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[Akiva Goldsman] I think we
thought of an all-synthetic

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society as a way of
discussing how different

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lifeforms can be
marginalized and how they can

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become reactive in
the face of them.

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So the synth society on
Coppelius originated from

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a single neuron that was
smuggled out of Daystrom

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by Bruce Maddox the day
of the synthetic ban.

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And he then hooked
up with Soong

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and together they
went to this world,

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which was pretty much
off the beaten path,

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and began reconstructing
by a process called

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fractal neuronic cloning.

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Doesn't exist, we made it up.

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From there, they created
the first synths,

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and then the synths began
creating other synths,

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so it is a world whose
population is purely synthetic,

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except for Soong who is the
sole surviving organic there.

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We're not all machines
here, you know.

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We created another Soong
for Brent Spiner to play.

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He's played several, and

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we construed this particular
Soong to be essentially

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Data's brother.

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Dr. Altan Inigo Soong,
mad scientist.

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My father had me,
but he created Data.

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A fact he never let me forget.

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It's always delightful to let

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Brent play different characters
and Soongs in particular.

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And what's fun about
this particular Soong,

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like so many Soongs, is
that you don't really know

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which side he stands on.