page_title: Heart of Glory
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Heart of Glory / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Vaughn Armstrong at Creation Entertainment's 2010 Star Trek Vancouver Convention.
context_page_description: "Heart of Glory" is the twentieth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, first broadcast March 21, 1988. The story was created by Herbert Wright and D. C. Fontana, and was made into a script in two days by executive producer Maurice Hurley. The episode was directed by Rob Bowman.
  Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. In this episode, the crew rescue three Klingons from a damaged freighter in the neutral zone. Once aboard they befriend Lt. Worf and attempt to hijack the Enterprise so they can live as true Klingons, forcing Worf to choose between them or Starfleet.
  The episode explained the backstory to the character of Lt. Worf and Michael Dorn was pleased with the outcome. Rob Bowman thought that the episode worked well. He included an overhead shot on the engineering set which had not been done before on the show and tweaked the ending. Shots of the Klingon starship were reused from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, while the freighter model would be reused as various freighters throughout the various Star Trek television series.
context_section_description: Writer and executive producer Maurice Hurley thought that "Heart of Glory" was the closest experience he had on the show to directly place his own personal philosophy into a script. He later credited fellow executive producer Rick Berman with helping to write the script for "Heart of Glory", saying "When I had a problem, I could go in and we could sit there, close the door, yell and scream. I'd pace, he'd make suggestions. The two of us made stories work in that room that had to be shot within a couple of days. We were under enormous time pressure, and we were working hand in glove. We had a wonderful time, on that show, especially." Hurley wrote the screenplay in two days from a story created by Herbert Wright and D. C. Fontana. Because of the delays, the Klingon language portions of the script didn't make any actual sense in translation and were simply Klingon sounding words created by Hurley.
  The story explained Lt. Worf's background for the first time in the series, including the story of Romulan betrayal at Khitomer which saw the death of his parents. While his foster parents were first mentioned in this episode, they were not seen until the fourth season episode "Family" and his stepbrother didn't appear on the show until the seventh season episode "Homeward". Michael Dorn was pleased with the outcome of this episode as he felt it showed the producers that the fans were just as interested in his character as the others in the main cast. He felt that it could have been taken further and wanted there to be an epic battle at the end of the episode. The Klingon battlecruiser seen in "Heart of Glory" was footage re-used from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, while the freighter was a general model which would come to be reused throughout The Next Generation and other Star Trek television series.
  Director Rob Bowman made bold decisions in designing the confrontation sequence. The scripted version showed the fight between Worf and Korris taking place entirely on the first deck of the engineering section. Instead, Bowman had them fight on the upper deck and, using camera angles never before seen on the show, filmed vertical sequences in that part of the set. He also altered the script so that Konmel needed to be hit by three phaser blasts. Bowman used a steadicam to film the scenes on the freighter in order to give a rough effect to the footage. He was pleased with the outcome, describing it as the easiest of all of the Next Generation episodes he directed. He said that it was a show where "every hand we had was a 21. It just worked."
  Guest stars in this episode included Robert Bauer as Kunivas, who had previously been in a band with Michael Dorn. Stuntman Dennis Madalone made his second appearance in The Next Generation with this episode, having previously appeared earlier in the season in "Where No One Has Gone Before". He would continue to appear as various crewmen through the rest of the series. "Heart of Glory" was the only appearance in The Next Generation for actor Vaughn Armstrong. He would, however, go on to play a further eleven different roles in the Star Trek franchise, including as the recurring character of Admiral Maxwell Forrest in Star Trek: Enterprise.
caption: "Heart of Glory" featured the first Star Trek role for actor Vaughn Armstrong.  He appeared as eleven other characters throughout the franchise.
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