Oh my word, finally an explanation for why Khan Noonien Singh and Dr Noonien Soong had such similar-sounding names! Holy shit it’s satisfying to have an answer for that.

It’s only satisfying from a Doylist point of view, from the Watsonian angle you still need either a remarkable coincidence or some secret connection between the two (which Arik Soong at least implies), but that’s what I had really been wondering about.