Plot Synopsis:Worf's former girlfriend K'Ehleyr joins the Enterprise to assist in a crisis involving the Klingon Empire. A group of warriors, dispatched 73 years ago in a sleeper ship, will soon awake lacking any knowledge of the current peace treaty between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. The Enterprise must stop them before they go on a rampage and destroy the defenseless colonies in the region.
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By Kevin S. on Monday, April 5, 1999 - 06:06 pm:

Just watched this again last night and noticed that this episode has two guest stars who would go on to play in Mad About You. Suzie Plaxson is a given--she plays Joan, Paul's sister's lover. The other one is the woman who plays Lisa, Jamie's sister. She sits in the seat where Ro later sits.
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By Keith Alan Morgan on Saturday, April 24, 1999 - 08:50 am:

While it is cute that Data says, "Bend" instead of Fold, why would he? Data is an android, with a computer memory, and he has shown himself to be precise to an annoying degree on other matters, so why would he be imprecise on card game terminology? Later in the same scene, when it is his deal, he rattles off some rules which use card game terminology (I'd repeat it, but all I can remember is "one eyed Jacks are wild after the Queen" and something about a "hole."), apparently accurately. So, did Data really make a mistake? Was he trying to trick them into thinking he didn't know how to play? Or was he trying to make a joke?

The Admiral's uniform in this episode appeared different from other Admirals' uniforms.

Why wouldn't a Starbase have a ship? Are they afraid that the staff would try to escape? (I know, maybe all of the Starbase's ship were away on business and couldn't get back in time. It just sounded odd that a Starbase "didn't have any ships.")

Data lists the number of colonies and outposts in the sector and it sounded a bit high. ( I forgot to write down the numbers, sorry.) Considering that a sector is supposed to be about 20 light years by 20 light years by 20 light years, according to the Star Trek Omnipedia, there are either a lot of stars with one or two M class planets, or a lot of M class planets orbiting very few stars, in that sector. Later Data states that there are 13 colonies in the sector, which I know is a different number from the one he stated before.
Did they pass into another sector?

Why are the colonies unable to defend themselves? My dad suggested that maybe part of the treaty with the Klingons forbade Federation colonies in this region to have weapons. (Which considering some of the other bone-headed treaties that the Federation has signed actually makes sense.)

K'Ehleyr is a bit of a clothes horse. When she steps out of the Class 8 probe she is wearing a grey outfit, later when talking to Worf she has on a red outfit with gold symbols, for the Holodeck she wears a red striped outfit, then at the end she wears a Klingon outfit. Not bad for someone who wasn't carrying any luggage.

After ordering Worf to relax, Picard says, "I've never seen Worf so... unsettled." By and of itself, that statement seems incorrect, since Worf has gotten equally upset at not being allowed to fight, such as in Encounter At Farpoint. However, Riker's next line, "The iceman is finally melting." implies that Picard was referring to Worf's reaction to K'Ehleyr, but wasn't Worf 'unsettled' in Hide And Q when Riker created the Klingon warrior babe?

Worf walks into the Holodeck, sees K'Ehleyr fighting, bends over and picks up two swords. Except for Riker in Where Silence Has Lease, Worf is usually the only one in this fantasy, so why are there two swords lying there next to each other?

We are supposed to believe that Alexander was conceived at this time, so why didn't Worf have the Holodeck create a pack of condoms? ("Extra large, with thorns.")

After refusing to participate in the Klingon marriage ritual, we next see K'Ehleyr wearing the red with gold outfit that she wore earlier. The problem is that when she first appeared wearing this outfit she told Worf that she had to make herself look beautiful for him, so why did she put this outfit back on after turning down his marriage proposal?

As I understand it, Picard and Riker left the Bridge so that Worf would be the highest ranking officer, therefore the commanding officer, but apparently that way of thinking is incorrect as there are two officers who outrank Worf on the Bridge. Data, the Second Officer and Third in Command, is sitting at Ops and Geordi is standing at the Engineering station. (Of course, in The Arsenal of Freedom Geordi was in charge even though the Chief Engineer had a higher rank, but the Chief Engineer was not on the Bridge when Picard left Geordi in charge.)

One would think that the view screen would act like a light source, but when Worf stands in front of it, none of his shadows run away from the screen and one of them runs toward the screen.

Just before Worf transports K'Ehleyr to the T'Ong, she says, "I hid the truth from you. Last night did have meaning." Correct me if I'm wrong, but she did tell Worf that 'it' was 'glorious' and 'magnificent.' She didn't say it had no meaning, she just didn't want to marry the guy. (And who could blame her.)

In both NextGen Guides, Phil stated that Worf told the T'Ong that the Klingons rule the Federation. What Worf said was, "Didn't you think the war would be over." Worf never said the Klingons won, that was merely implied by having two Klingons as the
commanding officers.

This episode makes a mistake common to first and second season episodes of Next Gen; poor pacing. They waste the entire first act just getting their guest character aboard the ship.

ONCE AGAIN Worf's attitude towards the "world that is now alien to him" comes in question when he begins the love ceremony.

That Klingon babette with the fishnet nylons from "Hide & Q" must have REALLY shorted out Worf's brain.

Obviously, Worf's comments in "Hide And Q" should be ignored just like Data's graduation date in "Encounter At Farpoint"

Especially since it's much more easily explained away.
As I pointed out elsewhere, in 'Hide & Q' Worf's basically being confronted with a Klingon hooker, completely out of the blue, in front of his Federation superiors. Me, I don't blame him in the slightest for babbling.

Also with Picard using guilt on everyone. Shame on him. I really find Picard arogant in that episode. Because of him, that little girl stayed dead.

Okay now, you're intercepting a class 8 probe traveling at warp 9. You match its speed and trajectory, hold it stable with a tractor beam and then beam it aboard your ship...

...but you forgot to shut down its warp drive! Do you realy want to be in the same transporter room as a class 8 probe that's moving at warp 9?

Worf was reporting every step taken to bring it aboard but he failed to mention any shutdown of the probe's warp drive. "Oops, Captain."

Do you realy want to be in the same transporter room as a class 8 probe that's moving at warp 9?
Luigi Novi: Why not? It's not like it's going at warp when it rematerializes.

Worf was reporting every step taken to bring it aboard but he failed to mention any shutdown of the probe's warp drive. "Oops, Captain."
Luigi Novi: Obviously, objects can be transported when they're at warp.

The transporter can shut down active weapons, maybe it can also shut down active warp drives? (Although I get your point. There should have been a line of dialogue to this effect.)

Oh, Butch! I think you can delete the first two italicized lines of the first post (Ressurrected Nits). Especially since they refer to the previous moderator.

Done!

Worf was reporting every step taken to bring it aboard but he failed to mention any shutdown of the probe's warp drive. "Oops, Captain."

Luigi Novi: Obviously, objects can be transported when they're at warp.

But if they don't shut down the warp drive wouldn't the probe re-materialize and fly through the bulkhead at warp 8?

I don't see why it should. The transporter operator is taking the thing apart molecule by molecule. You can reassemble it however you want. You could reassemble it without the anti-matter in its warp core, or convert all its warp plasma to rose petals, or rematerialize the on/off button in the "off" position.

The transporter dematerializes and rematerializes objects. I don't see why it has to dematerialize and rematerialize any energy it's exerting. It's for this very reason that it can render weapons useless, as Keith just pointed out.

They might reassemble it without antimatter. Remember, transporting antimatter is difficult (see "Peak Performance").

Did the probe have an actual warp drive or only a warp sustainer coil?

Is there some reason people keep trying to make this point stick? Didn't we already go over this?

The scene in question proves that transporting antimatter (if it even was antimatter--more on that below) isn't dangerous. In fact, it established that beaming something volatile is the ideal method of disposing of it. This what happened :

Wesley tells Riker that he has to go back for his experiment, which is for his final grade in plasma physics. (Not antimatter physics.) Wes is granted permission by Picard to return, and Lieutenant Burke monitors him as Wesley retrieves the device. Wesley says it's ruined. Burke says that's too bad, and asks if this will take much longer.

Wes responds, "I'm gonna have to dispose of this safely, this stuff is very volatile. I'll beam it off the Enterprise and leave it particlized."

Burke: "That's fine. Let's just do it."

So in other words, when you have something volatile, the transporter is what you're supposed to use to get rid of it.

Wes has it beamed to the Hathaway. In the next Act, Riker finds Wes and Geordi installing it, and Wes tells him it deals with "plasma reactions with antimatter." Now did that thing have antimatter in it, or was it plasma, and the antimatter it reacted with was the antimatter on the Hathaway?

If it had antimatter of its own, that proves that beaming antimatter is not dangerous, but the opposite.

If it did not have antimatter, then we can't say for sure that beaming antimatter is dangerous at all, since that doohickey didn't have any. As far as the Tech Manual, I couldn't find anything in the Manual on any of the pages that reference antimatter in the Index to corroborate what Brian said on the Best of Both Worlds partI board. The one relevant thing I could find on page 72 in the final paragraph in the right-hand column states: "All refueling operations are to be handled by teleoperators, unless problems develop requiring crew investigation." Antimatter is part of a ship’s fuel. Teleoperators are presumably the transporter operators.

So beaming antimatter isn’t dangerous, but the standard way of transporting it and other types (but not all ty pes) of volatile material. Perhaps Scott or Brian were confusing antimatter with tricyanate from The Most Toys(TNG)? That was said to be too unstable to transport.

It's well settled that Data knows the rules of poker. So I can only conclude that he's cheating when he misdeals. He shuffles the cards, offers a cut to the player on his right (Geordi) who taps, retrieves the deck, and CUTS THE CARDS before dealing. Time to run a diagnostic on the old ethical subroutine.

In the Holodeck, Worf says that he & K'Ehlar (sp?) are mated. Really? How come we didn't see the Klingon Mating Ritual before the palm-bleeding incident?

Because the creators didn't want, or indeed need, to slow the taut, suspensful 'A' plot down. Especially not to further beat viewers over the head with a point that's already been clearly and succinctly made before, and will be after, the stuff we don't see.

Diedrich Bader (Tactical Crewman) can currently be seen as Oswald on "The Drew Carey Show," but he's been around for a while--Jethro in the big-screen remake of "The Beverly Hillbillies," and my favorite--the superhip "Searcher" on the short-lived "Danger Theater."

Lance LeGault (K'Temoc) chased the A-Team around for three seasons as the indefatigible Colonel Decker.

This one really leapt out at me: why does K'Ehyler, half human, still look fully Klingon (as though the Klingon genes dominate over the human ones) yet B'Elanna Torres from Voyager have halfway-between features, as though the human and Klingon genes are codominant? Maybe it depends on whether the Klingon parent is male and the human female or vice versa...

Why doesn't K'Ehleyr want to be Worf's mate? She knows that "a special something" happened between her & Worf. So....Does K'Ehleyr relish the fact that she has an illegitamate child within her? (Which appears in the next episode where they meet again)

What happened to "Klingon honor"?

Perhaps she doesn't think that Worf would be the kind of father that she wanted for her child, he is kind of an "old school" Klingon and she's not. Perhaps she doesn't want to me mated to a career millitary man who will be away on missions all of the time.

K'Ehleyer doesn't care about "Klingon honor"! They spend this episode and several others that she doesn't. Brians post is right on the money.

Anti-matter is not supposed to be transportable, as the antimatter would cause the pattern buffers to mutally annililate. They made an exception for peak performance, but I wouldn't count on it happening again.

Wasn't anti-matter transported in the Classic Trek episode Obsession?

Yep, that's how they destroyed the vampire cloud.

Antimatter is transportable for the same reason that it's storable. They keep it in magnetic containment fields.

NOTE: Suzie Plakson has some nice curves. I saw her. What can I say but, "WOW!" ?

Careful, John. Marina might get jealous!

You're right. I hope she don't read that!

Did you tell her she has nice curves?

No. That would've been inappropiate.

(I probably would have been hauled out by security like ScottN said in his "Marina" joke)

she's a vulcan... why would she take offense?

and if she's a Klingon, then she'll just rip you to pieces... and call it a day...

LOL. That's funny.

BTW...if you see her, don't speak Klingonese to her, she only remembers a few words from the dialect

I was watching this and several other second season episodes on my old tapes the other day, and I had nearly forgotten how prominent the background music was in the first two seasons. From season three on, the music is mostly limited to ambient and incidental pieces (with a few memorable exceptions, such as The Best of Both Worlds and The Inner Light)

I mention it here because it was this episode's "80's Beatbox" version of the Klingon theme during the scene when the Enterprise moves to intercept the T'Ong that reminded me.

>>>By LUIGI NOVI on Friday, July 05, 2002 - 10:58 pm:
Wes has it beamed to the Hathaway. In the next Act, Riker finds Wes and Geordi installing it, and Wes tells him it deals with "plasma reactions with antimatter." Now did that thing have antimatter in it, or was it plasma, and the antimatter it reacted with was the antimatter on the Hathaway? <<<

The Hathaway has no antimatter - Geordi notes this when he's talking about the engine. He states that there is some dilithium left in the warp chamber, but this is irrelivent as they have no antimatter to use with it.

>>>By Thande on Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 3:51 am:

This one really leapt out at me: why does K'Ehyler, half human, still look fully Klingon (as though the Klingon genes dominate over the human ones) yet B'Elanna Torres from Voyager have halfway-between features, as though the human and Klingon genes are codominant? Maybe it depends on whether the Klingon parent is male and the human female or vice versa...<<<

This isn't a problem, I've known people have pale skin when one of their parents is African and very dark skinned. I've also got a cousin who's mother is Asian-american and whos father is cacasion, she however looks exactly like her mother.
People can often take after one parent more than the other, sometimes to the degree that they look as if they come from one ethnic group even if they are mixed race.

>>>By John A. Lang on Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 12:24 pm:

Why doesn't K'Ehleyr want to be Worf's mate? She knows that "a special something" happened between her & Worf. So....Does K'Ehleyr relish the fact that she has an illegitamate child within her? (Which appears in the next episode where they meet again) <<<

Things are happening to quickly for her and she's scared. In regards to Klingon Honor there is nothing to say that a klingon Woman who has sex HAS to marry her partner, any more than women have to marry after sex today with humans. That may be the tradition, but given the, forward, way Klingon women seem to look at it I doubt it is followed often. (If they did follow this then Riker can't have kept his appointment with the Klingon woman on the Pagh in A Matter of Honor since he remains single. It would also seem unlikely that the Klingon in question would have made the offer if she felt she would have had to marry Riker afterwards).

>>>By Matt pesti on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 12:17 am:

Anti-matter is not supposed to be transportable, as the antimatter would cause the pattern buffers to mutally annililate. They made an exception for peak performance, but I wouldn't count on it happening again.<<<

You'd be wrong. Voyager transported a photon Torpedo, and the warhead of photons contains antimatter.

Nit; When K'Ehleyer is reviewing holodeck programs the sound effects indicate that the list is moving. If you look at the display however it is clear that the list of programs isn't moving. The program she picks is called Worf III, and is a lot shorter than the names of the rest of the list, making this easy to spot - So easy I noticed this the first time I watched this.

How come K'Ehleyr isn't a pile of goo? I don't remember seeing or hearing anything about an IDF in that probe...

Just before Worf beams K'Ehleyr to the Klingon ship, he relieves O'Brien. O'Brien then replies with: "Lieutenant". The thing that puzzles me is that Worf has the ensignia of a Junior Lieutenant, namely 1 Full Circle and 1 "half" circle.

O'Brien on the other hand, has two full circles, so he has the ensignia of a Senior Lieutenant. This is opposed to DS9, where he has petty officer insignia corresponding with his rank. So should not Worf address O'Brien as "Lieutenant"? Any thoughts on this?

That would make Worf a lieutenant junior grade and with military rank structure he would still be called lieutenant; as would a lieutenant commander be called commander...

Actually O'Brien has chief petty officer insignia in DS9, but yes, has full lieutenant pips in TNG, which is of course a commissioned officer so that would mean he got demoted for his next posting. TPTB play it up for us to think he was always enlisted but they did have enlisted people in TNG so his rank seems to be a mistake on their part.