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Dr. Toby Russell, a doctor from the Adelman Neurological Institute, arrives to help Crusher find a way to treat Worf. Unfortunately, Worf's prognosis is grim; his paralysis appears to be permanent. In cases where a Klingon is rendered disabled such that they may not fight any longer, it is tradition for the invalid Klingon to commit Hegh'bat, ritual suicide. So it is that when Riker visits Worf in sickbay, the injured Klingon requests Riker help him commit Hegh'bat. Riker confides in Picard how troubling such a request is, but Picard explains that for Worf, his life had ended the moment he was injured - that getting him to accept life with a disability would require getting him to utterly abandon his Klingon identity.
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Dr. Toby Russell, a doctor from the Adelman Neurological Institute, arrives to help Crusher find a way to treat Worf. Unfortunately, Worf's prognosis is grim; his paralysis appears to be permanent. In cases where a Klingon is rendered disabled such that they may not fight any longer, it is tradition for the invalid Klingon to commit Hegh'bat, ritual suicide. So it is that when Because of this Klingons performed very little research into healing injuries like those Worf suffered. When Riker visits Worf in sickbay, the injured Klingon requests Riker help him commit Hegh'bat. Riker confides in Picard how troubling such a request is, but Picard explains that for Worf, his life had ended the moment he was injured - that getting him to accept life with a disability would require getting him to utterly abandon his Klingon identity.
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** Possibly justified. The aforementioned Klingon physiology redundancies likely made his recovery far quicker than it would have been.
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** Possibly justified. The aforementioned Klingon physiology redundancies likely made his recovery far quicker than it would have been.been for humans or members of other races.
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Riker isn't exactly presented with a tough decision to make.
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* TakeAThirdOption: What Riker does in the end.
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Harmful Healing is all about disturbing side effects, not high-risk treatments which would produce a full recovery.
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* HarmfulHealing: Doctor Russell's got to take out Worf's spine (disconnecting it from the brain and putting said brain on temporary life support) in order to install the cloned one. The Federation doesn't know much about the Klingon nervous system, either, but Doctor Russell thinks she shouldn't have any problems figuring it out. [[{{Flatline}} Beep...beep...beeeeeeeeeeeeee--]]
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** Dr. Russell mentions that Crusher wrote a groundbreaking paper on cybernetic regeneration, a topic Crusher previous discussed in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E1411001001 11001001]]."
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** Dr. Russell mentions that Crusher wrote a groundbreaking paper on cybernetic regeneration, a topic Crusher previous previously discussed in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E1411001001 11001001]]."
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* DangerouslyLoadedCargo: The episode's focuses is on Worf finding himself paralyzed after a loose container falls on top of him in the Cargo Bay.
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* DangerouslyLoadedCargo: The episode's focuses is on plot begins with Worf finding himself paralyzed after a loose container falls on top of him in the Cargo Bay.
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* DangerouslyLoadedCargo: The episode's focuses is on Worf finding himself paralyzed after a loose container falls on top of him in the Cargo Bay.
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** Possibly justified. The aforementioned Klingon physiology redundancies likely made his recovery far quicker than it would have been.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The end of the episode shows Worf starting what is implied going to be a long rehabilitation process, but by the next episode ("[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E17TheOutcast The Outcast]]") which takes place only a few weeks later Worf has fully healed and returned to duty.
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* LoopholeAbuse: How Riker gets out of the ritual. He studied up on it and found that it is the place of a family member (preferably the oldest son) to carry this out. When Worf says Alexander is just a boy, Riker notes that Klingon males are considered men the moment they can hold a weapon.
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* RulesLawyer: How Riker gets out of the ritual. He studied up on it and found that it is the place of a family member (preferably the oldest son) to carry this out. When Worf says Alexander is just a boy, Riker notes that Klingon males are considered men the moment they can hold a weapon.
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* SavedFromTheirOwnHonor: Worf suffers a debilitating spinal injury and asks Riker to ritually kill him so he can die with honor. Riker points out to Worf that by Klingon tradition, the ritual in question must be performed by a family member, meaning Worf's two-year-old son Alexander would have to do it. This convinces Worf to try an experimental medical procedure instead.
