
Photo: PARAMOUNT+ ©2021 CBS Interactive, Inc. One of the low-ranking Vulcans asks if her compatriots would like to take part in a chess game after their duty shift. But his choice of the word “logical” causes the Klingons to burst out laughing, and wonder aloud what it would be like to serve on a Vulcan vessel… Live Long and Prosper A Vulcan Suurok-class vessel.įrom there we cut to the Vulcan Cruiser Sh’Vhal, and then to the Sh’Vhal’s lower decks. Rotarran in “Soldiers of the Empire.”īut today, Ma’ah is hoping that Togg is killed, and with his presence on the bridge, that he’ll be the logical choice for the position of First Officer. This is espeicially significant on a Klingon vessel, because the way ascend in authority is to kill your direct commanding officer (see Deep Space Nine season five episode twenty-one, “Soldiers of the Empire”). He’ll be serving on the bridge, at the helm, and he’s noticed Commander Togg has been undermining Captain Dorg.

That’s when Ma’ah reveals that it is a day of great honor for him. Star Trek on Paramount+ October 8, 2021 What are you favorite episodes where you learn more about another alien culture? /oAgPtMCtO1 Get an inside look at the Klingons as Riker joins the crew of one of their ships in this classic #StarTrekTNG episode. Another one of the Klingons remarks that he has combat training, but to save him a seat at lunch (so long as he survives). Ma’ah is sleeping in one of the aforementioned hammocks when he is awoken by one of his compatriots, who wants him to join him for food before the best gagh is consumed ( gagh are the squirming worms consumed by Klingons).Īnother one of the low-ranking Klingons rebukes him, saying that today is her day to clean the gagh barrels (with replicators on Starfleet vessels, concerns like this don’t arise).

We see low ranking Klingons in net-made hammocks, with one individual walking around wearing only a towel (maybe it isn’t so different from the lower decks of the Cerritos, after all). We cut to the Klingon Bird-Of-Prey Che’ta’, and then cut to the Ch’ta’’s lower decks. Mariner says that Boimler wouldn’t last on a Klingon vessel, and with a line that heavily evokes “22 Short Films About Springfield,” Boimler says he bets their lower decks are a lot nicer than she thinks… Tera’ngan Soj lujab’a’ (Do they serve Earth food?) A Klingon Bird-Of-Prey in Star Trek IV. Tendi suggests he use his time trying to find a bridge buddy, and Boimler laments that he doesn’t live on a ship with a built-in social structure, citing (among other species) the Klingon.

And Mariner has agreed to spend some time with her mother, Captain Freeman, because given the long period at warp, she simply has no excuse to use in order to put it off.īoimler is distressed that he doesn’t have a “Bridge Buddy,” and goes on to say that it can help with promotion. T’Ana ( Gillian Vigman), while Rutherford will be making soup with Billups (we know he loves soup from the conclusive scenes of the first season episode “Crisis Point”) and throwing pottery with Shax ( Fred Tatasciore).

Tendi is going to be spending time on the holodeck with Dr. In the Cerritos cafeteria, Ensign Bradward Boimler ( Jack Quaid) joins Ensign Samanthan Rutherford ( Eugene Cordero), Ensign D’Vana Tendi ( Noël Wells), and Ensign Beckett Mariner ( Tawny Newsome) at a table and asks how everyone will be spending their warp. As such, the Captain has approved a period of R&R for the crew. Carol Freeman ( Dawnn Lewis)’s Captain’s Log explains that the California-Class vessel will be at warp for twelve hours en route to a planetary survey in the Kontaran system. All Rights ReservedĪfter the episode begins by heading directly into the theme song with no cold open, we open on the Cerritos at warp. S2E9 - “wej duJ” (Three Ships) Long-haul warp.
