Datalore

Episode aired Jan 16, 1988
TV-PGTV-PG
46m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

3.6K

YOUR RATING

Brent Spiner in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi

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 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 the planet where Data was created and discovers another android like him, but when he's assembled, he's not exactly like him.

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

3.6K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Rob Bowman
Writers
- Gene Roddenberry(teleplay by)
- Robert Lewin(teleplay by)
- Maurice Hurley(story by)
Stars

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Brent Spiner and LeVar Burton in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Gates McFadden in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Trivia
Rob Bowman credited Brent Spiner for making the episode work, giving one example, "He did the one scene in his own office with Brent sitting down and Lore discussing what it's like to be human. He did one side, we shot through a double, then turned around, read it the other way and shot the other half of it. Those two characters in those scenes are different people... he really painted those characters differently."

Goofs
During the pre-credit sequence, when Data and Wesley Crusher enter the bridge, Data declines the offer to pilot the ship into orbit. There follows a short cut-away showing an unknown crew member leaving the con so that Wesley can sit in the chair she occupied to pilot the craft himself. The crew member is clearly shown behind Wesley starting to proceed up the ramp towards the back of the bridge, yet when the camera switches back to Riker, Data and Picard, the crew member is not shown to walk behind them.

Quotes
Wesley Crusher: Sir, I know this may finish me as an acting ensign, but...
Capt. Picard: Shut up, Wesley!
[...]
Doctor Beverly Crusher: "Shut up, Wesley"?
Capt. Picard: Doctor.
Wesley Crusher: And since I am finished here, sir, may I point out that...?
Doctor Beverly Crusher: Shut up, Wesley!
Wesley Crusher: ...that everything that I have said would have been listened to if it came from an adult officer. - Request permission to return to my quarters, sir.
Capt. Picard: Agreed. Doctor, go with him.
Doctor Beverly Crusher: You're putting *me* off the bridge?
Capt. Picard: [sotto voce] I'm asking you to keep an eye on your son during all of this, Doctor.

Connections
Featured in Star Trek: Nemesis Review (2009)

Soundtracks
Star Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage

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Review

Top review

6/10

Wesley Saves The Day.... Again

This gets a pass because the first half is interesting, Worf gets his ass kicked again and Spiner does a great job.

Data having a brother is an intriguing notion but the execution is sloppy. What was Lore's motivation to help the CE? Why did Soon not just reprogram him? Which episode holds the record for most plot holes? When will the writers get tired of making everyone other than Wesley act like an idiot? Ugh.

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