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Star Trek: Picard returned to Amazon's Prime Video with a brand new episode on Friday as the CBS show dealt with a new adventure. In the first few episodes, the show also hinted there

could be a surprise potential retuning character joining the series who could play a big role in Soji'sj (played by Isa Briones) story going forward. But, just who is Bruce Maddox

(Brian Brophy)? Express.co.uk exclusively spoke to Isa Briones about everything revealed so far about her character’s origins on the show and how Maddox might be involved. Fans were excited

to see the return of Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) for a new adventure in Star Trek: Picard. But it is just two episodes into the CBS and Amazon Prime Video show, and the creators

are already keeping viewers guessing with a number of twists and turns. The biggest of these so far is all about the origins of Dahj, who was revealed in the first episode to not only be

Data’s (Brent Spiner) daughter but also a twin to the mysterious Soji. So far the show has been dropping small pieces of information about her origins and just who this mysterious pair are.

And at the moment it all seems to focus around a surprising callback to The Next Generation - Bruce Maddox. READ MORE: STAR TREK: PICARD EPISODE 1 REVIEW: SPACE BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT  Star

Trek fans will remember how Maddox played an important role in just one episode of the original series. He was introduced in The Measure of a Man as a Starfleet cyberneticist who wanted to

take apart android Data for his research. At the time Maddox argued how Data was not a sentient being, which is seemingly at the heart of the new series where synthetics have been banned

from society. While in the series, Data refuses to take part, the enigmatic Maddox was mentioned again in a number of episodes including Data’s Day when the android revealed he was in

regular contact with him. Now viewers know there is even more to the story after it was revealed how he is thought to be the man who created both Dahj and Soji, drawing a part of Data’s body

to make them to make them Data’s daughters. In the opening episodes it was explained how Maddox attempted to recruit Dr Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill) to join him in his research before he

disappeared after the Attack on Mars. But will viewers meet in him the new show and what does he reveal about Soji’s beginnings? Express.co.uk exclusively spoke to actor Isa Briones in order

to try and find out just what is going on. The star was cagey when asked about whether Maddox will be playing a bigger role in future episodes, replying simply: “I don’t know - you’re just

going to have to watch about that one.” However, she did go own to reveal more about how her character will have to deal with the truth she is actually not human at all, but a synthetic.

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PROMO: WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT? [VIDEO] Briones said: “Obviously we can see these girls, by all appearances they look human and they feel human and to themselves they are human. “That is going

to be a big journey in discovering the truth and living with those two truths - because they have lived life as a human and now may find out they are something else. “Putting those two

truths together and finding out what that means for them - that’s the big journey.” And of course, Soji will have to deal with this truth in a society which has banned her kind, which is

something which feels particularly interesting to Briones. She continued: “I’m mixed race and I feel like the very parallels there between the struggle of racial identity and the struggle of

what Soji and Dahj go through of their identity is very similar. “And I always talk about how when you’re mixed race, you often get told ‘you’re this, you’re not that’ or ‘you’re not enough

that, you’re not Asian enough, you’re not white enough.”