You Gambled, He Won 

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Y'know something I never picked up on before...Alexander wanting to see his dead father. Remember when his mother died? Alexander didn't want to look but his father told him to look upon death, and always remember. And things have circled back around to that. First he was told to look, now he's being told not to. Must have been confusing for him. Not to mention Worf was Alexander's only surviving parent at this point, and he believes others are trying to keep him from his father. No wonder he was so insistent on seeing for himself. Poor guy.

4:45 Worf's heart grew 3 sizes that day

All he needs is some beans and he’ll be in tip top shape

This is such a great ending to this episode. Personal growth for Worf, where he's able to set aside his pride and tradition and let his son in, recognizing that it isn't just about him, but his friends and family as well.

Alexander literally witnessed his father defeating death in battle, lol!

"Alexander, I am so sorry." "I wanna see him." "Alex--" "NO! I wanna see him!" *Goes to sickbay and there's a giant baked bean on the table*

Gates McFadden was so gorgeous.

I think the most interesting part is that there is no right or wrong here. While some of her earlier scenes where she did the experimental medicine without consent is wrong, Worf's knew the risks and agreed to them. So even if Beverly didn't agree with the risk reward, it wasn't unethnical. They both had their right and wrong moments

The beginning is such a tear-jerker moment for me even just in the little clip. The little notion thrown in about having so many redundant systems was the perfect Chekov's Gun (no pun intended) that made the surprise of Worf's inhale so much better, that allowed the view to discover along with Beverly, that Worf's systems had more surprises in store for us. Awesome writing.

I think that even I'd Warf had died from that surgery complication, offering it was the correct solution, as the alternative was his five-year-old son plunging a dagger into his heart, leaving a mountain of trauma for Troy or another therapist to defuse on top of the "normal" loss of a parent.

Stuart Charno: Not enough drama in the end! Chip Chalmers: We could put a little death scare in! Picard: Make it so!

"I'm sorry. We did all we could... Thanks to that, your father will make a full recovery"

The issue is the Dr who is gambling is only set back in research if the patient died, she did not care about Worf at all only her treatment research. Yes he decided to take the risk knowing his odds but at 37% success that is research and treatment that still needs work NOT to be used on the living especially when she was denied 2 or 3 times before. Experimental treatments usually range from 40% chance and up to be viable. This also only worked due to klingon biology.

Little did they know his new spine was perfect he just put on an act as he realised he could get Troi to do the school run and cook Alexander's tea.

The empath who used to get distracted when "there's a lot of tension on the ship right now" needed to look at the doctor's face to know that Worf was dead.

It was a Christmas miracle!

When our kids are ready and willing to step in and provide us the help that we give them, that's how we know we've done a good job parenting! There will always be bumps in the road, but Mr. Worf can be proud of himself for teaching and guiding Alexander to become a fine and honorable man.

Worf had the most complete character development in all of modern Trek.

Always had a crush on Dr Crusher. . 😃🤣😂

The only reason the procedure worked was because of the redundant systems and the irony is, the only species that this treatment will work on consistently, is the one species that is most likely to reject the treatment. If Worf was on a Klingon ship, he would have already died.

This is one of those ethical dilemma type of questions. On one had, you have to do you due diligence and ensure you research and understand the therapies you are developing, but on the other hand you also have to take risks and test those theories and therapies in real scenarios so that you can collect real data. The episode presents the problem in a way to let the viewer think over and decide what would be the best option. The reality would have been a sort of meeting in the middle, where worf would have been informed of the procedure and risks, and then given the chance to decide for himself if he procedure was right for him, while at the same time Crusher would have done some further analysis of the procedure to try and improve upon it before administering to worf. This kind of situation is often discussed in hospitals because many cutting edge therapies are found often, but require real subjects inorder to fine tune, while also putting said subject at risk.

I've always thought that Gates McFadden is a hottie, the look on her face when she's ripping that doctor a new behind is just amazing! She is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen! The character's ethics is spot-on also!!

Alexander is a wonderful son. 💜

I think it would have been cool if Alexander did the Klingon death roar and that's what woke Worf up

I see you, Bean Man. I see you re-cutting a bit of the last clip into this one so as not to completely ruin the moment with Alexander insisting to see his father. Thanks :)

Beverly Crusher really shows her hypocritical side in that final confrontation with the doctor. She was simply too close to Worf to truly respect his wishes in this scenario. How would she have reacted if it was herself lying on the bed? Plus she accuses the other doctor of a profound lack of feelings and putting her research ahead of the personal welfare of her patients. The writers should have made this a truly memorable climax, with the other doctor countering her lecture with a firey rebutal.

People give worf shit but honestly i blame the writers. When Worf and Alexander had episodes together it went a long way to show that Worf was a good father when he could actually learn and teach properly. Then Alexander was just written off and then shows up in DS9 very suddenly and without warning.

A kingon pain stick would have him walking in 2 seconds.

I disagree with Beverly on one point: Taking those shortcuts doesn't make it not "real" research, just wildly unethical.

Both doctors have a point here. You can run simulations. You can come up with theories. You can try to predict every possible outcome...but eventually, someone has to pull that trigger; to try that procedure to see if works.

Dr. Crusher gave her the look of a lifetime!!!

Man I forgot about that time worf gets crippled and has to learn how to walk all over again

Worf the definition of legend. Tough strong fierce and decided death could screw itself he had shit left to do

My God this was amazing series. The philosophical questions raised were way ahead of their time. The acting is especially heart-rending in this episode and they even tie together the opening convo about poker with the banger line "You gambled, he won." There's just no way to get this kind of show back.

In Beans we trust😊

Gates is one beautiful woman.

This still happens today... 😕

He was going to die, it would be different if he was willing to live with it but then she convinced him to take the risk but he wasn't

Interesting episode, think some continuity issues with Klingon physiology otherwise fine!

Alexander had the healing powers his father was in need of. If Worf had let his son see him 40 minutes ago, he would've been walking again without the need for surgery.

Great episode

A very good episode

3:00 You win this round, Hillary Clinton!

Worf just wanted a bit of extra time with K'Eleyr.

Beverley really pi$$ed me off in this scene. Worf was paralyzed for life and wanted to die. And he would have found some way to make that happen too, I'm sure. He had nothing to lose as this was a win win situation for him. The op fails, he dies as he wished. The op works and he get to walk again and his life back. Yes, the other Doctor was Cavalier about it all and prepared to take risks that Crusher wasn't... but all the major break throughs in human history were achieved by people who didn't play it safe. Now I can imagine the writers probably intended to show that Beverley was concerned about the other Doctors ethics... but to me, it just came across as sour grapes.

I COULD BEAT YOU IN A FIGHT NOW, WORF!!!! *PUTS UP DUKES*

I wonder where Alexander ended up later on in his Star Trek life.

The ending makes me laugh I love beans 😂😂

Sour grapes, Crusher? What was the alternative? Sad.

Obviously Crusher doesnt know history of how medical procedures actually advanced

Spock Would Say: Fascinating Indeed 🖖🏾

I hated Crusher in this one. Full psycho. Telling Picard she will keep Worf improsened with force fields until he loses the will to resist.

Hmmm a backup sinaptic system wouldn't make klingons imune to stunt settings of weapons??

I like that the other Dr is not evil just kinda unlikeable. I feel like there are rarely just unlikeable woman as characters that aren't jokes or evil. It makes her feel so real. I also like how much she wants Dr Crusher to like her.

I found Beverly's strength of charecter as a Dr. admirable.. She's probably right in advising against taking shortcuts. There's nothing worse than half baked research in matters of life and death. They creat false hopes and lies - Like the 'American Dream' for instance!

It was really nice of Hillary Clinton to stop what she was doing to help out Worf like this.

No ethics review board in the future? No report system for unethical practice or for wrongful death of patients?

She called her everything but a butcher but i bet the other doctor got the inclination. That said, I believe it should be the decision of the patient what the proper direction is, given all the options available

Word sent his son away shortly after this

Anybody else curious what the control panel on the metal therepy frame (at the end) is for? Like adding buttons to a spoon, just not necessary. Lol

🧐 They performed this procedure without knowing the klingon physiology? 😑

I don't get why they can't use the transporters to fix stuff like that.

That's such cheap-trick drama. Imagine them knowing so little about klingon physiology that he can revive himself minutes after flatline and after they already gave up everything and even turned the monitoring off. And that with an experimental operation involving regeneration boosters where you should be doing overtime trying everything and observing.

Patrick Stewart doing the Full Rimmer Salute... where's this from?

Crusher was so wrong here.

Guest starring Kate McKinnon as Dr. Hillary Clinton

so worf had backup stuff thet saved him?

Reminds me of the covid vaccine lool

Dr. Crusher was absolutely right, taking shortcuts to achieve success will always be too big a gamble

Crusher is so insufferable...

Is not an issue. Worfs option was - being a invalid until superior therapy treatment arrived - death by suicide She lauds another doctors ethics, yet medical ethics says untried medical treatments are inevitably tested.....

Yeeuugghhh.....vomit.

Dr Facelift doesn't approve.

Beverly should get off her high-horse. There are times when research is too important to drag it out forever. Sometimes you need results. Sometimes lives are at stake.

Worf was the worst father

Dr Fauci

Beverly's speech there wouldn't be allowed on TV today... Contradicts the COVID vaccine "research". Edit: You all were so easily distracted by the vax debate that you missed the leading subject of the comment; biased political censorship and messaging in modern media.

It's a Christmas 🎄 miracle ✨️ Worf was saved by Krampus