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Lore
Lore in "Descent, Part II"
Species:	Android
Gender:	Male
Home planet:	Omicron Theta
Portrayed by:	Brent Spiner

Lore, played by Brent Spiner is a prototype android and the so-called brother of Data in the television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation and B-4 in feature length film, Star Trek Nemesis.

The episode "Datalore" introduces the character, who returns in "Brothers" and both parts of "Descent".

According to both androids' creator, Dr. Noonien Soong, in "Brothers", the androids are "virtually identical." Due to his self-serving actions, Lore is portrayed as an "evil twin brother". The judgment of the motivations of his actions is up to the viewer, as he was an android following his programming algorithms.

Lore was built on Omicron Theta before Data by Dr. Noonien Soong. Soong states in "Brothers" that he deactivated and disassembled Lore after the android caused strife with the Omicron Theta colonists, and that he planned to repair Lore's faults after completing Data. Lore contacted the Crystalline Entity, which destroyed the colony.

In "Datalore", Data discovers Lore, and Dr. Beverly Crusher leads a team that reassembles him. However, Lore deactivates Data and again contacts the Crystalline Entity, offering the creature the crew of the USS Enterprise as sustenance. Data transports Lore into space before the latter can carry out his plan.

In "Brothers", Soong summons Data to Terlina III in order to give him an emotion chip. The same signal summons Lore, who had been rescued by a group of Pakleds after being transported into space in "Datalore". Lore incapacitates and impersonates Data in order to receive the emotion chip. Lore then throws Soong across the room and departs. Soong indicated that the chip had been designed for Data and not for Lore, so he did not know what effect it would have on Lore. Soong dies shortly thereafter.

In "Descent, Part II", Lore reveals that he encountered a group of Borg struggling with individuality following the Enterprise crew's actions with Hugh. Lore became their leader, and pursued research into making the cybernetic Borg entirely artificial life forms. Lore uses Soong's emotion chip to control Data until Geordi La Forge, Jean-Luc Picard and Deanna Troi manage to reactivate Data's ethical programming. Data shoots Lore at the end of "Descent, Part II" and deactivates him. His final word to Data is "...brother."

Brent Spiner played Lore (and also Soong), except in some instances where a shooting double was necessary. In one scene in "Datalore", Lore puts down a glass of wine that Data then picks up. This was achieved by the use of a moving split screen.

• Lore article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki