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Season 1 Episode 13
Episode: "Datalore"
Arguably my favourite story of Season 1. The Enterprise enters the Omicron Theta system for a quick visit to a former Earth colony, also the planet on which Lieutenant Commander Data was discovered. Commander Riker leads an away team down to the long abandoned and largely dead world, picking up on the location where Data was discovered some 26 years prior, the away team locate the hidden advanced cybernetics laboratory, a facility run by Data's creator, Doctor Noonian Soong. The away team find their way into Doctor Soong's lab where the make another startling discovery; another Data-like android disassembled in storage. Naturally we're all eager to see what happens when this android reassembled but unfortunately a can of worms is opened and this android, Lore despite looking, sounding and smelling like Data is actually unstable, ambitious and dangerous. - Data's evil twin!
We all knew he was a ticking timebomb! Lore shows us his true colours, starting with an assault on Data so that he can walk around the Enterprise mascarading as him (a fraudster). We learn that Lore has invited the Crystalline Entity that destroyed planet Omicron Theta to take all the life on the Enterprise (a murderer). And then after having successfully conned Riker into thinking that Lore was passed out on the floor of Data's living quarters, Lore delivers a couple of kicks to the head of an unconscious Data, smirking all the way (a sadist). And then he takes out Worf so that he can be presented as a starter to the Crystalline Entity when it arrives.
Season 1 Episode 13
Episode: "Datalore"
Arguably my favourite story of Season 1. The Enterprise enters the Omicron Theta system for a quick visit to a former Earth colony, also the planet on which Lieutenant Commander Data was discovered. Commander Riker leads an away team down to the long abandoned and largely dead world, picking up on the location where Data was discovered some 26 years prior, the away team locate the hidden advanced cybernetics laboratory, a facility run by Data's creator, Doctor Noonian Soong. The away team find their way into Doctor Soong's lab where the make another startling discovery; another Data-like android disassembled in storage. Naturally we're all eager to see what happens when this android reassembled but unfortunately a can of worms is opened and this android, Lore despite looking, sounding and smelling like Data is actually unstable, ambitious and dangerous. - Data's evil twin!
We all knew he was a ticking timebomb! Lore shows us his true colours, starting with an assault on Data so that he can walk around the Enterprise mascarading as him (a fraudster). We learn that Lore has invited the Crystalline Entity that destroyed planet Omicron Theta to take all the life on the Enterprise (a murderer). And then after having successfully conned Riker into thinking that Lore was passed out on the floor of Data's living quarters, Lore delivers a couple of kicks to the head of an unconscious Data, smirking all the way (a sadist). And then he takes out Worf so that he can be presented as a starter to the Crystalline Entity when it arrives.
