![]() With a black mark on his record from a Dahar Master, Martok couldn't even enlist as a common soldier but was forced to spend five years as a civilian orderly aboard a ship. Kor, a member of the council, turned him down for no reason other than Martok's common background, much to the shame and embarrassment of Martok and his father. After passing the exam on the first try, Martok's application rested on the oversight council which should have been nothing more than a formality. However Martok's father had hopes his son would be an officer in the Klingon Defense Force and after much difficulty, eventually found someone to sponsor his application. After loudly asking the bridge crew to leave, Martok explains his hatred of Kor: Martok's family came from the Ketha lowlands and had little, but had served the Empire for generations as soldiers. Sisko promises to have the ship's phasers charged.Īboard Martok's ship, Worf tries to speak to him again about Kor. Martok politely declines, saying that the Defiant will be more useful in deterring Jem'Hadar ships that may be following once the Klingons head back to Federation-held territory. Sisko likens it to an ancient Earth tactic known as a " cavalry raid" and offers to join him with the USS Defiant. Martok unveils his new battleplan to Captain Sisko: using only a squadron of Birds-of-Prey, he will hit Dominion facilities and create chaos behind their lines, starting with an audacious raid on the heavily-fortified Cardassian starbase on Trelka V, then plans to hit the Manora shipyards, the breeding facilities on Sheva II, and then the supply depots in the Borias Cluster. Worf approaches General Martok with Kor's request, and is stunned when Martok refuses, violently, warning Worf to cease pursuing this, " or I will forget that we are brothers!" He pleads Worf to intercede for him so that he may "end my life as I have lived it – as a warrior." The venerable Dahar master congratulates Worf on his distinguished service in the war, and commiserates on the death of Worf's wife, then admits he is there to beg a favor: Kor has lost whatever influence he once had, so the Klingon Empire has decided that there is no place for him in the war. Worf returns to his quarters and is soon visited by Kor. Worf gets up and leaves after saying this and Bashir tells O'Brien that that is that. Worf joins them and comments that if you believe in the myth of Davy Crockett, then there should be no doubt that he died a hero, but if instead you believe that Davy Crockett was just a man, it does not matter "how he died". O'Brien expresses his opinion that Crockett was executed by General Santa Anna as a point of pride, while Bashir believes Crockett was tired of living on his reputation and ultimately surrendered with the Mexican Army closing in. Bashir and Chief O'Brien heatedly discuss the fate of Davy Crockett, a legendary hero who died in the battle. Having just relived the Battle of the Alamo in a holosuite at Quark's, Dr.
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