Firstborn

Episode aired Apr 23, 1994
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46m

6.8/10

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S7.E21

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Brian Bonsall in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

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In an effort to help him accept his Klingon heritage, Worf and his son, Alexander, attend an ancient Klingon ceremony.In an effort to help him accept his Klingon heritage, Worf and his son, Alexander, attend an ancient Klingon ceremony.In an effort to help him accept his Klingon heritage, Worf and his son, Alexander, attend an ancient Klingon ceremony.

6.8/10

2.1K

Director
- Jonathan West
Writers
- Gene Roddenberry
- René Echevarria(teleplay by)
- Mark Kalbfeld(story by)
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Michael Dorn and Brian Bonsall in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Barbara March and Gwynyth Walsh in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Michael Dorn in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Armin Shimerman in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Director
- Jonathan West
Writers
- Gene Roddenberry
- René Echevarria(teleplay by) (executive story editor)
- Mark Kalbfeld(story by)
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Worf is worried when his pre-teen son Alexander, at the age to commit to becoming a warrior, refuses the ceremony. Picard grants him a visit to a Klingon outpost, where the boy gets a taste for Klingon fight training. They also become the target of a murder attempt, which K'Mtar, a trusted adviser of Worf's House, ascribes to the surviving sisters of the House of Duras, who are tracked down, involved in illegal mining, but deny and suggest a mystery killer. K'Mtar fails to convince Alexander or Worf that the boy should enroll in a Klingon school to get rid of his human moralism. The truth is about a spectacular assumed identity. —KGF Vissers

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Trivia
Patrick Stewart only appears in the conference lounge scene. This was due to Stewart's being scheduled to host Patrick Stewart/Salt-N-Pepa (1994) during the same week of filming.

Goofs
On the outpost during the festival, Dr. Crusher asks Worf what "Molor" is saying, since he is speaking in Klingon. What happened to the ubiquitous universal translator?

Quotes
[first lines]
Lieutenant Worf: As time passes, a boy inevitably becomes a man. But what is not inevitable is that a man become a warrior. A warrior must be forged like a sword, tempered by... by...
Lieutenant Worf: [remembers] Tempered by experience.

Connections
References Superman (1978)

Soundtracks
Star Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage

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6/10

The time for training

James Sloyan who is a trusted advisor to Worf's house arrives for a visit in time to prevent an assassination attempt on Worf and more important young Alexander's failure to help his father

Sloyan says as much to Michael Dorn and Dorn promises to get young Brian Bonsall into warrior training and get used to Klingon ways.

As for the attempt, the evidence is gathered and of course it looks like those Douras sisters who played for power and lost earlier in the series.

Seems pretty straightforward enough, But I assure you there's a lot more to the story than that.

Nice performance by Sloyan who is carrying a big secret and is one truly tortured Klingon.

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