The Emissary (episode)

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"The Emissary"
TNG, Episode 2x20 Production number: 40272-146 First aired: 29 June 1989
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Teleplay By Richard Manning & Hans Beimler Story By Richard Manning & Hans Beimler and Thomas H. Calder Directed By Cliff Bole
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The Enterprise races to intercept a 75-year-old Klingon exploration ship which believes the Federation and the Klingons are still enemies.

1 Summary
- 1.1 Log Entries
2 Memorable Quotes
3 Background information
- 3.1 Video and DVD releases
4 Links and references
- 4.1 Guest stars
- 4.2 References

[edit] Summary

The USS Enterprise-D receives an urgent confidential message from Starfleet Command. The crew is informed of a Klingon battle cruiser named the T'Ong. The T'Ong was launched from the Klingon homeworld seventy years ago, during the Klingon war, to attack a Federation outpost. Ever since the launch, its crew have been in suspended animation, to awaken only upon reaching the target.

Thus, the crew of the T'Ong are unaware of the peace between the Federation and the Klingons, and will attack the outpost on sight, killing everyone aboard it. To prevent this, Starfleet Command has ordered the Enterprise to take a special Federation envoy aboard to help in negotiations with the Klingons.

The envoy turns out to be Lieutenant Worf's former girlfriend, K'Ehleyr. Instantly upon seeing each other, Worf and K'Ehleyr get into heated emotional conflicts, only barely managing to concentrate on the job at hand. The conflicts come to a head when, after K'Ehleyr joins Worf in one of his holodeck training routines, the two end up in a Klingon mating ritual. Worf goes as far as to initiate a vow of marriage, by shouting "tlhIngan jIH" (Klingonese for "I am a Klingon"), but K'Ehleyr refuses to take the vow for her side, seeing no reason for herself to uphold Klingon tradition and demonstrating a personal distaste for the same.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard wants a peaceful solution to the Klingon war problem, but K'Ehleyr persists that the Klingons won't listen and will have to be destroyed. When the Enterprise encounters the T'Ong, the crew have awakened from their suspension and instantly fire on the Federation ship.

However, Worf and K'Ehleyr have come up with a cunning plan. Clad in full traditional Klingon command uniforms, they appear as captain and first officer of the Enterprise, informing Captain K'Temoc of the T'Ong that the war is over and ordering them to surrender. After a moment's hesitation, K'Temoc agrees, and K'Ehleyr beams on board to escort them back to the Klingon homeworld.

[edit] Log Entries

Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2365

[edit] Memorable Quotes

"nuqneH, qaleghneS" (Greetings; I am honored to see you)
"You speak Klingon!"

- William Riker greeting K'Ehleyr upon her arrival on the Enterprise

"How did you like your first command?"
"... Comfortable chair."

- Riker and Worf

"Still, I am delighted to be out of that damned coffin!"

- K'Ehleyr , about her ride inside a Class 8 probe

"Whoever said getting there was half the fun never traveled in a Class 8 probe."

- K'Ehleyr

"Worf, we're alone now. You don't have to act like a Klingon glacier, I don't bite. Well, that's wrong, I do bite."

- K'Ehleyr , To Worf

[edit] Background information

This episode was based on an unpublished story by Thomas H. Calder.
This episode has a very similar title to that of DS9: "Emissary" in which Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard) and Colm Meaney (Chief Miles O'Brien) also appear.
Footage of the Klingon battle cruiser is reused from Star Trek: The Motion Picture with added disruptor and cloaking device effects.
A star chart, first seen behind Dexter Remmick in "Conspiracy" makes another appearance in the tactical room in this episode.
Admiral Gromek isn't wearing a combadge.
The chief of security's office seen in this episode is a redress of the Starbase 173 court room in TNG: "The Measure Of A Man".
The congratulations on "a very fine first command" offered to Worf by Picard seem a little odd in light of the fact that Worf was given command of the saucer section during "Encounter at Farpoint".