The process is not quite like "eating" as such. The Entity is apparently able to convert any organic life in to energy which it then uses to sustain itself.
"Datalore": why?
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The process is not quite like "eating" as such. The Entity is apparently able to convert any organic life in to energy which it then uses to sustain itself.
MeanJoePhaser
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Lore and Galactus...er...Crystalline Entity.
Lore was acting a like a Soong...Arik Soong, the eugenics wars foster parent. Nutty bunch the lot of them. Even Noonian Soong seemed to recount nothing but pride that he escaped a "giant snowflake" even as everyone else died.
Lore was acting a like a Soong...Arik Soong, the eugenics wars foster parent. Nutty bunch the lot of them. Even Noonian Soong seemed to recount nothing but pride that he escaped a "giant snowflake" even as everyone else died.
Now that I think about it, it does sound kind of funny.
Data (lore): Let's beam out a tree and destroy it, that'll show it we mean business!
Picard: Hmm, yes a tree. It'll fear our ability to blow apart wood, Make it so Mr. Data
(Picard sits down in chair confidant that the tree plan will work)
Data/Lore goes to dig up a tree from the arboretum (in Picard's mind)
Data/Lore: What a dumbass, CE you're feast awaits!
CE: Umm, they think I'll be scared of them blowing up a tree, they're too dumb to eat.
Early TNG can be hilarious.
Data (lore): Let's beam out a tree and destroy it, that'll show it we mean business!
Picard: Hmm, yes a tree. It'll fear our ability to blow apart wood, Make it so Mr. Data
(Picard sits down in chair confidant that the tree plan will work)
Data/Lore goes to dig up a tree from the arboretum (in Picard's mind)
Data/Lore: What a dumbass, CE you're feast awaits!
CE: Umm, they think I'll be scared of them blowing up a tree, they're too dumb to eat.
Early TNG can be hilarious.
Which begs the question of how the colonists had time to dismantle him after the CE attacked. Or was this addressed?
Here's a better question:
What is the Crystalline Entity?
It's what the microbrain of Velara III would have become, given time.
Just a thought.
Here's a clue: The Crystalline Entity is from Andoria.
The reward thing is a bit confusing. What Lore actually says is this:
The "reward", if any, was apparently of very abstract sort, a mere expression of gratitude. Or then the lunatic android simply imagined that the CE would be grateful, should be grateful.
It's not known how much time passed between the communication and Lore's disassembly, but obviously enough for Soong to dismantle the android and then escape from the planet when the CE approached. Perhaps nobody even knew that Lore had summoned the entity? Soong admits no such knowledge in "Brothers" when Data makes the accusation; Juliana Tainer in "Inheritance" says she knows that Lore turned against them, but doesn't clarify - and she also says that Lore was generally cruel, so perhaps the turning-against thing she speaks about was something else than the CE betrayal.
Timo Saloniemi
The "reward", if any, was apparently of very abstract sort, a mere expression of gratitude. Or then the lunatic android simply imagined that the CE would be grateful, should be grateful.
It's not known how much time passed between the communication and Lore's disassembly, but obviously enough for Soong to dismantle the android and then escape from the planet when the CE approached. Perhaps nobody even knew that Lore had summoned the entity? Soong admits no such knowledge in "Brothers" when Data makes the accusation; Juliana Tainer in "Inheritance" says she knows that Lore turned against them, but doesn't clarify - and she also says that Lore was generally cruel, so perhaps the turning-against thing she speaks about was something else than the CE betrayal.
Timo Saloniemi
A thought just occured to me: why was Lore in league with the Crystaline Entity? What was he getting from this? Why in the world should it spare him?
I had always looked at it from hte perspective of Lore just simply being evil, but looking back at hispremediated deception and lies, it just seems silly to do all this without a reason. Goodness knows he doesn't need anybody but himself to take over the ship, if that was what he wanted.
Lore just simply seems to lack motive and reason.
Not really that hard to figure out....Lore wanted a way to go beyond being a "puppet" for Soong. Perhaps the entity provided a higher purpose. Add to that resentment for the colonists, and he had no reason not to want revenge.
RAMA
