The fourth season saw Brent Spiner ( Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation ) as the imprisoned scientist Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of Data's creator ( Dr. Noonien Soong, also played by Spiner in at least two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation ), in a three-episode arc at the end of which Soong abandons the concept of improving mankind in favor of creating artificial intelligence: an allusion to what will eventually become Data.

In " Brothers ", Data reunites with Dr. Soong ( also portrayed by Spiner ).

Spiner also had a role in a Tales from the Darkside episode, " A Case Of The Stubborns ", as a priest who experiences a crisis of faith.

In 2004 Spiner returned to Star Trek when he appeared as Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of Data's creator Dr. Noonien Soong, whom he also played, in a three-episode story arc of Star Trek: Enterprise: " Borderland ", " Cold Station 12 ", and " The Augments ".

Spiner has also guest starred on the Syfy channel program Warehouse 13 as Brother Adrian in the third and fourth seasons.

Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols, who sang on some episodes of the show and also in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, also recorded two musical albums, and Brent Spiner of Star Trek: The Next Generation has recorded two.

Davidovich voices " Jester " in the video game adventure Chronomaster, which also includes the voices of actors Ron Perlman and Brent Spiner.

* " Borderland " is also the first episode in a three episode arc that features the highly anticipated return of Brent Spiner ( Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation ) as the criminal mastermind Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of the scientist who created Data.

It also stars Anjelica Huston, Lukas Haas, and Brent Spiner.

McCarthy also produced the album Ol ' Yellow Eyes Is Back by fellow Star Trek alum Brent Spiner.

The song was also recorded by Brent Spiner for his 1991 album Ol ' Yellow Eyes Is Back.

Cullen graduated from the University of Houston, giving great credit to his highly acclaimed acting mentor and University of Houston professor, Cecil Pickett, who also mentored such Houston born actors as Dennis Quaid, Randy Quaid, & Brent Spiner among others.

She studied drama under June Smith at Bellaire High and under Sidney Berger and Cecil Pickett at the University of Houston ( Pickett also coached other notable actors including Cindy Pickett, his daughter, Randy Quaid, Dennis Quaid, Brent Spiner, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl and Thomas Schlamme ).

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

Lieutenant Commander Data ( ) is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe portrayed by actor Brent Spiner.

Brent Spiner portrays the android Data ; rumors before the film's release suggested that since Data's skin had been largely removed at the end of the story, it would allow another actor to assume the role.

* The characters of Lore, Data, and Dr. Noonien Soong are all played by Brent Spiner.

To get into his role as Data, Spiner used the character of Robbie the Robot from the film Forbidden Planet as a role model.

Spiner reprised his role of Data in the Star Trek: Enterprise series finale " These Are the Voyages ..." in an off-screen speaking part.

Spiner felt that he had visibly aged out of the role and that Data was best presented as a youthful figure.

He played Governor Donald Cory in a 1969 episode of Star Trek entitled " Whom Gods Destroy ", and was going to play Doctor Noonien Soong in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Brothers " but illness prevented him from doing so ; Brent Spiner ultimately took over the role.

Ol ' Yellow Eyes Is Back is an album by Brent Spiner, best known for his role as Data in the American television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, first released in June 1991.

The show featured several defendants who appeared before the court again and again — notably the Wheelers, Bob and June ( Bob was played by Brent Spiner, later known for his role as Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation ), who initially pretended to be stereotypical hicks from West Virginia but were later revealed as Yugoslavians, and at one point even ran a concession stand in the courthouse.

* Eric Menyuk was originally intended for the role of Data in the series, but after Brent Spiner had been cast he was granted this guest appearance.

Menyuk was originally considered for the role of the android Data which was eventually given to Brent Spiner.

His first role on Broadway was in The Three Musketeers with Brent Spiner.

In 1991 Spiner recorded an album of 1940s pop standards entitled Ol ' Yellow Eyes Is Back, the title of which was a play on the yellow contact lenses Spiner wore as Data, and the title of a Frank Sinatra record, Ol ' Blue Eyes Is Back.

He selected that domain name because someone else bought the domain name brentspiner. com before he could do so, and he was not amenable to paying the price the owners demanded for it, which Spiner called " inflated ".

However, after Coto learned that Brent Spiner was interested in appearing on the show, Coto created the character of Arik Soong and removed Green from the story arc.

Gene Roddenberry told Brent Spiner that over the course of the series, Data was to become " more and more like a human until the end of the show, when he would be very close, but still not quite there.

In 1992 she appeared alongside fellow cast members Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, and Colm Meaney in a production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, which was performed in four cities.

Brent Jay Spiner was born February 2, 1949 in Houston, Texas, to Sylvia and Jack Spiner, who owned a furniture store.

After his father's death, Spiner was adopted by Sylvia's second husband, Sol Mintz, whose surname he used between 1955 and 1975.

Spiner was raised Jewish.

In 2005 Spiner appeared in a short-lived science-fiction television series, Threshold, which was canceled in November of that year after 13 episodes.

In March 2008 Spiner performed alongside Maude Maggart in a radio show / musical, Dreamland, which was released as a CD album.

The day after his guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory, it was announced that Spiner would guest-star in the Young Justice episode " Revelation ", providing the voice of the Joker.

Keith DeCandido for Tor. com thought that the pace of the episode was slow, but that both Patrick Stewart and Brett Spiner were standing out from the rest of the cast for good reasons.

According to Spiner, the album was released in Europe against his wishes after he had rejected attempts by the record company to renegotiate his contract.

* Brent Spiner as Bob Wheeler, a down-on-his-luck urban hillbilly who was a frequent defendant in Harry's courtroom, usually as the result of a series of freak disasters befalling him and his destitute family.

" Cold Station 12 " ( the working title was CS 12 ) features the returning Brent Spiner ( Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation ) as the criminal mastermind Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of the scientist who created Data.