Birthright Part Two.

STTNG

Star Trek The Next Generation Season Six

Q; Why have a prison camp on the edge of your territory?

A; When it was built, it may not then have been at the edge, we don't know. I must say, though, that the inference seems to me to be that the planet has no major life forms on it, i.e., there doesn't seem to be an indigenous population who would need to be moved so that the camp could be made secure. Such planets, may I suggest, would presumably be rare. Another reason for keeping the whole kit and caboodle in an out of the way environment is that, as the Camp Commander says, its existence proves that Klingons and Romulans may live together in peace. In a society such as the Romulan one, there will be many in high places who would, perhaps because they are in disruptor production or the manufacture of warbirds, have a vested financial interest in maintaining the fiction that Klingons and Romulans are sworn enemies and never could be anything else. In fact, bearing in mind the number of people who must know about it (I'm thinking here of the guards, whom we might assume to be on a temporary assignment, and of course the staff of the supply ships) I'm surprised that it's lasted as long as it has.

Q; Won't the Klingons see through the "crashed ship" theory?

A; Come on guys, these are Klingons. They know when not to ask questions. I don't see how Worf's girl is going to get on, though. How is she going to explain those pointy ears?

Something which I never figured out is why the Y'Ridian told Worf that his father was alive in the first place. He also seems to have ended up giving his services for free, as I don't recall him being paid by anybody.

Once again the Universal Translator seems to have taken a holiday while the young Klingons were singing.

Worf pulls something out of the wall, punches a few buttons on it and it soon explodes. In a prison, they keep explosives in the walls?

A word that both the Commander and Worf avoid, while discussing Worf's imminent demise, is martyr. Foolish, that.

Is it not a little, um, obfuscatory of Worf to angrily demand of the elderly Klingon why he and the others surrendered at Khitomer when Worf himself has just allowed himself to be taken prisoner?

Commander Toreth points out that he and the Klingon lady of his favours are in fact married. Who would they have got to perform the ceremony, I wonder?

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