Redemption (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

"Redemption"

Star Trek: The Next Generation episode

Episode no.

Season 4 & 5
Episode 26 & 1

Directed by

Cliff Bole (Part I)
David Carson (Part II)

Written by

Ronald D. Moore

Featured music

Dennis McCarthy

Production code

200 & 201

Original air date

June 17, 1991
September 23, 1991

Guest appearance(s)

Robert O'Reilly – Gowron
Tony Todd – Kurn
Barbara March – Lursa
Gwynyth Walsh – B'Etor
Ben Slack – K'Tal
Nicholas Kepros – Movar
JD Cullum – Toral
Whoopi Goldberg – Guinan
Tom Ormeny – Klingon First Officer
Majel Barrett – Computer voice
Denise Crosby – Sela
Michael G. Hagerty – Larg
Fran Bennett – Shanthi
Colm Meaney – Miles O'Brien
Timothy Carhart – Christopher Hobson
Jordan Lund – Kulge
Stephen James Carver – Hegh'ta helmsman

Episode chronology

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"In Theory"

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List of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes

"Redemption" is the name of a two-part episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Parts I and II of "Redemption" comprise the 100th and 101st episodes of the series, also being the fourth season finale and the fifth season premiere. In the Star Trek timeline, the events depicted in the episodes occurred between stardates 44995.3 and 45020.4 as Captain Picard travels to the Klingon homeworld to oversee Gowron's installation as leader of the High Council, the Enterprise is intercepted by a ship bearing the future leader himself. Gowron reveals he has learned that the surviving members of the vengeful Duras family are plotting to incite civil war within the Empire. Not long after, Gowron's installation ceremony is interrupted by the arrival of the Duras sisters, Lursa and B'Etor, who announce that Toral, son of their dead brother Duras, will challenge Gowron for leadership. Worf, taking a leave of absence from Starfleet, meets with Gowron and offers him the support of an alliance of Klingon warships led by his brother Kurn, if Gowron will restore his family's honor. Gowron would prefer United Federation of Planets' help, but when the Duras faction attacks his ship, it seems that Worf is the only ally at hand.

Although previously opposed to getting the Federation involved in the Klingon civil war, Picard decides that he must help expose a disturbing fact: Romulans are supporting the disruptive Klingon faction led by the conniving Duras sisters. In the meantime, Worf is kidnapped and delivered to Lursa and B'Etor, who want Worf to join their side. Picard is unnerved when he's approached by Sela, a mysterious Romulan officer who bears an uncanny resemblance to Tasha Yar, the Enterprise's dead security chief.

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