{"id":5437,"date":"2018-10-04T04:38:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T04:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/415-Sons-of-Mogh"},"modified":"2018-10-04T04:38:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T04:38:22","slug":"415-sons-of-mogh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/04\/415-sons-of-mogh\/","title":{"rendered":"4.15 &#8212; \u201cSons of Mogh\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p><strong>4.15 &#8212; \u201cSons of Mogh\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plot:<\/strong> Worf\u2019s brother Kuhn arrives at DS9, after losing his position on the Klingon High Council and suffering the dissolution of the House of Mogh at the hands of Chancellor Gowron based on Worf\u2019s political opposition. His request is for death at his brother\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> This is a sharp, well-acted episode full on interpersonal conflict. It literally starts with Worf fighting Dax, then stabbing Kuhn, and that&#8217;s just the end of the first act. There was a lot more of main characters yelling at each other than I\u2019m used to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this opposition reflects Worf\u2019s internal conflict over whether to accept, at long last, that he has lost his place in the Klingon world in favor of the Federation. While Worf&#8217;s choice is the Federation, we still see him making nonconforming decisions, like stabbing his brother or wiping his memory. This is not defanged, wimpy Worf from the latter seasons of TNG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t agree with Worf\u2019s final decision respecting Kuhn. I don\u2019t think you turn your back on family. I don&#8217;t think you gain by disavowing history and ignoring life&#8217;s lessons. It smacks of the memory erasure scene at the end of \u201cRequiem for Methuselah,\u201d one of the most controversial moments of the Original Series (and a sign the series had begun to lose its compass in Season Three). But this all makes for good television, and I concede that I am not a Klingon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The erasure of Alexander in Worf&#8217;s line \u201cI have no family\u201d is so profound and tragic it must be a kind of mistake. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The subplot with the space mines is also entertaining. It\u2019s nice to see Kira in command of the <em>Defiant!<\/em> And what\u2019s with all the flirting between Worf and Dax? This episode was action packed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kuhn is such a good character, I\u2019m sorry it seems we won\u2019t be seeing more of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 out of 5 mek\u2019leths.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Sons_of_Mogh_(episode)\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Sons_of_Mogh_(episode)<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        4.15 &#8212; \u201cSons of Mogh\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-relive-the-majesty-ds9-episode-threads","tag-kevin-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}