Datalore (Episode)

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Datalore
"Datalore" (TNG114)

"Datalore" (TNG114)
Series Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 1
Episode 13
Production Number 114


Previous The Big Goodbye (TNG113)
Next Angel One (TNG115)
Released 18 Jan 1988
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(The root of all realities)


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.

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