#sergey and elena rozhenko

I’ve rewatched “Family” (Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 2). You don’t expect your Star Trek right after two creepy Borg episodes to be so sweet, but it is because it corresponds with the title directly: it’s about Worf’s parents, Picard’s brother and Wesley’s father. Enterprise is being repaired on Earth, so Worf’s parents came on the ship to visit. They are… unusual – they are called Sergey and Elena Rozhenko, they come from Earth Station Bobruisk (just so that you know, Bobruisk is a real city in Belarus) and they have a strong Russian accent (Chekov-nostalgia). They are also very sweet and tell Worf that they are going to love and support him during his Klingon problems they don’t understand. Wesley receives a holo-message from his father which was recorded when Wesley was only a few weeks old. Captain’s story is the most interesting – he came to Earth to his home-village where his brother with his wife and son live now and holds the family business – winery. Jean-Luc and his brother don’t get along well, Picard’s old friend offers him a good place at some big and interesting marine project and Picard catches himself thinking of it. Then he fights his brother (literally fights in the mud), they get drunk together and he feels better. A very good episode.