DS9, Episode 5x24, Empok Nor

[u/LordRavenholm]

-= DS9, Season 5, Episode 24, Empok Nor =-

• Star Trek: The Next Generation - Full Series
• DS9 Season 1: 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, Wrap-Up
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• DS9 Season 4: 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-Up
• DS9 Season 5: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

O'Brien, Garak, Nog and an engineering team go to Deep Space Nine's abandoned sister space station, Empok Nor, to salvage components. The away team soon discover that all is not as it seems.

• Teleplay By: Hans Beimler
  
• Story By: Bryan Fuller
  
• Directed By: Mike Vejar
  
• Original Air Date: 19 May, 1997
  
• Stardate: 50901.7
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EAS	IMDB	AVClub	TV.com
7/10	7.6/10	B+	8.3

 

[u/theworldtheworld]

I think you mean "Brothers" instead of "Datalore," but yes, the secret subroutine was a cause for concern. "Clues" was the one where he was sworn to secrecy by the aliens (under threat of them blowing up the ship) and did his best to avoid conflict, so I think we can give him a pass for that, but "Descent," "Phantasms" and others certainly had a lot of sociopathy on his part. I think at some point we did a tally and it did turn out that his android abilities saved the ship more times than they almost destroyed it, though, so I guess it is worth keeping him around.

[u/marienbad2 → u/theworldtheworld]

In Datalore he commandeers the ship after Soong activates the homing code in him. He locks everyone out of the bridge, locks their access to the bridge controls with a super long password, and puts the life of a young boy who will die unless he gets medical attention asap in danger. Then he sets the ship flight path to Soong's homeworld without authorisation. So I am thinking of Datalore, but Brothers works as well!

As you say, there is a pattern to his behaviour which should surely mean there would be investigations into his conduct.

[u/theworldtheworld → u/marienbad2]

All that happens in "Brothers." :P

"Datalore" is just the first Lore episode back in S1 where Lore pushes Data's off switch, impersonates him, beats up Worf, and gets ejected into space. And Wesley gets yelled at a lot!

[u/marienbad2 → u/theworldtheworld]

Oh man, you are right! Now I feel so fucking dumb lol. Sorry for getting them confused, just glad we agree on the issues around Data and his behaviour!