Is usually the deciding factor. That is a classic argument. However, i find using a large and intimidating weapon like thebatleth often leads to overconfidence. So you think that i was overconfident. Youwereoverconfident. You thought by distracting me with your outfit you would gain an advantage. My outfit. Oh, um. I thought that. I mean, i only assumed that. You thought that i wore this for you. Confidence. Worf. Echa. Movek. But in my own defense you do try your own tactics of distraction with all that shouting and growling you do. Odo to worf. Worf here. Please report to airlock five, commander. Theres an intoxicated klingon here whos demanding to see you. Im on my way. Computer, exit. Stay back you miserablekoruts odo easy none of uskoruts is going to hurt you. Kurn i knew youd come. He is my brother. The sons of mogh reunited for one last time. Where have you been . I have tried to contact you for months. Well, im here now. But not for long. Soon there will be only one son of mogh. I came formauktovor. What . Yes, brother. [captioning sponsored by the u. S. Department of education snoring grunting yelling guard something for my head guard you are not in the holding cell. Youre in my quarters. Soft. Comfortable. Just like the rest of these quarters. No one would ever suspect a warrior lives here. It serves me. Always defending the federation. Tell me, worf, does starfleet ever make mistakes even in their furniture . Kurn, where have you been . T message. Ive been overseeing the end of a onceproud house. Perhaps youve heard of it. It was called the house of mogh. I know what has happened. I regret that by opposing gowron i have brought disgrace to our family. Youregret . Whats next, worf . Do you want to apologize to me . I do not apologize for what i have done. I could not join gowron in his war with cardassia or the federation. It wouldve been dishonorable. Oh, so in avoiding dishonor for yourself youve brought it down on the rest of your family. What a noble act. How selfless. I will not debate this with you, kurn. What is done is done. For you its done you and your comfortable Federation Life your glorious starfleet career our family had a seat on the high council. We were feared by our enemies respected by our friends. It was even said that if gowron died the leadership of the council might be passed to someone from the house of mogh. Then you chose to side with the federation our seat on the council, everything. Kurn, i know this has been difficult for you. What do you know . Did you watch as gowrons men seized our land and stripped our family of its name . Did you have to endure the humiliation of being ejected from the high council in front of the emperor himself . No. You chose to stay here safe, comfortable, secure. You have everything you want and i have nothing, not even my honor but you can give that back to me. By killing you . Im already dead to our people and so are you, but you dont care. I have never asked you for anything and only you can give it back. So now i am asking you formauktovor. Is an honorable death too much to ask from my brother . Obrien operations log, stardate 49556. 2. Major kira and i are returning to the station after completing our inspection tour of the bajoran colonies along the cardassian border. Requesting permission to enter bajoran space. This is bajoran control. Please transmit your identification code and flight plan. Acknowledged. Major. Major yes . What . Sorry, major. Its just were almost home. Oh, thanks. Almost home . How long have i been asleep . Tation. Must be the company. Bajoran control toyukon. You are cleared to enter the system and proceed to deep space nine. Thank you. yawning i could even eat quarks food. Lets not get crazy. If you really want some good. What was that . Some kind of highEnergy Discharge. It was pretty close. Only 5,000 kilometers from here. Just outside bajoran space. Elevated tachyon readings, subspace shock waves. Looks like a cloaked ship exploded. Theres no debris. No residual warp fields. Well, something exploded. Lets take a closer look. Bring us to 500 meters from those coordinates. Approaching the coordinates. Im not seeing any signs of. A ships decloaking directly ahead. Federation vessel, this is the Imperial Klingon shipkorinar. We are engaged in military exercises in this area. You will alter course and return to bajoran space immediately. This is major kira nerys. Were investigating an explosion which happened at these coordinates. You have been given a warning according to interstellar agreements. Theyve locked their disruptors onto us, major. Take us home, chief but keep scanning the coordinates of that explosion. Theres a lot more going on out here than just military exercises. Quark, have you seen worf . He was supposed to meet me in the holosuite five minutes ago. As if youre never late. Worf is never late. I havent seen him since this morning and if he cant at least be civil i dont care to see him in my bar again. Its just his way. No. This was more than his standard rudeness. He came in here, ordered some klingon incense and nearly threw me across the bar when i tried to give him some replicated incense. What kind of klingon incense . Something calledadanji. Why . Is there Something Special about adanji . That does it. Im going to stop talking to the customers. Nothing left here for you. No honor. No future. Mmm. I wish to reclaim my honor in the next li i am ready to cross the river of blood and enterstovokor. Commander. Odo, yesterday you called worf to the airlock to see some klingon. Thats right. Who was it . His name is kurn. It turns out hes worfs brother. Worfs brother. Oh, my god. Dax to worf. Computer, locate commander worf. Commander worf is in his quarters. Is he alone . Negative. Captain kurn is with him. May this blade speed you on your journey. Goodbye, my brother. Good. Bye. grunting yells dax to ops. Emergency transport. Two to the infirmary. This is not your concern it is a private matter i doubt captain sisko would agree. Youd better hope he lives, commander. You both have a perfect driving record. Perfect. No tickets. No accidents. That is until one of you clips a food truck ruining your perfect record. Yup. Now, you would think would cut you some slack. Right . No, your insurance rates go through the roof. Your perfect record doesnt get you anything. Anything. Perfect. For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise your rates due to your first accident. And if you do have an accident, our claims centers are available to assist you twentyfour seven. Switch to Liberty Mutual and you could save up to 509. Call today at liberty stands with you . Liberty mutual insurance. Kurns going to make it. Julian said hell be up on his feet by tomorrow morning. Good. I want you to tell me why i shouldnt put you on the next transport out of here. You are well within your right to do so. Im not talking about my rights. Answer my question. Captain, i do not have an answer. Sir, i realize my actions were in violation of starfleet regulations. Regulations . Were not talking about some obscure technicality. Benjamin, it wasnt murder. Worf and kurn were preforming amauk tovorritual. Its part of klingon belief. At the moment, i dont give a damn about klingon beliefs, rituals or custom i have given you both a lot of leeway when it comes to following klingon traditions but this is not a klingon station and those are not klingon uniforms youre wearing. There is a limit to how far ill go to accommodate Cultural Diversity among my officers and youve just reached it irmary you better find another way to settle your family problems. Is that clear . it may not be possible. Uh, its clear. There are definitely other possibilities for kurn. This will never happen again. Youre damn right it wont now, both of you get out x readings the Energy Discharge could have been caused by the destruction of a cloaked target drone. Which would support the story about conducting military maneuvers. This explosion could also have been caused by an accidental warp nacelle inversion. Or a blown plasma conduit or a dozen other things. The bottom line is theres no way to be certain from these readings. The larger question is what are these klingons up to . Whatever it is, theyre doing it awfullyclose to bajoran space. One thing ive had enough of is tiptoeing around the klingons. Take thedefiant and run a sensor sweep of those coordinates. And if i run into the klingons . Tell them the ship is conducting military exercises according to interstellar agreements. Understood. Should i take worf . I dont want worf anywhere near other klingons right now. Keep him informed of whats going on but under no circumstances is he to accompany you. Dont say it. Ive already got one officer defending worf. I dont need two. Hes stabilized. I can revive him at any time. Wake him. Ill be just outside if you need me. Nurse. I. Am. Alive . Yes. Commander dax realized what we were doing and she had you beamed to the infirmary. sighs i was hoping to see father there. He still awaits you but it is not yet time for you to join him. And i supposeyouwill decide when that time has come. It is not for me to make that choice. Why not . You chose not to complete themauk tovorritual. It was not my decision. O prevented. Did you fight them . Did you threaten to kill them both if they interfered . And are you standing here now with themevakdagger ready to slit my throat and bring me the death i deserve . No. For a moment, in your quarters youwereklingon but your Federation Life has claimed you again and now it is claiming me as well. I have no life. I have no death. Whatever is to become of me is up to you. door chimes enter. What can i do for you, commander . I wanted to apologize. I interfered in a family matter and if i caused you and your brother any further dishonor, im sorry. You were following your conscience. That is an honorable motive. Gon. Is there anything i can do to help . No. Okay. Commander. There is the question of what to do next. Right. Do you have any ideas . None. Well, in the short term, theres no reason why your brother cant stay here on the station. If kurn is to remain on the station he will need tasks to perform. A job. What about security . It worked for one klingon officer i know. Yes, but i doubt kurn would be interested in joining starfleet. Well, your brothers had an interesting career with the Klingon Defense forces, mr. Worf. I have just one question does he know how to use thestunsetting on a disruptor . Nonlethal skills are not valued in the empire. They are among my deputies. If your brother is going to be a member of my detachment hell have to make some adjustments in his thinking. He will. Youre certain of that . I would not be asking you to consider him if i were not. I can appreciate how difficult it must be for you to be asking for a favor, especially from me. Very well. Have kurn report here tomorrow morning. I am indebted to you. Yes, you are. And mr. Worf . This container is not on your manifest. It must be a clerical error. I apologize. Open it. This is a message from starfleet command hes been on the job six hours hes only killed four boslics so far. Hmm. Kiras right. You do need a sense of humor. Hes quite good, actually. A little stern, but he never steps over the line. Im finding him to be a pleasant surprise. I am. Gratified to hear that. Im sure you are. loudly well, thanks for the report, commander. Ill give it my immediate attention. Brother. Kurn. I hate this uniform. I understand. The transition will probably be difficult for some time. No, thats not what i mean. I have accepted the transition. I am a bajoran Security Officer. The uniform is simply uncomfortable. I see. But i will get used to it. I wont disgrace you. I never doubted it. Carry on. The same thing high concentrations of tachyons subspace distortions and magneton traces. Some cloaked ships definitely passed through this area in the last 24 hours. Ose to violating bajoran space but theyre never crossing the line. Klingons are not fastidious when it comes to respecting borders. Especially when theyre cloaked. Somethings wrong here. Obrien thats avorchaclass cruiser. Stand by shields and phasers. Theyve been damaged massive hull breach in their port quarter. Main powers failing. Casualties . Hard to tell. Too much radiation. Open a channel. To unidentified klingon vessel. Do you require assistance . This is i. K. S. Drovana to u. S. S. Defiant. We do not require assistance. Do not approach us. Understood,drovana. Defiantout. beeping theyre losing emergency power. Why arent the klingon ships helping them . Maybe thatd give away their positions. Or theyre busy doing something that cant be interrupted. Something that blew a hole the size of a house in avorchaclass cruiser. Incoming transmission. Drovanatodefiant. We need. Access to your medical facilities. Our medical facilities are extremely limited. If you wish, we can tow you to deep space nine. Defiant,your offer is. Odo to worf. Worf here. Youre needed at the infirmary. Your brothers been seriously injured. On my way. What happened . Kurn found a container of contraband in the lower hold of the boslic ship. When he confronted their captain the man pulled out a disruptor pistol and then kurn let himself get shot. Lethimself . A trained klingon warrior. He could have disarmed the boslic without breaking a sweat, but he just stood there let the man pull out his weapon, aim and fire. The only thing that saved him was the man was so frightened his hand was shaking. Hell be all right. Again. Good. A man with a death wish is a danger not only to himself but to the rest of his team. Kurns days as a Security Officer are over. Would you like to see him . Thank you, doctor. How do you feel . Like a man who is tired of waking up and seeing a human doctors face. I thought we had agreed you would try to make. Worf. Idontwant to talk anymore. Its not klingon. Youre the elder brother