Devil’s Due

This Story: Season 4 Episode 13 (production code 187)
TNG Overall: Episode 87
Trek Overall: Story 186, Episode 189
Airdate: 4 Fen 1991
Teleplay by Philip Lazebnik
Story by Philip Lazebnik & William Douglas Lansford
Directed by Tom Benko

Notes

• The second of two scripts from the aborted “Star Trek: Phase II” series to be made elsewhere. The other was the Season 2 episode “The Child” (and of course Star Trek: The Motion Picture).
• The chairs in the arbitration scene were also used in the Addams Family Movie.
• The name of the Klingon homeworld is implied  here to be “Klingon”, but that was later changed.
• Oddly this was the highest rated episode of Star Trek: TNG since Encounter at Farpoint.
• This episode postulates there is a Devil in Klingon lore which contradicts the remarks in “Day of the Dove” when it was said there was no “Klingon Devil”.
• The end of this episode puts forth the idea there will be further meetings with the being who calls herself Ardra (whose name we never find out).  But that never happened.

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