They should have left Data dead. Twice.
They were finding equally absurd ways to bring Spiner back for each season of Picard.
And this is Cleetus Soong, long-lost half-step-brother, thrice removed of Noonian Soong.
This is Datum, a secret Soong-type android built between Lore and Data but deactivated because Dr Soong didn’t like the idea of a new android learning the basics of motor functions and humanoid behavior look 75 years old.
I often think how bittersweet it would have been to keep Picard season 3 mostly intact, but have Soji take Data’s place at the helm of the 1701-D in the finale. Instead they just dropped her like she never existed.
She was off with Wesley playing “Traveler”. Would have liked some kind of follow-up, aside from only Wesley’s appearance in Prodigy.
That was her 22nd century “ancestor,” though, right? Picard was a funny show.
