Homeward, Gallifrey Gals Get Warped! S7ep13
Added 2023-05-02 17:00:01 +0000 UTCOkay... For real this time!! Homeward bound! Let's go see Worf's half brother! .... Wait, wtf???
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This whole episode was full of weird decisions. Worf's brother deciding to stay with those people was weird. I could see it happening if maybe he crashed and was stranded there with no hope of returning, but he didn't have to inject himself into their society in this case. Also, Worf taking the history tablet at the end was weird and made no sense. It's not one of the better TNG episodes.
Chrono Gamer
2023-05-28 00:18:32 +0000 UTCLOL!!!! Heated debates about this episode but I gotta say, Im shocked u all made very little fuss about FREAKIN Paul Sorvino in Star Trek. This was an A-List movie actor at the time. A legend!!! and here he was on the small screen playing Worf's brother. The only thing i dont remember is whether HE was the Trekkie or his daughter, Mira.
Sal Sanchez
2023-05-04 00:16:58 +0000 UTCI think this episode shows the heavy weight of breaking the Prime Directive, be it purposely or accidentally. IMO, Nikolai was right to save the Boraalans. Do they know if they’ll be able to adjust to their new lives or what that star system will look like in 1,000 years should the Boraalans become warp capable? No, but declaring their species a dead end and leaving them to die wasn’t the moral choice. I also like the decision to have Pulaski’s old “wipe-their-memory” solution not work and for them to have to give the chronicler a choice. Forcibly erasing someone’s memory to clean up your mess (or Nikolai’s mess, in this case) is not moral. Sentient beings have the right to self-determination. No one has the moral right to violate someone’s bodily autonomy merely to mitigate cultural contamination. Unfortunately, the chronicler decided to take his own life, rather than contaminate his own culture, risk being ostracized or live with such a crushing secret. On a side note, there’s no way there were enough people living in that village to represent a sufficient gene pool to repopulate an entire species.
Matthew Zeidman
2023-05-03 18:15:46 +0000 UTCA lot of people say that Star Fleet Captains like Kirk, Picard, Janeway, etc. often break the Prime Directive. That's not true. It's the opposite - it's usually a situation where a pre-space flight alien society has already been culturally contaminated, and Kirk/Picard/Janeway & crew have to mitigate the damage. They have to clean up soneone else's mess. I don't think there are any episodes in which Kirk, Picard, Janeway & their crews go to a pre-spaceflight, never contacted alien society and just intentionally disregard the PD. Does anyone disagree?
Stephen Kronfeld
2023-05-03 16:10:15 +0000 UTCNikolai for sure inserted himself where he shouldn't have. I don't hate the idea Nikolai has for saving these people, in that, had it worked without a hitch, these people would've had no idea they were saved, their culture would not be affected by space god aliens that saved them. I just wish the show would look at the prime directive as: How can we save people without them ever knowing? And of course, that is a sliding scale. But there are a lot of variables that need to go right for this to work perfectly. Also, pretty sure this is the first appearance of Penny Johnson Jerrald in Trek. She goes on to play one of my favorite characters in the franchise.
Nolan
2023-05-03 04:15:13 +0000 UTCNikolai actually was mentioned once before, way back in Season one's "Heart of Glory." Worf mentioned how the two of them both went to Starfleet Academy together but how he dropped out and Worf stayed. I think this season is revisiting a lot of things only briefly mentioned because they knew it would be a last chance for them.
Judge Brehon
2023-05-02 23:46:07 +0000 UTCI go back and forth on the Prime Directive. In an ideal world, I think each potential incident could be assessed individually, weighing the harm you would be removing against the potential harm an intervention would cause. But practically, I think that you'd have so many differing perspectives that it would amount to not having a non-interference policy at all. Having a bright-line rule - "No interference" - in a large organization like Starfleet is probably necessary. Though, I guess, in practice it does come down to a case-by-case basis because we've seen that all sorts of people make the decision to violate the Prime Directive when they believe that it is the correct thing to do and then simply face the consequences. That might be part of what I didn't like about this episode. Worf's brother doesn't face consequences. I think it would have sat better with me if Worf had taken him from the planet and his brother wouldn't have gotten the life he wanted, but he would be happy knowing that he had saved those people. Like, Worf could have thrown him in the brig and said something about how he's thrown his career/life away and he could have said that it was a price he was happy to pay. That I think would have been better. Personally, I also would have wanted to save them. Yes, there were negative consequences, but surely they are less than complete obliteration? But then I wonder - it's such a small group of people. Are they really going to thrive on this new planet that they know absolutely nothing about? Or are they just going to lead lives of hardship before eventually dying out in a generation or two? Is that better than dying with the rest of their world. I don't know. Now I'm talking myself out of it. It's not an easy question.
Robert C
2023-05-02 20:21:48 +0000 UTCA law or directive is is something we try and should follow because it was created for the benefit of society (aka all of us). However it should always be challenged if it doesn't serve it's purpose. And if it doesn't do that, don't follow it, just because people say it has to be done. Picard has indeed sometimesnot followed a directive, because in that particular case it didn't serve the purpose it was intended for. A slippery slope for sure, that's why we have courts and supreme courts that delve into these complicated law vs moral/common sense issues in real life. Starfleet has encountered a bunch of these situations with the Enterprise alone, let alone the whole fleet. So why hasn't it been amended or expanded for different situations. In this case the culture and people were already doomed. Not anybodys fault, but that's just what can happen in life. So it wasn't about interfering anymore, but about do we let them die, or save as many as we can and find the best solution for them going forward. It won't be the same, but keep the status quo wasn't an option anymore anyway. Maybe they can cultivate some of their culture in their new home. Anything is better than complete annihilation right. Nikolai found a dead end with Starfleet so made a moral decision and did the best he could for them. And I agree with his choice. Picard plays the 'by the book' guy this episode, which was weird, given his history. But somebody had to play that role I guess. There was no admiral around. Worf's brother integrating into the society was meant only to guide them to safety. However, he should have kept some social distance and going further with that is a questionable choice to say the least. But, he is a human with faults, so that can happen. I hope it was just a case of two people falling in love and even though he thought it wasn't proper he gave in to love. Betazoids, Vulcans, Klingons and probably a lot more have succesfully had childeren with a human spouse, so I doubt that would be an issue. And if anyone should know if they are compatible biological mates, it should be him, since he studied them.
Pickupthepieces76
2023-05-02 20:21:39 +0000 UTCWhen my father saw this episode, he suggested (before the suicide) that all Federation starships must have covert agents aboard who's main duty was to make sure that the Prime Directive wasnt violated. Before the episode was over he predicted that the native would have an accident that would be covered up as a suicide. Dad also didnt have much faith in Dr Crusher's skills as a pathologist.
Mark Ten
2023-05-02 20:02:03 +0000 UTCSeriously, dropping in a single observer for what must be years at a time, someone who clearly had so many stability issues, was asking for trouble. What Federation Admiral came up with this observation program?!? This was an exercise in Colonialism. Or worse, the people here were treated like a pack of animals under observation & study. Im surprised everyone didnt wake up with a camera under their neck. At least in Meerkat Manor the scientists didnt actually interfere.
Mark Ten
2023-05-02 19:46:39 +0000 UTCI kinda-sorta side with Nikolai in this episode— but only kinda-sorta. Worf was correct that he failed to really consider the consequences of his actions, and it was unconscionable for him to get involved with the Borallan woman (not sure of the spelling of the species). Tragic damage resulted from his recklessness and I don't much like him getting away with it at the end. But I also think it was unconscionable to interpret the prime directive as "stand by and do nothing" while a sentient species (not to mention an entire planetary biosphere) faces extinction through no fault of their own. The Federation would have rushed to the aid of a warp-capable species that called for help in such a situation; there's an appalling note of elitism in effectively saying they'll let the Borallans die just because they're not advanced enough to do that. If Starfleet had some nuance in how to apply the directive, a far better plan than Nikolai's reckless (and mixed-motive) improvisations could have been devised.
Keith Goodnight
2023-05-02 19:28:03 +0000 UTCOh yeah that's next week, hell yeah, bring on the laughter for that beautiful train wreck.
Mike
2023-05-02 19:10:02 +0000 UTCI think it's a very good episode, it makes you think but as Kat was alluding to the real consequences and motives of Nikola I feel in the end the writers did not properly address or were able to give the proper gravitas to what he was actually doing and why. And Worf just taking the chronicle at the end was definitely a WTF moment.
Mike
2023-05-02 19:08:36 +0000 UTCI'm on the fence about this episode. It was great to see Paul Sorvino, one of my favorite actors. Especially Goodfellas and Law & Order. Can't wait to see Kat's reaction next week to the infamous "Sub Rosa".
Bruce Bromley
2023-05-02 18:47:32 +0000 UTCI basically agree with Katrina. Once you start making major decisions for less advanced and aware alien societies, where does it end? Before you know it, you're an imperial power, ruling over less powerful people, while telling yourself and them that it's for their own good.
Stephen Kronfeld
2023-05-02 18:37:08 +0000 UTCI'm glad Kat brought up the weird power dynamic between Nikolai and the Boraalan woman. The knowledge gap alone makes it icky. I would argue there is no real consent either, as Nikolai is keeping the fact that he is human from her. How will he explain their half-human baby?
Logan Thyne
2023-05-02 18:28:22 +0000 UTCAppropriate that this ep happens to drop today, on what would have been the 99th birthday of the late Theodore Bikel, who played Worf's foster-father Sergei Rozhenko. (On that note, Paul Sorvino always struck me as about as convincingly Russian as, well, Worf.)
Ken Quick
2023-05-02 17:50:16 +0000 UTCNot that anyone was going to remember, but Worf did talk about his foster brother in season 1, when we got a bit of an exposition dump about him being rescued from Khitomer as a child and raised by the Rozhenkos. He mentioned then that he and his foster brother went to Starfleet Academy together but his brother dropped out after the first year because he hated it.
Jarrod Wild
2023-05-02 17:35:39 +0000 UTC
