I don't mean Data, Lore, or other android variants. That's a separate problem.
I'm talking about the (yes, there's some irony to this I know I know) eugenics fixation with having Dr. Soongs in almost every post-TNG show, all of course looking eerily alike no matter what generation they're from, and how they're all geniuses and none of them are failsons riding the glory and riches of their predecessors.
I know Trek has :LIB: coding to its core, but come on. :data-laughing:
Soong is a narcissistic freak for real, he keeps remaking himself. Plus, all the Soongs are supposed to be obsessive loners who presumably wouldn't have time or inclination for romance or procreation beyond literally cloning himself. I think they've all been clones - plus it gives Brent Spiner a chance to play multiple characters lol.
The Soong in Season 2 of Picard had a daughter that he certainly had some narcissistic pathology about but she wasn't a clone.
I think the headcanon may check out but the show doesn't directly support it.
The implication of "narcissists may be toxic to society but they also might be eccentric geniuses with totally unique one of a kind contributions to science that can't otherwise be attained" is a :brainworms: that needs to die.