"My mother?...I have a mother?" Lore asked staring back intently.
"Oh yes, indeed you do...her name is Juliana, she's my wife and.....she helped create you son" Lore tried again with his smile and this time almost got it right.
"Very good Lore, you're sure a chip' off the old block" Soong said giving him a hearty slap on the back.
"To what "Block" are you referring that I am a "Chip" off of?" Lore asked looking around and seeing no such block.
"Never mind Lore that's just a human expression, you will learn to integrate them into your programming in time" Soong turned around and motioned for Lore to follow him out of the lab "I have designed you with the ability to feel our emotions, I have also written a subroutine that will enable you to better understand and use human terminology as well"
"Emotions?" Lore asked trailing behind him. "What are Emotions?"
"Access the files emotions 1&2 in your subpositronic matrix...adjunct B" Soong said as he walked briskly down the hall.
Lore stopped right in his tracks and went silent. "Accessing them now"
"Lore you don't need to stop walking while you do that" Soong said as he turned around to face him "You are capable of processing a multitude of complex equations in the blink of an eye"
"Is it required that I must "Blink my eye" to accomplish this feat?" Lore responded curiously blinking one of his eyes, giving Noonien a rather perplexed look he commented "Performing that action does not appear to have any noticable effect on the rate in which I process the information through my positronic relays father"
"We are really going to have to work on teaching you the basics" Soong laughed "That is merely another analogy, it means simply that you can access that information with extreme speed"
"Now c'mon boy your mother has dinner waiting" Soong said continuing to walk "And I am late again, she always says I spend far too much of my time in the lab rather than with her, you should never make the woman that cooks your dinner mad at you son."
Lore was going to respond when his father just laughed and said "I will explain that later my boy, I really am quite late, another minute and she'll have my head on a platter."
Lore looked shocked "She has the ability to remove your head?"
Noonien chuckled "Just a figure of speech Lore, but sometimes I wonder if that could come true"
Finally they reached a doorway and the door swished open, Lore looked around when they were inside and saw small but tastefully decorated living quarters.
"Juliana" Soong called out merrily "We have a guest for dinner!"
A pretty young woman with fiery red hair came rushing into the room, "About time you came home..."when she saw the two of them standing there side by side she stopped dead in her tracks and exclaimed "Noonien, what's going on? I thought you weren't quite ready to activate Lore yet?'
"I was always a fast worker" Soong said winking at his wife.
"Greetings mother" Lore said staring blankly back at her.
"Oh my, look at you" She said circling around him and smiling, then her smile faded as she turned back to her husband "You corrected the problems this time right Noonien, he won't....you know...not like the others?"
"The others?" Lore asked.
Soong sighed then answered "We...had some tragedies before you were constructed Lore, 3 of my previous attempts, well they did not survive long...one suffered a neural cascade failure after only a few days, the second after just a few weeks and the third well I deactivated him before that could happen as well, I had hoped to continue my work on him but then I made a breakthrough and just decided to start from the ground up and create a whole new android...You Lore"
"I had brothers?" Lore asked trying to grasp this new information.
"They were like my children Lore" Juliana said taking his arm "I loved them all very much...and I just can't bear the thought of losing another"
"But you did not "Lose" them mother, they just ceased to function" Lore stated, curious about the terminology.
"Oh Lore" She said sadly "I lost them because they are no longer in my life"
"Curious" Lore remarked "You mourn for them still"
"Yes I do very much" Juliana said softly "But let us not talk of such unpleasantries, come, sit at the table with us it's time for dinner"
"Oh yes, indeed you do...her name is Juliana, she's my wife and.....she helped create you son" Lore tried again with his smile and this time almost got it right.
"Very good Lore, you're sure a chip' off the old block" Soong said giving him a hearty slap on the back.
"To what "Block" are you referring that I am a "Chip" off of?" Lore asked looking around and seeing no such block.
"Never mind Lore that's just a human expression, you will learn to integrate them into your programming in time" Soong turned around and motioned for Lore to follow him out of the lab "I have designed you with the ability to feel our emotions, I have also written a subroutine that will enable you to better understand and use human terminology as well"
"Emotions?" Lore asked trailing behind him. "What are Emotions?"
"Access the files emotions 1&2 in your subpositronic matrix...adjunct B" Soong said as he walked briskly down the hall.
Lore stopped right in his tracks and went silent. "Accessing them now"
"Lore you don't need to stop walking while you do that" Soong said as he turned around to face him "You are capable of processing a multitude of complex equations in the blink of an eye"
"Is it required that I must "Blink my eye" to accomplish this feat?" Lore responded curiously blinking one of his eyes, giving Noonien a rather perplexed look he commented "Performing that action does not appear to have any noticable effect on the rate in which I process the information through my positronic relays father"
"We are really going to have to work on teaching you the basics" Soong laughed "That is merely another analogy, it means simply that you can access that information with extreme speed"
"Now c'mon boy your mother has dinner waiting" Soong said continuing to walk "And I am late again, she always says I spend far too much of my time in the lab rather than with her, you should never make the woman that cooks your dinner mad at you son."
Lore was going to respond when his father just laughed and said "I will explain that later my boy, I really am quite late, another minute and she'll have my head on a platter."
Lore looked shocked "She has the ability to remove your head?"
Noonien chuckled "Just a figure of speech Lore, but sometimes I wonder if that could come true"
Finally they reached a doorway and the door swished open, Lore looked around when they were inside and saw small but tastefully decorated living quarters.
"Juliana" Soong called out merrily "We have a guest for dinner!"
A pretty young woman with fiery red hair came rushing into the room, "About time you came home..."when she saw the two of them standing there side by side she stopped dead in her tracks and exclaimed "Noonien, what's going on? I thought you weren't quite ready to activate Lore yet?'
"I was always a fast worker" Soong said winking at his wife.
"Greetings mother" Lore said staring blankly back at her.
"Oh my, look at you" She said circling around him and smiling, then her smile faded as she turned back to her husband "You corrected the problems this time right Noonien, he won't....you know...not like the others?"
"The others?" Lore asked.
Soong sighed then answered "We...had some tragedies before you were constructed Lore, 3 of my previous attempts, well they did not survive long...one suffered a neural cascade failure after only a few days, the second after just a few weeks and the third well I deactivated him before that could happen as well, I had hoped to continue my work on him but then I made a breakthrough and just decided to start from the ground up and create a whole new android...You Lore"
"I had brothers?" Lore asked trying to grasp this new information.
"They were like my children Lore" Juliana said taking his arm "I loved them all very much...and I just can't bear the thought of losing another"
"But you did not "Lose" them mother, they just ceased to function" Lore stated, curious about the terminology.
"Oh Lore" She said sadly "I lost them because they are no longer in my life"
"Curious" Lore remarked "You mourn for them still"
"Yes I do very much" Juliana said softly "But let us not talk of such unpleasantries, come, sit at the table with us it's time for dinner"