WORF: I would like him to learn our ways. No. This is his home.
K'MTAR: How can you expect him to lead our family when all he knows is life aboard a Federation starship?
WORF: He is my son. He belongs with me.
It occurs to me that Worf could take a leave of absence to accompany Alexander into Klingon space. If Alexander likes the academy on Ogat Worf could come back.
K'MTAR: Kahless was determined to teach his brother a lesson because he had told a lie. But Morath refused to fight him and instead ran away. Kahless pursued him across the valleys, over the mountains, and down to the edge of the sea. And there on the shore, they fought for
ALEXANDER: Twelve days, twelve nights. I know, I've heard this story before.
Once again I have to recommend the Kahless novel.
RIKER: You haven't heard my offer. Half a gram of Anjoran biomimetic gel.
Only mention of "Anjoran". Just using Andorian would be easier (and the color would be appropriate, hehe).
LURSA: Someone must have given it to the assassins to implicate us.
TROI: Why would someone do that?
B'ETOR: In order to tarnish our good name.
WORF: You cannot tarnish a rusted blade.
Burn!
WORF: I was not aware you had a son.
LURSA: I do not. But I am with child.
Given the events of Generations you have to wonder what happened to the kid. He appears in Star Trek Online, but I have to wonder if Toral adopted him. It would've made his appearance in DS9 more interested.
K'MTAR: Then she died. And then you howled in rage and said, look upon her. Look upon death and always to remember. And I always have.
No, Worf said, "You have never seen death. Then look. And always remember." I hate it when screenwriters refuse to look up prior scripts for proper language.
WORF: How have you done this, come to this time?
K'MTAR: I met a man in the Cambra system. He gave me a chance to change the past.
I do wish they would just invoke the Guardian of Forever in situations like this.
K'MTAR: You don't understand. I did not become a warrior. I was a diplomat, a peacemaker. When it came my time to lead our family, I thought that I could single handedly end the fighting between the great houses. I publicly announced that the house of Mogh would be the first to end the feuding. That there would be no more retribution, no more revenge. You tried to warn me. You tried to tell me that I should not show weakness, but I thought you were a foolish old man.
This seems like a prime opportunity to just record a video to show to Alexander when he grows up a la "Timeless".
Fiver
Worf: My son doesn't want to learn the Klingon ways. And he's requesting Earring Magic Ken.
I still remember the Earring Magic Ken controversy. Yeah, this joke doesn't really work. Worf is trying to imply that Alexander is a girl, not gay.
K'mtar: The attackers were sent from the Duras sisters. They dropped this knife.
Riker: I hope we find them spoon. If we don't, I'd never be able to forkgive myself.
Those puns were painful.
K'mtar: I meant his fighting skills. Maybe you should send him to a Klingon Academy.
Worf: I don't think a 21st century computer game is going to help.
A big problem with Klingon Academy is that a very small fraction of the game actually happens at the Academy. I wonder why they didn't just call it Klingon Civil War.
Worf: You tried to kill my son!
K'mtar: No. I am your son!
Worf: No! That's not true! That's impossible!
K'mtar: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Ha ha. I would've tossed in a punchline where K'mtar asks if he has to chop off Worf's hand for him to believe him.
Memory Alpha
* A comparison to "Yesteryear" is made, but I don't really see it. There's a difference between restoring history and deliberately meddling with it.
* They wanted to bring back K'Ehleyr as well, but they decided against it. I agree, it would've bumped this out to two episodes and require a lot more exposition.
* The creators were worried about reusing the actor who played Dr. Mora. In retrospect I realize that the voices were alike, but if I had been a casual viewer at the time who hadn't seen "The Alternate" lately I never would've noticed.
* There's a novel where Worf asks Alexander to take his place as the Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire, but I don't think it would've worked. Alexander wouldn't have had enough diplomatic experience yet.
Nitpicker's Guide
* Phil brings up the stardate problem with calling Alexander three years old when he met Worf.
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