When they brought in Data’s evil brother
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Because we somehow needed to be hit over the head with the whole, robot as an emotional creature thing. And of course earlier model Lore couldn’t just be an emotional android; he had to be evil, too. Presumably because Brent Spiner wanted the opportunity to truly flex his acting muscles… or, more likely, the writers were just itching to use that evil twin trope again.