What an action packed episode. And of course in the end Worf is back on the Enterprise as are the rest of the bridge crew. But along the way there is all sorts of intrigue. Not shockingly it seems Kurn doesn't run as disaplined a ship as Kargan in A Matter of Honor but I guess that isn't super surprising. Also the scene were Worf gets captured happens so fast that a moments distraction and suddenly he was captured. I also have to wonder if Data wrote up his jackass second in command for being constantly insubordinate?
The episode opens with Kurn's ship fighting two other Birds-of-Prey and not doing so well. Worf insists they flee but Kurn won't listen and instead flies dangerously close to a star and kicks up some sort of wake that destroys the other two ships. Meanwhile Picard is meeting with some admirals to try and convince them to send a fleet to the border between the Romulans and the Klingons to try and stop the Romulans from smuggling in arms to aid Duras' side in the civil war. The admirals agree to let Picard lead his fleet but only if he will keep it from turning into a war. Now I am no navy expert, but isn't this the sort of thing admirals have jobs to do? Why is a captain leading all this? And then for some reason Riker and Data are both given command of other ships in this fleet. Is there a great captain shortage? In any case it appears without this assistance the Duras faction will win and the Romulans may be able to end the Klingon/Federation alliance.
The middle of the episode is mostly Data having all sorts of problems getting his second in command to to his job and everyone being super confused how Tasha had a daughter. Having missed Yesterday's Enterprise on my initial watching this part was always super confusing. Somehow Tasha's daughter is convinced she can get Picard to leave or something so she has her ship decloak and beams over. But all she gets is Picard fakes them out by pretending to move the fleet in such a way that a hole is created or something. It isn't clear what his plan is. But Data has a solid plan and over the objections of his second in command totally discovers and turns back the Romulan ships.
Somewhere in there Kurn agrees to let all the captured Duras people onto his ship and gets so drunk the capture Worf. But after attempts to seduce him fail they plan to just kill him but of course Worf fights back and manages to kill the Romulan guard holding him just as Gowrons soldiers arrive. In the end Gowron offers Worf the right to kill Duras' son but Worf of course turns him down and returns to Starfleet.
Review: Not quite as good as the last episode but a lot better than the second Best of Both Worlds. It seems like maybe the writers actually thought through where they were going this time instead of just blindly charging forward. Honestly this episode might have been better being further split in half, but I guess I mostly just want to see Data getting to captain more.
8 out of 10
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