Probably the most loved android in science fiction, Lieutenant Commander Data (played by Brent Spiner) from Star Trek : The Next Generation had many storylines dedicated to him. He is a Soong type android, with a positronic brain, found outside the Omicron Theta science colony after it was destroyed. He was reactivated on 2 February, 2338, but had been active during the last months of the colony. His memory of those months was erased by his parents Dr Noonien Soong and Dr Juliana O'Donnell Tainer (formerly Soong).

Both his parents survived the destruction of the colony, although his mother was wounded and died later. Soong, unable to live without her, created an android in her image and transferred her neural pathways to it, then erased her memory of dying. By the time Data found her, 'she' was already remarried. She is a much more complex android than Data, able to mimic humans so well that only another android (Data) was able to catch her out [He figures it out from the way she blinks, and her perfect reproduction of a viola music piece. ] . Inside her, he found a message from his father telling him she would die if