Blood Oath

This Story: Season 2 Episode 19 (production code 439)
DS9 Overall: Episode 39
Trek Overall: Story 305, Episode 319
Airdate: 28 Mar 1994
Story by Peter Allan Fields & Andrea Moore Alton
Teleplay by Peter Allan Fields
Directed by Winrich Kolbe

Notes

• Features the return of original series Klingon actors John Colicos (Kor), William Campbell (Koloth), & Michael Ansara (Kang).  The three never appeared together in the original series, but they do here.
• Michael Ansara does appear in another DS9 episode (“The Muse“), but not as Kang.
• Koloth & Kang do not survive the episode, although Kang appears in a Star Trek Voyager episode (“Flashback“) in a sequence shown from the past.
• Kor survives, and appears in two more subsequent DS9 episodes – “The Sword of Kahless” & “Once More Unto the Breach“.
• The fact that none of the Klingons look like what they looked like in the original series is not addressed.  There was a joke made about it in the DS9 episode “Trials & Tribble-ations“. It was later explained “in universe” in the Enterprise episodes “Affliction” & “Divergence“.
• There are two other bits of media based around this episode.  One (Forged in Fire) is a prequel novel, and another (Remembrance) is a comic book sequel.
• Klach D’kel Brakt is the Klingon name for the Briar Patch (Star Trek Insurrection).
• Dr. Bashir, Miles O’Brien, & Jake Sisko do not appear in this episode.
• This episode might set a record for most eye rolls by Odo.

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