Noonian Soong

Noonian Soong was a brilliant scientist, and one of the leading expert in cybernetics in Imperial History. He is most famous for the creation of Soong-type androids. He was a direct descendant of Arik Soong, the famous geneticist who served Empress Hoshi Sato I as Minister of Science.

Early Career
Noonian Soong was recruited at 17 from the Science Ministry Institute of Technology by Imperial Intelligence. From his youth, he had demonstrated incredible scientific aptitude, and the kind of aggressive ruthlessness required in order to rise in the academic world of the Empire. He impressed the Imperial Ministry of Science, who thought that if they supported his career it would profit them in the end. Imperial Intelligence caught wind of his progress, and knew that his genius could be best used supporting the Empire's numerous secret wonder-weapon projects. He was established at a secret research colony on Galla V, where he ultimately met and married Juliana Trainor, another of the researchers

Borg Expert
Dr. Soong was first assigned to the Borg countermeasures project. The project was established in the late 21st century by Emperor Zephram Cochrane himself, using a number of Borg drones and a wrecked Borg ship found in Antarctica. The project was dedicated to developing ways to detect, stop, and destroy the Borg. Soong became slightly obsessed with the Borg, and was instrumental in gaining a deep knowledge of their system, and developing the weapons that ultimately enabled the Empire to wipe out the first Borg incursions into the Alpha Quadrant.

AI Research
Soong was then transferred to the Automated Weapons research project. Here, his task was to create android shocktroops, to aid in wars of conquest. The project was begun in 2270, when the Empire took note of the large number of artificial intelligences that they were encountering in their conquests. Noonian Soong was provided with the remains of the Exoan android Ruk, as well as Borg technology for his research. Soong made immense progress, and soon became head of the project, running nearly everything himself.

However, Soogn had become convinced that society would be better if it was ruled by androids. Inspired by studying Ruk, he had developed a process that he believed would allow a select few human (such as himself) to transfer their minds into android bodies, and become the rulers of the new android race. When it was discovered he had been creating human-form androids to impersonate high ranking Imperial officials, he was arrested. He tried to transfer his mind into the body of his latest prototype, Data, but succeeded only in giving Data a flawed copy of his memories.

Becoming Borg
Soogn was sent to the Rura Penthe prison world. He would have likely died there, if it were not for the Second Borg Incursion, in 2371. The Borg, who had adapted themselves to the Empire's technology, becoming far more powerful and deadly, attacked Rura Penthe, and assimilated many of the prisoners. Attracted by the doctor's mind, the Borg made Soong the Locutus of Borg. Soong and the Borg were all destroyed when Captain Picard managed to infect the Borg Diamond with the Iconian computer virus.