1 00:00:02,377 --> 00:00:06,173 Picard: Captain's log, stardate 412424. 2 00:00:06,340 --> 00:00:08,091 Our last assignment has taken us into 3 00:00:08,258 --> 00:00:10,761 the remote omicron theta star system, 4 00:00:10,928 --> 00:00:14,181 home of our Android crewmember, lieutenant commander data. 5 00:00:14,348 --> 00:00:16,308 Although we 're due at our next assignment, 6 00:00:16,475 --> 00:00:19,937 [have decided to visit data's home planet for a few hours, 7 00:00:20,103 --> 00:00:24,733 in the hopes of unraveling some of the mystery of his beginnings. 8 00:00:25,025 --> 00:00:28,695 Sir, we are now 20 minutes from omicron theta. Mark. 9 00:00:30,197 --> 00:00:31,782 Stand by for subwarp. 10 00:00:31,949 --> 00:00:33,549 Head for standard orbit of data's planet. 11 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:35,536 Wonder why data hasn't come up here. 12 00:00:35,702 --> 00:00:37,996 He said he wanted to be alone. 13 00:00:38,163 --> 00:00:41,208 Perhaps this is a bigger moment for him than we thought. 14 00:00:49,132 --> 00:00:50,717 Choo! 15 00:00:52,219 --> 00:00:55,264 - What are you doing? - Sneezing. 16 00:00:56,139 --> 00:00:59,059 - Have you got a cold? - A cold what? 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,520 It's a disease my mom says people used to get. 18 00:01:01,687 --> 00:01:05,774 Ah. But humans still sneeze for other reasons. 19 00:01:05,941 --> 00:01:08,485 And I cannot seem to do it right. 20 00:01:11,989 --> 00:01:14,700 How can you be practicing something like sneezing 21 00:01:14,866 --> 00:01:17,411 when we're arriving at your home planet for the first time? 22 00:01:17,578 --> 00:01:21,123 - Aren't you interested in that? - More than interested. Fascinated. 23 00:01:21,290 --> 00:01:25,168 One might say agog. But I also find sneezing interesting. 24 00:01:25,335 --> 00:01:28,130 Choo! Ch...! 25 00:01:29,464 --> 00:01:32,426 Captain picard wishes to see you on the bridge. 26 00:01:33,385 --> 00:01:37,264 Tasha: Captain, confirming class m reading there 27 00:01:37,431 --> 00:01:39,433 but the sensors aren't showing any life readings. 28 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,518 - Not even vegetation. - Strange. 29 00:01:41,685 --> 00:01:44,855 The cruiser that found data reported farmlands there. 30 00:01:46,064 --> 00:01:47,899 Do you want to take her into orbit, data? 31 00:01:48,066 --> 00:01:49,985 No, thank you, sir. 32 00:02:14,051 --> 00:02:18,263 - Continue on into close parking orbit. - La forge: Aye, sir. 33 00:02:18,889 --> 00:02:21,558 I could say "home, sweet home," sir. 34 00:02:22,059 --> 00:02:24,102 If I understood how the word "sweet" apphes. 35 00:02:24,269 --> 00:02:26,313 It usually refers to memories. 36 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,774 It usually refers to one's own memories, captain. 37 00:02:28,940 --> 00:02:32,152 Do the memories you have include farms, data? 38 00:02:32,319 --> 00:02:33,612 Affirmative, sir. 39 00:02:33,779 --> 00:02:35,739 But the colony's principal interest was science. 40 00:02:35,906 --> 00:02:39,951 Data, I don't understand how you can hold the memories of 411 people. 41 00:02:40,118 --> 00:02:42,829 If that means every experience, every day of their life... 42 00:02:42,996 --> 00:02:45,374 It does not, unfortunately. 43 00:02:45,540 --> 00:02:47,959 It means only the knowledge they had accumulated. 44 00:02:48,126 --> 00:02:51,338 Actually, I'm quite deficient in some basic human information. 45 00:02:51,505 --> 00:02:54,383 - Sneezing, for example. - Sneezing? 46 00:02:54,549 --> 00:02:56,718 Approaching close parking orbit, sir. 47 00:02:56,885 --> 00:02:59,346 Assemble your away party, commander. 48 00:03:01,098 --> 00:03:03,642 This must be an exciting time for you, Mr. Data. 49 00:03:03,809 --> 00:03:05,560 I'm tempted to lead the away team myself, 50 00:03:05,727 --> 00:03:08,480 except that my first officer would object. 51 00:03:08,647 --> 00:03:10,399 How would starfleetjudge me if I didn't? 52 00:03:10,565 --> 00:03:12,734 An entire earth colony did disappear down there. 53 00:03:12,901 --> 00:03:14,277 You see? 54 00:03:16,530 --> 00:03:18,281 Now in close parking orbit, sir. 55 00:03:18,824 --> 00:03:22,619 Mr. Data, welcome home. 56 00:03:47,144 --> 00:03:51,148 Picard: Space, the final frontier. 57 00:03:52,023 --> 00:03:55,819 These are the voyages of the starship enterprise. 58 00:03:55,986 --> 00:04:00,782 Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, 59 00:04:01,908 --> 00:04:05,787 to seek out new life and new civilizations, 60 00:04:06,496 --> 00:04:10,667 to boldly go where no one has gone before. 61 00:05:13,980 --> 00:05:18,026 Ri ker: First officer's log. Stardate 4124.5. 62 00:05:18,193 --> 00:05:21,154 We have found data's home to be a completely dead world. 63 00:05:21,321 --> 00:05:26,076 Down to lifeless vegetation. No insects, not even soil bacteria. 64 00:05:26,243 --> 00:05:30,038 What is it that could kill everything on an entire planet? 65 00:05:35,710 --> 00:05:38,797 Recording signal locked onto the enterprise, sir. 66 00:05:38,964 --> 00:05:42,634 - This looks like anything but farmland. - La forge: Agreed, sir. 67 00:05:43,552 --> 00:05:46,721 The soil appears almost completely lifeless. 68 00:05:47,180 --> 00:05:49,099 This is the exact position in the Tripoli log. 69 00:05:49,266 --> 00:05:50,976 Do you recognize anything, data? 70 00:05:51,142 --> 00:05:53,311 The land contours are familiar, sir. 71 00:05:53,478 --> 00:05:56,147 Topographically, this is the correct area. 72 00:05:56,314 --> 00:05:57,440 This once was rich farmland. 73 00:05:57,607 --> 00:06:00,318 I'd say something like 20 to 30 years ago. 74 00:06:00,485 --> 00:06:02,946 I was discovered 26 years ago. 75 00:06:03,113 --> 00:06:06,157 Commander, I'd say that everything on this planet was either dead 76 00:06:06,324 --> 00:06:08,410 or dying at the time data was found. 77 00:06:08,577 --> 00:06:11,788 I was found 20 meters in that direction, sir. 78 00:06:18,545 --> 00:06:22,799 Tasha: Data, any idea at all why you were given the colonists' memories? 79 00:06:22,966 --> 00:06:24,806 Data: I always felt that it was done hurriedly, 80 00:06:24,968 --> 00:06:26,678 but I know little more. 81 00:06:27,137 --> 00:06:30,432 Here, sir, this is where the cruiser's landing party 82 00:06:30,599 --> 00:06:33,560 found the signal device that led them here. 83 00:06:35,270 --> 00:06:38,523 And they found me lying there. 84 00:06:42,152 --> 00:06:44,487 Tasha: You were just lying out there in the open? 85 00:06:44,738 --> 00:06:47,449 No identity record, no instructions? 86 00:06:48,199 --> 00:06:50,076 Only a layer of dust. 87 00:06:50,243 --> 00:06:52,537 What's the first thing you remember, data? 88 00:06:52,704 --> 00:06:58,585 Opening my eyes, looking into the eyes of the Tripoli landing party. 89 00:06:59,044 --> 00:07:03,548 They believed the signal device sensed their presence and activated me. 90 00:07:03,715 --> 00:07:06,509 Then this very spot was your birthplace. 91 00:07:07,969 --> 00:07:09,638 La forge: Commander... 92 00:07:11,723 --> 00:07:14,017 I think I've got this place figured out here. 93 00:07:14,184 --> 00:07:16,603 This was very cleverly done. 94 00:07:16,770 --> 00:07:20,815 To make this look like a natural hollow in the terrain here. 95 00:07:20,982 --> 00:07:23,777 There are signs of it being constructed in a hurry, 96 00:07:23,944 --> 00:07:25,779 as if to hide something here. 97 00:07:25,946 --> 00:07:29,115 Yes, that was it, geordi. 98 00:07:29,407 --> 00:07:32,494 This awakens a memory remnant of how the colonists 99 00:07:32,661 --> 00:07:34,329 hoped to remain hidden. 100 00:07:34,913 --> 00:07:40,627 But their fear of being discovered led to their storing information in me. 101 00:07:42,629 --> 00:07:45,507 Heh, yeah, thought so. 102 00:08:14,744 --> 00:08:17,247 No life readings in here either, sir. 103 00:09:17,223 --> 00:09:20,268 The colonists' laboratory, extremely well equipped. 104 00:09:20,435 --> 00:09:22,437 Does this stir any memories, data? 105 00:09:22,604 --> 00:09:26,816 Only a vague impression of some of my functions being tested here. 106 00:09:32,572 --> 00:09:34,407 Posted by proud parents. 107 00:09:35,450 --> 00:09:39,412 It depicts something that feels familiar, sir. 108 00:09:39,579 --> 00:09:41,331 And dangerous. 109 00:09:41,748 --> 00:09:44,250 But I have no idea what it represents. 110 00:09:47,545 --> 00:09:52,008 Except for an impression 111 00:09:52,926 --> 00:09:57,347 of this being at Dr. Soong's work area. 112 00:09:57,514 --> 00:09:58,723 Who? 113 00:09:58,890 --> 00:10:00,600 You don't mean Dr. Noonien soong? 114 00:10:00,767 --> 00:10:02,227 Data: He was called that here. 115 00:10:02,393 --> 00:10:05,438 But his memories indicate he traveled here under a different name. 116 00:10:05,605 --> 00:10:08,024 Dr. Noonien soong, my friend, happens to have been 117 00:10:08,191 --> 00:10:10,068 earth's foremost robotic scientist. 118 00:10:10,235 --> 00:10:13,863 Until he tried to make Asimov's dream of a positronic brain come true. 119 00:10:14,364 --> 00:10:17,575 The positronic brain. He promised so much. 120 00:10:17,742 --> 00:10:22,288 And then when he failed completely, Dr. Soong disappeared. 121 00:10:22,455 --> 00:10:25,625 Now we know he went somewhere else to try a second time. 122 00:10:25,792 --> 00:10:28,962 Data, geordi, we'll get a close look at this lab. 123 00:10:29,129 --> 00:10:31,609 You and lieutenant worf reconnoiter where those corridors lead. 124 00:10:31,756 --> 00:10:32,924 Aye, sir. 125 00:11:05,123 --> 00:11:09,669 La forge: Data, it's you. Riker: An epidermal mold. 126 00:11:10,211 --> 00:11:12,505 Made to give your exterior the desired finish. 127 00:11:12,672 --> 00:11:14,712 Tasha: Lieutenant yar to commander riker. 128 00:11:14,841 --> 00:11:15,884 Come in, lieutenant. 129 00:11:16,050 --> 00:11:17,844 Tas ha: Sir, this installation is big enough 130 00:11:18,011 --> 00:11:19,470 to hold hundreds of people. 131 00:11:19,637 --> 00:11:21,598 But all that's here now is empty beds. 132 00:11:21,764 --> 00:11:22,924 Riker: Thank you, lieutenant. 133 00:11:23,057 --> 00:11:25,351 Complete your record scans and report back here. 134 00:11:25,518 --> 00:11:29,731 La forge: Commander riker, looks like some sort of storage area. 135 00:11:47,248 --> 00:11:50,376 - How many more datas are there? - Looks like just these two. 136 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,214 I mean that, and the real data. 137 00:12:06,935 --> 00:12:11,731 Commander, can this be another me? 138 00:12:13,775 --> 00:12:15,485 Or possibly my brother? 139 00:12:16,819 --> 00:12:18,821 I honestly don't know, data. 140 00:12:21,449 --> 00:12:24,452 - He needs assembling. - Riker: "He"? 141 00:12:25,620 --> 00:12:30,208 Data, we don't know that this can become alive. 142 00:12:31,793 --> 00:12:35,255 It is very important for me to know that, sir. 143 00:12:36,297 --> 00:12:40,426 I never dreamed it was possible that I might find some link 144 00:12:41,261 --> 00:12:43,304 with a form like my own. 145 00:12:44,055 --> 00:12:47,850 Understood. We'll take it back to the ship with us. 146 00:12:54,857 --> 00:12:59,153 Picard: Captain's log, stardate 41242.45. 147 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:00,905 Despite having only a few hours 148 00:13:01,072 --> 00:13:03,241 in which to explore data's home planet, 149 00:13:03,408 --> 00:13:07,287 we have discovered something which may explain data's beginnings, 150 00:13:07,453 --> 00:13:12,667 if we can properly assemble and communicate with what we've found. 151 00:13:47,243 --> 00:13:51,289 Signal from the captain. They need you at the debriefing. 152 00:13:52,290 --> 00:13:55,877 I've been most anxious to hear the chief engineer's opinion, Mr. Argyle. 153 00:13:56,044 --> 00:13:58,546 Do you believe he can be made to function? 154 00:13:58,838 --> 00:14:01,591 It appears to include all the components in your body. 155 00:14:01,758 --> 00:14:04,719 Heh, not that we fully understand your construction either. 156 00:14:04,886 --> 00:14:09,599 We have our top specialists working on its construction, Mr. Data. 157 00:14:09,891 --> 00:14:13,770 Uh, just one thing. Without disassembling you, of course, 158 00:14:13,936 --> 00:14:16,439 if we should need more to... 159 00:14:18,274 --> 00:14:22,362 If we should need to compare this with the way 160 00:14:22,528 --> 00:14:24,906 you're put together... 161 00:14:27,325 --> 00:14:30,578 Bringing it up here was the right thing to do, number one. 162 00:14:32,538 --> 00:14:34,749 We were just saying that if your duplicate functions, 163 00:14:34,916 --> 00:14:37,293 it may answer a lot of questions. 164 00:14:42,173 --> 00:14:46,969 Does it appear to have, um, all your parts? 165 00:14:47,762 --> 00:14:50,515 - Completely, sir. - La forge: Will... 166 00:14:53,101 --> 00:14:56,687 - Will we know how to turn it on? - Picard: All right. 167 00:14:57,021 --> 00:14:58,523 All right. 168 00:14:59,899 --> 00:15:03,444 Legitimate questions about any of this need not be asked apologetically. 169 00:15:03,611 --> 00:15:06,072 You feel uncomfortable about aspects of your duplicate. 170 00:15:06,239 --> 00:15:09,117 We feel uncomfortable too, and for no logical reason. 171 00:15:10,076 --> 00:15:13,121 If it feels awkward to be reminded that data is a machine, 172 00:15:13,287 --> 00:15:17,250 just remember that we are merely a different variety of machine 173 00:15:17,417 --> 00:15:20,086 in our case, electro-chemical in nature. 174 00:15:20,253 --> 00:15:23,047 Let's begin to handle this as we would do anything else. 175 00:15:23,214 --> 00:15:26,884 - Agreed, captain. - Let's begin with you, data. 176 00:15:27,135 --> 00:15:32,890 Well, sir, a good starting point may be, why was I given human form? 177 00:15:33,057 --> 00:15:36,936 Well, to make it easier for humans to relate to you. Had to be. 178 00:15:37,103 --> 00:15:39,583 But your designer may have had something else to prove as well. 179 00:15:39,730 --> 00:15:42,358 That human-shaped robots need not be clumsy 180 00:15:42,525 --> 00:15:44,527 or limited in their performance. 181 00:15:44,694 --> 00:15:46,946 You certainly operate as well as we do, data. 182 00:15:47,113 --> 00:15:48,739 Better in some ways, sir. 183 00:15:50,366 --> 00:15:52,406 Riker: You might wanna have a look at this, captain. 184 00:15:52,535 --> 00:15:54,745 Could be a link to the disappearance of the colonists. 185 00:15:54,912 --> 00:15:57,707 It was displayed in the lab, no doubt by proud parents. 186 00:15:57,874 --> 00:15:59,434 It could be just a child's imagination, 187 00:15:59,584 --> 00:16:02,086 but several children did similar drawings. 188 00:16:04,046 --> 00:16:05,886 Crusher: Dr. Crusher to the captain. 189 00:16:06,048 --> 00:16:09,302 At this point, sir, we very much need Mr. Data's help. 190 00:16:11,888 --> 00:16:13,848 He's on his way, doctor. 191 00:16:20,021 --> 00:16:21,661 Argyle: Is the electromagnetic synthometer 192 00:16:21,814 --> 00:16:22,982 reading positive or negative? 193 00:16:23,149 --> 00:16:24,192 Technician: Positive. 194 00:16:24,358 --> 00:16:26,652 Press your fingers there, doctor. 195 00:16:33,117 --> 00:16:35,328 It operates almost as a switch. 196 00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:39,332 And these small projections? 197 00:16:40,333 --> 00:16:42,627 An Android alarm clock. 198 00:16:43,419 --> 00:16:45,171 Is that amusing? 199 00:16:47,131 --> 00:16:49,926 They time how long I remain unconscious. 200 00:16:50,968 --> 00:16:53,679 Are you certain about us using these heating devices, data? 201 00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:56,057 I will feel nothing at all. 202 00:16:56,224 --> 00:16:57,558 Marvelous. 203 00:16:57,725 --> 00:17:01,646 It should be a lot simpler once we see how your circuitry's connected. 204 00:17:07,109 --> 00:17:11,405 I won't mention it to anyone. You have my word. 205 00:17:11,572 --> 00:17:17,078 If you had an off-switch, doctor, would you not keep it secret? 206 00:17:18,788 --> 00:17:20,164 I guess I would. 207 00:17:32,468 --> 00:17:36,847 Argyle: Yes, notice the micro-circuitry here. And here. 208 00:17:38,349 --> 00:17:41,435 And another fibroid-like connection here. 209 00:17:43,688 --> 00:17:45,481 Let's close up. 210 00:17:57,451 --> 00:18:00,871 It seemed to go well, thanks to a look inside Mr. Data, 211 00:18:01,038 --> 00:18:03,666 but there have been no signs of consciousness yet. 212 00:18:12,592 --> 00:18:14,552 Riker: Certainly is a good match for data, sir. 213 00:18:15,177 --> 00:18:17,096 Picard: Do you think so, really? 214 00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:20,600 I wonder which of them was made first. 215 00:18:22,351 --> 00:18:23,394 He was. 216 00:18:27,106 --> 00:18:31,569 But they found him to be imperfect, and I was made to replace him. 217 00:18:39,452 --> 00:18:41,412 You may call me lore. 218 00:18:52,214 --> 00:18:57,178 But I am also troubled by it describing you as imperfect. 219 00:18:57,345 --> 00:18:59,555 Human language gives me difficulty too, sir. 220 00:18:59,722 --> 00:19:03,059 "Imperfect" could mean that I lack certain abilities he possesses. 221 00:19:03,267 --> 00:19:04,685 Hmm, I wonder. 222 00:19:04,852 --> 00:19:08,773 But the point of this is whether you and it have approximately 223 00:19:08,939 --> 00:19:11,400 - the same capabilities. - We do, sir. 224 00:19:11,567 --> 00:19:14,236 And your referring to him as "it" 225 00:19:14,612 --> 00:19:18,866 suggests that I too fit into the category of a thing. 226 00:19:19,033 --> 00:19:22,536 Oh, yeah, I see your point. 227 00:19:23,496 --> 00:19:26,582 - My apologies. - Gladly accepted, sir. 228 00:19:26,749 --> 00:19:29,752 As for lore's abilities, his use of syntax and grammar 229 00:19:29,919 --> 00:19:32,505 suggests he was given human memories similar to my own. 230 00:19:32,672 --> 00:19:35,633 And you have about equal physical strength and mental abilities? 231 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,176 I believe so, sir. 232 00:19:37,343 --> 00:19:41,180 Which requires that I now ask you a very serious question. 233 00:19:41,347 --> 00:19:46,060 Since the two of you are so closely related to each other... 234 00:19:46,227 --> 00:19:49,522 The answer, sir, is that my loyalty is to you. 235 00:19:49,689 --> 00:19:52,149 And starfleet. Completely. 236 00:19:54,944 --> 00:19:58,948 Thank you, commander. I was certain of that. 237 00:19:59,115 --> 00:20:00,658 La forge: And helm control is here, 238 00:20:00,825 --> 00:20:04,036 with the ship's heading being given in measurements we call degrees. 239 00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:07,206 Three hundred sixty of them in a full circle this way. 240 00:20:07,373 --> 00:20:09,709 - Then you say "Mark." - On the nose. 241 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:12,670 Which separates it from another full 360 degree circle, 242 00:20:12,837 --> 00:20:15,881 this way, on a right angle to this one. 243 00:20:16,048 --> 00:20:18,592 So by ordering a heading so many degrees this way, 244 00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:22,471 and so many this way, the ship can travel in any direction. 245 00:20:22,638 --> 00:20:24,265 All three dimensions. 246 00:20:24,432 --> 00:20:26,642 And the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle... 247 00:20:26,809 --> 00:20:29,478 Is equal to the sum of the square of the other two... 248 00:20:30,479 --> 00:20:35,443 Two something. Which I once heard, but never understood. 249 00:20:35,609 --> 00:20:37,329 Data: All of which you will learn more about 250 00:20:37,486 --> 00:20:40,322 when the captain has approved your being on the bridge. 251 00:20:41,115 --> 00:20:42,742 Have I committed an offense? 252 00:20:42,908 --> 00:20:47,246 You will find that there are many rules on starships that must be learnt. 253 00:20:48,205 --> 00:20:50,332 You're very clever, Wesley. 254 00:20:50,499 --> 00:20:52,793 I now have duties to perform, correct? 255 00:20:53,169 --> 00:20:55,963 Were you ever this anxious to please, data? 256 00:20:56,130 --> 00:21:00,259 Never. I judge lore to be superior in that desire. 257 00:21:00,885 --> 00:21:04,180 Because I was designed to be so human, my brother, 258 00:21:04,346 --> 00:21:05,765 I enjoy pleasing humans. 259 00:21:05,931 --> 00:21:10,186 "My brother." That has a nice sound to it, data. 260 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:14,440 You consider it important to please humans. 261 00:21:15,316 --> 00:21:16,484 It's not important? 262 00:21:17,860 --> 00:21:21,739 There are many things of importance, some more than others. 263 00:21:36,712 --> 00:21:39,381 Do you realize that commander riker's hypotenuse question 264 00:21:39,548 --> 00:21:41,550 tricked you into showing your knowledge was greater 265 00:21:41,717 --> 00:21:42,760 than you were indicating. 266 00:21:42,927 --> 00:21:47,431 Hmm. He didn't seem that clever. I'll be more careful. 267 00:21:47,598 --> 00:21:50,184 You tend to underestimate humans, my brother. 268 00:21:50,351 --> 00:21:53,062 Praising young Wesley on the helm, for example. 269 00:21:54,939 --> 00:21:59,193 He has a child's body, but we have found him to be much more. 270 00:22:00,861 --> 00:22:03,614 Thank you for that information too. 271 00:22:04,198 --> 00:22:06,617 You do care about how I perform. 272 00:22:06,784 --> 00:22:10,120 I pledge to be worthy of your teaching, my brother. 273 00:22:10,621 --> 00:22:13,624 Try not to be jealous of my abilities. 274 00:22:32,142 --> 00:22:34,520 What information are you requesting? 275 00:22:35,521 --> 00:22:38,315 Everything available on a Dr. Noonien soong. 276 00:22:38,482 --> 00:22:42,152 Ah, good old "often wrong soong." 277 00:22:45,281 --> 00:22:46,699 A joke, brother. 278 00:22:47,616 --> 00:22:50,703 Actually, he was a genius by human standards. 279 00:22:51,787 --> 00:22:53,707 But he had destroyed his own reputation by making 280 00:22:53,873 --> 00:22:57,960 what seemed wild promises about his positronic brain design. 281 00:22:58,127 --> 00:23:00,254 Almost all of which failed. 282 00:23:00,421 --> 00:23:03,465 Promises he later proved to be true. 283 00:23:05,634 --> 00:23:08,304 Which made you and me possible, brother. 284 00:23:09,889 --> 00:23:12,182 Our beloved father. 285 00:23:13,851 --> 00:23:16,770 Will I soon have a uniform like that, brother? 286 00:23:17,354 --> 00:23:20,733 If you get one the way I did, lore, it will mean four years at the academy, 287 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:22,234 another three as ensign, 288 00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:25,321 10 or 12 on varied space duty in the lieutenant grades... 289 00:23:25,487 --> 00:23:29,950 A system designed to compensate for limited human ability. 290 00:23:30,117 --> 00:23:31,744 And you, brother, 291 00:23:31,911 --> 00:23:34,496 are beginning to think as a human. 292 00:23:34,914 --> 00:23:38,417 You and I are completely different from them. 293 00:23:38,584 --> 00:23:42,004 Are you truly satisfied with the knowledge and memory 294 00:23:42,171 --> 00:23:45,674 of a few hundred human colonists? 295 00:23:45,841 --> 00:23:50,054 Suppose it could reflect thousands or millions? 296 00:23:50,220 --> 00:23:55,601 Or the knowledge of hundreds of millions of life forms of every kind? 297 00:23:58,729 --> 00:23:59,897 How? 298 00:24:00,856 --> 00:24:02,858 We will discuss that in time. 299 00:24:03,025 --> 00:24:08,322 And will we also discuss, lore, which of us was constructed first? 300 00:24:08,906 --> 00:24:14,286 It would be foolish to underestimate you, brother. 301 00:24:14,703 --> 00:24:18,457 Yes, I lied when I said you were made first, but with good reason. 302 00:24:18,624 --> 00:24:21,877 Dr. Soong made me perfect in his first attempt. 303 00:24:22,044 --> 00:24:23,921 But he made me so completely human 304 00:24:24,088 --> 00:24:26,423 the colonists became envious of me. 305 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:28,842 You lived with the colonists? 306 00:24:29,551 --> 00:24:33,347 Until they petitioned soong to make a more comfortable, 307 00:24:33,514 --> 00:24:36,934 less perfect Android. 308 00:24:37,101 --> 00:24:40,604 In other words, you, brother. 309 00:24:44,775 --> 00:24:49,071 Haven't you noticed how easily I handle human speech? 310 00:24:49,238 --> 00:24:51,156 I use their contractions. 311 00:24:51,323 --> 00:24:54,827 For example, I say, "can't" or "isn't" 312 00:24:54,994 --> 00:24:58,288 and you say "cannot" and "is not." 313 00:25:00,457 --> 00:25:03,252 I say tomato and you say tomato. 314 00:25:03,419 --> 00:25:06,422 I say potato and you say potato. 315 00:25:09,508 --> 00:25:11,385 A very old joke. 316 00:25:11,552 --> 00:25:14,221 But then, you also have trouble with their humor. 317 00:25:14,388 --> 00:25:18,642 - Am I right? - Quite true. 318 00:25:18,809 --> 00:25:23,147 I keep trying to be more human, and keep failing. 319 00:25:24,523 --> 00:25:28,110 Do you realize, brother, 320 00:25:28,402 --> 00:25:31,030 I can help you become more human? 321 00:25:31,697 --> 00:25:34,199 And do you realize, lore, 322 00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:37,911 that I am obligated to report all of this to our ship's captain? 323 00:25:39,955 --> 00:25:43,250 I assumed as much when I began studying you. 324 00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:48,338 May I use this to learn more about this vessel and its customs? 325 00:25:48,505 --> 00:25:50,549 Use it also to describe for the captain the time 326 00:25:50,716 --> 00:25:52,259 you spent among the colonists, 327 00:25:52,426 --> 00:25:55,095 including everything you know about what happened to them. 328 00:25:55,471 --> 00:26:00,059 I promise a report of great detail and accuracy. 329 00:26:00,934 --> 00:26:04,730 Thank you, lore. I now have duties to perform. 330 00:26:09,109 --> 00:26:11,195 Unless, of course, you need something more? 331 00:26:11,361 --> 00:26:15,407 I have more than I dreamed possible, brother. 332 00:26:40,057 --> 00:26:43,811 Picard: Captain's log, stardate 41242.5. 333 00:26:43,977 --> 00:26:47,689 Thanks to lore's report, we now know what happened to the colonists. 334 00:26:47,856 --> 00:26:51,527 Beginning with a child's drawing, enhanced by lore's description, 335 00:26:51,693 --> 00:26:56,073 our computer has constructed the image of a great crystalline entity 336 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,450 which feeds on life, 337 00:26:58,617 --> 00:27:01,954 insatiably ravenous for the life force found in living forms, 338 00:27:02,121 --> 00:27:06,166 capable of stripping all life from an entire world. 339 00:27:06,708 --> 00:27:09,294 Then how did data escape that thing? Or lore? 340 00:27:09,461 --> 00:27:10,546 Lore had been disassembled. 341 00:27:10,712 --> 00:27:13,465 He explained it as jealousy from the colonists. 342 00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:16,009 And data wasn't yet alive at that time. 343 00:27:16,176 --> 00:27:18,554 Which explains why data could be left outside in no danger 344 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:19,888 from that creature. 345 00:27:20,055 --> 00:27:21,455 Whatever happened to the colonists, 346 00:27:21,598 --> 00:27:23,392 he would be found by the first starfleet crew 347 00:27:23,559 --> 00:27:25,561 that responded to the signal he transmitted. 348 00:27:25,727 --> 00:27:30,232 By which Dr. Soong left proof behind that his experiment did work. 349 00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:35,154 Captain, how believable do you find that crystal thing? 350 00:27:35,612 --> 00:27:41,076 With so little of even our galaxy explored, I find it at least possible. 351 00:27:41,243 --> 00:27:44,371 Data, are you expecting lore to come up here? 352 00:27:44,538 --> 00:27:47,499 - He left your quarters some time ago. - To go...? 353 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:50,752 My turbo-sensors say he went to deck four. Worf? 354 00:27:50,919 --> 00:27:53,130 Where he examined some micro miniature work tools, 355 00:27:53,297 --> 00:27:55,132 and some fine grind quadratanium. 356 00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:57,217 Which is used in our construction. 357 00:27:57,384 --> 00:27:59,595 That particular compound is no more suspicious, sir, 358 00:27:59,761 --> 00:28:01,930 than a human looking for an antiseptic or an ointment. 359 00:28:02,097 --> 00:28:04,099 Nevertheless, I should check it out. 360 00:28:04,266 --> 00:28:06,685 You're watching everything he does, data? 361 00:28:06,852 --> 00:28:08,937 Is that the act of a brother? 362 00:28:09,104 --> 00:28:12,733 It's the act of a starfleet officer obeying his captain, doctor. 363 00:28:18,155 --> 00:28:23,160 Captain, speaking strictly as security chief, 364 00:28:23,327 --> 00:28:25,579 how much can you trust data now? 365 00:28:30,209 --> 00:28:31,877 I trust him completely, lieutenant. 366 00:28:32,044 --> 00:28:34,325 But everyone should also realize that that was a necessary 367 00:28:34,463 --> 00:28:36,590 and legitimate security question. 368 00:28:37,507 --> 00:28:38,842 Thank you, sir. 369 00:29:01,365 --> 00:29:04,910 Lesson number one in becoming more human. 370 00:29:05,077 --> 00:29:08,205 You must observe all human customs. 371 00:29:08,455 --> 00:29:09,581 Champagne? 372 00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:12,542 An ancient ritual still practiced 373 00:29:12,709 --> 00:29:16,213 when they observe events of importance. 374 00:29:23,178 --> 00:29:24,846 My brother, 375 00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:28,517 I toast our discovery of each other. 376 00:29:28,684 --> 00:29:31,853 May it fill our lives with new meaning. 377 00:29:37,484 --> 00:29:43,448 I have some doubts about the value of human customs in this... 378 00:29:46,702 --> 00:29:48,161 My brother. 379 00:29:49,663 --> 00:29:53,750 And let us toast also Dr. Soong, 380 00:29:53,959 --> 00:29:58,547 who gave me the full richness of human needs and ambitions. 381 00:29:58,714 --> 00:30:03,510 A perfect match for my mind, my body. 382 00:30:10,934 --> 00:30:16,690 And let us toast also the great crystal entity 383 00:30:16,857 --> 00:30:19,818 with whom I learned to communicate. 384 00:30:22,404 --> 00:30:24,990 Before Dr. Soong disassembled me, 385 00:30:25,157 --> 00:30:29,244 I earned its gratitude by revealing the way to the colonists. 386 00:30:29,661 --> 00:30:34,666 Can you imagine its gratitude when I give it the life on this vessel? 387 00:30:38,378 --> 00:30:39,796 This is strange, sir. 388 00:30:39,963 --> 00:30:42,758 I show commander data transmitting on a subspace channel. 389 00:30:42,924 --> 00:30:44,801 I know data's been doing considerable research 390 00:30:44,968 --> 00:30:47,095 into Dr. Soong's background. 391 00:30:47,512 --> 00:30:50,515 Let's be sure. Wesley? 392 00:30:52,601 --> 00:30:54,895 Would you look in on commander data, discreetly? 393 00:30:55,062 --> 00:30:56,605 Yes, sir. 394 00:31:02,444 --> 00:31:04,071 Lore: Crystal entity, 395 00:31:04,446 --> 00:31:09,576 upon arriving here you can identify me as the machine named data. 396 00:31:13,288 --> 00:31:16,541 End of message. Come in, please. 397 00:31:19,878 --> 00:31:21,463 Glad you are here, Wesley. 398 00:31:21,630 --> 00:31:24,216 Lore suddenly attacked me and I had to turn him off. 399 00:31:24,758 --> 00:31:26,009 Why did he do that, data? 400 00:31:26,510 --> 00:31:30,347 He discovered we have been using sensors to follow what he does. 401 00:31:33,975 --> 00:31:36,978 I practiced his facial tic. Do I have it right? 402 00:31:37,938 --> 00:31:39,940 I'd suggest you forget imitating him. 403 00:31:40,941 --> 00:31:44,528 If you'd said, "we've been using the sensors," instead of "we have," 404 00:31:44,694 --> 00:31:46,947 I might have suspected you were lore. 405 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,909 Yes. I do use language more formally than lore. 406 00:31:51,076 --> 00:31:53,203 Please inform the captain I will come up to the bridge 407 00:31:53,370 --> 00:31:56,581 - and report on this. - Aye, sir. 408 00:32:58,143 --> 00:33:03,398 Wes, tell me again how data said he immobilized lore. 409 00:33:05,358 --> 00:33:10,197 He told me he just turned him off, mom... uh, doctor. 410 00:33:14,409 --> 00:33:15,911 Question, Mr. Data. 411 00:33:16,077 --> 00:33:20,165 Did you or did you not swear me to secrecy about your "off" switch? 412 00:33:20,916 --> 00:33:22,292 A change of mind, doctor. 413 00:33:22,459 --> 00:33:26,046 If I cannot trust the bridge crew, whom can I? 414 00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:31,510 Captain, I'm picking up a bogey coming in on a five o'clock tangent. 415 00:33:31,676 --> 00:33:33,516 Tasha: It's transmitting no ID signal, captain. 416 00:33:33,678 --> 00:33:35,198 Riker: Set main viewer on that tangent. 417 00:33:35,347 --> 00:33:37,707 Shields up, go to yellow alert. Transmit friendly greetings, 418 00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:39,601 all languages, all frequencies. 419 00:33:43,647 --> 00:33:45,815 I can't believe anything's overtaking us this fast. 420 00:33:46,191 --> 00:33:48,276 Beautiful, isn't it? 421 00:33:52,489 --> 00:33:54,032 I recognize it, sir. 422 00:33:54,449 --> 00:33:57,118 It's the crystal image lore described. 423 00:34:00,247 --> 00:34:02,040 My god. 424 00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:20,767 Still no ID being transmitted, sir. Also no answer to our inquiries. 425 00:34:23,979 --> 00:34:25,272 Did you get a direct look at it? 426 00:34:25,438 --> 00:34:28,024 It's like a giant snowflake crystal, but much more complex. 427 00:34:28,191 --> 00:34:30,944 The entire electromagnetic spectrum seems to play about inside it, 428 00:34:31,111 --> 00:34:33,280 but I haven't the slightest idea what it is, sir. 429 00:34:33,446 --> 00:34:35,490 Thank you, lieutenant. Data... 430 00:34:37,617 --> 00:34:39,898 If there's anything else that lore could tell us about it, 431 00:34:40,036 --> 00:34:41,621 it may be important. 432 00:34:41,788 --> 00:34:43,468 Can you control him enough to question him? 433 00:34:43,623 --> 00:34:45,250 I will have to examine him to know, sir. 434 00:34:47,210 --> 00:34:52,757 Captain, recommend that you do not let him roam the ship freely. 435 00:34:52,924 --> 00:34:53,967 Ensign. 436 00:34:54,134 --> 00:34:56,761 Wesley is simply showing himself to be alert and responsible. 437 00:34:56,928 --> 00:35:01,141 Something to be encouraged. Come, you can watch everything I do. 438 00:35:01,308 --> 00:35:02,809 Not if I have a choice. 439 00:35:02,976 --> 00:35:05,729 That is enough, ensign. When addressing a senior officer... 440 00:35:05,895 --> 00:35:08,064 I've guided his training. I'm the one at fault. 441 00:35:08,231 --> 00:35:09,566 You will show the proper respect. 442 00:35:09,733 --> 00:35:12,402 I will accompany you down there to make certain of it. 443 00:35:12,694 --> 00:35:14,821 With your approval, of course, sir. 444 00:35:33,006 --> 00:35:34,966 Careful of lore. 445 00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:38,219 Good, he is still unconscious. 446 00:35:39,012 --> 00:35:42,265 Notice the same twitch, even though he is unconscious? 447 00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:44,225 Stay back. 448 00:35:44,392 --> 00:35:47,896 We may have problems if he senses someone else is near. 449 00:35:52,317 --> 00:35:53,777 Lore, 450 00:35:55,820 --> 00:35:57,906 I have a few questions to ask you. 451 00:35:59,199 --> 00:36:02,827 Lore, it is data. He senses you. 452 00:36:02,994 --> 00:36:04,621 I cannot control him if you stay. 453 00:36:04,788 --> 00:36:06,956 Please, I will record everything he says. 454 00:36:07,123 --> 00:36:09,459 And you bring it to the bridge, immediately. 455 00:36:18,551 --> 00:36:21,262 And you wanna be as stupid as them, 456 00:36:21,429 --> 00:36:23,223 dear brother? 457 00:36:38,530 --> 00:36:40,323 Picard: Well, number one? 458 00:36:40,699 --> 00:36:43,618 It was lore, sir. Same facial twitches that we've seen all along. 459 00:36:43,785 --> 00:36:46,185 Lying unconscious on the floor exactly as data had described, 460 00:36:46,329 --> 00:36:47,769 and then it suddenly became violent, 461 00:36:47,914 --> 00:36:49,874 apparently sensing that Wesley and I were present. 462 00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:53,336 Or is it lore, pretending to be data and faking it all? 463 00:36:53,503 --> 00:36:56,673 I asked for commander riker's report, acting ensign crusher. 464 00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,601 Since it seems clear that you are unable to function within the limits 465 00:36:59,759 --> 00:37:01,886 - of that appointment... - Captain. 466 00:37:10,937 --> 00:37:12,177 Deflector shields holding, sir. 467 00:37:12,313 --> 00:37:15,066 Bring photon torpedoes to ready, main phasers to ready. 468 00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:17,193 Go to red alert, please. 469 00:37:20,739 --> 00:37:22,240 Weapons now ready, sir. 470 00:37:22,699 --> 00:37:24,909 No, captain, let me talk to it. 471 00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:27,454 You didn't say you could do that. 472 00:37:32,375 --> 00:37:33,793 Affirmative. Talk to it. 473 00:37:34,294 --> 00:37:36,337 Open hailing frequencies. 474 00:37:37,172 --> 00:37:44,763 Crystal form, I identify myself as data, advising you to stop your attack. 475 00:37:45,221 --> 00:37:47,182 The humans here are powerful, 476 00:37:47,348 --> 00:37:50,143 capable of injuring or even destroying you. 477 00:37:57,484 --> 00:38:00,111 Now, I call that communicating. 478 00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:02,864 Suggest moving fast to confirm what I told it, sir. 479 00:38:03,031 --> 00:38:06,618 Permission to use the large transporter in cargo room three. 480 00:38:06,785 --> 00:38:10,538 There I can beam up some living pattern, perhaps a large tree. 481 00:38:10,705 --> 00:38:12,499 Which you'll beam over next to the entity. 482 00:38:12,665 --> 00:38:14,542 Data: That is correct, riker. 483 00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:17,420 Our ship's phasers will then blast and disintegrate it, 484 00:38:17,587 --> 00:38:20,298 proving we are dangerous. 485 00:38:21,257 --> 00:38:24,010 - Make it so. - Sir? 486 00:38:26,471 --> 00:38:27,514 Do it. 487 00:38:35,021 --> 00:38:38,316 Sir, I know this may finish me as an acting ensign, but... 488 00:38:38,483 --> 00:38:40,068 Shut up, Wesley. 489 00:38:43,071 --> 00:38:45,907 Lieutenant, pick a good security team and let me know what he does. 490 00:38:46,074 --> 00:38:47,367 Aye, sir. 491 00:38:47,867 --> 00:38:49,410 "Shut up, Wesley"? 492 00:38:50,119 --> 00:38:51,579 Doctor... 493 00:38:52,664 --> 00:38:55,208 And since I am finished here, sir, may I point out that... 494 00:38:55,375 --> 00:38:56,501 Shut up, Wesley. 495 00:38:57,335 --> 00:39:00,129 That everything that I have said would have been listened to 496 00:39:00,296 --> 00:39:01,840 if it came from an adult officer. 497 00:39:04,717 --> 00:39:07,095 Request permission to return to my quarters, sir. 498 00:39:07,262 --> 00:39:10,056 Agreed. Doctor, go with him. 499 00:39:10,390 --> 00:39:13,268 You're putting me off the bridge? 500 00:39:15,603 --> 00:39:19,899 I'm asking you to keep an eye on your son during all of this, doctor. 501 00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:29,868 Emergency close. 502 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,581 Now show me your warrior fierceness. 503 00:39:53,975 --> 00:39:58,897 I'll look, but I shouldn't have let you talk me into this. 504 00:39:59,063 --> 00:40:02,275 Mom, it's data. He's been hurt. 505 00:40:05,486 --> 00:40:06,946 It's data, mom. 506 00:40:07,113 --> 00:40:08,553 I heard you know how to turn them on. 507 00:40:08,698 --> 00:40:10,992 This is very serious. 508 00:40:11,910 --> 00:40:15,288 So just tell me to "shut up, Wesley," and I will. 509 00:40:16,164 --> 00:40:19,125 You're being very unfair, Wes. 510 00:40:20,168 --> 00:40:23,463 Data, the crystal thing is outside, somewhere close to the ship. 511 00:40:23,630 --> 00:40:25,423 And lore is loose on the inside. 512 00:40:25,590 --> 00:40:27,508 How badly are you hurt, data? 513 00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:32,555 I will function sufficiently to stop lore, doctor. 514 00:40:37,018 --> 00:40:41,940 Crystal entity form, it's your old friend. 515 00:40:50,740 --> 00:40:52,617 Very good. 516 00:40:52,867 --> 00:40:55,370 You've understood perfectly so far. 517 00:40:55,745 --> 00:40:59,165 Next I will signal that I'm about to transport something out. 518 00:40:59,332 --> 00:41:03,252 At which time the deflector shields will turn off for a moment, 519 00:41:03,419 --> 00:41:05,546 and if you move in at that time... 520 00:41:08,049 --> 00:41:10,301 How sad, dear brother. 521 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,846 You make me wish I were an only child. 522 00:41:22,605 --> 00:41:25,149 Then why this marvelous gift? 523 00:41:26,025 --> 00:41:29,153 The troublesome, little man-child. 524 00:41:30,029 --> 00:41:33,282 Are you prepared for the kind of death you've earned, little man? 525 00:41:33,700 --> 00:41:36,911 If you take one more step towards my son... 526 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,538 Lore: Ah. 527 00:41:43,876 --> 00:41:45,128 Back off. 528 00:41:45,294 --> 00:41:48,423 Or I'll turn your little man into a torch. 529 00:41:48,589 --> 00:41:53,428 I promise him exquisite pain unless you obey me too, brother. 530 00:41:53,594 --> 00:41:56,139 Move away, data, please. 531 00:41:57,432 --> 00:42:02,437 Do you see now the advantages of being completely human? 532 00:42:03,104 --> 00:42:05,189 It includes kindness. 533 00:42:05,815 --> 00:42:08,401 I give you your life, doctor. 534 00:42:08,568 --> 00:42:13,656 Go, quickly, and I may not injure your son at all. 535 00:42:13,823 --> 00:42:17,201 - I will stay with Wesley, doctor. - Lore: Go. 536 00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:20,621 Or he'll be shrieking by the count of five. 537 00:42:20,788 --> 00:42:28,046 One, two, three, four... 538 00:42:28,838 --> 00:42:33,384 Thank you for my human qualities, Dr. Soong. Wait. 539 00:42:34,594 --> 00:42:38,306 A small payment for your son's misdeeds. 540 00:42:55,114 --> 00:42:56,824 Data: Wes, the transporter. 541 00:43:05,333 --> 00:43:06,542 Wesley, now! 542 00:43:25,353 --> 00:43:28,106 Lore's gone, sir, permanently. 543 00:43:34,904 --> 00:43:38,407 Doctor, now that Wesley's safe, go to sickbay at once. 544 00:43:39,283 --> 00:43:42,870 Captain, the crystal thing has begun to move away. 545 00:43:52,922 --> 00:43:55,842 Data, you all right? 546 00:43:56,551 --> 00:43:58,803 Yes, sir, I'm fine. 547 00:44:00,346 --> 00:44:03,850 Then get rid of that damned twitch, and put on the correct uniform. 548 00:44:04,308 --> 00:44:05,685 Yes, captain. 549 00:44:06,477 --> 00:44:08,729 Ensign crusher, are you able to return to duty? 550 00:44:08,896 --> 00:44:11,023 - Yes, sir. - Then do so. 551 00:44:11,190 --> 00:44:13,192 And let the bridge know that all is well down here. 552 00:44:13,359 --> 00:44:14,902 Aye, sir. 553 00:44:18,781 --> 00:44:20,491 Riker: It's gone, sir. 554 00:44:20,658 --> 00:44:22,493 Without lore, it had no way to reach us. 555 00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:25,079 And we're overdue for our computer refit. 556 00:44:25,246 --> 00:44:26,646 Number one, have you ever considered 557 00:44:26,789 --> 00:44:30,668 whether data is more human or less human than we want? 558 00:44:32,044 --> 00:44:34,088 I only wish we were all as well balanced, sir. 559 00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:36,132 Agreed.