Lore embodies the evil twin trope on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but his story is very different from the original plan for the character.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Star Trek: The Next Generation season 1 introduced Lore as the evil brother of Lt. Commander Data , but Lore was originally meant to be a female android. In TNG season 1, episode 13, "Datalore," Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes the USS Enterprise to the planet Omicron Theta, where the android Data was found by Starfleet.
Soon after being reactivated in "Datalore," Lore shows his true colors, incapacitating Data and then impersonating him. From Lore's introduction onward, the story of Lore and Data becomes a play on the popular evil twin trope, but this was not the original plan for the character of Lore. The original pitch for the episode that became "Datalore" featured a female android who would serve as a romantic interest for Data.
Lore would continue to play the role of evil twin in three more episodes of TNG, even allying himself with a rogue group of Borg drones in the two-part episode "Descent." An android love interest for Data might have felt out of place, considering Data's greatest desire is to be more human. In fact, most of the romantic interests Data does have throughout TNG are all human women, with the notable exception of Star Trek: First Contact's Borg Queen .
TNG Introduced A Female Android As Data's Daughter Data and Lore had been created by cyberneticist Dr. Noonian Soong , who pioneered positronic brain technology to create true artificial intelligence. In TNG season 3, episode 16, "The Offspring," Data tries to recreate this technology and builds an android daughter named Lal. At first, his experiment appears to be a success, as Lal learns incredibly quickly and badgers Data with questions about her own existence.
As Lal experienced fear about the idea of being forced to leave the Enterprise, her system began to overload. Data determines that her positronic brain is experiencing a cascade failure, and though he fights to save her life, she soon shuts down. Data then preserves her memories in his own positronic brain so that she can live on .
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