History Recap / StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore

The ship encounters the Crystalline Entity, and the ship's shields protect it from the feeding beam, but Lore has a plan to trick Picard into dropping the shields, offering to replicate a large tree and beam it out into space, then destroy it with phasers to demonstrate the ''Enterprise'''s power. He goes to the cargo bay and has a showdown with Data, who manages to get Lore onto a transporter pad so Wesley can beam Lore out. If beaming a tree into space and destroying it would result in dropping the shields enough for the entity to attack, then why doesn't beaming Lore into space have the same effect? This is never answered. Finally, Data is asked how he is handling the circumstances. Data says "'''I'm''' fine."

Series:Series/{{Star Trek The Next Generation}}\\

Title: Datalore\\
Previous: The Big Goodbye\\
Next: Angel One\\

The ship encounters the Crystalline Entity, and the ship's shields protect it from the feeding beam, but Lore has a plan to trick Picard into dropping the shields, offering to replicate a large tree for the Entity to feed on and beam it out into space. He goes to the cargo bay and has a showdown with Data, who manages to get Lore onto a transporter pad so Wesley can beam Lore out. If beaming a tree into space and destroying it would result in dropping the shields enough for the entity to attack, then why doesn't beaming Lore into space have the same effect? This is never answered. Finally, Data is asked how he is handling the circumstances. Data says "'''I'm''' fine."

!Tropes

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Upon detecting the Crystalline Entity, there's this very out-of-place line from Geordi:
-->"Captain, I'm picking up a bogey coming in on a five o'clock tangent."
* EvilTwin

-->'''Lore''': (to Wesley) Are you prepared for the kind of death you've earned, little man?

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Lore is left floating in space. It's later revealed he spent ''two'' years like this, until being picked up by the Pakleds.
* TheWorfEffect: The first case of it, as Lore easily kicks Worf's ass.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Lore is left floating in space. It's later revealed he spent ''two'' years like this, until being picked up by the Pakleds.

The ship encounters the Crystalline Entity, and the ship's shields protect it from the feeding beam, but Lore has a plan to trick Picard into dropping the shields, offering to replicate a large tree for the Entity to feed on and beam it out into space. He goes to the cargo bay and has a showdown with Data, who manages to get Lore onto a transporter pad so Wesley can beam Lore out. If beaming a tree into space and destroying it would result in dropping the shields enough for the entity to attack, then why doesn't beaming Lore into space have the same effect? This is never answered. Finally, Data is asked how he is handling the circumstances. Data says "I'm fine."

* ActingForTwo: Brent Spiner as both Data and Lore.

* {{Shibboleth}}: Data can't use contractions, Lore can. Although this failed spectacularly because Data is heard using a contraction right at the end! Fans fond of growing EpilepticTrees were briefly convinced that this meant Lore actually had somehow replaced or taken over Data, rather than just being a mistake.
* TakeThatScrappy: Probably unintentional, but many people cheered when Picard delivers the line "Shut up, Wesley!" Ironically, at a point when Wesley isn't being obnoxious and actually has a good point.

The ship encounters the Crystalline Entity, and the ship's shields protect it from the feeding beam, but Lore has a plan to trick Picard into dropping the shields, offering to replicate a large tree for the Entity to feed on and beam it out into space. He goes to the cargo bay and has a showdown with Data, who manages to get Lore onto a transporter pad so Wesley can beam Lore out.

* {{Shibboleth}}: Data can't use contractions, Lore can. Although this failed spectacularly because Data is heard using a contraction right at the end! Fans fond of growing EpilepticTrees were briefly convinced that this was meant to be an OrIsIt ending and Lore actually had somehow replaced or taken over Data, rather than just being a mistake.

* ActingForTwo: Brent Spiner as both Data and Lore
* CassandraTruth: Wesley told EVERYONE his suspicions and nobody listened. What makes it unforgivable is that THEY TOLD HIM TO CHECK ON DATA IN THE FIRST PLACE!

* {{Retcon}}: It was only with this episode that the production crew came up with the idea that Data never used contractions as a way to tell him apart from Lore, despite him having used them in earlier episodes (and even at the end of this one, thanks to a flub by Spiner).

* {{Retcon}}: It was only with this episode that the crew came up with the idea that Data never used contractions as a way to tell him apart from Lore, despite him having used them in earlier episodes (and even at the end of this one, thanks to a flub by Spiner).

-->'''Lore''': (to Wesley) Are you prepared for the kind of death you've earned, little man?

The Enterprise crew finds a disassembled android identical to Data at the site of the Omicron Theta colony—where Data was found—which was destroyed by a life form dubbed "the Crystalline Entity." The reassembled android, Lore, claims that Data was created first, and was considered the "less perfect" android. Lore is given a tour of the Enterprise, and later on he tricks Data into drinking something that immobilizes him. He then switches clothes with him, copies over his [[CharacterTics Facial Tic]] over to Data and erases his own, and pretends to be Data, claiming that "Lore" attacked him in his quarters. All this is for the purpose of bringing the Crystalline Entity to the Enterprise, which he had been in contact with and it was he who invited the Crystalline Entity to Omicron Theta in the first place, gaining its gratitude for all the life forms it consumed there.

Wesley Crusher is suspicious of "Data" (Lore), and is brushed off by the senior officers when he voices his concerns. He goes to Data's quarters and finds Data unconscious, and gets his mother, Dr. Crusher, to revive him.

* CompleteMonster: Lore. In spades.

* CassandraTruth: Wesley told EVERYONE his suspicions and nobody listened. What makes it unforgivable is that THEY TOLD HIM TO CHECK ON DATA IN THE FIRST PLACE!

* ActingForTwo: Brent Spiner as both Data and Lore

The Enterprise crew finds a disassembled android identical to Data at the site of the Omicron Theta colony—where Data was found—which was destroyed by a life form dubbed "the Crystalline Entity." The reassembled android, Lore, claims that Data was created first, and was considered the "less perfect" android. Lore is given a tour of the Enterprise, and later on he tricks Data into drinking something that immobilizes him. He then switches clothes with him, copies over his FacialTic over to Data and erases his own, and pretends to be Data, claiming that "Lore" attacked him in his quarters. All this is for the purpose of bringing the Crystalline Entity to the Enterprise, which he had been in contact with and it was he who invited the Crystalline Entity to Omicron Theta in the first place, gaining its gratitude for all the life forms it consumed there.

Title: DataLore\\

The Enterprise crew finds a disassembled android identical to Data at the site of the Omicron Theta colony—where Data was found—which was destroyed by a life form dubbed "the Crystalline Entity." The reassembled android, Lore, brings the Crystalline Entity to the Enterprise.

The Enterprise crew finds a disassembled android identical to Data at the site of the Omicron Theta colony—where Data was found—which was destroyed by a life form dubbed "the Crystalline Entity." The reassembled android, Lore, brings the Crystalline Entity to the Enterprise.