Synopsis: Data gets his circuits raped by yet another maniacal scientist.
Memory Alpha Summary: But he was asking for it
Review: How come nearly every scientist in the Federation is a one-track minded crazy person? Anyway, there’s not much to comment on for this episode. It could have been really interesting, but the audience knows too much too soon and the crew avoids the obvious problem for too long. Spiner is great, of course, as he gets to play a less violent, more whorish Lore for twenty minutes. The best part is probably the final scene, as Riker messes with Data and his short-term memory loss.
How come nearly every scientist in the Federation is a one-track minded crazy person?
That really never made sense to me, especially because the creator and a large part of the staff were so gung-ho for the world of science. The way half their scientists act, you’d half-expect the show to be coming from a “Science is Evil” philosophy.
This ep would have been much better if they’d at least titled it “24th Century Schizoid Man”