STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Season 5, Episode 1

Redemption, Part II

Series: The Next Generation - (1987-1994)
Season: 5
Episode #: 5.01
Production #: 40275-201
Original Airdate: 09/23/1991

Writer(s): Ronald D. Moore
Director(s): David Carson

Guest Stars
Denise Crosby as Sela
Tony Todd as Kurn
Barbara March as Lursa
Gwynyth Walsh as B'Etor
J.D. Cullum as Toral
Robert O'Reilly as Gowron
Michael G. Hagerty as Larg
Fran Bennett as Fleet Admiral Shanthi
Nicholas Kepros as General Movar
Colm Meaney as Chief Miles O'Brien
Timothy Carhart as Ltcmdr. Christopher Hobson
Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan
Jordan Lund as Kulge
Stephen James Carver as a Helmsman
Majel Barrett as the Voice of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D Computer

Uncredited Guest Stars
Acerno as a Klingon Warrior
Karen Baxter as an Operations Division Ensign
Beckett as a Dead Klingon Officer
Beckett as a Klingon Warrior
Mike Bentley as a Romulan Officer
Thomas J. Booth as a Klingon Warrior
Chuck Borden as a Klingon Kidnapper
Michael Braveheart as a Klingon Officer
R. Bruce as a Klingon warrior
Cooper as Ensign Reel
Nyra Crenshaw as an Operations Division Officer
Tony Cruz as Crewman Terry
Rieneke de Haan as a Romulan Officer
Hal Donahue as Starfleet Rear Admiral
L. Ferarda as a U.S.S. Sutherland Technician
Gina Gallante as U.S.S. Sutherland Sciences Division Officer
Keith Gearhart as a Sciences Division Officer
M. Gonzalez as U.S.S. Sutherland Technician
Clifton Jones as Ensign Craig
Arvo Katajisto as a Klingon Warrior
Mark Lentry as a Klingon Officer
Wilfred Moore as a Klingon Warrior
Michael Moorehead as a Klingon Warrior
Tom Morga as a Romulan Guard
S. Moriarty as a Dead Klingon Officer
S. Moriarty as a Klingon Warrior
Edward O'Mara as a Romulan Officer
Rex Pierson as a Klingon Kidnapper
Greg Poole as a Klingon Warrior
Keith Rayve as a Command Division Ensign
Keith Rayve as a Klingon Warrior
D. Schwartz as U.S.S. Sutherland Technician
Ben Slack as K'Tal
R. Swain as U.S.S. Sutherland Command Division Officer
Watts as a Klingon Warrior
Harry Young as Klingon Warrior

Stardate: 45020.4

Synopsis

At the close of last season, Worf resigned his Starfleet commission to join the Klingon Council army as civil war divided his people. Despite his sympathy for Worf, Picard refused to involve the U.S.S. Enterprise in the internal Klingon struggle. Yet fearing that the Romulans are secretly supporting the subversive Duras family in hopes of destroying the Klingon alliance with the Federation, Picard convinces the head of Starfleet to initiate a blockade against the Romulan Empire. He immediately assigns his crew members to posts on Starfleet ships and dispatches the fleet to the Romulan-Klingon border, where they hope to prevent the flow of supplies and equipment from the Romulans to the Duras family.

As dissension spreads in the Klingon Home World, Worf is kidnapped by unknown Klingon assailants. Meanwhile, the Duras sisters, Lursa and B'Etor, continue to meet with a mysterious woman, a Romulan commander named Sela who bears more than a slight resemblance to the late Starfleet officer Tasha Yar. The group discusses their plans to gain control of the Empire, but are upset to learn of the pending intervention of the Federation fleet.

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Hoping to convince Picard to disengage in the war, Sela pays a surprise visit to the captain. Picard is shocked when Sela claims to be the daughter of Tasha Yar, but Guinan later convinces him that the young woman's claims may be true. Guinan insists that she somehow remembers Picard sending Tasha to a previous U.S.S. Enterprise 23 years earlier from the future. Because of this, Guinan points out, Picard is indirectly responsible for Sela's conception.

Picard calls for a meeting with Sela, who presses him for information about Starfleet strategy and gives him a fourteen-hour deadline to either retreat or prepare to be attacked by Romulan forces. Picard reveals nothing and instead focuses the questioning on her heritage. When Sela corroborates Guinan's story, Picard realizes that the young woman is really Tasha's daughter. Meanwhile, Worf's kidnappers deliver him to the sisters of Duras, who try to convince the Klingon to join their side of the battle by marrying one of them. Worf, naturally, refuses the offer.

With time running out, Picard decides the only way to avoid all-out war with the Romulans is to expose their involvement in the Klingon civil war. He convinces Gowron to launch a massive attack, causing the sisters of Duras to call for supplies from the Romulans, which in turn forces the Romulans to run the blockade. When the Romulans are discovered, Sela orders them to turn back, leaving the sisters of Duras without help. The subversives accept defeat, and Gowron is reinstated as leader of the High Council, while an injured Worf escapes his captors and returns to duty aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.

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