History Recap / StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore

** Much is made of the revelation that Data was created by Soong, with all the officers being quite familiar with his work and his name on the tip of their tongues. Later it's revealed that Data looks exactly like young Soong. It's implausible no one in Data's career failed to notice this.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Upon detecting the Crystalline Entity, there's this very out-of-place line:

* TheWorfEffect: While Data has exhibited his SuperStrength before, Lore completely outclasses Worf in a fight, knocking the Klingon unconscious in a matter of few seconds. This scene establishes not only just how strong Lore is, but it goes a long way towards establishing just how strong Data is as well.

* TheWorfEffect: While Data has exhibited his SuperStrength before, Lore completely outclasses Worf in a fight, knocking the Klingon unconscious in a matter of few seconds. This scene establishes just how strong that not only Lore is, but it goes a long way towards establishing just how strong Data is as well.

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.

* TheWorfEffect: While Data has exhibited his SuperStrength before, Lore completely outclasses Worf in a fight, establishing his and Data's full power.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Prepare for trouble, and make it double.]]]]

--> '''Lore:'''...Wait! A small payment for your son's misdeeds. ''[he fires the phaser at Crusher anyways, hitting her in the shoulder, where her coat catches on fire as she's running. Data catches Lore's arm and they begin fighting.]''

* 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. Later Lore episodes don't outright confirm this interpretation but do lean fairly heavily into the idea. [[spoiler: when we meet Dr. Noonien Soong, Data and Lore's creator, in "Brothers," he outright states that the colonists weren't unsettled by Lore but afraid of him.]]

** Much later, on ''Series/StarTrekPicard,'' the ThemeNaming will be expanded with androids with other document-related names, such as Sutra, Saga, Arcana, Rune, Codex, etc.

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

---> '''Data:''' How sad, dear brother. You make me wish I were an only child.
---> '''Lore:''' ''[sees Wesley]'' Then why this marvelous gift? The troublesome little man-child. ''[with a wide-eyed {{Stepford Smile|r}} at Wesley]'' Are you prepared for the kind of death you've earned, little man?
---> ''[Dr. Crusher steps out from behind a pallet of containers with her phaser]''
---> '''Crusher:''' ''[threatening]'' If you take one step toward my son...
---> '''Lore:''' ''[sarcastically]'' Ah, motherhood.
---> ''[Lore grabs Data, pushes him into Crusher and grabs the phaser from her]''
---> '''Lore:''' ''[equally threatening]'' Back off, or I'll turn your little man into a torch.
--->...
---> '''Data:''' I will stay with Wesley, Doctor.
---> '''Lore:''' Go! Or he'll be shrieking by the count of five. ''[motions threateningly with the phaser]'' One, two, three, four...
---> ''[Beverly starts running]''
---> ...
---> '''Lore:'''...Wait! A small payment for your son's misdeeds. ''[he fires the phaser at Crusher anyways, hitting her in the shoulder, where her coat catches on fire as she's running. Data catches Lore's arm and they begin fighting.]''

* PrepareToDie:
-->'''Lore:''' ''[to Wesley]'' Are you prepared for the kind of death you've earned, little man?
* PushyGunTotingVillain: Lore, already crazed from the get-go, becomes this when Data confronts him with Wesley near the end of the episode, with Dr. Crusher hiding behind a pallet of cargo containers with a phaser:

---> ''[Dr. Crusher steps out from behind the containers with her phaser]''

* PushyGunTotingVillain: Lore, already crazed from the get-go, becomes this upon his first appearance in the series, when Data confronts him with Wesley near the end of the episode, with Dr. Crusher hiding behind a pallet of cargo containers with a phaser:

* 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. Later Lore episodes don't outright confirm this interpretation but do lean fairly heavily into the idea. [[spoiler: when we meet Dr. Noonien Soong, Data and Lore's creator, in "Brothers," he outright states that the colonists weren't unsettled by Lore but afraid of him.

* 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. Later Lore episodes don't outright confirm this interpretation but do lean fairly heavily into the idea.