Datalore

Omicron Theta is on the menu this episode.  Data's homeland, at least it was at one point, before it got turned into a dirt pile.  By.....something!  duh duh!  Before that we get a heartfelt scene of Data trying to learn how to sneeze for some god damn reason.  It is here we are also first introduced to his fortress of solitude:

Oh Data, you silly card!  Anyways, the away team gets to the planet, where every speck of life has been destroyed, including microbes, plants, etc.  Yet they can still breathe because dumbass writer dude didn't pay attention in 3rd grade and learn about photosynthesis.

Nitpicking aside, this is really a character development episode for dear Mr. Data and honestly his backstory is pretty rad.  Anyways, the away team finds a secret underground lair with Geordi's x-ray vision. Or whatever it is.

Some badass music is played during this part, and wikipedia tells it was done by a dude named Ron Jones.  Looked him up and apparently he does some of the music for Family Guy now, which, say what you want about that show but the music on it is bomb titties.  Of course stupid fat Rick Berman fired him in the 4th season.  Is he even fat?  In my mind he is Michael Moore fat, and smells bad.

Also lol - nice foreshadowing here with the children's drawings.  Of them dying.  Cheerful!

I'm kinda laughing at Data "remembering" things.  Then again, nitpicking ain't helping.  Some more scenes of Data seeing where he was built.

Cool mask bro. But then!  Crazy shit!

So yea, Data has a twin bro, named...Lore! whooaaaa never would have guessed it.  And of course he is evil, what else could he be?  Anyways we find out that Dr. Noonien Soong is a dude who made robots and then made these two.  Fat Chief Engineer is back in business here, building Lore.

Anyways, I give Brent Spiner a lot of shit for being a cheesedick but I suppose playing an emotionless robot, sorry, android, that still yearns to be human would be pretty tough.  I will say though that he does a good job playing Data, Lore, and later on, Noonien Soong.  He seems a lot less ridiculous as Data when playing against himself as Lore, which, again I would imagine is pretty tough.  But then again I am not an actor, just a hater.

Anyways, Lore is a straight up dick and tries to kill everybody on the ship after he killed every one on the planet with the "crystal entity".  Little whiny crybaby asshole Wesley manages to save the day yet again, so that is a bummer. They never really explain why Lore has such a hard on for that thing but he does, and it tries to kill everything with it's snowflake powers.

Some really great scenes of people telling to Wesley to shut up when the crystal bro gets there. Lore calls him the "troublesome little manchild", couldn't have said it better it myself. Almost kills him too, sigh. Anyways, shit doesn't work for Lore and he takes off....for now!