Product Details

• Actors: LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden
• Directors: LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Gabrielle Beaumont, Robert Becker, Cliff Bole
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: November 10, 1998
• Run Time: 46 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0792148223
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #46,407 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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After deserting the Enterprise, Data (Brent Spiner) joins forces with his evil brother, Lore, who has assumed command of a group of renegade Borg. Rogether they capture the Away Team that was sent to find him. Overwhelmed by feelings of rage and betrayal, Data begins to conduct deadly neurological experiments on Geordi (LeVar Burton).

Meanwhile, Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Worf (Michael Dorn) are shocked to discover another band of renegade Borg led by Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco), the young Borg who spent time aboard the Enterprise. As the rest of the crew desperately struggle to save their comrades, Lore asks Data to prove his loyalty by killing Picard (Patrick Stewart). Will Data complete his descent into darkness?

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Data a traitor?, June 29, 2000

By	MRT (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

Part I left off with Picard, Geordi, and Troi surrounded by the Borg, and they find out that Lore is involved, and so is Data. Data is being controled by Data. Data takes Geordi's visor away from him, and later Commander Data does some experiments on him.

we find out that these particular Borgs' are separted from the collective, and we see Hue is there. (Hue was once rescued by the Enterprise crew, and the crew instead of sending him back to the collective with self-destruct computer codes to destroy the Borg, Picard and the crew are sympathetic and send him back, with computer program on indivduality.) This disorients the Borg, and have turned to Lore who will be their leader, and bring order to them. Picard, Troi, and LaForge, escape and break the control Lore and on Data. Once free from Lore's control, Data fights with Lore, and defeats him. Data is forced to destroy Lore. Hue and the rest of the Borg on that planet try and find order with their lives.

1.0 out of 5 stars Words cannot describe how bad this is . . ., January 9, 2003

By	kallan - See all my reviews

. . . But I'll give it a try. "Descent Part II" has all the faults of Part I, and then some. To an utterly stupid storyline, bad directing, and a lack of suspense and the necessary epic feel, Part II adds gratuitous cameos, a nonsensical storyline of Dr Crusher commanding the Enterprise (wasting heaps of time that could have been used to far better purpose), and - YET AGAIN - a "no consequences" conclusion. Many of these problems stem from the fact that Part I and Part II were written by different people, I suspect. The one good point is Brent Spiner - he does a scarily good job as Lore, now driven by a sense of destiny as well as his own superiority. But can anyone explain to me why Data can execute his brother and Dr Crusher can disobey an order, and neither are ever punished?

4.0 out of 5 stars Bev Crusher Commands the Enterprise!, October 9, 2001

By	picardfan007 (USA) - See all my reviews

The conclusion which I am not going to give away here involves the doctor driving the ship into the sun to avoid the Borg! This was one of the best scenes in the episode.

The next would be when Data rebels against his brother Lore. Originally planned to be a long and protracted battle between brothers ...the cost of the show forced the producers to have a brief fight scene. However the story ended in an unpredictable way. All of this to control Data's emotion chip.

I wish this episode had one more installment. It would show how Lore met the Borg. How did he get away from Data in his last appearence in "Brothers"??

Data's emotion chip becomes the subject in the first Next Generation film ...Generations.