Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 6 – "The Bounty"The resurrection of Data (Brent Spiner) in Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 6, "The Bounty," tragically reversed what the android achieved in his best Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. A new hybrid version of Data, Lore, B-4, Lal (Hallie Todd), and Dr. Altan Inigo Soong is revealed to be the hyper-intelligent A.I. responsible for securing Starfleet's highly classified Daystrom Station. When viewers last saw Data in Picard's season 1 finale, he requested to experience death, but in being resurrected, it appears that Starfleet has ignored that wish.
Worse still, in installing this new synthetic hybrid of Soong's androids and their descendants in Star Trek: Picard's Daystrom Station, Starfleet and Section 31 have finally got what they wanted from Soong's work. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Offspring", Data constructed his own daughter, Lal (Hallie Todd). When Starfleet Research learned of Lal's existence, they dispatched Vice Admiral Haftel (Nicolas Coster) to take the android back to the Daystrom Institute. The stress caused by the conflict between Data and Haftel over Lal's future led to a fatal cascade failure in her neural net. By including aspects of Lal's character in the new Data hybrid, Altan Soong has finally handed Data's daughter over to Daystrom. He has also reversed the rights that Data attained in one of his best-ever TNG episodes.
