Blink and you’ll miss it, but this small easter egg in Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 2 might reveal even more for the upcoming episodes of Season 2
nd perhaps the future Season 3 that has just wrapped!
This extremely brief easter egg towards the end of Season 2 Episode 2 gives us our first look at Brent Spiner’s new character,
who we’ve briefly seen in promotional trailers.
This is of course ADAM SOONG, a far long distance ancestor of Noonian and Altan Soon, the latter being featured in Picard Season one.
Let’s explore more!
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Even before trailers for Star Trek: Picard Season 2, we were aware that Brent Spiner would be returning based off of several comments from actors and production staff.
Though, we didn’t know what role he would be playing, based off of the first season ending, we knew it would not be Data, due to how that story line ended.
So, what is the deal?
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So far we’ve not seen Brent Spiner in any episode yet.
Though, as i mentioned earlier, we did get a hint of his new role in Episode 2 “Penance”, which shows off what we presume is his new character in the Star Trek Universe.
Time stamped around 42 and a half minutes, right before we get to the Eradication Day ceremony, there is a shor of San Francisco.
This is a common shot we’ve seen in modern Star Trek, both in Picard and Discovery, featuring the Golden-gate bridge.
This version has the Confederaion San Francisco, but with a statue of ADAM SOONG.
Brent Spiner can be heard providing a voice over of the statue saying “a safe galaxy is a human galaxy.” As a few Trekkies on Twitter pointed out, the closed-captions of the episode reveal that the voice line is by a character named Adam.
So far, we barely know anything about Adam Soong. Though, based off of the trailers, we’ll be seeing him soon when we travel to the year 2024 with Picard and the La Sirena crew.
Already it seems that Adam Soong is the center point for what has potentially created this alternate timeline we see the Confederation taking place in, and the one that Jean-Luc and the crew need to escape.
In the trailers, we see Q approaching Adam Soong, likely triggering the timeline change by inflicting certain events.
If i had to theorize, then It would seem that Q gave Soong the key to something, perhaps creating Synthetic beings earlier in the timeline?
This therefore would have allowed the Confederation to rapidly advance in technology and create the synthetics, therefore raging war with our species and erradicating them.
Now we see the Synths in 2401, the Alternate Timeline, Picard has a slave Synth named Harvey.
This andorid appears to be the same A500 model that the Federation produced in the 2380s to build the Romulan Relocation Fleet.
The same models that were eventually were hacked by the Zhat Vash and destroy the fleet and destroy the Federation’s Utopia Planitia shipyard.
If Q gave Adam Soong the formula, or technology to create Synthetic beings in the early 2020’s,
then that would explain the Confederations rise to power and domination of the Alpha Quadrant and therefore how certain characters changed in this timeline.
We’re presuming that Adam did indeed create this and we might learn it very soon when Picard leaves the 2400’s and time-jumps back to 2024 to fix the future.
Of course, we do know that the Soong family tree is an acquired taste and slihglty promeblematic.
History wise, after Adam Soong’s appearance which we don’t know much about it just yet, we’ve got to talk about Arik Soong, who appeared in the 22nd century.
He was responsible for Augments, Instead of Cyberneitcs which his family tree were typically associated with.
These augments caused numerous issues for Captain Jonathan Archer of the NX-01 Enterprise!
Eventually Arik decided to focus on creating artificial lifeforms, rather than attempting to perfect humanity due to them being too problematic.
Arik Soong does admit to himself that the idea of synthetic life will take a generation or two to fully complete, this turns out to be true in the end.
As his descendants, Doctor Noonian Soong and Doctor Altan Soong, would create androids like Data, B-4, Lore and Soji!
Data, who appears in Star Trek: Picard Season One mentions that the Soong family are an acquired taste.
As others have pointed out, such as Den of Geek, this could be taken and interpreted as The Soong family have a scary reputation about genetic superiority and discrimination based on said theories.
An example of this is some of the synthetics in Season One, such as Sutra. Some of these androdis decided they were superior to humanity and tried to kill everyone or those around them, such as Lore, who was a thorn in the side to Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enteprise-D.
Some synths at one point or another have even used racism to justify widepsread murder or genocidce.
If these types of Synths were created earlier on, it would explain the Alt-Timeline which we find the Confederation taking in place in.
They would have had the geonicial nature earlier on and therefore been a vital component of the Confederation’s plans to dominate the Alpha Quadrant and lay waste to species such as The Vulcans, Romulans and even The Borg.
The ultimate question remains,
why did Q specifically change the timeline with Adam Soong? Of all the people and all the reasons, I wonder why.
Perhaps It’s to do with the connection that Jean-Luc is also not a synthetic himself… Time will tell, then again, time is broken, so who knows!
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