10 Most Overrated Star Trek Villains
3. Lore
If Star Trek is guilty of one thing here it's that Lore could well be the janitor in Scooby Doo. He gets away with it on two occasions with the Enterprise failing to put in a lot of effort to track him down.
The evil twin scenario had been played out solidly in TOS' The Enemy Within and to a degree with Mirror, Mirror so it was only a matter of time before the very Roddenberry-influenced stories of the first season headed in that same direction.
Lore is a great character and opportunity for Brent Spiner to set chew which he can't normally do as the emotionally limited Data yet his villainy actually all comes from those already mentioned failings of the Enterprise crew. They are the ones that reactivate him without a second thought as to why he was in bits in the first place.
They allow him virtually full access to the ship and it is through their ineptitude that Lore is able to gain any kind of level of superiority. Indeed, his encounter with the Borg and subsequent elevation to The One is down to the inaction of the Enterprise crew when handed Hugh as their means to an end.