Weekend Trek “Reunion”

Wait…Klingons? A script co-written by Ron Moore? A focus on Worf? Could it be Jimmy and Tom got to discuss one of the better episodes of what has already been shaping up to be a pretty darn good season of TNG?

Sure seems likely. And with a title like “Reunion,” someone had to be coming back, right?

“Reunion”

Picard is asked to mediate a power dispute for the Klingon Empire, bringing Worf a startling revelation!

jimmy: This season continues to be about family. And we all know…

tomk: That’s why so many relatives turn out to be jerks.

jimmy: That’s not very nice to say about Alexander.

tomk: Siblings tend to be jerks. Picard’s brother. Data’s brother. Tasha’s sister. Captain Jake’s uptight sister the Commodore for the Night Crew.

jimmy: Siblings jerks, offspring ok. Got it.

tomk: Parents are also usually cool.

jimmy: Don’t tell Deanna. Or Riker.

tomk: I said “usually “.

jimmy: Ok. Got it.

tomk: Good. Mama Impossible is incredibly cool.

jimmy: For sure.

tomk: And on another note, I recently learned a friend named her son Alexander for Worf’s kid.

jimmy: I bet that…hasn’t happened a lot.

tomk: I rather like that kid. When we see him.

jimmy: Yeah. I think he plays a bigger role in DS9.

tomk: I haven’t gotten that far yet. I have seen more of Lwaxana Troi than Worf or Alexander.

jimmy: That’s unfortunate.

tomk: For me and for Odo

But Worf, well, he’s got other problems than the idea of having Lwaxana Troi hanging off of him or being his mother-in-law or something.

jimmy: He steps up in the end. Though it’s too bad they killed off K’Ehleyr, she was a good character.

tomk: She could keep Worf on his toes, and the actors had good chemistry.

jimmy: Agreed. It’s too bad. And her death seemed to border on fridging.

tomk: Yes, it did. Especially since Worf immediately sent Alexander to live with those jolly Russians.

jimmy: It was the clear motivator for him to get involved in the conflict and take over as Alexander’s father.

tomk: And then immediately send him away. I like Alexander, but Worf is a terrible dad.

jimmy: He’s the MVP of the Enterprise, not of parenting.

tomk: Also, not much of a diplomat when he kills one of the delegates.

Even if Duras had it coming.

jimmy: They are Klingons.

tomk: Made Picard’s job easier!

jimmy: Killing off the Ambassador and a delegate will do that.

tomk: Plus, Gowron has much more distinctive eyes.

jimmy: Haha, he definitely has a unique look about him.

tomk: And he was noticibly less evil. He only vaguely threatened K’Ehleyr. Duras actually killed her.

jimmy: It’s more Klingon that way.

Ask Worf.

tomk: Killing someone because they found out you did someone dirty is Klingon?

jimmy: It’s certainly not Starfleet.

tomk: Hmm. You raise a good point.

jimmy: Though Worf kills a guy and gets off with a mark on his permanent record.

tomk: He got lucky no one liked Duras.

jimmy: His mom probably did.

tomk: I didn’t see her hanging around anywhere.

jimmy: Would you even know?

tomk: I think I can recognize an old lady Klingon when I see one.

jimmy: We never saw who else was on his ship.

tomk: Hey, I would take my mother to my possible ascension to power in the Empire. Unless I planted a Romulan bomb…

jimmy: You’d never be in league with the Romulans.

tomk: You’re right. I wouldn’t even be in league with the Watsonians.

jimmy: They are a Borg level extinction threat.

tomk: Mostly to themselves.

jimmy: And now Gowron is the leader of the Klingons. I bet that never comes up again.

tomk: Well, he hasn’t been crowned yet, and I certainly did not see him and those very distinctive eyes in the DS9 episode “House of Quark”.

jimmy: Well, duh.

tomk: Still, I did like the “oh crap” look Duras made when Worf referred to K’Ehleyr as his mate.

jimmy: He knew he was dead already.

tomk: What a dumbass.

jimmy: They’ll be back in the episode Reunion 2: Klingon Boogaloo.

tomk: That’s an all-time classic. K’Ehleyr comes back as a ghost and Data hides under some sheets.

jimmy:

tomk: It’s really scary.

Geordi doesn’t run because he drops his VISOR and he can’t see a thing without his VISOR.

Meanwhile, Riker sets a trap, Troi accidentally gets caught, and Picard gets a bad case of the munchies.

But it all turns out to be Q in disguise because he was smuggling stolen Ferengi treasure. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for that meddling Federation and their Android.

jimmy: Guess we can skip that episode.

tomk: Unless it was really Wesley all along.

jimmy: All part of his evil plan.

tomk: To occasionally get us to watch terrible television?

jimmy: Did you think this was terrible?

tomk: No, but the proposed episode above with the Scooby Doo ending would have been.

jimmy: Haha. That’s true.

tomk: This was a Worf-based episode that features Klingon politics co-written by Ronald Moore…this is great television.

jimmy: Ah, I missed the Moore credit. Good stuff.

tomk: You were too dazzled by everything else to read a name.

jimmy: Or too lazy.

tomk: Jimmy, take a compliment once in a while.

jimmy: Being dazzled was a compliment?

tomk: Um…yeah! It means you appreciate finely done work and have good taste!

jimmy: I do!

tomk: In fact, have a case of beer.

jimmy: Awesome. It’s been hot as hell here lately.

tomk: You can share it with the Moose then. A hot Moose is a cranky Moose.

Unless he took Cousin Minka, Captain Jake, and the Beaver’s advice and joined that 12 step program.

jimmy: He didn’t.

tomk: Party Moose is still in da house. Got it.

jimmy:

tomk: Isn’t that Sarah Palin on the one side of that gif? She probably wanted to use the ship’s phasers on some Romulan wolf species.

jimmy: It’s a party on the Enterprise. You never know who will show up.

tomk: Well, unless it’s Alexander. He doesn’t show up that often.

jimmy: You need your head of security threatening to eat children, not raising one.

tomk: I’m not sure we want threatened cannibalism.

But that said, this was a great episode, Klingon fridging aside. Do you have anything else to add, Jimmy?

jimmy: Not really. A little surprised they shuffled Alexander off so quickly. And asking Picard to basically choose the next leader of the Klingons seems a bit far fetched.

tomk: Picard is the very model of a modern major diplomat. He has information animal, vegetable, and mineral.

jimmy: Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue the same way, but point taken. Still, the entire Klingon race couldn’t get this done and had to bring in Picard?

tomk: Klingons fight each other too much. They respect Picard because, uh, he helped Worf that one time.

jimmy: Helped him so well, he was outcast and disgraced.

tomk: But in a way that saved the rest of the High Council from the horrors of…the truth!

jimmy: Which Worf still can’t share.

tomk: Not unless the other members of the Council kill his mate or something.

jimmy: He’ll need to find another now. And most are too fragile.

tomk: Well, there’s probably an app for that.

jimmy: Plenty Of Klingons.

tomk: That works.

jimmy: So what’s next? Another show about family?

tomk: Maybe.

Sort of.