lore then incapacitates data, revealing that he plans to offer the ship's crew to the entity. when a signal transmission is detected from data's quarters, wesley crusher (wil wheaton) arrives to investigate. he finds lore, now impersonating data, who explains that he had to incapacitate his brother after being attacked. wesley is doubtful, but pretends to accept the explanation. soon after, the same crystalline entity that had attacked the colony approaches the ship. lore, still pretending to be data, enters the bridge as the object hovers before the "enterprise" and explains that he incapacitated his brother by turning him off, causing doctor beverly crusher (gates mcfadden) to be suspicious, since data had previously treated the existence of such a feature as a closely guarded secret. lore then explains that he can communicate with the crystalline entity and suggests to captain jean-luc picard (patrick stewart) that he should show a demonstration of force by beaming an object toward the entity and then destroying it with the ship's phasers.