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With that, a gang of Andorians start to fire their plasma rifles.

Initially, our Starfleet heroes... kind of hunker down then ready a retreat but quick turn and are surrounded uh and we meet their leader i believe pete unnamed in dialogue memory alpha has him as tur played by the wonderful actor curry graham and let me say here so i don't need to say it for every one of his scenes the nuance he brings to head movements i don't mean andorian antenna and so forth but just there's a sarcasm there's an authority to him there's a fatalism to him there's a a There's so much that's well acted here by this actor who's been around for forever in American stuff and Canadian stuff.

And this guy can act through the dumb wig and the pointy things and the blues.

All of that where he's just Tur who never loses control of the situation until the very end.

So there is but one option.

The Admiral invokes General Order 24.

What is that? I have to go to Memory Alpha.

No, you don't.

Um, I really like how they captured James Doohan and Mira Romaine in this.

So yeah, this story is basically takes place after the episode "The Lights of Zetar" in the s- third season, uh, when Scotty has, uh, parted ways with Mira Romaine, who's gone to work on Memory Alpha.

And, uh, Scotty is kind of wallowing a little bit, kind of fondly remembering his time with her and, and thinking about the breakup and stuff, and the valuable lesson he learned from that relationship, I guess, which is to just take your hands off the controls sometimes.

Yeah.

According to Mark Orkalind, a linguist and creator of the Klingon language, in his book Klingon for the Galactic Traveler, traditions held, this is within the world of Star Trek, that the first blade, uh, of this type was forged by Kualus the Unforgettable, founder of the Klingon Empire, when he dipped one of his own hairs into molten lava and removed it in the form of a bat'leth.

According to Memory Alpha, the origins of the weapon design itself, uh, we can find this in Worf actor Michael Dorn's desire for a more martial arts-centric fighting style for his character, uh, as well as writer Ronald D. Moore's desire to establish the Klingon, uh, culture in The Next Generation, Star Trek The Next Generation, as more space samurai than space barbarian.

Visual effects producer and supervisor Dan Curry, who is also a martial arts practitioner himself, then designed the weapon to meld exotic flair with practical, believable lethality, ultimately developing multiple Klingon weapons and the martial arts to wield them.

I find this sort of thing so interesting.

So I just looked her up.

It's spelled with an R on the Memory Alpha website, Tamara.

But yeah, she is Keiko Tamara.

Interesting.