Reunion

A few future plot lines are set in this TNG story. Susie Plakson who is Michael Dorn's wife returns to the Enterprise with their son Alexander played by Jon Steuer. But her real mission is an investigatory one. Charles Cooper playing K'mpec the Klingon ruler is dying from a slow poison and he tells Patrick Stewart that he has been poisoned and it is one of the two rival claimants to his title Gowron and Douras did the deed. He wants to make sure the poisoner does not become the ruler.

Given past episodes the surprise would have been if Patrick Massett as Douras was not the guilty party. Yet the episode has some surprises including one tragic one.

We learn what a Klingon head up for revenge is like when Worf takes up the Batleth. Not a pretty sight.