Noonien Soong (2279-2384) was a male human in the 24th century. He was a descendant of infamous 22nd century geneticist Arik Soong, and himself one of Federation's greatest cyberneticists. (ENT episode: "Borderland"; TNG episode: "Datalore") He was of Asian heritage, and spoke Mandarin Chinese. Although his field of expertise was cybernetics and computer technology, he was also skilled in mathematics and physics and was a trivia buff on Terran science fiction. (FASA RPG module: Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual)