KEY SCENE REACTIONS - Brothers (TNG S4E3) | Star Trek Journey 184

As you can probably surmise by now, the theme of season 4 is family.

"I am not less perfect than Lore."

One of the best TNG episode endings!

"The chip" would definitely work if it was taken out of Lore and put into Data. It's not a Dorito that gets digested.

Watching how Data effortlessly takes over the entire ship puts his capabilities in perspective.

"They're brothers Data - Brothers forgive." along with that musical sting and Spiner's performance really make that last few seconds a perfect curtain close to the episode.

Brent Spiners say this is one of his favorite episode because he got to work with a actor he deeply admired

How many Brent Spiners does it take to make a good episode? Just one, but he plays all the characters.

I actually think of this and the last three episodes as being thematically linked. Family, agency, guilt, loss, recovery -- these themes run through BoBW 1 & 2, Family, and this one (which I like to call "The Brent Spiner Show") I could wish the old age prosthetics worked a little better, but I did still buy the whole premise and situation.