Datalore (Episode)
| Series | Star Trek: The Next Generation |
| Season | 1 |
| Episode | 13 |
| Production Number | 114
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| Previous | The Big Goodbye (TNG113) |
| Next | Angel One (TNG115) |
| Released | 18 Jan 1988 |
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Stardate 41242.4: Data meets his evil twin
Data experiences an almost human expectancy when the Enterprise returns to his home planet of Omicron Theta to discover the secret behind the disappearance of its 411 colonists twenty-six years before. An away team finds the lab of the reclusive Dr. Noonian Soong, a renegade Human scientist who originally built a "twin" of Data named Lore. Over time, the crew learns that Lore was disassembled at the demand of the colonists for being "too perfect." Data was the second model.
Lore's disassembled parts are found, reassembled, and reanimated aboard the ship. But the reasons for the android's original disassembly soon become clear — he turns Data off and assumes his identity. He then summons the huge life-draining crystalline entity that destroyed the colony years before, after being lured there by him as revenge for his disassembly.
Wesley Crusher senses the switch, but no one listens to him until it's nearly too late. Finally, his mother learns the truth as well and reactivates Data, but by then the crystalline entity is almost upon the ship. The two androids fight each other in a cargo bay until Lore is thrown into a transporter beam, and the crystalline entity departs.
Director
Rob Bowman
Story
Robert Lewin & Maurice Hurley
Writer
Robert Lewin & Gene Roddenberry
Starring
Patrick Stewart … Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes … Commander Will Riker
Brent Spiner … Lieutenant Commander Data
Gates McFadden … Dr. Crusher, Beverly
Marina Sirtis … Counselor Deanna Troi
Denise Crosby … Lieutenant Tasha Yar
LeVar Burton … Lieutenant, j.g. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn … Lieutenant, j.g. Worf
Wil Wheaton … Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher
Guest Starring
Brent Spiner … Lore
Biff Yeager … Lieutenant Commander Argyle
