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Data Soong.
In an alternate reality, Data Soong was a version of the android Data who was revived from death following his sacrifice to defeat Shinzon at the Battle of the Bassen Rift. (ST - Coda novel: Oblivion's Gate)
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In 2382, a USS Titan crew member remarked that the Daystrom Institute had been trying to recover the mind of Lieutenant Commander Data for almost three years. (TTN novel: Seize the Fire)
In 2384, Data's memories were transferred into a new body designed and constructed by his father who at first transferred his own consciousness into the body in an effort to prolong his life for a continuation of his work on androids. This body was human in appearance and was even able to give off Human lifesigns. Overall, it was a better body than the one Noonien Soong had made for Data on Omicron Theta.
Soong had originally planned on resurrecting Data with a body even more advanced than the one he made for himself, but mid-construction, during the Borg invasion of 2381, Soong's lab was destroyed in a Borg attack. Having lost all of his work, Soong had no choice but to seek out other methods. Unfortunately, he found he was unable to make a new body in time to save Data's memories.
Having only one option, he came up with a way that would save B-4 and bring back Data in exchange for his life. His plan was put into motion at the last possible moment due to the sudden kidnapping of all the Soong-type androids. Soong chased the ship that stole the androids to a K class planet and indirectly solicited help from Enterprise. Soong went with an away team to recapture the androids from the Breen.
After dispatching the guards, Soong upgraded B-4's firmware so Data's memories would survive the transfer to Soong's own android body. When the transfer was successful, Soong deleted himself to allow Data to take over the new body. Though Soong had deleted his own consciousness, his collective knowledge and memories are still accessible to Data.
After his resurrection, he transported himself and his old compatriots onto Soong's ship, Archeus, and hailed the Enterprise, requesting permission to land. Picard rendezvoused with them in the landing deck; Worf being the first to descend from the ship, followed by La Forge, B-4 (carrying Lal) and, finally, Data, whom Picard had initially mistaken as the same person he had seen on Galor IV.
After a tearful, albeit brief reunion, Data denied Picard's offer to reactivate his commission. Later, while preparing to leave, Data professed his reasons for doing so to La Forge, who had come to see him off. Data proclaimed that he is not the android his friends had once known, but, rather, a new model or updated copy of his former self.
Before entering the Archeus, he leaves La Forge a quantum particle entanglement device, which, he explains, can be used to contact him immediately. He goes on to say that when he is ready, he will come back for Lal, whose body will be stored in a secure vault beneath Starfleet Command headquarters in San Francisco. Data then declares to La Forge how he intends to find Emil Vaslovik, who had revived Juliana Tainer after her total cascade failure, and inquire how to repair a positronic matrix after such an event, so that he may revive Lal. (TNG - Cold Equations novel: The Persistence of Memory)
In November 2385, Data, Shakti (Archeus A.I.) and Commander La Forge contacted Galen to discuss duplicating the Doctor's mobile emitter. Barclay, back on Galen, was happy to see his formerly dead friend Data resurrected. The Doctor confirmed the mobile emitter was non-replicable. (TNG novel: The Light Fantastic)