Not to be confused with the very similarly titled DS9 episode Emisarry, this is the one about Worf's ex who is now apparently a special envoy of the Klingon Empire despite being half human. Maybe the Klingons are so into honor and whatever that they look past someone being half human when it comes to getting jobs and promotions and stuff, but I kinda doubt it. Especially someone who so clearly spurns their traditions, but whatever, she is an envoy. Despite some issues this turns out to be an extremely strong Worf episode, especially for so early in the series. He is still mostly being depicted as the always aggressive security officer, nice to seem him getting to do some serious negotiating.
The episode begins with the second crew poker game which despite involving Pulaski and Data is actually pretty good. Her casual racism has been brought to an almost acceptable level by this point. They are interrupted by a Starfleet emergency signal and rush to the bridge before Worf can win ALL the chips. It is a big mystery and the admiral in charge will only tell them they have to go to specific coordinates and await an envoy arriving in a probe. This is highly unusual even by arbitrary Starfleet command orders but they do it anyway and the probe turns out to contain a half Klingon lady with a dangerous mission. It turns out that 100 years earlier the Klingon empire sent out sleeper ships full of frozen warriors and they don't know the war is over. The Enterprises job is to track them down and try to keep them from destroying a nearby Federation outpost.
The envoy seems convinced they will need to destroy the ship but Picard and company aren't going to just start shooting. Worf is assigned to work with her on a plan which he is upset about since they apparently dated years earlier and it didn't go well. Troi tries to get in the middle of course but they best advice she can give envoy lady is to go work out on the holodeck. She tries Worf's exercise/combat routine and he joins her. And I mean joins her because it is such a turn on that they get it on. Worf then declares they are getting married and she is understandably upset by this.
Finally they find the rouge ship and as soon as it appears it opens fire and then cloaks again. The Enterprise pursues but it doesn't look good. But then Worf suddenly has a plan. He gets them to block the Klingon's path with their ship and he rushes off to get changed. When they Klingons drop their cloak the Enterprise hails with Worf in command. He talks the captain down and they agree to let the envoy take command of their ship until the other Klingon vessel can arrive to escort them home. Worf has an emotional good bye in the transporter room and credits.
Review: Some of the Klingon/human/Klingon romance issues in this episode aren't the best, but overall it works well. We get to see both the emotional side and the leadership sides of Worf in ways that haven't been explored much. It makes me really glad he got to join DS9 and keep going with the character after TNG ended.
7 out of 10
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