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:
IMO Brent Spiner is an exceptionally talented television actor, and using him a lot probably seemed like a good idea on paper.
Which, I guess, represents a whole second layer of Great Man Theory brainworms.
If he played different characters the way Combs did I wouldn't mind.
It's always Great Man Theory narcissistic mad scientist and his androids/clones/whatever.