“Sins of the Father”
Written by Drew Deighan and Ronald D. Moore & W. Reed Moran
Directed by Les Landau
Season 3, Episode 17
Production episode 40273-165
Original air date: March 19, 1990
Stardate: 43685.2
Captain’s Log: As part of the same officer exchange program that sent Riker to the Pagh a year earlier, Commander Kurn of the Klingon Defense Force transfers to temporarily take over as first officer, having requested the Enterprise specifically. He puts the crew through their paces — riding the crew pretty hard, from pulling a surprise inspection on engineering during a maintenance cycle to being generally patronizing toward Worf.
The final straw for the latter is during a dinner in the captain’s mess, where Kurn describes the food as too bland for the stomach of a Klingon, and when La Forge points out that it suits Worf just fine, he simply says, “Yes” with quite the sneer.
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