Synopsis: Lore tells everyone that his brother Data cannot use contractions (except for when he did before this episode, and except for when he’ll slip up later) and otherwise is found to be kind of a meanie-head.
Memory Alpha Review: The Parent Trap…in space!
Review: Spiner gets to shine, playing two characters at the same time. The crystalline entity also gets to shine, literally. And, once again, the bridge crew wave their collective dicks at Wesley, a fellow bridge officer, and refuse to listen to anything he says. Seriously, what is up with Tasha Yar? She’s head of security, yet Wesley makes some glaringly obvious observations and precautionary recommendations that she fails to? Ugh. You know, I used to hate Wesley. Now I kind of like him. He actually stands up to Picard, which apparently nobody else has seemed willing to do since Farpoint.
Death By Troggles 
I liked every episode with Lore in it. Spiner really did a good job every time he one of those episodes.
Also, the Crystalline Entity! God, I love the idea of that thing. Damn you, crazy vengeful scientist!
*he had one of those episodes.
I love the idea of the entity as well. I wish it could have more than two episodes. And better scripts.
Spiner did a good job nearly all the time.
I think you’re right on, that the weak part of this episode is the fact that no one listens to Wes. Ever. This is the perfect example of why he was both awesome and obnoxious. He’s always right. Always. Except for when he blew up his fellow cadet. And being right made him annoying.
On another note, when I was home with my sick kid yesterday I got to see the episode where Wes decides to study with the travel dude and the Native Americans, or whatever.
It was awful. I mean, if you’re going to end Wes’ storyline with “I’m going to go explore other planes of existence” should you have Picard as the loving father figure sending him off and encouraging him, not as the symbol of everything he’s rebelling against? Instead you have some dream apparition of his real dad, who none of us have any emotional connection to? That’s bogus.
It’s not just that he’s always right. He’s right about obvious things when the highly trained and experienced crew is wrong about obvious things.
I’m glad to have further validation on Journey’s End. Completely agree with you on how it was idiotic that they made Picard the bad guy in the episode.