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With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn. In an attempt to preserve a race of people on a planet being bombarded by storms that would kill them, Worf's foster brother violates the Prime Directive, leaving the Enterprise crew in a difficult position.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Alexander Singer
- 1994-01-15
"Homeward" is the 165th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is the 13th episode of the show's seventh season. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D.
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Teaser
1. "Captain's log, Stardate 47423.9. We have arrived at Boraal II in response to an emergency distress call from Lieutenant Worf's foster brother Nikolai Rozhenko. He has been stationed on the planet as a cultural observer." The USS Enterprise-D has arrived at the planet Boraal II. Data reports that it is experiencing atmospheric dissipation and will be rendered uninhabitable in less than 38 hours. Lieutenant Worf is especially concerned with this recent development as his foster brother, Nik...
Act One
When Worf enters the cavern protecting the Boraalans, he is questioned by a male Boraalan named Vorin, who assumes that the storm on the surface has stopped, since Worf was able to make it to the caves alive. Worf refuses to answer the question and only wants to speak to his brother. Once they are alone, Worf asks Rozhenko why he did this. Rozhenko says that he was unable to stay at his observation post and watch the Boraalans slowly die. Worf says that the captain will most definitely want t...
Act Two
Later, in a corridor, Rozhenko explains that he was able to make the plasmonic bursts look like they had overloaded the ship's sensors so he could beam up the Boraalans without anyone on the ship noticing. The plan worked perfectly. Worf is dismayed at his brother's increasingly delinquent behavior and says during a conversation in a turbolift as they head for the bridge that he wants nothing to do with him after his actions. Rozhenko is brought to Picard's ready room where he is berated by t...
"Are the two of you close?" "We are brothers." 1. - Crusher and Worf, discussing Nikolai Rozhenko "…They deserve the chance to survive. And isn't that what the Prime Directive was truly intended to do? To allow cultures to survive and grow naturally?" "Not exactly. The Prime Directive was designed to ensure non-interference." "But aren't we interfe...
Production history
1. First draft script: 18 October 1993 2. Final draft script: 27 October1993 3. Filmed: 28 October 1993 – 8 November 1993 4. Premiere airdate: 17 January 1994 5. First UK airdate: 3 April 1996
Story and production
1. "Homeward" was filmed between Thursday 28 October 1993 and Monday 8 November 1993 on Paramount Stage 8, 9, and 16 and on location at Griffith Park's Bronson Canyon. 2. During the location shooting in Griffith Park's Bronson Canyon in which the location stood in as surface of Boraal II the crew had to break the filming on 2 November 1993 because of the heavy wildfires in that area. According to line producer Merri D. Howard, director Alexander Singer was thankful that the area they'd chosen...
Continuity
1. This is the first time on the series that Michael Dorn (Worf) appears without Klingon make-up. However, it is not until DS9's "Far Beyond the Stars" that he wears no prosthetics at all, in his role as Willie Hawkins (an episode which also featured Penny Johnson). 2. The footage of the planet Vacca VI is a reused image of Qo'noS from "Sins of The Father". 3. The idea of using a holodeck to transplant an alien race without their knowledge would later be used in Star Trek: Insurrection, when...
Starring
1. Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard 2. Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William T. Riker
Also starring
1. LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge 2. Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Worf 3. Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher 4. Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi 5. Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data
Guest stars
1. Penny Johnson as Dobara 2. Brian Markinson as Vorin 3. Edward Penn as Kateras
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" Homeward (TV Episode 1994) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Jan 17, 1994 · "Homeward" is an unfocused, ponderous, implausible, too-clever-by-half exercise in Prime Directive holodeck tedium, with a needless layer of season seven Family Tree Theater thrown in for no good reason.
This Next Generation Season Seven story is available on DVD and Blu-ray: Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season Seven (1993-1994): Includes 26 episodes @ 45 minutes each.
Summaries. In an attempt to preserve a race of people on a planet being bombarded by storms that would kill them, Worf's foster brother violates the Prime Directive, leaving the Enterprise crew in a difficult position.
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