Adam Soong And His Daughter| Star Trek Picard S02E05

#soong

[@LGranthamsHeir]

The two curses of being a male Soong family member in any Trek series sets in any century: 1) You have to be a "mad" scientist; and 2) You have to be played by Brent Spiner 😉🙄

[@builder396]

How is the second part a curse?

[@Lupinthe3rd.]

Brent is awsome besides most people look like some ancestor of theirs

[@xaenon]

@@Lupinthe3rd. Then my ancestors were some ugly fuxx.....

[@AndyCutright]

Job security.

[@Dowlphin]

This is one case where it is not so much a trope that relatives look identical, but since Soong is a mad scientist (and I gave up trying to figure out their whole 'family' timeline), his future manifestations are likely clones of himself. I bet his favorite movie is Being John Malkovich. 😄

[@hiltonlive32grnrngr]

I love Brent Spiner! Man he looks good for his age. Glad to see him still continuing to portray members of the Soong family!

[@elenapederson1862]

We love a hottie science man

[@cellytron]

He does, I can’t believe he’s my parents’ age. He looks like he’s only aged about 2 minutes from when he was on Enterprise

[@elenapederson1862]

@@cellytron 😭😭😭 Faaaacts and i dont even like old men like dat but 👀👀👀Hnnnng IM SAT 💘

[@dovahkiin2259]

If i can encapsulate all my year's experience in one sentence it would be this:"people are idiots" I can relate to that.

[@donaldnevgonhapniv3084]

Oh you and me both; I had somebody today at my restaurant complained that the salt was too salty.

[@rhocat362]

Agreed.

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

Brent Spiner really gets around. He was in Night Court, Star Trek TNG, Independence Day 1, Star Trek Enterprise, and Star Trek Picard.

[@trajan74]

And the very best of all of them was Master of Disguise.

[@nealbradleigh5069]

Wonder where else he'll turn up (some new challenge for Lor, if he's still operationsl) in the franchise?

[@blairbrown4812]

@@nealbradleigh5069,seeing as Lore's disassembled remains were on the Enterprise-D when she crashed,it doesn't seem likely that they survived.

[@nealbradleigh5069]

@@blairbrown4812 I need to hit my re-runs. There may be some kind of a 11th hour 59th minute Moriarty twist the writers can weave to give Spiner some face-time as Lore.

[@slendygirl3894]

Hes also in independence day 2

[@shreddersaurusrex323]

1:48 This sort of talk sounds like what led to the eugenics wars.

[@anonymousperson3153]

And YET, it fits, as one of his descendants DID try to recreate the Augments.

[@ryanf4106]

it IS what lead to the eugenics wars.

[@trajan74]

It sounds like the Wars have already happened. You don't usually have global treaties and Conventions until after a global catastrophe.

[@shreddersaurusrex323]

@@trajan74 Agreed.

[@amidark6518]

Did the dates change? They were fought 1992-1996.

[@Raja1938]

Dr. Vasiliy Rozhenko. Nice Easter Egg 😊

[@cellytron]

I realize Soong’s dreams are being shattered and his daughter is incredibly frail and can’t go outside for half a second or she’ll die… but it’s gotta be a lot easier to deal with shattered dreams and poor health in a sweet house like that! Look at that place! I can’t even build a Sims house that nice.

[@LGranthamsHeir]

3:13 - 3:26 This scene recalls Data's super-speed reading ability 😉

[@Dowlphin]

It's just showing that a lot of data is being transferred, as a standard filmmaking tool.

[@Nebagram]

Q uses a winking emoticon :-D

[@Dowlphin]

Could only be topped if he teased people with "QQ". 😆

[@bronzeageancientone4844]

... and here comes the Eugenics Wars....

[@amidark6518]

The wars fought between 92-96? Too late.

[@bronzeageancientone4844]

@@amidark6518 Soft reboot was due for a while. I’m cool with it.

[@stratfordbaby]

The redhead at the beginning, she was in that series. A fairly famous actress. LEA THOMPSON.

[@Joecbg100]

I think she turned director for this season too

[@joshualeigh6674]

0:52 correct! Well spoken my good sir!!!

[@Dowlphin]

In an alternate timeline Adam Soong is obsessed with trying to cryo an overclocked Threadripper but it always bluescreens, and then Q comes along and hands him a syringe with very oddly looking thermal paste.

[@Joecbg100]

I haven't kept up with Picard but this entire season seems throwaway to the final journey of the TNG era stars

[@azazelgrigori9244]

For someone who's very frail, she is gorgeous!

[@junzon]

Anyone notice Lea Thompson on the committee? She also directed the episode

[@jwrockets]

I knew she looked familiar.

[@rhocat362]

Yes, we noticed.

[@stratfordbaby]

I called. It was amusing.

[@jimpikoulis6726]

Data has grown old

[@easyalpha1]

Yay, Isa!!!

[@houseofno]

Adam Soong puts the God in godfather.

[@Spookssga]

The beging of Eugenics Wars and the birth of Khan. Now there's a thought, i wonder if Dr Soong and Khan are related.

[@matthewwhite4564]

i thought it was implied that anybody with the last name Soong was a descendent of Khan?

[@YD-uq5fi]

Well, that would answer where 'Noonien' came from as a first name for Dr. Noonien Soong.

[@SR-iy4gg]

@@YD-uq5fi How so?

[@Dowlphin]

@@matthewwhite4564 I find this all quite confusing lore, but I think a/the name associated with the Khans is Noonian-Singh. (There is one as crew in Strange New Worlds.)

[@donaldnevgonhapniv3084]

I always took it to be a label on a test tube.

[@TheDeviantLord]

Well, we know that the Soong family continued on, so he must have succeeded

[@ttanza4004]

Was that Lea Thompson ?

[@harmonbrentdm]

Yes she directed the last two episodes of Star Trek Picard

[@catman351]

After Biff murdered Mrs. Mcfly's husband, Marty used the DeLorean to travel her to the future where she eventually took up a professorship in a genetics department at a California university.

[@YD-uq5fi]

'Dr. Vasily Rozhenko'. Another Easter Egg.

[@mmjahink]

*desperate reference

[@PlanePreacher]

Stargate in the background at 3:34 and the chevron lock sound.

[@drkrypton4410]

it is kind of small though. maybe for Dwarves from the 8th dimension.

[@Dowlphin]

Adam Soong might be a Stargate fan.

[@Nighthawke70]

It's also the IDIC symbol. Anyone drawing parallels to this?

[@benallen7704]

First thing I noticed. "Infinite possibilities in Infinite combinations." Q has a sense of humor.

[@vinumcopia9850]

Not only that, but the cut-out patterns also reminds me of the Morse codes used by NASA on the landing parachutes from a recent space mission. I wonder if it actually means something!?

[@Dowlphin]

It's that meme again - OMG THEY'RE LITERALLY THE SAME!!! 😏 Try an image search maybe? Or keep off the synaesthetic drugs for a while.

[@thiagodeandrade7081]

Star Trek issues with security seems to be older than I thought. I used to blame Kirk for starting a trend of authority figures trying to stop some troublemaker but failing to see that he or she is properly confined or watched.

[@bthsr7113]

What is your game Q? Are you trying to initiate the Eugenics Wars to preserve the Federation's past? Or is it another plan?

[@subfloor2022]

2:37 Microsoft Surface Pro's are cannon now.

[@Dowlphin]

Also pretty much everything else from our time, implicitly.

[@mikeb6902]

you all see that phone number at the end, call it, Q will answer

[@gicking3898]

Q? Looks like a magnifying glass in orange 😉

[@sameaston9587]

So what I'm gathering so far is Picard S2 is linking Khan Soong with the rest of the Soong family.

[@gawainethefirst]

That’s Khan Singh.

[@Dowlphin]

@@gawainethefirst And a Noonian-Singh is also part of the crew in Strange New Worlds.

[@dragonweyr44]

Is this the birth of augments?

[@EmoEmu]

Adam Q Soong

[@kg8862]

lea thompson BTTF

[@johnstacy7902]

Is that Zooey Dutch mom?

[@EternalFiresky]

This isn’t Star Trek especially that last episode. Insane

[@Dowlphin]

You are not KZbin commenting.

[@jadapinkett1656]

@@Dowlphin SJW

[@user-xn8qp7tl6u]

ID4 Doctor

[@Delosian]

Has anyone figured out the binary message in the Q calling card?

[@Dowlphin]

What binary message?

[@JGG1701]

Not being a hater but I have a bad feeling that "Picard season 3" is going to undo EVERYTHING from TOS forward. Just sayin.

[@ElizaHamilton1780]

Hmm. So I know John de Lancie’s character is named “Q,” after one of Gene Roddenberry’s friends, Janet Quarton. However: It really is a fitting name for that character, isn’t it? Because the letter Q looks like a magnifying glass. If he crosses your path, you have a mystery to solve, because that joker’s going to send you off on the ride of your life.

[@Dowlphin]

Also, when two of those come together, you get a lot of QQ.

[@dsalmeron]

I feel like they wasted Brent spiner and Isa Briones in this season

[@AndyCutright]

Obligatory Tesla.

[@Thathumanoverthere1701]

Why the hell is he using electrical conduit as a needle?! Jeez!!

[@wj3186]

Why is the lighting so dim? It's hideous.

[@drkrypton4410]

his daughter is sleeping.

[@wj3186]

@@drkrypton4410 Through the whole series and..in nearly all contemporary tv shows and movies? The color of the cinematography is abhorrent.

[@drkrypton4410]

@@wj3186 my bad, i was under the impression you were referring to the current video. maybe its to dhow this is just a dream sequence??

[@Dowlphin]

@@drkrypton4410 It's just the cringy fan rage that goes totally overboard. Half of this video is discarded because it would be counter-evidence. There is such a thing as particular indoors locations with an environment style theme. Mad scientist house catering to his GMO daughter's light allergy would naturally be dim. So would be Rios' space ship to signal it is not fancy-clean Starfleet glory. (But probably also to force stupid lens flares into it, although they show in this series that they can even do that in a daylit alleyway with a bright light that serves no purpose.)

[@timcoyle50]

Now is that the same Dr Soong creator of Data??

[@Joecbg100]

He didn't make Data, that's Noonien Soong.

[@rhocat362]

A few generations too soon(g)

[@tannithk.correa1331]

I love Star Trek Picard but at this point it feels a bit like a soap opera like Sands Through The Hourglass thank you John delance

[@Cdr2002]

Star Trek has always been a soap opera to me lmao

[@tannithk.correa1331]

@@Cdr2002 well I guess you haven't watched the original Star Trek from the sixties

[@Cdr2002]

I’ve watched all three seasons and all six movies.

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

really a shame they must paint the Soong's sociopathic mad scientist types. thank you Star Trek Enterprise😒. The other bad part is Brett likes playing them. he got to taste the crazy with Arik Soong and just kept going.

[@SquirrellyOtter]

I don't think Arik was crazy or sociopathic. He certainly had a different moral code than most of his peers and contemporaries on Earth, but he wasn't amoral or without empathy. He tried to pass himself off as such to shock and disgust the Starfleet officers he encountered, but he ordered his Augments against harming the guards and hostages at Cold Station 12, rejected the Augments' use of biological warfare against the Klingons, and began rewriting the DNA of the Augment embryos to be less aggressive. These are not the actions of an amoral madman. He was willing to take hostages to keep the Enterprise from interfering with his operations, yes, but he didn't want to inflict bodily harm or death like Malik. He had a line he was unwilling to cross and he stayed the course, to the point of betraying his hyperviolent children to Starfleet and giving Enterprise the means to brutally disable their ship. Arik was selfish and arrogant, but not unreasonable, amoral, or unempathetic. He certainly wasn't insane. He's a complex three dimensional character and your misrepresentation is not accurate.

[@rhocat362]

Brent

[@artemsmirnov1134]

Zoey?

[@Rockhound6165]

Sooooo we're just going to blow off the fact that there is a Rozhenko on the panel? We'll set aside the woke notion that a Russian is being played by an Asian but let's focus on the name. For those who don't know, Sergey and Helena Rozhenko were Worf's adoptive parents. Could this be an ancestor?

[@bobojo37]

More than 70% of Russia's geography is in Asia. Much of the Siberian and Eastern Russian population would be mistaken for Chinese.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@bobojo37 stop it. Just stop. If you believe that, I can get you a good deal on uranium fields in Asbury Park.

[@easyalpha1]

@@Rockhound6165 yup there are tons of Asians in Russia even before Wokeness.....you didn’t know?

[@easyalpha1]

There Asians as far as Norway to Alaska...common knowledge...lol

[@ibrohiem]

@@Rockhound6165 That's not being woke it's you not knowing shit like an American and assuming all kinds of shit

[@francisshortjr]

No god

[@seankelly260]

Of all the cameo-loving TNG'ewrs... I' so totally done with spiner. I loved his character, but a chaRACTER death has to have CONSEQUENCE OR ITS POINTLESS. Look this is Tasha Yarryzarry the new security chief, and Jerry Spock, Nimoy's twin brother

[@tambosnipes1652]

I really hate thenfact they recycle actors like there isnt anybody else to play the role

[@PeachWookiee]

In this case, it’s understandable. They want a family resemblance.

[@thomaswedge42]

Star Trek has always recycled actors especially with the Soong family Brent Spiner (Data, Lore, B-4, Noonien Soong, Arik Soong, Aldan Soong, Adam Soong) which I suppose makes sense as both Arik and Adam are geneticists with experience in cloning and genetic modification. Jeffrey Combs (Brunt, Weyoon, Shran and others), Tim Russ (Tuvok, Enterprise B Lt, Devor, T'Kar), Michael Dorn (Worf and his Grandfather Colonel Worf), Armin Shimerman (several Ferengi's in TNG, Quark in DS9)

[@AndyCutright]

Guinan isn't recycled. The rest of the cast has been tossed back in time.

[@jimwhite4105]

This is science fiction. But there's a very real place called heaven. And another called hell. And it's our choice based on an actual God and his will and purpose. That actually exists. I know factually where I'm going. Do you know factually where your going?

[@rhocat362]

I'm going to rejoin the universe. God is a construct of early man trying to make sense of the world

[@ruthalber4658]

Data sugar dear you are not God Don't pretend to be God when you know you are most certainly not Don't have that kind of power only God can be God and when we pretend to be God we're calling God a liar and for those who are atheist and don't believe in God but that's sad😅😅😅,,,,,,,,

[@gohlervideos6470]

rehashing the same things is all the writers know how to do. Sad.