3 possibilities for Brent Spiner’s mysterious Star Trek: Picard character

Brent Spiner is playing a mystery role in Star Trek: Picard but who is it?

Star Trek: Picard is bringing together the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation for one last trip. The third season of Picard will not only serve to send off Jean-Luc Picard, but also Patrick Stewart from the franchise that made him a household name. To do that, his old crew is coming back to help send him off with style.

Every key character is back, and those actors will be reprising their characters from TNG, save for one, Brent Spiner. Spiner, who played Data on TNG, will be back on Picard but his character isn’t known.

Data originally died in the fourth and final TNG film, Nemesis. Despite that, the Picard series brought Spiner back to the franchise as Altan Inigo Soong and Adam Soong, relatives of Data’s creator, Noonian Soong.

Picard series showrunner, Terry Matalas, (via TrekMovie.com) has said that Spiner “plays a new old character that you have seen and never seen before.” So who is Matalas alluding to? Here are our ideas.

Three people Brent Spiner could be playing again.

Lore

Originally killed off in the TNG episode Descent (Part II), Lore was Data’s more “evil” brother. Seeing as how his return could be easily constructed in a way where his return makes sense,  Lore could work as his visage was never formally destroyed. Considering the series put Picard’s brain in an android’s body that will eventually die of natural causes (so dumb), why couldn’t they bring Lore back?

Noonien Soongh

With Wesley Crusher time traveling, the idea that the series brings in Data’s creator in some way isn’t out of the realm of possibility; for a Trek show that is. It’s unsure how he’d be used but a villainous role of sorts kind of makes sense.

Data

I mean, it’s Data, we all know it’s Data and it’s going to be revealed that Data is now “human” somehow.