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There HAD to be a better way

Photon

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to explain Worf's extreme caution around fra-GILE humans than LHWS. This episode comes between 2 really really great episodes (Trials&Tribillations and Things Past) Worf's childhood (IMO) is interesting and why/how he developed into what he was. But this episode is so ludicrious and insulting in demeans what might have been a good story.

One moment Worf is pig-headed and intrangent and the next moment up Dax's butt. WTF :wtf:

It could have been a funny episode or an intrguing epi, but it turned out lame and banal.
 
I don't recall much about this episode, other than I didn't enjoy it very much. In what way did you find it demeaning and insulting? I don't recall having that reaction.
 
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Basically when he was a teenager he killed a boy with his awesome strength while playing a sport. So he decided ever after to:

1. Be very careful around humans
2. To be so careful that he joins wacky terrorists who are trying to make a point but he's just trying to get back at his girlfriend for hanging around Vanessa Williams

...right.
 
Yeah. You'd also think that assisting a terrorist group in the sabotage of Risa's weather control grid a violation of some relevant statute. While I grant that the Risians aren't the type to proffer charges, I'm sure the thousands of vacationers whose time he ruined with his calculated tantrum would be happy to throw the reg book at him. Hell, should not his fellow officers have formally accused him of conduct unbecoming, at the very least? They clearly shirked their duties, as well.

Then, again, Worf got away with a preposterous amount of unacceptable behavior on both series, so it's not exactly surprising.

I think Guinan pegged him properly, at least in some measure, when she called him "coward" in "Yesterday's Enterprise." Despite being raised among them, Worf didn't particularly understand the subtleties of human romantic inter-relationships, and used disdain to disguise his fears of rejection and inadequacy concerning them. We never see him intimate with a predominantly human female, after all, nor does he ever mention such a romance. Instead, he's involved with a Klingon/human hybrid, a Klingon/Romulan hybrid and a Trill Klingonophile, along with pursuing a Klingon noblewoman and a brief liaison with the successor to his wife. I note a common denominator there. His runs at Deanna Troi were tentative and relatively inept. We never saw it progress even to a first kiss, insofar as I recall (such having been interrupted in "All Good Things"), and to posit a romance in Trek-verse Prime when we saw nothing of the sort ("Parallels" notwithstanding) is presumptuous.

In short, I don't think Worf is comfortable anywhere.
 
Ohhh now I remember that episode...I wasn't too keen about it either. I especially agree on the comment on Worf's complicity in sabotaging the weather net...at the very least he should of had some additional duty or letter of reprimand over that...what a lapse of judgment for an officer.

I liked Vanessa Williams and wouldn't mind seeing more of her....
 
...Because it costs too much?

(Not to mention the lost revenues from umbrella and hanky industries.)

Anyway, it would be natural for every party involved to keep this thing hush-hush. There were only a handful of people who knew what Worf had done to begin with, and it would be in Risan interests to buy their silence, and in their interest to sell.

What are the Risans going to tell the customers?

1) "A rare malfunction, against which we are already developing safeguards as we speak." The customers would go "What the #/&%¤, you promised 100% clear skies! I'll seriously think this through when I next come here, if the best you can offer is 98% certainty."

2) "A minor terrorist strike, nothing to worry about." To which the customers would respond "Terrorists on Risa? Nobody from my planet will come here for the next fifty years! Or from any planet, for that matter."

Everybody would see the wisdom of letting the Risans use the first version. At least if the wisdom was made suitably profitable for them.

Timo Saloniemi
 
This episode is a real stinker. It's one of those that's totally puzzling because it's surrounded by so many GREAT episodes made by the same people, essentially! It really makes you wonder: "What were they thinking?!?"

And it's such a shame really because Worf's backstory could have been quite effective and because The Essentialists could have been quite interesting. Since I usually try to forget about this episode both things are sadly lost (well, they're really lost in any case since they featured in this particular disaster of an episode).
 
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