Writer:	René Echevarria
Director:	Alexander Singer
Star:	Michael Dorn (Lt./Lt. Cmdr. Worf),  Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher),  Brent Spiner (Lt. Cmdr. Data),  Marina Sirtis (Counsellor/Lt. Cmdr. Deanna Troi),  Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William T. Riker),  LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge),  Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard)
Recurring Role:	Brent Spiner (Lore)
Guest Star:	Benito Martinez (Transporter Technician Salazar),  Brian Cousins (Crosis),  James Horan (Barnaby),  Alex Datcher (Taitt),  Jonathan Del Arco (Hugh),  Michael Reilly Burke (Goval)

This episode marks the final appearances of Lore (Brent Spiner) and Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco). (edit) James Horan previously appeared on TNG as Dr. Jo'Bril in "Suspicions." He portrayed Ikat'ika in two DS9 episodes, "In Purgatory's Shadow" and "By Inferno's Light." Horan was Tosin in the Voyager episode "Fair Trade," and appeared in six Enterprise episodes as a mysterious figure from the future. (edit) This would mark the Borg's last appearance until Star Trek: First Contact. (edit) Early draft featured Data killing Lore and Lt. Barclay. (edit)

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At the end of the episode, Geordi walks into Data's quarters on the Enterprise, and, after pleasantries are exchanged, Geordi asks about the tiny "emotion chip" which Data is holding, after having removed it from Lore's presumably disassembled body. Data says that the chip is damaged and no longer functions, and prepares to disintegrate it using his phaser. If it doesn't work, why bother disintegrating it? Wouldn't the phaser fire trigger a security alarm, as it did in the movie "Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country", as well as in other "Next Generation" episodes? Alternately, Data could have simply thrown it out in whatever passes for futuristic garbage pails or snapped the chip in two or more pieces. (edit) Toward the end of the episode, Lore runs to his inner sanctum, presumably to plot an escape, when Data rushes in, gun in hand. Lore turns to look at Data, and says, "You should be careful with that, brother . . . you could hurt someone." However, Data's weapon is pointed down to the ground, not at Lore. (edit) Geordi has been given the first of a series of brain-disintegrating "probes" which stick out of his head. Upon being returned to the prison cell, Geordi is put on a table, clearly uncomfortable, when the alleged empath, Troi, asks, "Are you in pain?" She can sense emotions from Data, the android, but not the human Geordi? Prior episodes made it clear that "strong-willed" beings can't be read by Betazoids, but Geordi wears his emotions on his sleeve, so she shouldn't have had any such difficulties. (edit) Troi shouldn't sense anything from Data at all, emotions or not. Her abilities are a low level form of telepathy (a cut down version of a full betazoid). In "Tin Man," Elbran stated that he could not read Data at all. This is coming from probably the most powerful Betazoid in existence. If Elbran couldn't read Data's thoughts which are nothing more than computer equations, then a far less powerful Troi certainly shouldn't be able to sense his emotions which would also be nothing more than mere computer equations as well. (edit) If Lore is a sentient being, then shouldn't he get a trial before being deactivated? And didn't Picard say in "Justice" that the Federation did not believe in capital punishment? (edit)

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