Brothers

Jake and Willie Potts are like any brothers: practical jokes and hurt feelings followed by forgiveness. Data and Lore are like brothers too: built-in homing device, colonist murder, identity theft, patricide, stealing an emotion chip. So – forgiveness too? This week “Brothers” goes into the Mission Log. Dead… 1. You could say Riker was just being glib. 2. More important than kids on a ship is leaving around anything poisonous that kids can get into. That is a far more clumsy plot device. 3. I think (without re-watching) that Data is by the Ready Room. 4. Maybe Data was detecting where the security measures had been instituted or was finding the path with least living resistance, to reduce loss of life. 5. No idea. 6. Yes, odd that Soong doesn’t know and Data doesn’t say. Overall this is a good acting episode for Spiner and a pretty bad episode, to me, everywhere else. Manufactured conflict, illogical resolution (seriously, Soong can’t tell them apart? Give me a break). A very sub-par episode. thanks for the feedback! I really enjoyed the episode but disliked how Soong just showed up and died. The trust for Lore, when Soong should have known better, and Data obviously dropping his guard for Lore to sucker punch him? Data, shame on you!! I felt there should have been some repercussions to Data’s malfunction…how could you completely trust this guy. I always felt Data should have been an ensign. It would have explained his lack of knowledge for so many things. The fact that he is already a Lt Cmdr makes it seem implausible he does not know sooooo many quirky idioms and human idiosyncrasies . 1. Yes and no. There is a shift with all operations with the warp drive… gear heads can detect it. The average person cannot… Either way there should be other ways to detect these things such as things like “turbulance” which we see existing as you push the thresholds of what you ship is designed for. 5. There are probably protocols that trigger in those cases. You don’t need that particular person to have access at that moment as long as you have a way to create a release for when that happens. There isn’t a turbolift there. It’s on the opposite side. The turbolift is closest to where Data sits. Can anyone identify this guy? pic is from S3 E1 “Evolution”…random Asian security guy…since there is not that many pics to post for this episode. Thanks to any who can help…. Few things… You said that “Data and Lore aren’t brothers” which is interesting, because they aren’t just not brothers… Data was created by Soong, but never met him. Lore met him. It could be that Data and Lore are the exact same but Lore being raised by Soong made him as he is where as Data being raised by Starfleet is why he is what he is. Data could have taken a shuttle, but they go back and forth between Shuttles having warp capability. The Wesley Crusher stuff from the last episode would have fit better in this episode and it would have flowed much better with Data’s later stories where Soong leaves messages for Data in various places. Off topic an throw away line in Voyager brings some enlightment about the Holodeck… The Doctor says “make sure the patients don’t use those” refering to holographic klenex. This indicates that whatever it is that is making the holograms doesn’t also have some cleaning type thing built in which one might think they’d try to figure out, but this conjures thoughts of, who cleans the holodeck then? Or is it just caked in all sorts of disgusting things and no pay attention to it. good point about the replicator. I think they would have to be classified. I think DS9 had mentioned certain, “industrial” grade replicators for Bajor. A shipment of some sort. Seems like if you had a replicator, you could replicate Data, phasers, dilithium, latinum….yeah, definitely needs limits. I think foodstuffs should still not taste as good as “real” food. That would be a good limit. Also finely detailed circuitry should not be so easy to replicate. Love