[TNG] Season 7, Episode 13: Homeward
Rating: 3
This might be our favorite of the seventh season “family” episodes. This time it’s Worf’s human brother. We’re a sucker for prime directive episodes, and this one is notable for the darker twist on the TNG trope of showing a pre-warp person the wonders of the 24th century. It is one of those Prime Directive episodes where they presume that the extinction of a species is preferable to some cultural pollution of that species, which we’re on record as thinking is insane. It especially doesn’t work in these hour long stories where it’s seemingly *very* easy to save the species rather than let them die. Still, “Homeward” at least tries to suggest, within the time restraints, that there are unforeseen complications when trying to undertake the benevolent but unwieldy task of breaking the Prime Directive.
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