“We have hope, optimism, and spirit of curiosity. All they have is secrecy and fear. And fear is the great destroyer.” — Picard

Quick Recap: From the opening scene when I saw those synth stuffed into a storage room… something about the disposablity of them all screamed Lore! When they revealed the insidious way the Mars Attack was used to discredit Picard’s advocacy of the Romulans… I knew the truth. It was personal and there’s only one android that petty.

Background

Lore was Data’s “evil” twin brother introduced in the 1988 episode Datalore. According to Star Trek canon, years later in two part episode Descent, he was “fired upon and then disassembled by Data” who also removed the emotion chip Lore had stolen which was intended for Data by their “father” Noonian Soong. Lore’s last words were “I…love you… brother.” From this point on it’s a mystery what happened to Lore’s positronic brain or body for that matter.

(Notice both Soji and Dahj used contractions when they spoke.) Is Lore the Destroyer? Or does he have a new protege?

What’s the man himself say?

While many prediction ultimately came true… my favourite did not! [Sniffle]

All of which were in working order or repairable at last review. Lore’s head is all you’d need. Lore could take B4’s body or just replicate a new one easily enough. Why disassemble if not specifically to reassemble later? Otherwise, they would have simply destroyed Lore entirely to prevent him ever coming back to… attack Mars with drone synths! Maybe Lore used Borg tech to make himself “fleshy” like the Borg Queen did with Data’s face in First Contact. And wouldn’t 7 of 9 make a wonderful queen.

The Bishop, Queen, King, and Admiral. Why are these 4 even in the same room with photographers if not for a Lore scene!?! Are there any more Crystalline Entities out there? Credits: CBS

What’s another word for “mythology”? Hint: It starts with an L.

Did Bruce Maddox get hold of Lore’s head? Did he mix Data’s memories with Lore’s brain? We all remember how anxious he was to dissect Data in The Measure of a Man. Was it Lore who he ultimately studied given Data was completely destroyed saving Picard at the end of Nemesis? There’s a long tradition of misdirection when it comes to android “offspring” in Star Trek and if Maddox reactivated Lore there is no doubt which of the two takes command.

A positronic brain is a fictional technological device, originally conceived by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. It functions as a central processing unit for robots, and, in some unspecified way, provides them with a form of consciousness recognizable to humans.