# Star Trek: Noonian

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-noonian/743939>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 23, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-noonian/743939 "2016-01-23T03:55:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-noonian/743939/1 "2016-01-23T03:55:10Z")

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Is Kirk nemesis Khan Noonian Singh and Data creator Noonian Soong…related?

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-noonian/743939/2 "2016-01-23T04:06:02Z")

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[No.](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Noonian_Soong)

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-noonian/743939/3 "2016-01-23T04:44:35Z")

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Nobody names their kid Noonian anymore.

Or ever.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-noonian/743939/4 "2016-01-23T04:51:54Z")

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The decade before ST:TOS took place, “Amerigo” was back in vogue for a while. At least in the Alpha quadrant.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-noonian/743939/5 "2016-01-23T11:39:34Z")

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Yes, but in not in the biological sense. Noonian Soong is the grandson (possibly by genetic engineering) of Arik Soong, a geneticist and promoter of genetic augmentation for humans. In the Enterprise episode in which he was shown, he was attempting to create a “good” version of Khan Noonian Singh. And it is proposed that his grandson was named after the despot, and that Data was ultimate culmination, once Arin decided to go into AI/robotics instead.

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-noonian/743939/6 "2016-01-23T22:28:33Z")

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They’d only related in that they’re both named after the same real life individual.

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-noonian/743939/7 "2016-01-23T22:36:28Z")

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So, _Star Trek: Noonian_ isn’t the latest TV spin-off? ☹

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-noonian/743939/8 "2016-01-23T23:26:16Z")

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Best friends with Dr Jackson Roykirk, too!