Paul Sorvino is Worf’s adopted brother! Yes! Why not?! And as the biological son of Theodore Bikel is a leftist, causist, Workman’s Circle-esque Russian Zionist Jew! Okay, the Zionist Jew is my interpretation, but if I’m wrong I’ll eat a plate of live gagh.
Nikolai (Sorvino) is stationed on a pre-First Contact planet “observing.” Doesn’t this always go wrong? Anyway, storms are coming in and the population is about to get wiped out. Stern Captain Picard dictates that the Prime Directive means that they are SOL and life is rough and everyone must die. Eff that says Sorvino and he manages to beam a village onto the holodeck. One particular villager he beamed extra hard and she is now with child. Ruh roh.
A wacky plan is enacted that involves plopping these survivors down on a nearby, kinda-similar planet and hoping they don’t notice. One does, of course, and he flips out. Dr. Crusher and Picard, you can tell, would have rather let everyone die, but it looks like Worf, LaForge and even Data think this is a good idea.
We end with Sorvino still pretending to be one of these villagers on this planet, saying goodbye forever to his life in the 24th century.
