1x13 Datalore - Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide

Star Trek: The Next Generation

- Episode 01x13

Episode: 01x13
Title: Datalore
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 114
First Aired: Jan. 18, 1988

Season 1 » Episode #13 - Datalore

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 01x13 Datalore

Summary: Stardate: 41242.4 The crew of Enterprise discovers another of Dr. Soong’s androids while attempting to investigate Data’s past. After they reassemble the newly found android, which also exactly resembles Data, they learn the android is named “Lore.” Lore tells the crew he is Data’s older more perfect brother. However, the crew soon learns why Lore was disassembled, as Lore soon leads the dreaded object known as the Crystalline Entity to Enterprise’s location for his own evil purposes, and the destruction of Enterprise and Data.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Captain Jean-Luc Picard	played by Patrick Stewart
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge	played by LeVar Burton
Lieutenant Tasha Yar	played by Denise Crosby
Doctor Beverly Crusher	played by Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi	played by Marina Sirtis
Lt. Commander Data	played by Brent Spiner
Wesley Crusher	played by Wil Wheaton
Beata	played by Karen Montgomery
Ramsey	played by Sam Hennings

	Season 1 / Episode 13: - Datalore Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: If this continues, there'll be no one left to run the ship. Doctor Beverly Crusher: If this continues, Lieutenant La Forge, nobody will be healthy enough to care.
	Season 1 / Episode 13: - Datalore Commander William T. Riker: [on Data's warning of breaking Starfleet rules by saving Ramsey's group] I'd rather face a court martial than live with the guilt of leaving these people to their deaths.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FACT: When the Enterprise begins to search for survivors of the freighter Oden, Picard orders La Forge to break fixed orbit. But a fixed orbit means that the ship remains above a given location constantly. The shot of the Enterprise shows the planet is rotating in one direction, while the Enterprise is moving in the opposite direction. That is a counter-rotational orbit.
FACT: Data says the inhabitants of Angel One are similar in development to mid-20th-century Earth. But on the planet the away team finds a disintegrator beam, indicating a technology far in advance of the 20th century.
CONT: When Yar beams down to meet with the Oden survivors for the first time, Yar begins the trip with her arms behind her back. When she rematerializes, however, her arms are at her side.
CONT: When Mistress Beata is talking with Riker in one scene her right arm is at her side. An instant later her right hand is massaging the back of his neck.
CHAR: Right before returning to the Enterprise, Data contacts the ship with the words "Standing by to beam up", on which he is beamed straight away. The term "stand by" usually means no more than "get ready (to beam up)", while the final command should have been "Energize!", as seen later in this episode and in many other examples.