Yar Reports Abandoned Colony; Discovery of Data's Origin Mold and Duplicate Parts
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Lieutenant Yar contacts Riker, reporting the colony installation is large but abandoned, filled only with empty beds; Riker orders her to complete scans and report back, heightening suspense about the colony’s fate.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Matter-of-fact, with underlying concern about the implications of the deserted colony.
Lieutenant Yar provides crucial communications to Commander Riker from reconnaissance, reporting the scale of abandonment with specifics on empty beds, evidencing the colony’s desolation and raising the stakes for the investigation.
- • Keep command fully informed of conditions on site.
- • Confirm the absence of inhabitants to adjust operational plans.
- • Complete abandonment signals a disaster or evacuation.
- • Information flow is vital to maintaining control of the mission.
Intrigued and contemplative, with underlying yearning and cautious hopefulness about discovering kinship and understanding his origin.
Data actively engages with the environment, examining children's drawings that evoke vague, unsettling impressions from his past. He recognizes the Soong workbench and physically tests the epidermal mold against himself, contemplating the possibility of a sibling android. His behavior mixes clinical analysis with a deeply personal quest for identity and belonging.
- • Identify tangible evidence linking him to his creator and possible siblings.
- • Understand and reconcile his artificial origin with his quest for identity.
- • His synthetic existence ties directly to Doctor Noonien Soong and this abandoned colony.
- • There may be others like him, possibly a brother or prototype.
Focused and alert, embodying readiness to respond to any threat.
Worf guards the rear of the team as they enter the laboratory, weapons ready and posture disciplined. He conducts reconnaissance of adjoining corridors with Lieutenant Yar, maintaining vigilant protection over the team amid the unsettling environment.
- • Protect the away team during the exploration.
- • Scout corridors to prevent ambush or surprise.
- • The abandoned colony may conceal hidden dangers.
- • Maintaining security is critical to mission success.
Curious and cautiously optimistic, tempered by a sense of responsibility and growing intrigue about the implications of their discoveries.
Commander Riker leads the away team’s investigation of the deserted colony laboratory with a calm, focused demeanor, closely examining the workbench and epidermal mold. He directs team movements, communicates with Lieutenant Yar via comm to gather vital intel about the empty colony, and authorizes retrieval of android parts, embodying steady authority mixed with curiosity about Data’s origins.
- • Uncover the truth behind the deserted colony and Data’s origins.
- • Ensure the safety and thoroughness of the investigation.
- • Authorize secure retrieval of android parts for further analysis.
- • The abandoned colony holds crucial clues to Data’s mysterious creation.
- • Data's identity and potential kinship with other androids is vital to understand.
Surprised yet composed, with a heightened sense of urgency to understand the implications of the discovered android parts.
Geordi conducts a meticulous inspection of the laboratory alongside Data, identifies the significance of Doctor Soong’s workbench, and discovers a concealed storage area containing multiple lifelike android parts resembling Data, which startles both him and the team. He balances technical analysis with surprise and urgency.
- • Thoroughly analyze the laboratory and recover any data or components relevant to Data’s origins.
- • Ensure safe retrieval of the android parts for further examination.
- • Doctor Noonien Soong’s legacy and work are central to understanding Data’s identity.
- • The discovery of multiple android parts indicates experimentation beyond a single android.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The children's drawings pinned on the laboratory wall serve as haunting clues, depicting large crystalline formations that evoke Data’s fragmented memories and hint at the ominous presence that threatened the colony. They symbolize lost innocence and are a visual foreshadowing of the looming crystal danger.
Doctor Soong's workbench is observed by the team as a central locus of synthetic creation and experimentation. It anchors the narrative’s exploration of identity and artificial life, embodying the genius and mystery of Data's creator as the team investigates clues to Data’s origin.
The human-shaped epidermal mold is revealed by Riker opening a laboratory table, presenting a perfect physical match to Data’s exterior and confirming his synthetic origins. It functions as a tangible link between Data and Doctor Soong’s craftsmanship, deepening the mystery of identity and creation.
Discovered in a hidden storage area by Geordi, these lifelike android parts—including arms, torsos, and heads—resemble Data’s design and suggest the existence of another android, potentially a sibling. Their pristine but lifeless condition adds an eerie dimension to the investigation, prompting speculation about artificial life replication.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The sterile and eerily silent Omicron Theta colony laboratory functions as the investigative stage where the away team uncovers critical evidence of Data’s origins and the colony’s tragic fate. Its sophisticated equipment and desolate condition symbolize the collision of advanced science and loss, framing the emotional and thematic heart of the episode.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Data’s fragmented memory of a sudden danger connects directly to the discovery of children’s drawings depicting a massive crystal, foreshadowing the colony's destruction by the crystalline entity."
"Data’s fragmented memory of a sudden danger connects directly to the discovery of children’s drawings depicting a massive crystal, foreshadowing the colony's destruction by the crystalline entity."
"Data’s fragmented memory of a sudden danger connects directly to the discovery of children’s drawings depicting a massive crystal, foreshadowing the colony's destruction by the crystalline entity."
"Data’s fragmented memory of a sudden danger connects directly to the discovery of children’s drawings depicting a massive crystal, foreshadowing the colony's destruction by the crystalline entity."
"The away team's discovery of barren, lifeless soil leads Geordi to find the hidden storage of android parts, revealing the backstory of the colony and Data’s origins."
"The away team's discovery of barren, lifeless soil leads Geordi to find the hidden storage of android parts, revealing the backstory of the colony and Data’s origins."
"The away team's discovery of barren, lifeless soil leads Geordi to find the hidden storage of android parts, revealing the backstory of the colony and Data’s origins."
"Discovery of multiple android parts in the colony leads to attempts to assemble the new android onboard, setting up the critical plot of Lore's emergence."
"Discovery of multiple android parts in the colony leads to attempts to assemble the new android onboard, setting up the critical plot of Lore's emergence."
"After finding the android parts, the narrative moves to the medical team preparing the new android, showing continuous progression of the assembly plotline."
"After finding the android parts, the narrative moves to the medical team preparing the new android, showing continuous progression of the assembly plotline."
"After finding the android parts, the narrative moves to the medical team preparing the new android, showing continuous progression of the assembly plotline."
Key Dialogue
"RIKER: "The colony laboratory, I'd guess. Extremely well equipped.""
"DATA: "Only vague impressions of some of my functions being tested here, sir...""
"TASHA'S COM VOICE: "Sir... this installation is big enough to hold hundreds of people. But all that's here now is empty beds.""
"GEORDI: "Data... it's you.""
"DATA: "Commander, can this be another me? Or perhaps my brother?""
"RIKER: "I honestly don't know, Data.""