Third Season - Episode 053

THE BONDING

Stardate: 43198.7
Rating: 9 Humour: + Action: - Tension: - Romance: +

Alternate Titles: German: "MUTTERLIEBE"

Written By: Moore, Ronald D.
Director: Kolbe, Winrich
Executive: Berman, Rick
Roddenberry, Gene
Co-Executive: Piller, Michael
Line-Producer: Livingston, David
Co-Producer: Beimler, Hans
Manning, Richard

Cast

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Cmd. William T. Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Lt.Cmd. Geordi LaForge: LeVar Burton
Lt. Worf: Michael Dorn
Doctor Beverly Crusher: Cheryl Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Lt.Cmd. Data: Brent Spiner
Wesley Crusher: Wil Wheaton
O'Brien: Colm Meaney
Marla Aster: Susan Powell
Jeremy Astor: Gabriel Damon
Teacher: Raymond D. Turner

Plot

A sudden explosion kills Marla Aster on a mission to explore the home of a long-dead race. Worf, who commanded the away team, rages about the sense- less nature of the women's death and plans to offer the Klingon bonding rite to her remaining son, Jeremy. Meanwhile, an energy field is discovered on the planet and Troi senses an alien presence rising upward from it toward the ship. Almost immediately, Jeremy sees his mother who has come, seemingly from the dead, to take him down to the planet.

Quotes

Worf: "Every Klingon hopes to die in the line of duty."

Worf: "Your mother now only lives hire." [points at own heart] "And hire." [points at Jeremy's heart]

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