Character Star Trek: Picard · 2399

Spot II

Synthetic cat belonging to Altan Soong

An artificial cat made by Altan Inigo Soong on Coppelius and named after Data's pet, which wanders the synth settlement when Picard's party arrive in 2399.

Spot II appears in Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1, the penultimate episode of the first season of Picard. The animal is a cat that lives at Coppelius Station, the hidden colony of androids founded by Bruce Maddox and Altan Soong.
When Picard and his companions reach the settlement, the cat strolls up to them and Soong introduces it by name. It is not a living animal but one of his own creations, a small exercise in the same art that produced the humanoid synths around him.
The name looks back to Spot, the cat kept by Data aboard the Enterprise-D and Enterprise-E. Soong regarded Data as a brother, and the pet is one of several signs at the station of how strongly Data's memory shaped the community.