STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Season 5, Episode 10

New Ground

Series: The Next Generation - (1987-1994)
Season: 5
Episode #: 5.10
Production #: 40275-210
Original Airdate: 01/06/1992

Writer(s): Sara Charno, Stuart Charno, and Grant Rosenberg
Director(s): Robert Scheerer

Guest Stars
Georgia Brown as Helena Rozhenko
Brian Bonsall as Alexander Rozhenko
Richard McGonagle as Doctor Ja'Dar
Jennifer Edwards as Ms. Kyle
Sheila Franklin as Ensign Felton
Majel Barrett as the Voice of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D Computer

Uncredited Guest Stars
Rachen Assapiomonwait as Crewman Nelson
Joe Bauman as Crewman Garvey
Michael Braveheart as Ltjg. Martinez
Carl David Burks as Lt. Russell
Chapman as a Classroom Boy
Tracee Cocco as Ltjg. Jae
Cooper as Ensign Reel
Nyra Crenshaw as an Operations Division Officer
Gerard David, Jr. as an Operations Division Ensign
Dickinson as a Classroom Boy
Lanier Edwards as a Command Division Lieutenant
Alison Elbl “ the Puppeteer for the Corvan Gilvo
Eben Ham as an Operations Division Ensign
Holmes as a Classroom Boy
Gary Hunter as a Sciences Division Officer
Kai as a Sciences Division Officer
Arvo Katajisto as Ensign Torigan
Landi as an Operations Division Officer
Mark Lentry as a Sciences Division Lieutenant
Dennis Madalone as the Skull-Faced Opponent
Jay Montalvo as an Operations Division Officer
Michael Moorehead as a Sciences Division Ensign
Murphy as a Classroom Boy
O'Leary as a Classroom Boy
Brandy Pickett as a Sciences Division Officer
Keith Rayve as a Command Division Ensign
Ricksecker as a Classroom Boy
Joyce Robinson as Ensign Gates
Victor Sein as a Command Division Officer
Talbot as Ten Forward Waitress
Guy Vardaman as Lt. Darien Wallace
Christina Wegler Miles as a Command Division Ensign

Stardate: 45376.3

Synopsis

While the U.S.S. Enterprise heads for Bilana III to participate in the testing of a new propulsion method called the Soliton Wave, Worf receives an unexpected visit from his mother Helena and his son Alexander.

The Klingon's surprise turns to shock, however, when Alexander informs Worf that he plans to live on the ship with his father.

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That night, Worf discusses the situation with Helena. She reveals that Alexander has been misbehaving and is in desperate need of his father's guidance. Reluctantly, Worf agrees to take custody of the child. But when he discovers that the boy is lying and acting up in school, Worf threatens to send his son to a rigorous Klingon school.

Sensing that there's more to Alexander's behavior than meets the eye, Troi helps Worf realize that the boy's actions may be the result of feeling abandoned by his late mother and his father, who left the child to be raised by his grandparents on Earth. Worf begins to have second thoughts about sending Alexander to the Klingon school.

Meanwhile, feeling unloved by his father, Alexander seeks solace in the Biolab, home to his favorite animals. Just then, the crew discovers that the Soliton Wave test has gone dangerously awry. The wave's power level has increased so drastically that It could destroy a nearby colony. As the crew works frantically to create a backfire effect that could dissipate the wave and save the planet, they learn that Alexander is trapped in the biolab, where a fire has begun.

With seconds to spare, Worf and Riker rescue Alexander from the Biolab, while the crew successfully destroys the Soliton Wave. Realizing the loss he would feel if Alexander left the Enterprise, Worf asks his son to remain on the ship permanently.

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