Why didn't the Zhat Vash target Data and Lore?

[Gingerbread Demon]

Going back to Picard season 1 if the Zhat Vash have been around a long time enough to learn about things like they have why did they never target Starfleet before and try and get Data or Lore to destroy them? Wouldn't those two androids represent their fear?

 

[FredH]

Going back to Picard season 1 if the Zhat Vash have been around a long time enough to learn about things like they have why did they never target Starfleet before and try and get Data or Lore to destroy them? Wouldn't those two androids represent their fear?

Maybe since there were only two, long-term surveillance of them would give the Zhat Vash more and better knowledge about AI, the better for destroying or preventing it in the long run? (And that’s why there were “a host of Romulan cyberneticists” who would’ve loved to get their hands on Data — but paradoxically, actually abducting him would have drawn attention and lessened the amount of intelligence they could gather from his operation in place.)

And Lore probably just killed any who tried.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Maybe since there were only two, long-term surveillance of them would give the Zhat Vash more and better knowledge about AI, the better for destroying or preventing it in the long run? (And that’s why there were “a host of Romulan cyberneticists” who would’ve loved to get their hands on Data — but paradoxically, actually abducting him would have drawn attention and lessened the amount of intelligence they could gather from his operation in place.)

And Lore probably just killed any who tried.

That sounds like really good headcanon.