androids having Punny Names. In her case, "Saga."
- Living Lie Detector: She reassures Soji that she's monitoring Narek's biofunctions, so she'll know if he's lying.
- Nice Girl: 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."
- Punny Name: The latest Soong-type android to have one, "Saga."
- Too Dumb to Live: 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.
Sutra
Sutra
Played by: Isa Briones
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.
- Alien Arts Are Appreciated: 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.
- Big Bad Ensemble: 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.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: After performing a mind meld with Jurati and learning the true message of the Admonition, she murmurs, "Fascinating."
- Establishing Character Moment: One of her first lines is to refer to the Romulans as "pitiful."
- Evil Counterpart: 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 Evil Counterpart 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.
- Failed a Spot Check: 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 Idiot Ball moment.
- False Flag Operation: 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.
- Fantastic Racism: She thinks nothing of wiping out all biological life in the galaxy.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: 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.
- Freudian Excuse: 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.
- Living Lie Detector: After she asks Jurati a question, she warns the latter that she'll be able tell if the answer is a lie.
- Number Two: She's Altan Soong's right-hand android and appears to be the de facto leader among her fellow synths.
- Pink Means Feminine: Her clothing is salmon pink, and she has the most sultry temperament of all the androids. She utilizes her feminine wiles to manipulate Narek.
- Summon Bigger Fish: 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.
