Mr. Homn

[Timo]

That softie? Didn't survive the encounter, to nobody's surprise.

...or the planet being in the process of exploding played havoc with the gravity-well?

That's a good one!

Kruge also seemed to enjoy strangling the beast found in Spock's coffin as it was strangling him, while his crew shared looks of apprehension. Perhaps proof of him being proud of his exceptional strength? As in, he's willing to demonstrate it at every opportunity, to the extent of becoming an embarrassment?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Captain McBain]

Mr. Homn never met Kirk. That was the android Ruk.

 

[MikeS]

Mr Homn is an android. He is "long-lived", once having met Kirk.

Didn't he once get hit by Kirk's rock-hard cock?

 

[Trekker4747]

Mr. Homn never met Kirk. That was the android Ruk.

Yes, I know that.

But it was some confusion on my part, the actor who played Ruk also played Lurch in the Addams Family TV series. The actor who played Mr. Homn played Lurch in the Addams Family movies from the 1990s.

 

[tomalak301]

Worf's physical strength was never really demonstrated or mentioned. What was mentioned (and often questioned) was his "warrior fierceness", which is quite a different thing. Worf often wrestled with fellow Klingons (typically using a bladed weapon for leverage), quite evenly. And Kirk wrestled with Kor evenly as well, and later fought Kang to a standstill with a strength-critical bladed weapon. On the average, it would seem that a trained Klingon is an even match to a trained human, no more.

Didn't Worf say in (I believe) Code of Honor that to fully appreciate sex, he would need a Klingon Woman because human females were too fragile? Also, while it was years later than the time we're talking about, he brings up his physical strength to Dax in "Let He Who is Without Sin". Granted, we don't really see his strength first hand that much, but we got some kind of idea as to how strong he was.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Mr. Homn never met Kirk. That was the android Ruk.

But they both lurched.

 

[sbk1234]

Commander Riker struggled to carry Mr. Homn's case. Would Worf have had difficulty, or could he have carried it without obvious problems?

Given experience seen in past episodes, the suitcase would have kicked the shit out of Worf.

 

[Timo]

Didn't Worf say in (I believe) Code of Honor that to fully appreciate sex, he would need a Klingon Woman because human females were too fragile? Also, while it was years later than the time we're talking about, he brings up his physical strength to Dax in "Let He Who is Without Sin".

Both cases refer to the fragility of the human body (in the latter case, Worf's skull apparently cracked that of a human boy; in the former, we probably don't want to know), but neither seems to actually involve Klingon muscular strength. Klingons just happen to be less fragile.

As in, thicker bones and less tear-prone genitals (or other body parts that may get harmed in Klingon copulation or foreplay or afterplay, the nature of which is largely unknown, beyond women hurling heavy objects and men reciting poetry), in addition to the canonically established redundant internal organs. I don't think that sort of stuff would help Worf outdo Mr Homn in the art of carrying Ambassadorial luggage...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[CommanderRaytas]

but we really never found out about Homn and why he was so strong and so immune to liquor.

He was Lurch's brother.

Is Lurch immune to alcohol?

 

[Ziz]

The Lurch/Ruk/Homm connection is even acknowledged in the old Star Trek Encyclopedias. Under Ruk, it says "Also see Mr. Homm" and under Homm it says "Also see Ruk" - but that's it. It's left to the reader to figure out why they reference each other.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

So they must be travelling through time and space...and drinking every liquor shop dry. What a life!