- The Enterprise visits the planet where Data was created and discovers another android like him, but when he's assembled, he's not exactly like him.
- The Enterprise visits Data's planet, Omicron Theta, to see if they can learn more about his somewhat unknown beginnings. The entire population of the planet died of unknown reasons many years previously with Data being found just around that time. Although they find no one alive, they do find a huge underground complex and, surprisingly, a disassembled version of Data. They re-build him and once activated, he introduces himself as Lor, an earlier and, he claims, a superior version of Data. He claims he was disassembled because he was so human-like that he frightened the local population. In fact, he knows far more than he is letting on and has the ability to call upon a crystalline entity of great destructive power, the very power that destroyed the planet and killed all of its inhabitants. All he has to do is find a way to impersonate Data.—garykmcd
- The crew is curious about a first visit to planet Omicron Theta, where Data was found when the earthly colonists there were wiped out mysteriously but fast. The away party returns with the components for an android just like Data, which is assembled aboard as similarly as possible. It claims being an older and better version of 'brother' Data, named Lore, which has more empathy with humans and certainly demonstrates superior grasp of human language and thought. Wesley is dismissed as if a rude brat when he honestly vents rising suspicions given their discredited human creator and the approach of a crystalline life form, which killed the colonists.—KGF Vissers
- The Enterprise visits Data's planet, Omicron Theta, to see if they can learn more about his somewhat unknown beginnings. The entire population of the planet died of unknown reasons many years previously with Data being found just around that time. The entire planet is now dead, with no vegetation or insects or even soil bacteria.
Although they find no one alive, they do find a huge underground complex and, surprisingly, a disassembled version of Data. They also find a lab belonging to Dr Noonien Soong, Earth's foremost robotic scientist, who was known to have been working on creation of a Positronic brain. But he was known to have failed in his quest. Inside the labs, they also find many drawings by kids, that show a glowing object in the sky frightening all the inhabitants of the planet below.
They re-build the disassembled version of Data and activate it. Data helps the Enterprise engineers by letting them see his own circuits and how he has been put together. He shows Beverly that he has an off switch but asks her to keep it a secret. The reassembled version introduces himself as Lor, an earlier and, he claims, a superior version of Data. He claims he was disassembled because he was so human-like that he frightened the local population. The local population asked Dr Soong to create a less perfect android and thus Data was made. He also claims that the Positronic brains inside Data and him are from Dr Noonien Soong and hence he was right after all. Lore also demonstrates how Data has limitations that were purposefully built in by Dr Soong to make him sound "less" human (he can't tell jokes, or say can't or isn't etc).
Lore tells Picard of a Crystalline entity, that feeds on the life force of all living beings. This was the entity that stuck Omicron Theta and kill everyone on the planet. In fact, he knows far more than he is letting on and has the ability to call upon a crystalline entity of great destructive power, the very power that destroyed the planet and killed all of its inhabitants. This is why Dr Soong had disassembled Lore in the first place. Lore was ambitious and wanted to cozy up to the entity by offering it life forms of the planet, and now Lore plans to conjure it on the Enterprise. All he has to do is find a way to impersonate Data. He knocks Data unconscious by mixing a sedative in his drink. He interchanges clothes and pretends to be Data. He tells Wesley that Lore attacked him when he found that he was being tracked. He then sends a signal to the entity inviting it to the Enterprise.
The entity duly arrives to meet the enterprise. Wesley suspects the current thing pretending to be Data to be actually Lore. He asks Picard to restrict Data's movements but is admonished. As the entity starts attacking, the Enterprise prepares to fire on it. Lore (as Data) asks Picard to speak to the entity and asks it back off, which it does. Then it requests permission to go to the transporter room and beam some living tissue next to the entity and then phaser it, to prove that Enterprise is dangerous. Picard sends a security team after him, but Lore (as Data) "handles" Worf. The plan is flawed since to transport the tissue, the Enterprise will have to lower Deflector shields for a split second, leaving it vulnerable to attack from the entity. Wesley goes to turn on Data with Beverly's help. Data stops Lore before he can turn off the deflector shields so that the entity can feed on the Enterprise. Data throws Lore into the transporter and Wesley beams him up, but doesn't materialize it back into matter. The entity moves away
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