Star Trek The Next Generation Ruminations S1E20: Heart Of Glory
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Unnamed Chief Engineer: Welcome to Engineering. This is the dilithium core. It is unshielded and a single energy discharge would cause the ship to blow up.
New Engineer Cadet: But shouldn't there be some sort of defense in case someone should try to get in here and hold the ship hostage? Up here on this walkway they would be concealed from view and this close to the core the transporters won't function!
Unnamed Chief Engineer: Not to worry, this walkway is made of candy glass. We simply hit with a hammer and the whole thing will shatter sending anyone on it falling to the floor below to be captured easily by security. Which uh reminds me ... don't trip ... you could get badly hurt.
Gwen DeMarco: Who ever designed this engineering room should die!
Unnamed Chief Engineer: Who let her on the the ship?
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The best I can come up with is that Korris wanted to die by "suicide by cop" or in this case "suicide by Worf". Otherwise nothing about his actions makes a lick of sense. But facing execution and trapped on a starship in which he has no chance of escape, he chose what he felt was the most honorable way out.
I know the budget was thin but that was the saddest brig ever.
Are there no stun settings? or did they really allow the Klingons to keep their anti-stun armor when they arrested them? I'm beginning to think maybe Tasha Yar wasn't the best security officer.
If Picard ever found out that Worf had known the Klingons were lying and did not report it immediately ... he'd be busted so low that he'd be calling Wesley Crusher sir.
I'm thinking this area of engineering needs some force fields or something that they can use to protect themselves with in response to a security problem. The Enterprise seems to be severely lacking in the concept of "lockdown".
The Enterprise D (and that era of the Federation) appears to be a product of an assumption that everyone on board a star-ship is a GOOD GUY - with the possible exception of visiting diplomats who are escorted and will, of course, respect all "keep out" signs.
Lol
"Heart of Glory" was a great episode from TNG's first season and allowed Worf to take centre stage for the first time. Michael Dorn takes full opportunity of this and turns in his best performance for that year. He's matched by guest star Vaughn Armstrong.
This story would also hint at the characters potential in the coming years of TNG and how the writers would be able to fully develop him during this period.
I was surprised by how good this episode was, esp. considering the heaps of drek in S1. Great exploration of Klingon culture with several perspectives being articulated.
This shouldve been the second episode of tng. The wonderment of geordi's visor and the klingon thing were perfect if they aired this earlier
That would fit alot better.
This is not only a great season 1 episode, this is one of the best Star Trek episodes period, that's right I said it. To answer your last question about the Vaughn Armstrong Klingon: I think he realized he trapped himself in a corner and had no "Klingon" way out. I always got the impression that while he was talking to Worf he was trying to psych himself up to do this unthinkable act while at the same time veritably pleading with Worf to say yes so that he didn't have to do this. Worf shot him the instant Worf realized, yes this guy was over the edge enough to do this because he had no Klingon way out, so Worf gave him one. But yes I do think the Enterprise was in danger and that he would have pulled that trigger, but he would have uttered "Kahless forgive me" right before he did it.
Qapla’! Finally a excellent episode. It gets better with age too like 2309 blood wine. Loved Ron Jones’s Klingon operatic score.
To me, Worf's arc on TNG was largely about being an outsider from his people and -potential minor spoiler- his arc on DS9 was largely about finally reconnecting with his heritage and culture.
"I am a Klingon warrior, but I am also a Starfleet officer."
- Worf's entire character, motivation, and arc across TNG and DS9 (except for that time he hooked up with Dax)
Why are the floors in the engine room made of actual glass that is thin enough that a humanoid falling on them can make them shatter?
YES! THIS EPISODE!
I remember very distinctly watching this episode and thinking: "Ooh, Arche is going to like this episode!" and i did as well!
Keep up the good work!
Loved that shot of the enterprise in the beginning
That one guest actor you are talking about from the Defector and the crazy scientist that Neelix hates also played Odo's "father"
Also Jeffrey Combs is the guest actor who always pops into my head first
New camera style - I like it
Yep, Like it too
GREAT review, doing a watch through amongst a group of friends and we covered a lot of this ground.
Klingons are always a bloody damn
fine treat. QUAPLA indeed, for the
Space Vikings !
I think Korris knew he no longer had a way out of the situation and was trying to commit "suicide by cop", dying in away that would preserve his honor and allow him into Sto'Vo'Kor. He indeed never intended to shoot the warp core, and I think Work was well aware of that, and he gave him the death he wanted.
D&D Reference always a good thing. 😂
I didn't like that the Klingon had the Federation logo behind him because it makes it looks like the Klingon captain is on a set, not a bridge. Like the press room in the White House, it has a fancy background, but it's completely unlike the White House Situation Room. It's not where a captain would belong during ship-to-ship communication.
I wonder how many will hate me if I would say, that the DIS-version of the klingons my favorate one is xD But don't worry, for me, it's the klingons in DS9
My personal take on Korris holding the Enterprise hostage was that it was one of two situations:
A) He would have destroyed the ship because at least he would go out destroying an opponent. After all, he wasn't too keen on the Federation being supreme allies with the Empire. In his mind they were the enemy.
B) He would never have fired but knew that at least if he were to die it would be by Worf's hands. His goading and taunting was to provoke Worf to fire, thereby at least falling to another Klingon and not some member of the Federation.
Just my personal take on it :)
That's just my personal
I agree that Korris never actually intended to shoot the dilithium chamber in engineering. He was at that point determined to die in battle, and the urge to die in battle was his cause. Which is also a major reason he didn't shoot Worf the moment that Worf made it clear he was an opponent, not an ally.
When I think of the best of first season TNG, THIS is the one I think of. Set the Klingons onto the incredible path they go.
Kept being pulled out of the episode by the weirdness of Season 1 TNG:
1.) If they are having problems with scanning for life forces to the leakiness of the engine core, shouldn't La Forge be blind on the freighter? Isn't his visor essentially an advanced sensor array?
2.) While in other situations it is only possible to locate a person via their comm badge, in this episode it was easily possible to tell that the intruders are with Worf. (I know that they should be able to filter out non-human life signs, but still.)
3.) The writers forgot (again) that transporters are a thing in this setting. Given they can do 2.), it shouldn't be too difficult to track all Klingon life signs on the ship, remove Worf from the group (by his comm badge) and transport them into the brig or wherever. And of course they could have done this at any time.
4.) The writers forgot (again) that force fields are a thing in this setting. As soon as the escape was detected, just erect force fields around the area.
With all that said this was one of the better episodes so far. Although sadly that bar is rather low for season 1 TNG.
I enjoy the shortened episodes for the first season, but I'm hoping you spend more time on the classics.
For many episodes, whether it be because they are ones I didn't like much or ones I have seen far too many times, I find I'd rather just watch the rumination without re-watching the episode
I haven't play the video yet.. but i need to say
I LOVE this episode ;)
Edit: About the core hsotage situation, i agree with you that it is the 2nd option that you said.
Worf first look at yar offended that she though it was a hostage situation. Than later Worf killed him when even he knew that he was gone, he is more than insane.. he is desperate.
I understand that sometimes they can be a bit cheesy but I actually enjoyed the coda for this episode because it may have been intended to be funny but it was actually unexpected as opposed to previous codas which, I admit, were painfully obvious joke lines.
I probably enjoyed the Klingons the most in the first few TNG episodes that they appeared in. I found that they got to be a bit cliched in their pursuit of honour after that.
This is an all-around top-notch episode. The VISOR show-and-tell session doesn't really fit in, but works well by itself. Nice set design for the collapsing ship.
Would Korris have destroyed the ship? I think so ... my take was that he saw it as his last chance of a glorious death, and wasn't too bothered about the civilians he'd be killing. So, a bit of desperate madness there.
It's weird starting with LeVar's visor cam because I didn't see the point of plugging in to what is essentially noise, other than testing something new. The only time it's useful is when LaForge spots the hairline fissure. Is that enough reason? I dunno - probably not because it wasn't essential to the development of the story.
This is essentially a character study of Worf and I suppose it tests where his heart lies. I felt it less than fulfilling in that Worf is tested but doesn't expose a real flaw in him that he wrestles with and comes out changed or better. It's interesting enough for backstory but a good story has to use backstory as the background for a journey and to me no journey really happens.
The best part was the setup of finding the damaged vessel and suggesting it was all a trap at the beginning. It didn't deliver ultimately because I felt the episode got distracted by some fascination with the view and not the action.
It was okay, this episode. It was a decent character study of Klingons and LaForge, and they have nothing to be ashamed of. It just wasn't story strong. It would have been better if Worf had issues at the start with Starfleet identity before finding a seeming answer with Korris and gang, then realising by the end that it wasn't so good after all to run with them.
Korris and the Core - I see it as him wanting to separate the Enterprise so he can ride the galaxy with Worf. He calls for Worf only because he feels he has Worf onboard to go for it. He was never really intending to blow up everyone, was he? Was he? Hm.
And the coda. If anything, the more Worf assured Picard and Riker he was happy to be on Enterprise, the more I wondered. Maybe that just leaves it open for another time.
Ok, I have to disagree on one thing: I like the coda at the end but I also objectively think that it wasn't bad. Yeah, it was a little corny but it wasn't ridiculous or far-fetched. In fact, I thought that the way they addressed it wasn't over-the-top at all. It was quite underplayed.
Finally, Finally! We're slowly going away from the 100% cringe episodes
My least favorite part of this episode was showing off the new gimic with Geordi's Visor & Patric Steward badly pretending to be amazed
Season 1 TNG? There is no Klingon-Federation alliance. Star Trek continuity doesn't really start until season 3 or TNG. In season 1, the Klingon Empire is *part* of the Federation.