Lore
Lore is a male television character who features in Star Trek.
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Biography
Lore was a creation of Dr. Noonian and Juliana Soong, completed in their lab on Omicron Theta in the year 2335. Lore was created before Data, and was actually superior to the later android in his emotional capabilities. Unfortunately, he quickly developed disturbingly antisocial tendencies. The other colonists at Omicron Theta saw Lore as a threat, and the Soongs were forced to dismantle him- but, unknown to them, Lore had summoned the enigmatic Crystalline Entity. Just after Data was completed, the creature attacked, destroying the colony and causing the few survivors to evacuate.
Soong placed Lore's components into storage, intending to eventually correct Lore's behavioral problems. Lore later harbored resentment towards his creator for abandoning him. Yet, when he met his father again on Terlina III and learned that Soong was dying, he was sincerely upset and, for a brief moment, he displayed a genuine concern for his father. Nevertheless, Lore's malevolent streak soon prevailed. (Episode: Brothers) Following Lore's communiques, the Crystalline Entity attacked Omicron Theta in 2338 and destroyed all life on the planet. Both Lore and Data were left behind, but Data was subsequently discovered by the crew of the USS Tripoli. Lore remained in Soong's laboratory until 2364, when the USS Enterprise-D arrived at the planet. The ship's chief engineer, Lieutenant Commander Argyle, and chief medical officer, Dr. Beverly Crusher, were successful in reactivating the android. (Episode: Datalore)
Nearly 30 years passed before Lore was discovered by the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D in 2364, and reconstructed. Lore quickly displayed his previous manipulative and sadistic behavior, and he was transported into space by Data when Lore attempted to take over the ship.
Lore drifted in space for nearly two years, until he was rescued by a passing Pakled trade ship. Lore subsequently responded to the homing signal intended by Soong to draw Data to Soong's new laboratory on Terlina III. After Soong had reactivated Lore, Lore expressed frustration at his father's 'dismissal' of him in favor of working on Data, but was apparently as close to upset as he could come when he learned that Soong was dying, protesting that his father seemed fine despite his obvious age. However, his grief for his father was overshadowed by his anger when he learned that Soong had summoned Data to him with the intention of giving Data an emotion chip that would allow him to feel Human emotions (as Data's emotionless "childhood" had given him a greater understanding of right and wrong). Lore became sore and resented his father's 'favoritism' of Data, despite Soong's protests that he had never designed a chip for Lore simply because he assumed that Lore had remained deactivated. Despite Soong's attempt to placate Lore, Lore nevertheless tricked Soong by posing as his brother and stealing the chip for himself. Because the chip was not designed for him, it caused Lore to become even more unstable and he mortally wounded Soong before departing the planet once again. (TNG: Brothers)
In 2369, Lore discovered a group of Borg that had been disconnected from the Borg Collective after integrating Hugh's sense of individuality into the hive. Lore styled himself their leader and gave his Borg individual names, coercing them into becoming his fanatical followers. He began cruel experiments on them, attempting to replace their organic brains with positronic components. Meanwhile, he somehow influenced their behavior, making their attacks more violent – they ceased to assimilate individuals, and instead began murdering them. Lore directed his Borg followers to launch attacks on targets in Federation space, in order to lure the Enterprise-D – and thus Data – in an elaborate attempt to use the emotion chip to manipulate Data to his side. Lore had modified the chip so that it could remotely instill anger and hatred in Data. Confused with his new emotions, and with his ethical subroutines deactivated, Data betrayed the crew of the Enterprise-D and joined Lore at his base. (TNG: Descent) Whilst in Borg captivity, Geordi La Forge was able to instruct Captain Jean-Luc Picard as to modifying a Borg interlink transceiver in order to reset Data's ethical program with a kedion pulse, restoring his sense of right and wrong. Data would still experience negative emotions; however, he could at least choose whether or not to act upon them. Upon realizing Lore's malign nature, Data fired upon and deactivated Lore, whose last words were "I… love you… brother." Lore was subsequently dismantled – and the emotion chip, though damaged, was removed and returned to its rightful owner. (TNG: Descent, Part II) Two years later, Data came to finally install the chip into his own body. (Movie: Star Trek Generations)
Data permanently deactivated and dismantled Lore, after extracting Soong's emotion chip.
Overview
Personality and attributes
An android, Lore was of the same model and appearance as Lt. Commander Data of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D.
Unlike Data, who is normally a curious and essentially good individual at his core, Lore is a clever, manipulative, and cunning individual who believes solely in self-preservation. Lore is also a jealous type and has many negative traits that humans traditionally associated with hostility and evil.
It was noted that he could easily handle human speech and use their contractions. (Episode: Datalore)
His brother Data highlighted that Lore had a habit of underestimating humans. (Episode: Datalore)
Lore was shown to be prideful of his abilities and claimed that his brother Data was jealous of him. Similarly, he claimed that the reason he was deactivated was because the human colonists of Omicron Theta were jealous of him. (Episode: Datalore)
Lore was an android who was the creation of Dr. Noonien Soong who had postulated the creation of a revolutionary positronic brain design. He was noted as being the first successful creation of the concept with him later gaining an android brother in Data. (Episode: Datalore)
Powers and abilities
Lore was a Soong-type android that was created to be one of the most advanced synthetic life forms created by the Federation. He shared an equal level of physical strength and mental abilities to his 'brother'. (Episode: Datalore)
Lore's emotional functions were more like organic creatures.
Lore's positronic net differed from Data due to possessing a Type-"L" phase discriminator when compared to Data's Type-"R". (Episode: Time's Arrow)
It was said that he was designed to be human-like and he claimed that he enjoyed pleasing humans. As a result of his programming, he was more easily able to handle human speech patterns. The use of syntax and grammar suggested he was given human memories similar to his brother Data. (Episode: Datalore)
Notes
- Lore was created by Robert Lewin and Maurice Hurley where he was portrayed by actor Brent Spiner and featured in the setting of the Star Trek universe.
