Birthright

Worf hears the worst news he could imagine: that his father is alive and well on a Romulan prison planet. He sets off to investigate what became of the Klingons who survived the Khitomer massacre and discovers those prisoners may not want to be freed. Meanwhile, Data is having daddy issues of his own. A power surge causes his positronic brain to start vividly dreaming about the late Dr. Soong, and it seems that where theres smoke, there’s a bird! Birthright Parts I and II on this week’s Mission Log. I gotta wonder why the two stories were just not separate episodes. And we had another of Ken’s favorite type of episode. People are happy. Nope we can not have that. Ya TNG was not quite there yet. They occasionally will remember past events, but not like later series and what is common today. oh dear! After a great run of TNG episodes it all comes crashing down and bores the pants of me with this snoozefest. Possibly the most boring, unneeded two parter TNG ever did. Luckily Mission Log’s review did! Great podcast about not so great episodes. Which cheered me up no end. Looking forward to Die Hard on the Enterprise next week now! They look slightly different to how I remember them. It’s been a while tho and I have tried to forget them so…. That for posting them tho! “…and no one cares about Data’s weird dreams anymore…” EXACTLY!! Worf’s story is interesting, but I really have zero interest in psycho-stories. There is no ‘real’ world impact. Unfortunately, I can already sniff Troi cake in the oven and hear the conductor calling out ‘Verdion Station!’ Ugh! Most of the time that’s all I ever remember of that episode. drek…I hated that choo choo train nonsense that we know is coming up…arrrrggh! as well! Hey, Paramount syndication writer – “the price of peace” was already used for Star Trek VI. Back to the drawing board with you. Also not working for me, but seems to be working over on trek.fm you can listen there. Sorry everyone – there was some glitch that we’re not even sure how it happened. Links should all be working now, and thanks for your patience! There was a point, early on, where I was naively wishing and hoping that TNG and DS9 would give us meaty crossovers, right up there with the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman teaming up against Bigfoot or something. And what we got was……this. Thing is, I like Bashir’s role in this, though now that I know it was meant to be Dax, I can’t unsee that – the dialogue would make so much more sense coming from her. I’m much more attached to part one than I am to part two, which not only drops at least 1/3 of the threads from part one (Data and Shrek, which looks so weird now that I’ve typed it – Donkey! You turned into an android!), but…man, Worf is just insufferable in his smug self-righteousness a lot of the time. I think he means well, but…wow. This goes beyond “it’s called freedom, and you’ll like it” – it’s more like “it’s called freedom, you will like it, and if you don’t I will make you like it!” I am not sure why the Enterprise was even at Deep Space 9 other than to reassure the viewing audience that the shows take place in the same universe. YUP!- too bad, they couldn’t have done a few more at least….woulda been nice to see Sisko…imo right?!!?? that Yridian, shoulda called his bluff! “Go ahead Worf kill me!!” We all know Worf doesn’t have the stones/gambja to outright murder someone! Worf was in the wrong! Silly for him to get suckered into the Yridians plot anyway…and really for a shifty trader of secrets, you’d think he’d be a bit tougher/slicker…. Payment will be personal lessons in that Klingon “tai chi” a.k.a. Mok’bara… I really thought this episode emphasized the HEAVY FOCUS on Worf and Data throughout the series run…and the utter UTTER NEGLECT of La Forge and Crusher. The episode was ok, but for crying out loud, Worf and Data get a son, a daughter, brothers!, Data even gets a step Mom?!?! Are you kidding me?? W a guest star of Dr Julian Bashir,