#TNGWatch #S02E20 #TheEmissary

The Emissary?! What?! I don’t remember Benjamin Sisko ever showing up in TNG?! That’s a little joke, obviously :D

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I love it when they play poker :D

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Oh shit! It’s Worf’s ex!

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This was a pretty interesting episode with various things going on.

First, the Enterprise has to pick up a special emissary who’s being sent to them via a class-8 probe, which just barely fits one person (the horror I felt at knowing that this person was hurtling through space in what amounted to a coffin was very potent). The emissary turns out to the the half-human/half-Klingon K’Ehleyr (pronounced “kay-laar”), who has a history with Worf. The reason she has to come aboard so quickly is because a Klingon sleeper ship from the 23rd century (when the Klingon Empire was still at war with the Federation aka TOS time) is coming back with the crew about to be come out of cryosleep.

K’Ehleyr and Worf of course have sexytimes after a particularly vigorous exercise holoprogram (the last time we saw this holoprogram, Worf and Riker were exercising together, so does that mean they also...? no, don’t be silly, Adan; that’s just your headcanon talking), but fight about it afterwards because Worf wants to marry her and she’s like, “Dude, it was just sex. Ease up, hoss.” Worf is not happy, and he’s very cold towards her again.

When the sleeper ship T’Ong shows up, it immediately fires on the Enterprise because it’s a Klingon ship still at war with the Federation. Worf and K’Ehleyr trick it by pretending to be the captain and commander of the ship, and K’Ehleyr beams over to take command of their ship and welcome them properly to the 24th century. Before that, she and Worf make up, and she tells him she won’t be so easy to get rid of the next time she shows up (irony!).

I liked that the image of the T’Ong is reused from TOS with a few added effects. Also, the actress who played K’Ehleyr also played the Vulcan Dr. Selar in the Ira Graves episode, and goes on to play a Q in Voyager and an Andorian in Enterprise. The only reason I know this is because the girl said the actress looked familiar, even under the Klingon make-up, so we looked her up :D