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(More customer reviews)Star Trek: The Next Generation got off to a rocky beginning. Season one was rough with very few bright spots. The producers and writers had yet to make TNG consistently good so it was without great expectations that I watched episode 20, "Heart of Glory", for the first time way back in 1988. I'm lying. I had HUGE expectations for this episode because the previews promised the first Worf story and, more importantly, Klingons!
When the Enterprise discovers a disabled freighter near the Neutral Zone, Picard and crew investigate. What they find is three renegade Klingon officers who are unhappy with the Federation/Klingon alliance. Worf's loyalties are tested by the Klingons but when their leader, Captain Korris (who is portrayed very convincingly by actor Vaughn Armstrong), threatens the Enterprise and her crew, Worf shows his true colors: He's Starfleet, through and through, and no one, not even a fellow Klingon, threatens his ship and shipmates.
Michael Dorn, who has played Worf on seven seasons of TNG, four seasons of DS9 and three Trek movies, gets his first chance to shine. And shine he does. The audience is convinced that Worf, though loyal to Picard and company, is an outcast among Starfleet and his fellow Klingons. He is a loner who will never truly fit in. It's sad yet heroic as we realize, with "Heart of Glory" and the help of later episodes, that Worf will always be true to himself and what he believes is right, no matter the cost. And the cost will be very high as later episodes will illustrate...
Great episode! One of my all-time favorites of ANY Trek series.
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