Soong-type android
- Appearance: Humanoid; specifically human-form in general structure
- Original design
- Pale skin, golden eyes
- Later designs
- Reconfigurable appearance able to resemble most humanoid species
- Original design
- Developed by Noonien Soong
- Physical structure
- Tripolymer substrate over a molybdenum-cobalt polyalloy skeleton (TNG Novel: The Buried Age)
- Computational hardware
- Positronic neural network (TNG)
- Linear computational speed of sixty trillion operations per second (TNG Novel: The Buried Age)
- Positronic neural network (TNG)
- Immune to most forms of radiation, including proton, beta, hyperonic (TNG Novel: The Buried Age; TNG: "The Ensigns of Command")
- Capable of surviving in vacuum for at least 24 hours with minor skin damage (TNG Short Story: "'Twould Ring the Bells of Heaven"; Star Trek: Nemesis)