Has one son: Jackson Spiner (born June 29, 2002). However, before Data was fully programmed and socialized by his creator, a giant, destructive alien known as the Crystalline Entity wiped out Soong's colony, seemingly killing Data's creator. Feb 02, 1949 (age 71) 5' 10" (1.78 m) Other popular celebrities. Even the product page is not safe from her delusions, with a quote from Gerard Butler about the book. I absolutely love this and his other CD, Dreamland, and I highly recommend both! A native of Yorktown, Virginia, he moved to Los Angeles in 2010 to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. Click the button below to start this article in quick view. Changed his last name to Mintz at about age six, readopted Spiner as a stage name at about age 20. Keep me up to date! Primarily known for his role as Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Brent Spiner also accepted the challenge of playing an array of divergent characters on Trek, many of whom appeared together on-screen in the very same scenes. Consequently, his wife remarried to another husband. Lovingly rendered by a top artist, these are excellent likenesses of Brent Spiner in his role as Data. Soong would also make an appearance when a woman claiming to be Data's mother showed up on the Enterprise. Soong wasn't exactly a perfect parent, but he managed to help Data in his journey toward humanity well after his death, and that's not nothing. Though he felt he and Patrick Stewart had closure of a sort for their characters in Nemesis, the closure on Picard was a different kind, and he called it “a wonderful gift,” when he and Stewart discussed the reunion at a 2020 Comic-Con panel. YouTube ∙ 2010. Data finds himself in the home of his creator, Dr. Noonien Soong (Brent Spiner). Related: Star Trek: Picard Retcons Classic TNG Episode. Jackson didn’t mind being the only child in a wealthy family because of the benefits he had all to himself. Michael Dorn . We'd like to apologize to Brent Spiner in advance. Cast member Wil Wheaton rewatched the episode for AOL TV in November 2006. Godfather of Gates McFadden 's son James Cleveland. Spiner's first television work was a brief, uncredited role in the 1970 TV movie My Sweet Charlie. Film and television career Early career and the TNG years. While their characters weren’t together on the show (Crusher is a widow, … Brent and his elder brother, Ronald, were adopted and raised by their stepfather, Sol Mintz, but Brent changed his surname back to 'Spiner' in 1975. He is the only child of Brent Spiner and Loree McBride. His father appeared to him and explained that if he'd reached the point where he could access that program, he had progressed farther than Soong could have hoped for, and he expressed his love for Data before the android woke up. At one point, he was also believed to have an affair with actress Terry Farrell, but the rumors died down after there wasn’t enough evidence to keep the speculation alive. Brent Spiner was born on 2nd Feb 1949, in Houston, Texas. Moving in with each other was a reality check for them and showed them that they weren’t meant for each other. Spiner with Stephen Hawking on the set of "Descent" in 1993. So it's wholly appropriate that Spiner would take another turn as a Soong, since his scenes as Data in Star Trek: Picard have been understandably rare. And Arik Soong was a criminal who broke the laws around the development of genetic engineering after the planet-devastating Eugenics Wars. Brent Spiner felt the same way. I told Dan what I had done and he said to… After the ban on synthetic life, he left the Federation behind for the remote planet he now calls Coppelius. Overview. At one point it appeared having Spiner in three distinct roles would not be feasible and several older Asian male actors (including Keye Luke) were considered for the role of Dr. Soong. Brent Spiner received both positive and negative reviews for his Sherlock Holmes impression whilst portraying Data in this episode. Jackson Spiner is known as the son American actor, Brent Spiner who is famous for playing the role of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Puck is one of the tricksters, a group of the Children of Oberon. The two would finally meet in "Brothers," when the elderly Soong activated a recall function in Data so that he could gift him with an emotion chip that would allow him to fully process his feelings, bringing him that much closer to humanity. With help from Bruce Maddox, Soong was able to massively expand on his father's work, making an entire race of androids who were just as sophisticated as Data, if not more so in some ways. Starfleet duty uniform jumpsuit: Meticulously researched, this duty uniform matches the pattern, and color of the original costume recreated in 1:6 scale. SOURCE: IMDB. Talking his Height at 5 feet 10 inches. Author of Brent Spiner, Gail Chord Schuler, and Vladimir Putin biography “The Forbidden Abyss Part One: 1990 to 2011” (2013). Dr. Crusher is involved in a medical emergency as Willie Potts, a young child of the USS Enterprise-D, is infected by parasites from a cove palm that he ate during shore leave on Ogus II with his brother Jake. Popular actor Brent Spiner, who plays himself in this web-series, becomes the most hated person in the business after "an incident" and must rebuild his career from the bottom up all over again.