Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break.
A Klingon exchange officer brings news of Worf’s long-lost father, prompting the Enterprise to visit the Klingon home world.
Riker does his best to smooth things over. At a fancy dinner where Picard cheerfully carves a roast turkey, Commander Kurn wrenches off a turkey leg, grabs handfuls of caviar, and quips about having to refrain from killing Riker. Troi lets out a nervous giggle… but how serious was he?
Just when we expect the Space Thing of the Week to cause a crisis that makes everyone work together to appreciate each others’ differences, the story takes a sharp turn when Worf throws a chair, Kurn reveals his true motives, and soon the Enterprise is warping to the Klingon homeworld.
If you like cloak-and-dagger palace intrigue, this story has squeaky warrior costumes, arcane alien rituals, attempted assassinations, and lots of shouting.
At a time when most TV produced stand-alone episodes that could be watched in any order, nobody else on TNG got a story arc quite like Worf’s. His personal connection to the events leading to the Klingon Civil War would continue through the run of ST:TNG, and on into the spinoff series Deep Space Nine.
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