Rightful Heir

He’s been gone for 15 centuries, but Kahless, the spiritual leader of the Klingons is back! He’s ready to lead his people back to peace and glory, and he wants Worf’s help to do it. Only he might not be Kahless, and Worf might be seriously questioning his own faith along the way. Rightful Heir is up next in the Mission Log. I was trying to remember where I knew Kevin Conway from. I just realised that my mixed up head was confusing him with Kevin Conroy, Batman’s voice actor! But FWIW, I too would like more gossip about these on-set shenanigans….. I looked up this episode on Memory Alpha and the only two remarks about Conway’s performance are from Brannon Braga and Rick Berman and they’re both positive, so I have no idea what Nemecek could be referring to. So, that stuff at the beginning is just Worf enjoying some crazy eyes? OK, I thought it was his regular Tuesday afternoon suicide attempt. This ep, sorry to say, bores the crap outta me. It’s sooooo much talk to come up with Fake God gets Fake Job because belief is more important than reality. Sheesh. This just doesn’t feel like a Trek message. Shouldn’t it be ‘truth outweighs superstition, now accept the challenge of finding your purpose’? As for Kahless… short guy in fur. Meh. As always, you offer a very informative/entertaining podcast. Some better eps just ahead. YAY! I disagree with what you say the message is, because they aren’t doing what you say they are. The Kahless clone being put in as emporer is not saying that people need religious belief. They are teling people exactly who and what Kahless is and letting others decide how to take that and its not like they are installing him to a true seat of power, but ceremonial seat to symbolize who and what Klingons are which are derived from the stories of Kahless which are morality plays about how Klingons should act and where things come from. So it’s not even a bad idea. It’d be like if we create a George Washington clone, tell him the history and story of George Washington as his own life and then say “this is a founding father” to people. He’d hold great symbolic power, and he’d help get rid of the divide between a lot of americans, but its not like he’d hold any “true” power and the “ends justify the means” doesn’t apply at all to this. And therse are comparable things. Kahless was a real person, a leader of the Klingons who revolted against an alien race that was enslaving them and then went on to establish the Empire. This is pretty close to George Washington. The major difference is more in the fact that Kahless’s story took place 1500 years ago and Washington was 200 years ago so the mythification levels are different. Yeah, but let’s also look at intent. The idea of installing Kahless v2.0 into a largely ceremonial position arises later. Until their bluff is called on it, the Klingon priests are totally okay with everyone assuming this is the original article, and in fact are trying to perpetuate that myth. Maybe they have a noble reason for doing this (or they think they do), maybe they don’t, but until their cover is blown they are perfectly hunky-dory with the deception. I think that’s the hypocrisy Ken is calling out (and quite rightly too – the mark of a true warrior). But that is not the message. They are the bad guys and they are called out out on it so if anything they are saying the “ends justifying the means” is wrong in that case. Some of you might enjoy this…. It’s a Youtube Channel that talks about the Medieval age and things in it, particularly swords, talking about the Bat’leth… Enjoy… I’ve always loved tall tales from Paul Bunyan to Chuck Norris. Now I can add to that the stories of Kahless. Because tall tales are the mark of a warrior. Personally, I didn’t see this as a ends justify the means story. I thought the message was that the message is more important than the man. If you really want to talk about religion, you might see this as discussing that some will believe even if it i