History Recap / StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore

* {{Narm}}: When Picard says that nobody should feel uncomfortable talking about Data being a machine because humans are a type of machine as well, Riker's gigantic ecstatic smile seems a bit much.

* Narm: When Picard says that nobody should feel uncomfortable talking about Data being a machine because humans are a type of machine as well, Riker's gigantic ecstatic smile seems a bit much.

* {{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. Considering there was no way they could have missed the flub (since it's a ''plot point'') one wonder why they didn't just treat it like any other blooper and reshoot it.

* IdiotBall: Riker grabbed it quick to dismiss the possibility of Lore impersonating Data.

* ItIsDehumanizing: Several starfleet officers refer to Lore as "it" before he is reactivated, since they've only seen him as a collection of parts. Data draws attention to how their use of the term in insulting to him.

* ItIsDehumanizing: Data calls Picard out on this.

* MeaningfulName: Contrast the name "Data" meaning "facts, statistics, or items of information" with "Lore" meaning "the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject." The two are similar but data implies pure information and is dispassionate, while lore is less precise.

* TheUnapologetic: Picard and Riker never do apologize for being so dismissive of Wesley.
* TheWorfEffect: Lore easily kicks Worf's ass in the turbolift.

* ForTheEvulz: It's very unclear what exactly Lore gets out of his alliance with the Crystalline Entity that made him betray the colony in the first place.

* UncannyValley: A (supposed) in-universe example with Lore, who claims that he was deactivated because the Omicron Theta colonists found him too unsettling to live with. That said, given Lore's general behavior it's possible that he's being an UnreliableNarrator, and that he was actually deactivated for being a complete psychopath.

* DiscreditedMeme: In 2016, Creator/WilWheaton confirmed that he insta-bans [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore people that tweet "Shut up, Wesley!"]] to him on Twitter, even if it's in jest.

* TheUnapologetic: Picard and Riker never do apologize for being so dismissive of Wesley

* NoSell: Worf finds out the hard way that Lore is this.

* TheWorfEffect: The first case of it, as Lore easily kicks Worf's ass.

[[caption-width-right:350:Prepare for trouble, and make it double.]]

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."

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

[[caption-width-right:350:Get ready for trouble, and make it double.]]

* DoubleVision: Allowing Brent Spiner to play both Data and Lore, and including impressive split-screen effects so that his face can be seen on both characters at once.

[floatboxright:
Series: ''Series/{{Star Trek The Next Generation}}''\\
Episode: Season 1, Episode 12\\
Title: "Datalore"\\
Previous: "The Big Goodbye"\\
Next: "Angel One"\\
Recapper: Koby_Fish]

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

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 offering the ''Enterprise'' to the Crystalline Entity, which he had been in contact with and invited to Omicron Theta in the first place, gaining its gratitude for all the life forms it consumed there.

* AbsenteeActor: Troi does not appear. Unlike in [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E9HideAndQ "Hide and Q"]], no explanation for her absence is given.