Brian Thompson credited as playing...
Second Officer Klag
- Tactics Officer: [about the two female Klingons on board the Pagh] They are inquisitive. They would like to know how you would endure.
- Commander William T. Riker: Endure what?
- Lt. Klag: Them.
- Commander William T. Riker: [looks at the women] One or both?
- [Riker is caught off guard when offered with a dish of live gagh]
- Lt. Klag: Would you like something easier?
- Commander William T. Riker: Easier?
- Lt. Klag: Yes. If Klingon food is too strong for you, perhaps we could get one of the females to... breast-feed you.
- [after questioning Riker's status as his commanding officer, Lieutenant Klag gets a thrashing from the former]
- Commander William T. Riker: My oath is between Captain Kargan and myself. Your only concern is with how you obey my orders. Or do you prefer the rank of prisoner to that of lieutenant?
- Lt. Klag: [subdued] I will take your orders.
- Lt. Klag: Klingons do not express feeling the way you do.
- Commander William T. Riker: Perhaps you should.
- Lt. Klag: We would not know how.
- Commander William T. Riker: Yesterday I did not know how to eat gagh.
- [he takes a mouthful of that dish]
- [Captain Kargan intends to attack the Enterprise]
- Commander William T. Riker: I recommend you don't fire until you're within 40,000 kilometers.
- Lt. Klag: Why?
- Commander William T. Riker: It will cut down their response time.
- Lt. Klag: You are honoring your promise to serve us?
- Commander William T. Riker: Would you do less?
- Captain Kargan: You should have killed me.
- Commander William T. Riker: I don't want your command.
- Captain Kargan: But you tricked me to get it.
- Commander William T. Riker: Either way you can have it back.
- Captain Kargan: ...Then return to your station.
- [Riker glances a Klag and stays where he is. Kargan hits him. Klag checks on Riker]
- Captain Kargan: Get him off my ship!
- Lt. Klag: Yes, Captain.
- [to Riker]
- Lt. Klag: You understand the Klingons better than I thought, Commander.
- Commander William T. Riker: Thank you, my friend.
- Lt. Klag: My father was captured in battle by Romulans and not allowed to die. He eventually escaped.
- Commander William T. Riker: Where is he now?
- Lt. Klag: He is on our planet. He waits.
- [Riker looks quizzically at the Tactics Officer]
- Tactics Officer: He waits for his death.
- Lt. Klag: He will eventually fade of a natural illness and die, weakened and useless. Honorless. I will not see him.
- Commander William T. Riker: He's your father!
- Lt. Klag: A Klingon is his work, not his family. That is the way of things.
- [Riker is in the Klingon Mess Hall, eating with about a dozen Klingons]
- Tactics Officer: Commander, you're not eating very much.
- Cmdr. William Riker: I'm not that hungry.
- Second Officer Klag: Is the food all right, Commander?
- Cmdr. William Riker: It's delicious. The pipius claw was excellent. I also enjoyed this bregitlung.
- Vekma: And the rokeg blood pie?
- Cmdr. William Riker: Delicious.
- Second Officer Klag: Good. Then you'll also enjoy this.
- [Klag passes Riker a bowl of live worms]
- Cmdr. William Riker: Isn't that gagh?
- Second Officer Klag: Very good. You did some research on our nutritional choices.
- Cmdr. William Riker: Yes, but...
- [Riker looks at the moving worms]
- Cmdr. William Riker: *sigh* it's still moving.
- Second Officer Klag: [incredulous] Gagh is always best when served live.
- Commander William T. Riker: After this tour, I may have some worthy questions.
- Lt. Klag: Questions about what? About our future? Our future is honor. Our present is serving this ship.
