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Moore would revisit this concept on moving over to Voyager. Certainly, the question of religious belief had been dealt with in the context of stand-alone episodes like Justice, Who Watches the Watchers? and DevilвЂ™s Due. It is not too difficult to imagine a watered-down version of this story on Star Trek: The Next Generation, with Picard and Worf encountering an alien species claiming to be the ancient Klingon gods.

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In particular, it feels more like a very broad Star Trek premise, a concept that could easily have been adapted for any other series in the franchise. Still, the original idea for Soldiers of the Empire seems intriguing.

However, Moore and Behr eventually settled upon a more generic primary plot that tied into the lead-up to the Dominion War in Call to Arms, a shrewd choice that avoided over-cluttering the episode. To be fair, the fifth season of Deep Space Nine did play with big metaphysical ideas in Children of Time, an episode in which the crew found themselves confronted with their potential grandchildren on an uncharted planet in the Gamma Quadrant. And, as Ira said, it was the wrong point in the season to do a big meditation on the metaphysics of Hell and Life and Death,вЂќ relates Moore. вЂњIt was just too much to do in one episode. вЂњI was trying to show the inner life of the crew of a bird-of-prey and do this big, out-there kind of piece,вЂќ Moore admits. However, when Moore turned in his story document to Behr, the executive producer was forced to point out an unfortunate reality. вЂњThere was going to be a friend of MartokвЂ™s on the other side that they wanted to bring back, and WorfвЂ™s father was over there, too. вЂњBasically, it was the River Styx,вЂќ Moore says. Worf and Martok give some coins to the boatman, who rows them across the lakeвЂ¦ Near the outpost is a fog-enshrouded lake, upon which a boatman appears. When the pair arrive at the outpost, located on a strange planet, they find that all the Klingons are missing. As The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion relates:ДЄpproaching the assignment with perhaps too much enthusiasm, Moore immediately began writing a story of mythic proportions about Worf and Martok taking a bird-of-prey to a Klingon outpost that the Empire had lost contact with. Rather than tying the plot to cold war brewing during the second half of Deep Space NineвЂs fifth season, Moore originally conceived of telling a more conventional standalone adventure that just happened to use Klingon characters. MooreвЂ™s original pitch for the episode that would become Soldiers of the Empire was rather different than the finished episode. Moore had been вЂњthe Klingon guyвЂќ dating back to Sins of the Father in his first season, so he was a logical choice to write it. The idea was to tell a story set on MartokвЂ™s ship, the Rotarran. While Worf had been raised by humans and was largely an outsider to the Klingon Empire, Martok was a much more conventional Klingon who had grown up as part of that culture. The return of the character of General Martok to the show in In PurgatoryвЂ™s Shadow and By InfernoвЂ™s Light provided a suitably vehicle for this story, with Worf serving as the audience identification character.

Producer Ira Steven Behr had expressed an interest in an episode that could be described as вЂњStar Trek: KlingonвЂќ, a story unfolding primarily on a Klingon ship with an emphasis on Klingon characters the next logical step from the cultural exchange seen in A Matter of Honour, but without needed to graft a human perspective into the story to hold the audienceвЂ™s hand. The genesis of Barge of the Dead can be traced back to Soldiers of the Empire, a Klingon-centric story that Moore had written towards the tail end of the fifth season of Deep Space Nine.

TomвЂ™s idea of a romantic evening certainly needed some work.