“Datalore” was a part of NextGen’s first season, which was a notoriously turbulent time throughout manufacturing. Loads of scripts have been being modified on the final minute. Some scripts have been being modified after that they had already been authorized (particularly by Gene Roddenberry’s famously scummy private lawyer Leonard Maizlish). Government producer Rick Berman recollects the tumult, and Nececek famous:
“By the top of season 1, this episode was being cited by Berman because the one which modified probably the most from its inception. Lore was initially a feminine android, a non-lookalike love curiosity for Information. Her job was to exit and restore harmful conditions, à la Crimson Adair, the oil effectively firefighter. It was Spiner who advised the previous ‘evil twin’ idea.”
Paul Neil “Crimson” Adair was a well-known firefighter, recognized for placing out burning oil wells.
Nemecek offers no further info as to what Information’s firefighter android lover would have been like, what her identify may need been, or if the makers of “Subsequent Era” meant for her to be an everyday a part of the forged. “Subsequent Era” would not see one other android character past Information and Lore till the episode “The Offspring” (March 12, 1990) whereby Information constructed his personal android baby, a younger lady he named Lal (Hallie Todd).
Nemecek additionally famous that “Datalore” swapped spots with the present’s earlier episode — “The Large Goodbye” — on the capturing schedule, releasing up an additional day of capturing. The eight-day schedule allowed director Rob Bowman and Brent Spiner to workshop the episode and get the script polished. It additionally helped that Spiner performed each roles so effectively. Regardless of all of the dramatic adjustments, “Datalore” emerged totally shaped. For a first-season episode, it is remarkably robust.
