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Early life [ ]

Sunrise over Khitomer

Worf was born in 2340 on the Klingon homeworld , Qo'noS , as the son of Mogh, patriarch of one of the Klingon Empire 's Great Houses . ( TNG : " Sins of The Father ")

According to StarTrek.com , Worf was born on (Earth equivalent) 9 December 2340, the same date actor Michael Dorn was born. [1] (X)

When Worf was five years old , his father took him and his mother to live on the Khitomer colony , along with Worf's ghojmoK , Kahlest . ( TNG : " Sins of The Father ") There, Mogh took Worf on a ritual hunt along with a garrison warrior, L'Kor . Worf had not yet reached the Age of Inclusion and was barely able to hold a bat'leth . During the hunt, Worf was mauled on the arm by a beast, leaving behind a scar and memory he kept throughout his life. ( TNG : " Birthright, Part I ")

At some point when Worf was a child, he had a pet targ . ( TNG : " Where No One Has Gone Before ")

In 2346 , the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire were officially allied but a conspiracy between the Romulans and the House of Duras left the Klingon Empire open to betrayal. Romulan forces attacked the Khitomer colony , killing nearly all of the four thousand Klingon colonists, including Worf's parents. ( TNG : " Sins of The Father ", " The Neutral Zone ")

The Rozhenkos [ ]

Foster parents Sergey and Helena Rozhenko

The colony's distress call was answered by the Federation starship USS Intrepid . An Intrepid chief petty officer , Sergey Rozhenko , found Worf buried in the rubble, with Kahlest being the only other survivor found. After the Klingon Empire stated that the young boy apparently had no living relatives, Sergey took Worf to his homestead on the farming colony of Gault . He and his wife, Helena , raised the Klingon child alongside their own son, Nikolai . The two boys regarded each other as siblings. ( TNG : " The Neutral Zone ", " Heart of Glory ", " Family ", " Homeward "; DS9 : " Change of Heart ")

As the sole Klingon in a small farm culture, Worf had some difficulty adapting to his new circumstances, though; years later, Helena described her son as bright and highly spirited as a boy. Soon after his arrival on Gault, the seven year-old bloodied the noses of five teenage boys , whom Worf deemed "disrespectful". He refused to partake in Human food, preferring the Klingon cuisine he'd been raised on; Helena would learn how to make Rokeg blood pie for Worf, which he loved and greatly appreciated. In 2353 , at thirteen years of age, Worf led his school's soccer team to the championships, where, in an attempt to score, he collided with another player, Mikel , when they both went to head the ball. The impact of Klingon ridges against a Human skull snapped Mikel's neck, and the boy died the next day. This lesson in Human frailties made a huge impact on Worf's nascent character. This incident made Worf realize that Humans were a fragile species and he had to learn to restrain himself around them. His self-control, interpreted by some as part of his Klingon heritage, was a large factor in his serious demeanor. ( TNG : " Family ", " New Ground "; DS9 : " Let He Who Is Without Sin... ")

The Rozhenko family eventually moved to Earth , where Sergey frequently took Nikolai and Worf camping in the Ural Mountains . At night, Worf often listened raptly to the sound of wolves howling in the distance. ( DS9 : " Change of Heart ")

Coming of age [ ]

At fifteen years of age, in 2355 , Worf voyaged to Qo'noS, where he stayed with cousins of the House of Mogh. There, he made the formal declaration of his intent to become a warrior and performed the Rite of Ascension . During the ceremony, Worf was presented with a well-forged knife, a gift from a Klingon who had known Mogh. Seeing the Great Domes of Qo'noS made him feel at home, but his kin rejected his marked Human taint. ( TNG : " The Icarus Factor ", " Rightful Heir "; DS9 : " The Sword of Kahless ")

Worf fasted for three days before undertaking the Rite of MajQa . After six days of meditation in the volcanic Caves of No'Mat , the legendary Klingon warrior Kahless the Unforgettable appeared to Worf in a vision and prophesied that Worf would do something that no other Klingon had ever done before. ( TNG : " Birthright, Part I "; DS9 : " The Sword of Kahless ")

Starfleet career [ ]

After Worf returned to Earth, he pondered the meaning of his words and wondered what lay ahead. When he grew old enough, he joined Starfleet , the first Klingon to ever do so. For a time, Worf believed he had fulfilled his destiny this way, though he later wondered if there was not something else yet after recovering the Sword of Kahless in 2372 . ( DS9 : " The Sword of Kahless ")

Ronald D. Moore recalled that the prophecy could indeed be interpreted as him being the first Klingon in Starfleet. ( AOL chat , 1998 ) A line in the script of "Rightful Heir" that was not present in the final episode had Worf suggest this interpretation to the clone of Kahless. [2]

In a scene cut from DS9 : " Resurrection ", Worf mentioned that he had served as an ensign aboard the USS Hawk at the age of 17. [3]

Service aboard the USS Enterprise -D [ ]

Lt. jg Worf at conn in 2364

In 2364 , Lieutenant junior grade Worf was assigned as a command division bridge officer on the USS Enterprise -D , under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (see Friendships : Jean-Luc Picard ). Worf spent most of his first year on the Enterprise -D as a relief officer for the conn and other bridge stations. ( TNG : " Encounter at Farpoint ", " The Naked Now ", " Angel One ", " Too Short A Season ")

Worf assisting Admiral Mark Jameson in 2364

Worf was permitted a variation from the Starfleet uniform dress code, and wore a Klingon warrior's sash, sometimes called a baldric by Humans, over his regular duty uniform. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ; Star Trek: Insurrection ) Worf's quarters were on Deck 7, in Section 25 Baker until 2370 , when he moved to Deck 2, Room 2713. ( TNG : " Rightful Heir ", " Phantasms ")

Lieutenant Worf in 2366

Following the death of Natasha Yar at the hands of the Armus entity, Worf became acting security chief . In 2365 , Worf transferred to the operations division and officially became the Enterprise -D's chief tactical officer and security chief. He was promoted to the rank of full lieutenant in 2366 . After seven years of service aboard the starship, Worf rose in rank to lieutenant commander in 2371 . ( TNG : " Skin Of Evil ", " The Child ", " Evolution "; Star Trek Generations )

During these years of service, Worf's record was marred by a single reprimand, earned when he killed Duras in an honor duel after the latter killed Worf's mate, K'Ehleyr . Killing Duras directly affected the ascension of a new Klingon Chancellor after the death of K'mpec . ( TNG : " Reunion ")

Borg encounters [ ]

Worf and his security team were the first Starfleet officers in over two centuries to engage Borg drones in combat when two boarded his ship. Worf, along with Commander William T. Riker and Lieutenant Commander Data were the first officers to infiltrate a Borg cube , gathering the first real clues about the true nature of the new threat. ( TNG : " Q Who ")

Fighting a Borg invasion

Worf played a significant role in repelling the Borg invasion of the Federation in 2366 . When the Enterprise -D engaged the Borg cube, he was unable to prevent the abduction of Picard when drones appeared on the bridge. On Riker's orders, Worf and Data boarded the cube, and were able to retrieve Picard, allowing Dr. Crusher to restore their captain's Humanity. It was one of the most dangerous missions of Worf's career, but six years later, he likened the exploits of his companions to the sagas of ancient warriors. ( TNG : " The Best of Both Worlds ", " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II "; DS9 : " The Way of the Warrior ")

Regardless of his optimism, in 2368 , Worf was wary enough of a wounded and isolated Borg drone that he recommended killing it on sight, but his words went unheeded. The decision to rehabilitate the drone and return him to the collective nearly proved disastrous. ( TNG : " I Borg ", " Descent ")

Q encounters [ ]

Like so many who encountered the trickster, Worf immediately developed a strong antipathy towards Q .

" I am not a merry man! "

In his visits, Q frequently took pleasure in teasing Worf, to whom Q referred as "micro brain." When Q forced the Enterprise -D crew to play out a detailed Robin Hood fantasy scenario, Worf found himself portraying the character Will Scarlet .

When stripped of his powers from the Q Continuum , Q desperately asked how he could prove to the Enterprise -D crew that he was, indeed, mortal. Worf helpfully suggested, " Die, " much to the amusement of others present on the bridge. ( TNG : " Hide And Q ", " Qpid ", " Deja Q ")

Klingon affairs [ ]

Worf and Gowron in 2372

Worf's exposure to Klingon society began in earnest, in his time aboard the Enterprise -D. In a few short years, the forgotten orphan from the House of Mogh was a player in the highest levels of the Empire's politics.

In 2364 , the Enterprise -D rescued three Klingons from a disabled cargo ship , and for the first time in nearly ten years, Worf spent time in the company of (renegade) Klingon warriors. One of the rescued warriors was mortally wounded, and Worf joined in the Klingon death ritual for Kunivas , exposing non-Klingons to the event for the first time. The charismatic Korris tried to enlist Worf in taking the starship, but could not budge the officer's loyalty. In addition, Commander K'Nera also offered Worf a place in the Klingon Defense Forces , but was politely declined. ( TNG : " Heart of Glory ")

More than twenty years after the Khitomer Massacre , the honor of the House of Mogh was called into question in 2366 . Worf's brother, Kurn , brought the news that Duras, of the rival House of Duras , had accused Mogh of betraying the Empire by facilitating the Romulan attack on the Khitomer colony. Worf appeared before the Klingon High Council to protest their judgment of guilt, and provided evidence that would have exonerated his father. Chancellor K'mpec dismissed Worf's defense, knowing the true traitor of Khitomer was Duras' father, Ja'rod . Considering the cost of his appeal and revelation of the truth – Duras' powerful clan inciting a civil war , and his intention to kill Kurn – Worf kept his silence and accepted a discommendation that ruined his name throughout the Empire. ( TNG : " Sins of The Father ")

A year later, Chancellor K'mpec was dying, and he asked Picard to serve as the Arbiter of Succession . The event coincided with Worf's reunion with K'Ehleyr, an iconoclastic ambassador and Worf's former lover. K'Ehleyr took this opportunity to introduce their child, Alexander, to Worf.

The Sonchi ceremony over the body of K'mpec was interrupted by an attempt to assassinate Gowron. The contenders were offended by the dishonored Worf presenting the result of the Enterprise -D's investigation, but Worf revealed evidence that implicated Duras. Concurrently, K'Ehleyr discovered the truth of Worf's discommendation as well as the scope of the House of Duras' treachery, but Duras confronted and murdered her. The question of succession was ultimately decided by Worf. Exercising his Right of Vengeance , he challenged Duras to a duel, defeating and killing him. The death of Duras allowed Gowron to become the new chancellor. ( TNG : " Reunion ")

Worf accepted a commission as a Klingon imperial officer

The civil war K'mpec had feared broke out in late 2367 , when the House of Duras and allies rebelled against Chancellor Gowron's leadership by attacking Gowron's ship, the IKS Bortas . Worf felt it was his place to help his people, and resigned from Starfleet to side with Gowron. His influence proved instrumental in the war when he ordered Kurn to back Gowron. Worf served on Kurn's ship during the civil war, and fought at the Battle of Mempa , but soon found himself dissatisfied with the impulsive manner of Klingon society when off-duty, such as Kurn's association with officers who served the Duras family, despite the hostilities currently occurring between them. With help from Starfleet, the Romulan involvement was discovered, effectively ending it, enabling Gowron's forces to quickly end the war, and solidifying his position as chancellor. In appreciation for Worf's help, Chancellor Gowron restored honor to the House of Mogh, allocated Worf's brother, Kurn, a seat on the Klingon High Council, and gave Worf the life of Duras' illegitimate son, Toral . Worf, unwilling to kill an innocent boy, and recognizing that Toral was mainly a pawn of his aunts rather than a villain in himself, let Toral go and returned to Starfleet without incident. ( TNG : " Redemption ", " Redemption II ")

In 2369 , while the Enterprise was docked at Deep Space 9 , Worf was met by a Yridian named Jaglom Shrek . Shrek told Worf that Mogh may not have died at Khitomer after all and that he might have still been alive, living with Romulans in a remote prison camp. Although initially uncomfortable about the possible dishonor that his family would face if Mogh had really been alive all this time, a conversation with Data about a recent "vision" he had had about his creator forced Worf to recognize that his own father was an important part of who he was, prompting him to meet Shrek and make the Yridian take him to the Carraya sector , where the prison camp was located.

On the surface of Carraya IV , Worf found L'Kor, now an old man. L'Kor informed Worf that his father had died at Khitomer, though a number of prisoners had been taken to this camp. Worf attempted to free the prisoners, but instead was taken captive. Inside the main prison camp, Worf found Klingons and Romulans living together in harmony – in their isolation, the Klingons had abandoned Klingon concepts of honor and had forgotten their warrior ways. The Klingon elders laughed in disbelief at Worf's assertion that Klingons were allies with the Federation, but the younger people were fascinated by his ways and his stories of Kahless. Despite attempts by Gi'ral to stop her daughter Ba'el 's advances, the girl agreed to escape with Worf. However, when Worf found that Tokath , the Romulan leader of the camp, was Ba'el's father, he confronted Gi'ral about why she married a Romulan. Worf continued his influence on the camp's youth, and taught hunting to Toq . After catching an animal, they delivered it to the main hall as a feast. Tokath was horrified at the sight. Realizing that Worf would eventually sway the opinion of the other youths in the camp as he had Toq, Tokath sentenced Worf to death. However, Worf had exerted enough influence on the camp, and several members of the camp stood by Worf, willing to face execution rather than continue to live the way they had. Tokath was forced to let Worf return to the Enterprise . Worf though recognized the rare peace that had been established at the camp, and explained to the young people that wanted to leave that they must keep the camp and their parents a secret in order to honor them. ( TNG : " Birthright, Part I ", " Birthright, Part II ")

Although a profound influence on the settlers of Carraya IV, Worf's visit also forced him to challenge his beliefs, feeling that his own faith in the legends he told the children was lacking compared to their own. To renew his faith, Worf decided to visit Boreth , and re-summon Kahless the Unforgettable. Kahless appeared before him for real – seemingly returned to lead the Empire once more. However, Worf was skeptical of the Klingon's authenticity, even as he admitted that he wanted to believe in Kahless' divinity. Gowron claimed that Kahless could not recall any of his legendary stories and challenged him in combat, which Kahless lost. The loss forced the clerics to reveal that this Kahless was a clone, leaving Worf strongly affected by the questions and doubts raised by the issue, before a conversation with Data prompted him to consider that it was possible to believe that something was more than its origins. Despite the discovery, Worf was instrumental in arranging for the clone to be installed as emperor to the Klingon people. The ceremonial position had not been held for centuries but Worf felt that the Klingon Empire had lost its way since Kahless' original teachings, and that the new emperor could bring further stability. Before the clone departed, Kahless consoled Worf's doubts by reflecting that the important thing was that all Klingons remember the teachings and message of the original Kahless, and as long as they remained true to those, it did not truly matter whether or not the original Kahless returned. ( TNG : " Rightful Heir ")

Other notable missions [ ]

Worf's first major task was to take command of the Enterprise -D saucer module and lead it to safety, when the ship separated prior to engaging Q for the first time. The order ran contrary to his nature (i.e. fleeing while his commanding officer was in danger) and Worf briefly objected until Picard reminded him of his duty. ( TNG : " Encounter at Farpoint ", " All Good Things... ")

Worf was present for the first Federation contact with the Romulans since the Tomed Incident . A mysterious third party 's devastating attacks on Romulan Neutral Zone outposts alarmed the powers on either side of the border. Worf was enraged by the prospect of dealing with the race responsible for the Khitomer Massacre , and was rebuked by both Picard and the Romulan Commander Tebok , who urged, " Silence your dog, Captain. " ( TNG : " The Neutral Zone ")

That same year, Worf was a member of the away team sent to investigate an Iconian gateway located in the Romulan Neutral Zone. The experience with Iconian technology served him well, many years later, in the Gamma Quadrant . On another away mission, to Theta VIII , he participated in a recreation of the pulp novel Hotel Royale . Worf also revealed his technical knowledge of energy vortices when the Enterprise was threatened with destruction by one. ( TNG : " Contagion ", " The Royale ", " Time Squared "; DS9 : " To the Death ")

Both Picard and Riker independently had Worf in mind as their top choice for the ops position when Data was presumed dead. Worf noted to Deanna Troi that he had served in this capacity before. ( TNG : " The Most Toys ")

Worf helped expose Ardra as an impostor trying to take control of Ventax II , despite her attempts to take the form of Fek'lhr . ( TNG : " Devil's Due ")

At one point, the Enterprise was caught in an energy field which propelled the ship away from an M-class planet inhabited by the xenophobic Paxans . The energy field was designed to erase the memories of the crew. However, Worf's surgically-mended arm proved that something had happened at the Paxan homeworld, and that someone had deliberately erased their memories of the event. To appease the Paxans, the crew agreed to have their memories erased again, only this time, no clues were to be left. ( TNG : " Clues ")

A month later, the Enterprise became trapped in the Tyken's Rift , while trying to find the USS Brattain . The insanity and fear brought out by the Tyken's Rift caused Worf to nearly kill himself with a ceremonial knife . ( TNG : " Night Terrors ")

When Kieran MacDuff altered the memories of the crew and the computer (including Data's) with a plasma energy beam, Worf temporarily took command of the Enterprise , because his sash gave the crew the mistaken impression that he was the highest-ranking officer. After he learned his true rank, he apologized to Picard for his assumption of authority, but Picard assured him that no blame was necessary, as they were all making the best they could of a difficult situation. ( TNG : " Conundrum ")

In 2368 , when the Enterprise was disabled by quantum filaments , Worf was entrusted with a makeshift infirmary in Ten Forward . During the incident, Keiko O'Brien went into labor, and Worf had to assist with her giving birth to Molly . He remembered the incident for years, and bristled when he found out she was pregnant again, while they both were on Deep Space 9 , determining to make sure he was on leave when she gave birth so he wouldn't be in a position to have to assist again. ( TNG : " Disaster "; DS9 : " Accession ")

In 2369 , Worf was assigned by Admiral Alynna Nechayev to infiltrate Celtris III . Starfleet Intelligence had discovered bursts of theta-band subspace emissions from the planet, indicating an illegal metagenic weapon in operation. Worf, Dr. Crusher, and Captain Picard were part of the intelligence team sent to investigate. After Picard was captured by Gul Madred , Worf and Crusher escaped back to the rendezvous point, where they informed Captain Jellico of the situation. ( TNG : " Chain Of Command, Part I ", " Chain Of Command, Part II ")

Later that year, Worf, along with the rest of the Enterprise crew, conducted a mission to aid a stranded Romulan Warbird . Creatures existing outside of the normal space-time continuum had assumed Romulan form and had used the Warbird's warp chamber as a gestation chamber for their offspring. Commander Riker ordered a power transfer beam engaged, to recharge the Romulan ship disturbing the creatures. This caused time on both ships to stop, locking each crew in temporal stasis. Worf had been in the transporter room , to lead the rescue effort bringing injured Romulans to the Enterprise . Captain Picard as well as Lieutenant Commanders Data, La Forge, and Counselor Troi were on their way back to the ship. When Picard went to the transporter room to examine the control panel, he found Worf at the controls and politely said, " Excuse me, Mr. Worf, " even though the Klingon could not respond. ( TNG : " Timescape ")

" We were like warriors from the ancient sagas. There was nothing we could not do. " - Worf

Worf, through the use of his Klingon calisthenics program , helped Byleth , an Iyaaran ambassador, understand the emotions of antagonism, something the Iyaaran culture had no natural understanding of. ( TNG : " Liaisons ")

Worf in 2371

On stardate 47391.2, Worf began moving between many different alternative realities after flying through a quantum fissure in the shuttlecraft Curie . He experienced several unexplained discontinuities in events against his memory (particularly regarding his attendance and victory at a bat'leth tournament on Forcas III ), and it was eventually discovered that Worf was not native to the universe he was currently in – a universe where the Federation was at war with the Bajorans , where he was a commander and first officer of the Enterprise -D and married to Deanna Troi, with whom he had two children. He was eventually returned to his original reality, apparently the only person to retain any memory of his journey. ( TNG : " Parallels ")

Worf surviving the destruction of the Enterprise

Following Worf's promotion to lieutenant commander in 2371 , he was instrumental in a battle that ensued after the Duras sisters attacked the Enterprise . He first remembered their class of Bird-of-Prey had been retired from service due to defective plasma coils ; Data then made use of this flaw to remotely cause the vessel to cloak using a low-level ionic pulse , and Worf destroyed the Bird-of-Prey with a single torpedo hit. Unfortunately, due to damage sustained in the battle, the Enterprise stardrive section was destroyed, with the separated saucer section crashing on Veridian III , damaged beyond repair. ( Star Trek Generations )

Service on Deep Space 9 [ ]

Worf in 2372

While awaiting reassignment following the destruction of the Enterprise , Worf took an extended leave of absence from Starfleet to evaluate his future. He returned his son to Earth to live with the Rozhenkos while he himself took refuge on Boreth . ( DS9 : " The Way of the Warrior ")

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Federation, Captain Benjamin Sisko and the crew of Deep Space 9 were having trouble keeping order with the Klingons present at the station. When the treaty with the Klingon Empire was threatened during the Klingons' invasion of Cardassia in 2372 , Sisko stated, " Curzon told me once that in the long run, the only people who can really handle Klingons are Klingons. " It was at this time he requested Worf's help.

Worf again became a player in galactic politics as the Federation tried to avert war between the Klingon Empire and the Cardassian Union . Worf was the Federation's best link to Chancellor Gowron and a meeting between them was arranged. He was asked to resign from Starfleet and join Gowron on the Klingon campaign to invade Cardassia. Worf felt the war was wrong and that it was incompatible with his loyalties to the Federation. As a result, Gowron threatened to strip Worf and his family of their honor, confiscate their lands, and treat them as traitors to the Klingon Empire. When Worf again refused, Gowron made good on his threat.

Worf, with Jadzia Dax and Kira Nerys

The Klingons failed to bring down the Cardassian government with the Federation protecting them and an enraged Gowron withdrew from the Khitomer Accords , making the Klingons an enemy of the Federation. Following the mission, Worf considered resigning from Starfleet to take a berth on a Nyberrite Alliance cruiser. After learning this, Sisko, reflecting to Worf that he had also considered leaving Starfleet after his wife 's death, suggested that Worf was just trying to escape the memory of the Enterprise 's loss rather than Starfleet itself. Sisko then offered Worf a position as the strategic operations officer , which Worf humbly accepted, making his primary duty to co-ordinate all Starfleet activity within the Bajoran sector, not to handle security matters on Deep Space 9 , which was Odo 's responsibility. This new assignment had Worf once again wearing command division red. ( DS9 : " The Way of the Warrior ", " Hippocratic Oath ")

Worf clashes with Odo over the security on DS9

When the USS Orinoco was sabotaged by the True Way in 2372 , Worf, along with Major Kira Nerys , Sisko, Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax , and Chief Miles O'Brien were lost in the shuttlecraft's transporter . However, Odo and Michael Eddington managed to save their transporter signatures on the station's computers. The character data was saved in the holosuite (where Julian Bashir and Elim Garak were running a holosuite simulation). Worf's character data was superimposed onto Duchamps , a holosuite character who played the henchman to Dr. Noah . ( DS9 : " Our Man Bashir ")

Worf's quarters on DS9 were on Level 3, Section 27, Room 19. ( DS9 : " Inquisition ") He also lived on the Defiant for a period of time after his quarters got robbed by a Dopterian . Worf took the Dopterian into custody and complained about the robbery, after which Odo read him some of the security breaches that occurred during his service aboard the Enterprise -D. ( DS9 : " Bar Association "; TNG : " A Matter Of Time ", " Rascals ") When Worf married Jadzia Dax, he moved into her quarters, which were located in the habitat ring , Section 25 Alpha. ( DS9 : " You Are Cordially Invited ", " Resurrection ")

USS Defiant missions [ ]

In addition to his role aboard Deep Space 9, Worf, as the most senior Starfleet officer under Sisko, also served as Executive Officer of the USS Defiant . Therefore, whenever Sisko was not commanding the Defiant , Worf got a chance to demonstrate his command expertise. One of the first missions he commanded was a science mission headed by Lenara Kahn . A Trill science team was attempting to create Starfleet's first artificially-created stable wormhole . Worf found it hard to be excited about a science mission, claiming that his dreams were more exciting. ( DS9 : " Rejoined ")

While beside a gas giant in the Gamma Quadrant , where the Defiant was escorting Quark to continue negotiations with the Karemma , the Jem'Hadar opened fire on the Karemma ship and the Defiant as punishment for their treason . Captain Sisko was severely injured in the incident, leaving Worf in command. Taking command in engineering (the bridge had been damaged by Jem'Hadar fire), Worf found many engineers (especially Muniz and Stevens ) unaccustomed to his authoritarian style of command. After receiving advice from Chief O'Brien, Worf undertook a more interactive approach. Better able to work under this style of command, Muniz and Stevens were able to devise a way to destroy the Jem'Hadar attack ship . By modifying the main deflector , the Defiant successfully defeated the Jem'Hadar. ( DS9 : " Starship Down ")

On a subsequent occasion, Worf commanded the Defiant on a mission to escort Cardassian freighters across a volatile sector of Klingon space. After being fired upon by Klingon warships using a tactic of continually decloaking to fire and then recloaking, a Klingon ship decloaked directly ahead of the Defiant and Worf ordered it destroyed. However, this ship was a Klingon civilian transport ship . The Klingon Advocate Ch'Pok demanded that Worf be extradited to the Klingon Empire for punishment.

The Federation decided to stage an extradition hearing with Admiral T'Lara as chair, Sisko as defense, and Ch'Pok as prosecution. Had it not been for Odo's discovery that there were no civilians on the destroyed ship, Worf would have been extradited to the Klingon Empire to face execution. After the court martial , which the defense won, Worf remarked about the difficulty of command. Sisko replied, " Wait until you get four pips on your collar. You'll wish you had gone into botany. " ( DS9 : " Rules of Engagement ")

Following a year of hostilities and border skirmishes between the Federation and Klingons (see Federation-Klingon War ), Odo discovered that Gowron might have been replaced by a Changeling . In order to establish whether Gowron was a shapeshifter , Starfleet Command ordered Sisko to lead a team (which included Worf) to expose Gowron as a shapeshifter. The team posed as Klingon warriors being inducted into the Order of the Bat'leth . Each team member was to plant polaron emitters that, when activated, would force a shapeshifter to lose its shape. Worf initially found it difficult to turn the team into convincing Klingons. However, Sisko helped him refocus, and with practice, the team pulled through. The plan worked out relatively well at first, but just when Sisko was ready to activate the polaron emitters, Martok , chief military adviser and overseer of the Cardassian invasion, recognized Sisko through his Klingon disguise, and the entire team was thrown into prison. While incarcerated, the team managed to explain their mission to Martok. It turned out that Martok had always suspected that Gowron may have been a Changeling, but he was waiting for the right time to expose him. With the polaron emitters destroyed, Worf decided that the only way to expose Gowron as a shapeshifter was to get him to spill blood. Once released by Martok, Worf fought Gowron in a duel. Gowron's Klingon honor and behavior led Odo to find it was not Gowron, but Martok who was the Dominion Changeling agent. After he was destroyed by the Klingon warriors, it was discovered that his mission was to destabilize relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Worf's assistance in uncovering the Dominion presence as the common enemy incidentally helped to restore peace between the Federation and Klingon Empire. ( DS9 : " Broken Link ", " Apocalypse Rising ")

Some months later, the Defiant was tasked with a mission of sending the Bajoran Orb of Time back to the station. However, Defiant passenger Arne Darvin had other ideas; he used the Orb to travel back to 2268 , to the time of Captain Kirk and the first USS Enterprise , and to the year that the tribbles had invaded Klingon space. Darvin's plot was to kill Captain Kirk and eliminate the tribbles before they had a chance to invade Klingon space. While searching for Darvin, Worf (along with Odo, Bashir, and O'Brien) encountered Klingons scarred by the augment virus of the 22nd century . When Bashir and O'Brien asked how the augmented people could be Klingons, Worf merely responded, " We do not discuss it with outsiders. " The crew apprehended Darvin on Deep Space Station K-7 , and returned to the present. ( TOS : " The Trouble with Tribbles "; DS9 : " Trials and Tribble-ations ")

The Dominion War [ ]

In 2373 , Elim Garak received an encoded transmission from his mentor, Enabran Tain . It stated that he had survived the Battle of the Omarion Nebula and was being held by the Dominion in the Gamma Quadrant. Garak convinced Sisko that he could enter Dominion space but only under supervision from Worf. In order to avoid detection while in Dominion space, Worf decided to hide in a nearby nebula . The diversion proved to be a bad idea, as that nebula housed the first Dominion invasion fleet, on its way to invading the Alpha Quadrant. Worf knew that they were planning to enter the wormhole , and that the Dominion War was about to begin. Before they were captured by the fleet, Worf managed to transmit a message to the wormhole relay station about the impending invasion. ( DS9 : " In Purgatory's Shadow ")

Worf and Martok in the Dominion internment camp

Worf and Garak were taken to Internment Camp 371 , where they discovered Enabran Tain, the real General Martok , and surprisingly, the real Julian Bashir. Bashir had been captured for a month and had been replaced by a Changeling infiltrator. All the prisoners knew they had to escape, to warn DS9 about the Changeling. Although Tain died at the camp shortly thereafter, Garak devised a plan to modify Tain's transmitter to contact the runabout in orbit and escape from the internment camp. The transmitter was tucked away in a cramped compartment, and Garak had to overcome his acute claustrophobia to complete the modifications. Worf and Martok commended Garak's courage, stating, " There is no greater enemy than one's own fears. " During this time, to distract the Jem'Hadar guards, Worf entered into combat with each of the Jem'Hadar guards in turn, earning the respect and admiration of General Martok in the process, even winning the respect of Jem'Hadar First Ikat'ika , who yielded their final fate when he recognized that Worf's refusal to surrender meant that killing Worf would not be a victory. Once the prisoners escaped, they managed to warn DS9 that Bashir had been replaced by a Changeling. Kira managed to destroy the Bashir Changeling before he could blow up the Bajoran sun. ( DS9 : " By Inferno's Light ")

From then on to the end of the year, the Dominion sent weekly fleets through the wormhole to fortify the Cardassian sectors. Starfleet, needing to find a way to halt the buildup, decided to block the entrance to the wormhole with a minefield . Sisko assigned the Defiant under the command of Jadzia Dax to deploy a field of self-replicating mines , all of which needed to be deployed before any could be activated. Starfleet forces were unable to assist in the deployment, so the Defiant and the IKS Rotarran had to do it alone, and they only had one day to finish. Weyoun approached the station with three hundred Dominion and Cardassian ships, and when Sisko refused their ultimatum, Gul Dukat opened fire, starting the Second Battle of Deep Space 9 and the Dominion War . While the Dominion's firepower proved ineffective against the station's shields , Worf, in command of the station's weapons array, managed to destroy fifty ships, and the Rotarran helped protect the Defiant , so it could complete the minefield. With the minefield deployed and the station vastly outnumbered, Sisko ordered all Starfleet crew members to evacuate the station. Due to the conquest of DS9 by the Dominion, Worf had been assigned to the Rotarran as first officer . ( DS9 : " Call to Arms ")

Unlike the rest of Starfleet, First Officer Worf, ever the warrior, relished the opportunity to engage in combat with the Dominion. A joint operation where the Defiant played a decoy to three Jem'Hadar attack ships allowed the Rotarran to decloak and help destroy those ships in the front line. However, both ships had been called back to Starbase 375 for retreat. By now, even Worf was beginning to lose morale due to the retreats from the Dominion. What the alliance needed was a victory, something that Sisko had been planning all along – Operation Return , the plan to retake Deep Space 9.

The original plan of taking three Federation fleets and a Klingon contingent were scuttled when Sisko received word that the minefield was about to come down. The Second and Fifth Fleets had to take Deep Space 9 themselves. Even so, Martok and Worf tried to convince Chancellor Gowron to send some ships to the battle. Although it took a long time, Gowron eventually realized that both an ally and enemy were telling him the same thing, so agreed to send the ships. Outside the Bajoran system, the Federation was on the verge of losing the battle (Sisko had fallen for a trap set by the Cardassians), but then Worf and Martok's Klingon forces entered at an opportune moment. They inflicted enough damage on the Dominion for the Defiant to break through the lines. The Defiant went on to retake the station and win the battle. When the Jem'Hadar took command of the Defiant , and the crew pretended to make repairs to the warp core for their captors, Worf made it appear he was repairing the plasma display console but was actually sending signals to the bridge to give command operations to Sisko from main engineering . ( DS9 : " Favor the Bold ", " Sacrifice of Angels ", " One Little Ship ")

Some time thereafter, Worf earned a second serious blemish on his service record when he abandoned an important mission for Starfleet Intelligence to rescue Jadzia Dax, who he had married shortly after the retaking of the station. Though no formal charges were leveled, due to the secrecy of the mission, Sisko said, " This will go in your service record... and to be completely honest, you should know that they'll probably never give you a command of your own after this. " ( DS9 : " Change of Heart ")

Gowron fights Worf to the death in 2375

In 2375 , Worf became disillusioned with Gowron's leadership. Gowron feared Martok's growing popularity and devised a plan to discredit Martok and end any potential threat to his authority. Gowron began ordering Martok on near- suicidal missions against Dominion forces, hoping that a string of defeats would weaken Martok's popularity and discredit him as a military leader. Recognizing that Gowron was jeopardizing the entire war effort, Worf tried to convince Martok that he should challenge Gowron for the leadership. After Martok refused, Worf decided to challenge Gowron himself, citing his faulty battle planning, his dishonorable conduct in trying to discredit Martok, and poor strategies at the later stages of the Dominion War. After a brief battle, Worf killed Gowron; by right, he was proclaimed the new chancellor of the Klingon High Council. However, Worf immediately gave his position to Martok. After the war, Martok asked that Worf be appointed Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire. Thereafter, Worf left Deep Space 9 to take his new post on Qo'noS. ( DS9 : " Tacking Into the Wind ", " What You Leave Behind ")

Service aboard the USS Enterprise -E [ ]

Stopping the borg [ ].

Worf aboard the Enterprise -E

In 2373, Worf was ordered to take the USS Defiant and join the fleet of ships set to intercept a Borg cube in the Typhon sector on a course for Earth. Along with the USS Bozeman and USS Lexington , the Defiant was heavily damaged by the cube and Worf was considering ramming the Borg, when the USS Enterprise -E came to Worf's rescue. The Enterprise -E took on board the survivors of the Defiant , including Worf. Reunited with his old crewmates, Worf assisted in destroying the cube with the tactical information divulged by Picard. After it was destroyed, Worf discovered that a sphere was traveling back in time to 2063 , in an attempt to prevent First Contact between Humans and Vulcans . After destroying the Borg sphere , Worf successfully helped destroy the Enterprise 's deflector dish , which the Borg were turning into an interplexing beacon and prevent them from changing history. ( Star Trek: First Contact )

Protecting the Ba'ku [ ]

Lieutenant Commander Worf protecting the Ba'ku people in 2375

In 2375, Worf visited the Federation colony on Manzar to establish a new defense perimeter against the Dominion. At this opportunity, however, he visited his old friends on the Enterprise -E, which was on a diplomatic mission nearby. For a brief period, Worf rejoined his old crew to reveal Admiral Dougherty 's conspiracy concerning the Ba'ku relocation. ( Star Trek: Insurrection )

Attending the Rikers' wedding [ ]

Lieutenant Commander Worf on the Enterprise -E in 2379

In 2379, Worf rejoined his old crewmates from the Enterprise -E on Earth when he attended William Riker and Deanna Troi's wedding ceremony. Following the Earth wedding and while en route to a second ceremony on Betazed , the second wedding was postponed as the Enterprise -E detected positronic signals from the Kolarin system .

Stopping Shinzon [ ]

Following the discovery that the source of the positronic signals was a Soong-type android , B-4 , Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway of Starfleet Command assigned the Enterprise -E to Romulus to begin new peace talks with the new Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire , Shinzon , who was a Human clone of Picard. The peace offer turned out to be a trap and in the end, Worf, along with the Enterprise crew, had to face Shinzon and the Remans together with the Romulans, after which he finally admitted that they had fought with honor, possibly overcoming his lifelong grudge towards them. ( Star Trek Nemesis )

Other adventures [ ]

At some point, something happened to the Enterprise -E that made it unusable by 2401 . Although La Forge apparently blamed Worf for the fate of the ship, Worf would insist that what happened was not his fault. ( PIC : " Võx ")

According to Star Trek: Picard Logs , Worf was promoted to captain of the Enterprise -E after several assignments. However, his tenure as its captain was brief when he stood down following an incident on Kriilar Prime. [4]

Later career [ ]

He was promoted to captain, following Picard's promotion to Admiral. ( PIC : " Surrender ", " The Last Generation ")

Subsequently, Worf was transferred back to the Operations division. ( PIC : " Disengage ")

In 2399 , a photo of Worf was shown on an FNN media broadcast prior to a holo - interview with Admiral Picard. Soon after this, retired Admiral Picard still considered Worf a loyal colleague who would not hesitate to join him on a mission if asked. ( PIC : " Remembrance ", " Maps and Legends ")

Changeling infiltration investigation [ ]

Worf working with Raffi

By 2401, Captain Worf was working as a " subcontractor " for Starfleet Intelligence with Commander Ro Laren and was the anonymous handler of undercover Commander Raffaela Musiker as she investigated on M'talas Prime about the theft of a dangerous device from Daystrom Institute . After terrorists used the device on a Starfleet recruitment building, Worf ordered his agent to stand down after their failure. However, after Musiker disobeyed and continued her investigation, Worf had to rescue his agent from Sneed , a Ferengi information broker . After killing Sneed and his guards to save her life, Worf picked up Musiker and carried her out. ( PIC : " Disengage ", " Imposters ")

Worf informed Musiker that he was her handler and that he was working with Starfleet. Worf allowed Musiker to continue working with him in figuring out who carried the attack on the Recruitment building. Worf and Musiker were able to discover that Titus Rikka was the bomber. During his and Musiker's interrogation aboard SS La Sirena , Worf discovered that Rikka was a changeling due to his regeneration cycle. After killing Rikka, Worf told Musiker what Odo told him about a group of rogue changelings that broke off from the Great Link following the end of the Dominion War. Worf believed they were the ones who stole the Quantum tunneling technology from Daystrom Station . ( PIC : " Seventeen Seconds ")

Worf and Musiker confronted Sneed's "brother", Krinn of the V'Lashi crime syndicate . At first, Krinn forced Worf and Musiker to fight each other. ( PIC : " Imposters ")

Worf later rescued William T. Riker and Deanna Troi from the Shrike and helped Musiker take down the Changelings on the USS Titan -A . ( PIC : " Surrender ")

When the Borg compromised Starfleet, Worf and the rest of the Enterprise 's old command crew managed to escape from the Titan -A as it was taken over. Commodore Geordi La Forge led them to the Fleet Museum where he had spent twenty years rebuilding the USS Enterprise -D which would be unaffected by the Borg takeover. La Forge made a pointed reference to Worf being responsible for them being unable to use the USS Enterprise -E instead, but Worf insisted that he was not responsible for the fate of that ship, although he admitted a preference for the E's weapons over the D's . Worf resumed his old post on the Enterprise bridge, noting that although the weapons systems were online, they were limited. ( PIC : " Võx ")

He would ultimately join Jean-Luc Picard and William Riker in boarding the Borg Queen's cube over Jupiter in order to both rescue Jack Crusher and find the location of the Borg beam emitter . While fighting a few surviving Borg drones, Worf gave Riker his kur'leth which Riker dropped due to how heavy it was. Worf revealed to his old friend that he secretly kept a phaser in the handle, but Worf preferred the blade as "swords are fun." After the destruction of the cube, Worf fell asleep on the Enterprise almost immediately due to how exhausted he was. ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

Following the destruction of the Borg, Worf secretly leaked Musiker's heroics to her family in order to help her reconcile with them. Worf urged his friend to be happy with her family and Musiker told Worf to continue to be a warrior for peace. ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

A year later , Worf joined the rest of the Enterprise command crew in celebrating at 10 Forward Avenue and playing poker together. ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

Personality [ ]

Worf's intense desire to become a part of his lost culture was matched by enduring loyalty to the world that adopted him in his darkest hour. Those impulses forged a character of indomitable courage and integrity, uncompromising idealism, and a more-Klingon-than-Klingon facade that was occasionally lifted to reveal romanticism, gentleness, and humor. With his limited contact with his own people, Worf subscribed to an idealized version of Klingon culture, which the real thing sometimes failed to live up to, particularly in the area of politics.

While coming from a species frequently regarded as aggressive and enthusiastically boisterous, Worf often gave the first impression of being a rather dour and reserved, though surly and even vaguely threatening, individual. Beverly Crusher described Worf as a tall Klingon who rarely smiled. Likewise, Jadzia Dax referred to Worf as a man difficult to get along with, but she did see him as a good person. Jadzia admitted that whenever it came to Klingon culture, Worf would always get misty-eyed with sentiment. ( TNG : " Remember Me "; DS9 : " Children of Time ", " You Are Cordially Invited ")

Worf's conservative nature and respect for tradition occasionally brought him down on the side of issues that conflicted with the views of his friends. Antipathy for his species' historical enemy made him refuse to donate tissue from his body that may have saved a dying Romulan officer in 2366 . He helped Rear Admiral Norah Satie uncover treason among the crew of the Enterprise -D in 2367 , leading to unfounded accusations against Captain Picard and crewman Simon Tarses . After the witch-hunt was stopped, Worf apologized for the trouble he helped cause, but Picard commended his vigilance, reminding him of the difficulty of spotting a villain who operates with such subtlety. During what should have been a romantic vacation on the pleasure world of Risa , Worf temporarily joined Pascal Fullerton 's New Essentialists Movement , helping them to sabotage Risa's weather control system . ( TNG : " The Enemy ", " The Drumhead "; DS9 : " Let He Who Is Without Sin... ")

Worf's reputation for a lack of humor inspired regular teasing from those close enough to get away with it, like Riker, or too powerful to care, like Q. It pleased Martok and Jadzia Dax to no end whenever they could squeeze a joke from the tight-lipped Klingon. Worf denied his lack of humor to Jadzia once, claiming that he was quite amusing on the Enterprise -D, causing her to theorize that " it must have been one dull ship. " ( DS9 : " You Are Cordially Invited ", " Change of Heart ") Lwaxana Troi occasionally called Worf "Mister Woof", initially by mistake. Worf did not appreciate the misnomer. ( TNG : " Half a Life ", " Cost Of Living ", " Dark Page ")

Although shy about it, Worf enjoyed singing Klingon operas. While at a bar on Qualor II in 2368 , Worf requested that Amarie play Aktuh and Maylota and briefly graced the patrons with his baritone voice. He was stranded for some time in an escape pod in 2375, and passed the time taking advantage of the favorable acoustics. Though he initially denied the private performance, Ezri Dax guessed that he had been singing Shevok'tah gish . Chagrined, he admitted to actually singing Gav'ot toH'va , a piece with rather ambitious solos. ( TNG : " Unification II "; DS9 : " Penumbra ")

The combination of his Human upbringing and Klingon taste buds made for an unusual palate. Among traditional Klingon foods like live gagh for breakfast, he loved his adoptive mother's rokeg blood pie that she learned how to prepare just for him. ( TNG : " Family ") Guinan introduced Worf to prune juice , a treat that he relied on with regularity for satisfaction, which he referred to as a "warrior's drink". ( TNG : " Yesterday's Enterprise ") Riker once prepared scrambled 'Owon eggs for friends in his quarters, and while the Humans (including Riker) regarded the result as tasting terrible, Worf (after a careful sniff) ate his with gusto, simply remarking "delicious". ( TNG : " Time Squared ") He also held this opinion of a pasta al fiorella from DS9's replimat , which Geordi La Forge considered to taste like liquid polymer . ( TNG : " Birthright, Part I ") He did not react well to Romulan ale , and agreed with its prohibition. ( DS9 : " Inquisition "; TNG : " Parallels "; Star Trek Nemesis )

Physicality [ ]

Worf was an admirer of Natasha Yar and her martial arts skills, and joined her on the ship's parrises squares team. Three days before she died, Worf placed a wager that Yar would be victorious in an upcoming martial arts competition. ( TNG : " 11001001 ", " Skin Of Evil ")

Worf ran regular Mok'bara classes during his time on the Enterprise -D, of which Deanna Troi and Dr. Crusher became regular students. Worf ran several classes of varying difficulties, such as the beginning and advanced levels. ( TNG : " Clues ", " Birthright, Part I ", " Birthright, Part II ")

Worf's scent was described as earthy and peaty, with a touch of lilac (although the tone of this comment implied that it was more of a joke). ( DS9 : " Trials and Tribble-ations ")

As a warrior [ ]

Worf was a proven expert with both the bat'leth and his favored weapon, the mek'leth . He won a bat'leth tournament on Forcas III just before his birthday in 2370 . Worf also defeated and killed both Duras and later Gowron in honorable combat. Both men were at one time considered to be the most prominent warriors in the Empire, capable of defending the position of chancellor in a duel. Worf's skills as a warrior ushered in two successive Klingon rulers – Gowron, in 2367 , and Martok, in 2375 . ( Star Trek: First Contact ; TNG : " Reunion "; DS9 : " To the Death ", " Tacking Into the Wind ") While teaching his moves to his young son, Alexander, he described the bat'leth as an extension of one's body. ( TNG : " Reunion ", " Parallels ")

Worf's weapon skills were not simply restricted to regimented form, and he was able to adapt to unexpected conditions. When one side of the bat'leth he was using was shattered in his last duel with Gowron, he quickly chose the tip sections of the sundered side and used them like knives. Although Gowron was able to slowly force his opponent back, Worf still successfully blocked all the strikes of Gowron's bat'leth with his knives and killed him shortly after. ( DS9 : " Tacking Into the Wind ")

In 2366 , the fugitive Roga Danar escaped the brig of the Enterprise -D to return to Lunar V . Worf led the security staff in an attempt to recapture Roga, who managed to evade phaser explosions, transporter locks, decompressions and force fields to reach the shuttlebay . Worf fought hand-to-hand with the fugitive, but the Angosian 's genetic enhancements proved too powerful for him. ( TNG : " The Hunted ")

Worf's unarmed combat skills progressed to the point that, while being held in a Dominion prison camp, he defeated twelve consecutive Jem'Hadar soldiers in honorable combat, and forced the thirteenth, an Honored Elder , to yield in deference to his courage, the Jem'Hadar recognizing that he could only kill Worf rather than defeat him as Worf refused to give in to his opponent. Martok promised that, when they returned to the Empire, he would seek out Keedera himself, so a song would be written about Worf's accomplishment. ( DS9 : " By Inferno's Light ")

Worf was considered to be a warrior of great renown. Advocate Ch'Pok referred to Worf as "a famed Klingon warrior." ( DS9 : " Rules of Engagement ") Tumek recognized Worf by his Starfleet uniform alone. ( DS9 : " Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places ") General Martok knew of him by name, when Worf introduced himself in Internment Camp 371 . ( DS9 : " In Purgatory's Shadow ") His prowess as a warrior was respected enough that Klingon Chancellor Gowron diverted his entire fleet to Deep Space 9 to offer Worf a post at his right hand during the invasion of Cardassia. ( DS9 : " The Way of the Warrior ")

Ailments and injuries [ ]

Beverly Crusher operates on Worf in 2364

Worf tended to get sick to his stomach when he was in zero gravity. ( Star Trek: First Contact )

During a diplomatic mission to convey delegates from the Beta Renner system to Parliament , Worf was temporarily possessed by an energy being, displaced from its natural environment by the passing of the Enterprise -D. The being passed on to Beverly Crusher and, eventually, to Captain Picard, before the incident was resolved. ( TNG : " Lonely Among Us ")

Worf getting killed in 2364

Later in 2364, after Q transported the Enterprise crew down to the surface of an unknown planetoid (which was possibly created by Q), Worf and his shipmates were attacked by a group of musket -wielding aliens wearing 18th century French army uniforms. Unarmed, Worf charged the aliens and defeated some of them but was eventually stabbed in the abdomen with a bayonet by one of the aliens and died moments later, only to be revived by Riker, who was temporarily in possession of Q powers. ( TNG : " Hide And Q ")

Two years later , the Enterprise picked up a Zalkonian in the final stages of an evolutionary change. Since he had suffered memory loss, the crew simply referred to him as John Doe . When Worf tried to stop him from stealing a shuttlecraft , John Doe emanated an energy bolt in self-defense. Unfortunately, that bolt proved to be fatal to Worf, who was then declared dead by the medical crew. However, John Doe's strange transformations allowed him to heal Worf's injury and restore his life. ( TNG : " Transfigurations ")

Worf never really liked doctors ("any doctors"); however, there was one doctor that earned Worf's respect more than any other. In 2365 , Dr. Katherine Pulaski discovered Worf suffered from rop'ngor , normally a childhood disease, and protected his dignity by keeping his illness secret. In gratitude, Worf invited Pulaski to participate in a Klingon tea ceremony , where he beguiled her with Klingon love poetry . ( TNG : " Up The Long Ladder "; DS9 : " Doctor Bashir, I Presume ")

Once, while checking cargo containers, a large one fell on Worf, injuring his back and leaving him paralyzed. Unwilling to continue living as a paralyzed Klingon, Worf asked Riker to perform the hegh'bat . However, Riker refused to aid such a ritual, quoting, " That right falls to the eldest son. " Opposition from Riker, Troi, and Dr. Crusher, in addition to Alexander's lack of knowledge of Klingon culture, led Worf to change his mind. He permitted Dr. Toby Russell to perform a dangerous and experimental procedure to replace his spinal column . The surgery was a failure, and Worf was declared dead. Due to the redundancies of Klingon physiology , where every organ in the Klingon body had a backup organ that activated whenever damage occurred to the first, his internal backups were initiated and Worf woke up. It took time, but with the help of his son and Troi, Worf made a full recovery. ( TNG : " Ethics ")

Worf was apparently allergic to cats , as was evidenced in 2370 , when – following Lieutenant Commander Data asking him to temporarily care for his cat, Spot – Worf sneezed loudly while carrying her out of Data's quarters. The incident startled Spot. ( TNG : " Phantasms ")

While the Enterprise was upgrading its sensor array , Worf, along with Riker, Kaminer , Edward Hagler , Sariel Rager , and La Forge, was abducted by mysterious solanogen-based lifeforms for strange experiments. Since they were abducted in their sleep, many began to experience afterimages of the aliens ' tests. Worf experienced one such flashback when he went to get his hair cut by Mot . When he saw the scissors Mot would be using, it reminded him of the blade used to probe him. In order to discover the location of the aliens, Worf suggested planting a homing device on Riker, so that when his next abduction came, they could locate him and the aliens. ( TNG : " Schisms ")

Worf suffering from Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome

Later that year, when the Enterprise became affected by Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome , Worf was one of the first crew members to devolve. He de-evolved into a Klingon prehistoric venomous predator, and after he sprayed Beverly Crusher with venom , he went on a rampage and terrorized the entire ship, killed Ensign Dern , and tried to mate with Deanna Troi, who had devolved into an amphibian creature. ( TNG : " Genesis ")

While the rest of the Enterprise -E crew enjoyed the age-reversing qualities of exposure to metaphasic radiation on the planet of the Ba'ku, Worf suffered the indignity of an affliction normally suffered by Klingons half his age, a gorch . ( Star Trek: Insurrection )

K'Ehleyr [ ]

Worf and K'Ehleyr embrace

Worf dated K'Ehleyr, a Human-Klingon woman, while he attended Starfleet Academy, but the relationship at the time ended acrimoniously. In 2365 , while K'Ehleyr served as a Klingon emissary , she had to board the Enterprise -D to deal with a Klingon sleeper ship from the 23rd century. The two briefly rekindled their relationship when a joint holodeck training exercise led to a Klingon mating ritual. Worf, at the time, insisted that they take the oath of marriage afterward, but K'Ehleyr refused, stating, " Don't give me any of that Klingon nonsense . " K'Ehleyr paid no heed to Klingon tradition, as she felt that she had inherited the worst traits of her respective parents' races (her Human mother's sense of humor, and her Klingon father's temper). They parted afterward, resolving their feelings before her departure from the Enterprise -D. ( TNG : " The Emissary ")

Unbeknownst to Worf, however, the mating ritual led to K'Ehleyr becoming pregnant with their child. K'Ehleyr returned to the Enterprise -D in 2367 to participate in the succession of Chancellor K'mpec, and took the opportunity to introduce their son, Alexander, to Worf for the first time. In the intervening years, she found she needed Worf after all, and wanted to finish the mating ritual. This time, Worf backed off, unwilling to permit his intervening discommendation to discredit either K'Ehleyr or Alexander. Worf's refusal to detail the nature of his discommendation prompted K'Ehleyr to start her own investigation, an action that triggered the attention of Duras and her subsequent murder. Worf and Alexander found K'Ehleyr dying from multiple stab wounds. Her whisper confirmed the identity of her killer, and she brought Alexander's small hand to his father's as she died.

Worf performed the Klingon death ritual and consoled his son in Klingon fashion before he abandoned the symbols of Starfleet and Empire. With only his bat'leth , he boarded Duras' ship, the IKS Vorn , claiming the Right of Vengeance under Klingon law. After the first blows were exchanged, Duras reminded Worf the cost of victory – Duras' death meant Worf's family name may never be cleared. Worf's family name suddenly meant little against the memory of K'Ehleyr, and he answered, " Then that is how it shall be! " and left Duras' corpse on the deck. ( TNG : " Reunion ")

Alexander [ ]

Father and son in 2372

Worf was unaware of Alexander's existence for the first years of the boy's life, until K'Ehleyr introduced their child in 2367 . Under the Empire's discommendation at the time, Worf hesitated to acknowledge his son and thus perpetuate dishonor into the next generation of the House of Mogh. As K'Ehleyr lay dying from the stabs of Duras, her last act was to bring the pair together. Worf raged the Klingon death ritual, terrifying his son, but he brought Alexander to his mother for the last time, telling him, " You have never seen death... then look – and always remember. " After avenging K'Ehleyr's death, Worf confirmed to Alexander that indeed he was his father (see also: K'Ehleyr ). ( TNG : " Reunion ")

K'Ehleyr held little regard for Klingon traditions, let alone indoctrination, conflicting with Worf's theories of Klingon child-raising. Despite trying to teach Alexander about the Klingon artifacts located in his quarters (including a bat'leth ), Alexander seemed to show no interest. After K'Ehleyr's death, Alexander was sent to live with his grandparents, but the Rozhenkos found that raising a Klingon child was now more than they could handle, in advancing years. Helena returned the boy within a year to be with Worf. Lwaxana Troi's influence added to Worf's headaches, but father and son settled into a home life aboard the Enterprise -D. ( TNG : " New Ground ", " Cost Of Living ")

Worf and Alexander played sheriff and deputy pursuing a dangerous criminal in an Ancient West themed holodeck program . One of Data's experiments accidentally turned all the holodeck characters into manifestations of Data (which also had all his physical capabilities), and disabled the holodeck safety protocols . With Alexander kidnapped, Worf arranged for his return by agreeing to a duel with the villain in the town square. Worf managed to survive by manufacturing a makeshift force field. ( TNG : " A Fistful of Datas ")

When Alexander was approaching his first Age of Ascension, Worf was appalled to discover that Alexander did not want to become a warrior. An encounter with K'mtar (a future Alexander from an alternate timeline) forced Worf to let Alexander follow his destiny. ( TNG : " Firstborn ")

Once the Enterprise -D was destroyed, Alexander was sent back to his grandparents. While he was growing up, Alexander decided he wanted to join the Klingon Defense Forces after all, eventually ending up on the Rotarran , Martok's ship. When reporting for duty, he referred to himself as Alexander Rozhenko instead of the son of Worf. A confused Martok asked what this house of Rozhenko was, to which Worf replied that Alexander was his son. Martok and Worf became concerned when Alexander was not fraternizing well with his Klingon comrades. Worf interrupted a fight between Alexander and Ch'Targh , when Alexander was on the verge of losing. Alexander revealed that he hated feeling like the unwanted son that Worf would rather get rid of. Worf tried to explain that the Jem'Hadar would not go easy on him, and that if he didn't learn how to fight quickly, they would kill him. After Alexander mistook a battle simulation as the real thing, the crew accepted him as the ship's fool. However, in the real battle, he successfully sealed a leaking plasma impulse injector. After this victory, Martok and Worf deemed him worthy of joining the House of Martok. ( DS9 : " The Way of the Warrior ", " Sons and Daughters ")

When Alexander revealed that he was transferring to the IKS Ya'Vang , Jadzia Dax decided to push forward her wedding ceremony to before he left, so that he could serve as Worf's Tawi'Yan . With the date moved up, Alexander was allowed to participate in Worf's Kal'Hyah ceremony (a Klingon bachelor party ), along with Sisko, Martok, Bashir, and O'Brien. Despite being a Klingon, Alexander struggled through the ceremony almost as much as Bashir and O'Brien. ( DS9 : " You Are Cordially Invited ")

Jeremy Aster [ ]

In 2366, Worf performed the R'uustai ceremony with Jeremy Aster , admitting him into the House of Mogh, after Jeremy's mother was killed on an away mission which he led. ( TNG : " The Bonding ")

Jadzia Dax [ ]

Jadzia Dax was Worf's second mate, and the first woman he ceremonially took as his wife. The two became good friends because of Curzon 's understanding and interest in Klingon culture. When they first met at Quark's Bar, he instantly recognized the station's science officer as the new host of Curzon, a name honored amongst Klingons, to which Jadzia responded (in Klingon) that she was more attractive than Curzon had been. Worf, however, was distracted by Drex attempting to stir up trouble in the bar. When Worf managed to stop Drex and take his dagger, Dax said in amazement, " He's good. "

Jadzia gave Worf a copy of her calisthenics program, which Worf mistook for Curzon's program. At this, Jadzia challenged Worf to a bat'leth match, which Jadzia lost. ( DS9 : " The Way of the Warrior ")

When Worf moved his quarters to the Defiant , Jadzia gave him her collection of Klingon operas, and suggested that he play them through the Defiant 's communications systems. Worf accepted them as a thoughtful gift, especially after Nog re-tuned and remastered them. ( DS9 : " Bar Association ", " In the Cards ")

Worf became romantically involved with Jadzia Dax in early 2373. It started when Quark's former wife, Grilka , came aboard the station. When Worf developed an instant crush on Grilka, he couldn't fathom how she could have married a Ferengi. Jadzia's explanation of the full story merely exacerbated Worf's confusion. ( DS9 : " The House of Quark ") In order to win her heart, Worf decided to perform deeds that were overtly Klingon, such as throwing Morn off his stool, demanding bloodwine , and insulting Grilka's bodyguard, Thopok . However, since Mogh's family honor had been disgraced, Grilka could not possibly mate with Worf.

Dejected, Worf chose to help Quark win Grilka's heart, with advice from Jadzia. By controlling Quark's movements using a remote control device, he helped Quark defeat Thopok and win the heart of Grilka. Then Jadzia jumped on Worf and the pair had their own mating ritual. As required by tradition, Worf demanded that Jadzia marry him, but Jadzia understood that Worf was not a traditional man, and they agreed to a more gradual exploration of their relationship. ( DS9 : " Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places ")

The romance had a rocky start. In their first holiday together (on Risa ), Worf grew immediately jealous of Arandis , the chief facilitator at the resort planet and Curzon's former lover. Even though Jadzia explained that she had moved on, long ago, Worf remained suspicious. However, after a heart-to-heart talk with him, Jadzia helped Worf get over his jealousy. ( DS9 : " Let He Who Is Without Sin... ")

When Dax found out from Sisko that Worf was to accompany Elim Garak on a suicide mission to find Enabran Tain , she took back her Klingon operas, which motivated Worf to survive his mission to the Gamma Quadrant with an embrace. ( DS9 : " In Purgatory's Shadow ")

Worf and Jadzia Dax's wedding

When war broke out between the Federation and Dominion in late 2373, Worf and Jadzia were separated when they were reassigned. Dax was given command of the Defiant , while Worf was assigned to a Klingon ship. Jadzia vowed that, when DS9 was retaken and they had returned to their former positions, she would decide to wed Worf. This spurred Worf on, through the early days of the Dominion war. While all of Starfleet was grim from the news that the Seventh Fleet had been defeated at the Tyra system , Worf could only think of one thing: the fact that the ritual targ sacrifice was to take place after the wedding ceremony, whereas tradition dictated that it take place before. He had been bugging Martok about it, ever since they left Deep Space 9. He was, however, concerned for Dax's safety after her symbiont was injured, when she bore the brunt of an explosion near an M-class planet in a dark matter nebula . When she was rescued by the Rotarran , Worf was relieved to see that she recovered from the injuries. ( DS9 : " Call to Arms ", " A Time to Stand ", " Rocks and Shoals ", " Sons and Daughters ")

Following the successful Operation Return in early 2374 , Dax decided to marry Worf within the week. All she had to do was appease Lady Sirella , mistress of the House of Martok, for the two to wed. This proved more difficult than expected, since Sirella, not wanting aliens to pollute her house, opposed the marriage. When Dax refused to stop a party, an enraged Sirella screamed that there would be no Klingon wedding. When Dax asked for a Bajoran-style wedding led by Sisko, a quivering Worf decided to call the whole thing off. After some fence-mending by Sisko, Dax, and Worf eventually resumed the wedding, and the pair married in Quark's Bar. ( DS9 : " You Are Cordially Invited ") Later on, after Jadzia lost a game of tongo to Quark, Worf – who had also lost a bet on that game to Miles O'Brien – told Jadzia that he would rather lose a bet on her than win one on someone else. Jadzia felt that was one of the most romantic things Worf had ever said to her. ( DS9 : " Change of Heart ")

The marriage proved strong. When Lasaran , a Cardassian defector, contacted Starfleet Intelligence in 2374, Worf and Jadzia were ordered to rendezvous with him and return him safely to Federation space. During the mission, Jadzia was seriously wounded by a Jem'Hadar energy weapon. The anticoagulant properties of the weapon put Jadzia's life in danger and Worf abandoned Lasaran in order to save her. The action caused Worf to receive a reprimand, and Captain Sisko believed it would prevent him from ever receiving his own command, but Worf stated he had no regrets. ( DS9 : " Change of Heart ")

Worf mourns Jadzia

By late 2374, Jadzia and Worf had decided to attempt parenthood, despite the extreme difficulties posed by the disparate biologies of Trill and Klingons. Worf had already proven his ability in fatherhood by babysitting the O'Briens' son, Kirayoshi , and with the help of Bashir, Jadzia and Worf could attempt to conceive. In thanks, she visited the Bajoran temple on the Promenade , where she was attacked and killed by Gul Dukat, who was possessed by a Pah-wraith and was attempting to destroy the Orb kept in the temple. ( DS9 : " Time's Orphan ", " Tears of the Prophets ")

In 2375, Worf led a mission to destroy a Dominion shipyard. He dedicated this mission to his late wife, in order to ease her entrance into Sto-vo-kor . ( DS9 : " Shadows and Symbols ")

The sons of Mogh: Kurn and Worf

In the Enterprise 's second Officer Exchange Program , Worf was reunited with his brother Kurn, whom he had not seen since he first left his homeworld as a child. Kurn used the exchange program as pretense to reunite with Worf, and to inform Worf that his honor was put into question because the Klingon Empire announced that their father had betrayed the Klingons at the Khitomer colony by giving the Romulans strategic information. When Worf challenged this ruling, Kurn was also present. When Worf decided to accept the dishonor (to prevent civil war), it was also decided to keep Kurn's bloodline secret to protect his honor. ( TNG : " Sins of The Father ")

When Gowron ascended to Chancellor after the Klingon Civil War and restored the honor of the House of Mogh, Kurn gained a seat in the High Council. For a time, it seemed that the House of Mogh would thrive and could even one day inherit the Chancellorship, but then Worf condemned the Klingon invasion of Cardassia.

An enraged Gowron had the House of Mogh stripped of its honor and had Kurn thrown off the High Council and continued on the course for war without Worf's help. ( DS9 : " The Way of the Warrior ")

Four months after Kurn lost his seat on the Klingon High Council, he arrived at DS9 seeking help from his brother to perform the Mauk-to'Vor ritual. He felt that the ritual, which involved Worf killing him, was the only way to restore his honor. After receiving orders from Sisko not to carry out the honor killing, Worf arranged for his brother to have cosmetic surgery and his memory wiped so he could start a new life with no ties to the House of Mogh. ( DS9 : " Sons of Mogh ")

Nikolai Rozhenko [ ]

Nikolai Rozhenko

Worf had a contentious relationship with his elder foster-brother, Nikolai. Cavalier, inspired, and rebellious, Nikolai's antics – and the pains he caused in their mother – invoked the ire of his dutiful, honor-conscious brother. Nikolai thought of Worf as a perfectionist, and resented him never being wild or disobedient. But the sibling tensions between the two seemed to be of a commonplace, Human variety. Later in life, reflecting on their childhood together, neither man made note of their genetic differences as a source of their friction. When asked if he and Nikolai were close, Worf considered, and merely said, " We are... brothers, " Nikolai later automatically introducing Worf as his brother to a group of Boraalans when he could have just as easily introduced Worf to them as a friend. Reflecting on his brother, Worf also noted that Nikolai had many fine qualities despite their disagreements, acknowledging that his brother was " brilliant, persuasive... a natural leader, " despite his inability to follow the rules. ( TNG : " Homeward ")

When making contact with Nikolai at the Boraalan homeworld , Worf (disguised as a Boraalan) was shocked to discover his foster brother had violated the Prime Directive . Worf, who was a firm believer in the Prime Directive, ( TNG : " Pen Pals ") discovered that Nikolai had become much more involved with the Boraalans than necessary. Nikolai conceived a child with a Boraalan female, Dobara , and became very protective of the Boraalans in her village. Although his actions saved the Boraalan race (whose homeworld had been rendered uninhabitable by atmospheric dissipation ), it took the holodecks of the Enterprise and vast amounts of power to keep them from finding out. While the Enterprise shipped the villagers to their new home on Vacca VI , Worf and Nikolai navigated them through an ever-changing holographic landscape (subtly altered, so it ended up resembling their new home). As the power started running out, the holodeck was beginning to have trouble maintaining cohesion, and parts of the holodeck started manifesting itself. Worf calmed the villagers, claiming the images to be the sign of La Forge . They reached the new home just as the holographic simulations ran out of power and ended. On parting, Worf informed Nikolai that he would tell their mother that Nikolai was happy. ( TNG : " Homeward ")

Worf and the real Martok meet for the first time

Worf always had high respect for Martok, even when he was replaced by a Changeling. In 2373, Worf found the real General Martok in Dominion Internment Camp 371. Martok was forced to face the Jem'Hadar in daily fighting contests (one of which led to the loss of one of his eyes), until Worf replaced him. The way Worf won each battle so impressed Martok that he felt his actions were worthy of song. Having been healed by Bashir, and trained by Martok, who was at ringside for each of his contests, Worf defeated all the Jem'Hadar guards, so the Jem'Hadar First, Ikat'ika, presented himself as Worf's next challenge. Worf, already badly injured by previous fights, was losing and was about to let Ikat'ika kill him, when he experienced a moment of tova'dok with Martok. Worf stood back up one more time, refusing to yield to Ikat'ika. It was then that Ikat'ika realized that he could not defeat his opponent, only kill him, something which "no longer held his interest." Ikat'ika himself yielded the match. Deyos , the leading Vorta officer of the facility, had Ikat'ika executed for refusing to kill Worf. It was at that moment that Garak had finished the transmitter and all the prisoners escaped back to Deep Space 9.

With approval from Worf, Sisko, and Gowron, Martok was honored by being made commander of the detachment of Klingon soldiers assigned to the station. ( DS9 : " In Purgatory's Shadow ", " By Inferno's Light ")

Later, Worf convinced Sisko to release Martok after he threw K'retok off the Promenade, claiming it was a disciplinary measure, and that K'retok was not injured. ( DS9 : " Ferengi Love Songs ")

Worf and Martok: Brothers of a Great House

Martok was given command of the IKS Rotarran and requested Worf to be first officer, with Jadzia Dax as the science officer. His first mission was to locate the missing cruiser IKS B'Moth . A string of defeats against the Jem'Hadar had sapped the morale of the Rotarran 's crew, to the point where dishonorable conduct and dereliction of duty were commonplace. When Martok refused to engage the Jem'Hadar, the crew of the Rotarran decided to mutiny , and Worf challenged Martok himself, accusing him of being a coward. Although it was obvious, from the start, that Martok was no match for Worf, Martok's confidence and tenacity intensified during the fight. Realizing this, Worf subtly let his guard down and allowed Martok to win the fight, severely injuring Worf and retaining command of the Rotarran while restoring the crew's loyalty. This lead to the Rotarran 's first victory over the Jem'Hadar, and the rescue of the B'Moth . Rather than punish Worf for mutiny, Martok thanked him for reminding him of his duty as a soldier of the Empire, and offered Worf a place in his House as a "brother". Together, the "brothers" turned a low-morale vessel that was on the brink of mutiny into the Klingon Empire's most distinguished ship. ( DS9 : " Soldiers of the Empire ")

Worf, Alexander Rozhenko, Jadzia (and after her death, Ezri Dax) were all adopted into the House of Martok . Driven to the brink of madness by Worf's single-mindedness and longing for Dax, Martok could not be more pleased that the wedding to Jadzia was going ahead. He participated in Worf's Kal'Hyah ceremony (one of the few participants who had an easy time), and when Worf got cold feet, he convinced Worf to put the wedding back on track. After Jadzia died, Worf became concerned that her death had not been sufficiently honorable for her to enter Sto-vo-kor , needing to win a glorious battle in her name for her to do so. After Chief O'Brien got the truth out of Worf over bloodwine, he passed this on to General Martok, who gave Worf such a mission – destroy the Dominion shipyards of Monac IV. ( DS9 : " You Are Cordially Invited ", " Image in the Sand ", " Shadows and Symbols ")

In late 2375, Worf was instrumental in bringing Martok to power as chancellor when he challenged the authority of then-chancellor Gowron. Upon killing Gowron in battle, Worf ceded his new position as chancellor to Martok. ( DS9 : " Soldiers of the Empire ", " Sons and Daughters ", " Tacking Into the Wind ")

Worf was still a member of Martok's house in 2401 . ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

Friendships [ ]

The crew of the enterprise [ ].

In the holographic message Natasha Yar composed before her death, she noted her commonality with Worf, as orphaned warriors, and called him a kindred spirit. When Worf assumed Yar's duties after her death, he promised to uphold her example. Worf also seemed protective of Tasha. As seen when he defended her from a female Klingon that Q summoned. ( TNG : " Skin Of Evil ")

What friends are for

Though Worf was beginning to feel the Enterprise -D was becoming a true home, there came a point in 2365 when the isolation from his native society could not be ignored. Wesley Crusher 's brush with a cranky Klingon inspired him to investigate, and discovered the cause of Worf's discontent. In a holodeck re-creation of a Klingon Rite of Ascension chamber, his loyal friends gathered to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his Age of Ascension and witnessed Worf endure the traditional gauntlet of painstiks . They had never seen him happier. ( TNG : " The Icarus Factor ")

Worf became a fixture at the senior officer's weekly poker games, where he liked to give the impression he took the game as seriously as combat. The "Iceman", as Riker sometimes called him, relished exorbitant bets and insisted that Klingons never bluffed (an assertion later proven false). In one game, he was prepared to wager his goatee against Beverly Crusher's hair color. ( TNG : " The Emissary ", " The Quality of Life ")

Guinan once asked Worf why he always sat alone. Worf looked at her with vague irritation and replied that he required a Klingon woman for companionship, since "Earth females are too fragile." Despite Guinan's claim she knew one or two women on board who might find him a bit tame, an amused Worf refuted this as "impossible". ( TNG : " Yesterday's Enterprise ")

This is one of the few times that Worf was seen laughing.

Arctus Baran 's capture of Picard and Riker left Data in temporary command of the Enterprise -D for a period in 2370 . Worf's evident dissatisfaction with Data's command decisions quickly grew into open criticism – improper conduct from an acting first officer. Data was forced to privately chastise Worf for his behavior, and quickly added his regrets if the confrontation ended their friendship. Chagrined, Worf acknowledged his errors and admitted that, if their friendship had been threatened, it was his blame alone. ( TNG : " Gambit, Part II ")

He took the disgraced Ensign Sito under his wing, helped her regain an exemplary service record (after her involvement with the Nova Squadron crash, two years previous), and got her recruited for a dangerous mission to Cardassia Prime , a mission she never returned from. Upon hearing this, Worf joined her friends for a drink at Ten Forward. ( TNG : " The First Duty ", " Lower Decks ")

Jean-Luc Picard [ ]

Worf and Picard aboard the Enterprise -E in 2373

In the 2366 incident of Galorndon Core , the Enterprise rescued a fatally injured Romulan soldier named Patahk . Dr. Crusher discovered that he had cell damage to several vital areas that required a transfusion of compatible ribosomes and only Worf could provide the cells. Due to memories of the Khitomer incident and his distrust in Romulans, Worf refused to donate his blood. Patahk mutually agreed with Worf's decision, saying he would rather die than have his "cells polluted with Klingon filth". Picard tried to make Worf reconsider, asking (and soon begging) him for a favor as a friend, not as his commanding officer. Since it was not an order, Worf stuck with his decision not to donate blood and Picard respected his choice. Patahk died soon afterward. ( TNG : " The Enemy ")

When Picard was taken prisoner and replaced by a duplicate, the crew discovered the impostor from his differing behavior. Worf was one of the officers who mutinied against the impostor to side with Riker. When the real Picard returned to the Enterprise , he only needed one glance to Worf for him to initiate a series of events that culminated in Worf trapping the aliens. ( TNG : " Allegiance ")

When the honor of Mogh was called into question over the Khitomer incident, and Kurn could not serve as cha'DIch , Worf chose Picard to act as his cha'DIch . Picard accepted, and successfully uncovered the truth about the Khitomer massacre. The truth led to Worf and Picard's contempt for the House of Duras, who were the real traitors. ( TNG : " Sins of The Father ")

Picard's successful tenure as Arbiter of Succession to the Klingon Empire gave Worf added respect for Picard. Despite Worf having killed Duras, going against the Federation charter and Prime Directive, Picard forgave Worf for the incident, although he issued his security chief a reprimand. ( TNG : " Reunion ")

When the Enterprise -E was taken over by the Borg and Picard opposed the recommendation to abandon ship, Worf was labeled a coward by Picard, saying " You want to blow up the ship – and run away – you COWARD! " To this, Worf responded, " If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand! " implying great admiration. Picard later admitted that Worf was the "bravest man" he had ever known and they both shook hands in camaraderie. ( Star Trek: First Contact )

Guinan and Worf compete on the phaser range

Worf met Guinan when she first came aboard the Enterprise . Guinan introduced Worf to what became his favorite drink, prune juice. As Guinan sat down at his table, she asked why Worf always sat alone. Worf looked at her with vague irritation as the conversation was venturing into areas he'd rather avoid. Worf replied he required a Klingon woman for companionship, as Human females were too fragile. Despite Guinan's claim she knew one or two women on board who may have found him a bit tame, a very amused Worf refuted this as "impossible." ( TNG : " Yesterday's Enterprise ")

When Worf's parents visited the Enterprise , Guinan consoled their fears about making Worf uncomfortable with their presence by telling them that, when people came to Ten Forward to look for their home star, Worf always looked for Earth rather than Qo'noS, reflecting their powerful role in his life. ( TNG : " Family ")

Guinan and Worf competed with each other in the phaser range . During the 2367 Klingon civil war, Guinan asked Worf about how his son, Alexander, was doing. Worf replied he was having difficulties adjusting to life on Earth, to which Guinan responded the time would come when Alexander found out what it really meant to be Klingon, just as the time had now come for Worf. ( TNG : " Redemption ")

William Riker [ ]

Worf asking Riker to assist him in performing ritual suicide

William Riker, a jovial and amiable man in general, got along well with Worf. In some instances, he managed to bring out eruptions of emotion that his stoic lieutenant strove to keep in reserve. When Riker was heady with the powers of the Q, he eagerly tried to share the experience with otherwise impossible gifts for his friends. He noted Worf's isolation from his native culture, and with the best of intentions, he gave Worf an aggressively lustful Klingon female. Enraged and embarrassed, Worf refused the woman, admitting that the world she represented was alien to him and he had no place for such a "gift" in his life at the time. ( TNG : " Hide And Q ")

As a vital, athletic man who participated in dangerous sports like parrises squares and anbo-jytsu , Riker might have liked to think he could keep up with a younger Klingon, and joined Worf in his brutally violent Klingon calisthenics holodeck program. The exercise ended with all opponents defeated, and Worf was looking for more, rather intently, and in the specific direction of his increasingly alarmed partner. Riker hastily called an end to the session. ( TNG : " Where Silence Has Lease ")

Worf considered Riker a fellow warrior, and on at least a few occasions Riker asked Worf to accompany him on particularly dangerous assignments or potential transfers. ( TNG : " The Outcast ", " The Icarus Factor ")

Sometime after those events – where Worf had risked offending (or worse) his superior officer with a sense of impunity – a minor gesture by Worf innocently reached out to reciprocate the proffered friendship. When Riker proudly prepared 'Owon egg omelettes for a meal with his gathered friends, only Worf could stomach the dish, eating with obvious pleasure and declaring the eggs "delicious". ( TNG : " Time Squared ")

Riker's practical experience with other Klingons, begun in the Officer Exchange Program, engendered an understanding of the Klingon culture that the other Enterprise -D officers, save perhaps Picard, lacked. Worf helped bring this about, by briefing Riker with his own knowledge of the rules of the chain-of-command in the Klingon Defense Force . When the time came for them to participate in battle exercises in preparation for the Borg threat, Riker was given command of the USS Hathaway to serve as the Enterprise -D's opponent. As Riker's first officer, Worf brought "Klingon guile" to bear (as the barely spaceworthy Hathaway had little else to offer), giving the Enterprise -D a worthy challenge and even coming to her aid against the Ferengi marauder Kreechta . ( TNG : " A Matter Of Honor ", " Peak Performance ")

When Riker developed a complicated relationship with Soren , a member of the genderless J'naii , Worf overcame his discomfort with the J'naii to offer his aid to Riker in rescuing Soren when she was sentenced to receive "treatment" for her decision to regard herself as female, his loyalty and respect for his commanding officer overriding his issues with Soren and her people. ( TNG : " The Outcast ")

Their friendship was jeopardized for a time, after Worf began a romantic relationship with Deanna Troi in 2370 . Riker's long history with Troi remained evidently unresolved, a fact that Worf was keenly aware of, and Troi refused to discuss. Picard's experience in an alternate future revealed how the existing tension could grow into naked animosity between the rivals for Troi. By that timeline, they had long been estranged and had no desire to mend fences with each other. During a skirmish with the Klingons, they openly blamed each other for putting the rest of their still-mutual friends in danger. By sharing that foresight with his officers, Picard gave Worf and Riker the chance to halt their schism before it could fully form, and they continued to be close friends. ( TNG : " All Good Things... ")

In 2371 , the senior officers gathered in the Enterprise -D holodeck for an age-of-sail themed celebration, marking Worf's promotion to lieutenant commander. As was customary for Enterprise officers on such occasions, Worf was made to "walk the plank" over open water, and forced to leap upward to grab the dangling symbol of his new rank. Worf was the only officer in the ship's history to succeed in maintaining his balance, and dignity, by keeping his footing on the precipice. Unsatisfied with the precedent, Commander Riker ordered the holodeck computer to instantly remove the plank, using the holodeck's ability to disintegrate holographic matter. His order was mildly chastised (though not without amusement) by Picard, who indicated that the correct expression was to retract the plank. Riker shouted an apology to Worf, who was splashing and cursing angrily in the water. ( Star Trek Generations )

Worf and Data's excellent professional relationship and solid, if subtle, friendship was aided by the fact that they had two important things in common. First, both were rescued by the Federation after their homes were destroyed by enemy attacks, instilling in each of them a high regard for the Federation's ideals. Second, both were Starfleet pioneers; Data and Worf were, respectively, the first android and Klingon Starfleet officers. Although most of their time together was in the line of duty (such as bridge duty and away missions), both were frequent participants in the senior staff's poker games, and they often spent time together off-duty in Ten Forward. Also, Worf was one of the only people that Spot, Data's cat, warmed up to, despite Worf's disdain for the animal.

When Data's shuttlecraft exploded while returning to the Enterprise -D in 2366 , all Worf could do was stare in shock at the viewscreen and mutter his friend's name. As it turned out, the explosion was staged in order to kidnap Data, and he was subsequently rescued. ( TNG : " The Most Toys ")

In 2367 , Data sought Worf's help in finding a wedding present for Miles and Keiko O'Brien. ( TNG : " Data's Day ")

When Geordi La Forge and Ensign Ro Laren were presumed dead in a transporter accident in 2368 , Data volunteered to arrange the memorial service, but he was unsure about what kind of ceremony to have and asked Worf for advice. Worf told him that, for Klingons, an honorable death in the line of duty was a cause for celebration, not mourning. Data took his advice and arranged a very upbeat party, giving people the chance to share their pleasant memories of the "deceased". ( TNG : " The Next Phase ")

A year later, Data again sought Worf's guidance, this time in researching the "dreams" he was having. Worf, preoccupied with rumors that his father had survived the attack on Khitomer, gave Data some cryptic answers about the importance of fathers to a person, but Data seemed to understand what he was saying and went on his way. Data later returned this favor when Worf learned that the apparently-returned Kahless the Unforgettable was actually a clone of the legendary Klingon; Data's reflections about how, after learning of his android nature, he chose to consider himself a person who could progress and grow over time rather than a machine who would never be more than he was, convinced Worf to accept Kahless as the symbol that he could be for their people rather than define the clone by the circumstances of his origins. ( TNG : " Birthright, Part I ", " Rightful Heir ")

Their friendship was severely tested in 2370 when Data, acting as commanding officer, admonished Worf for challenging his orders in front of the bridge crew. Afterward, Data apologized to Worf if the dressing-down had ended their friendship, but Worf took the high road, saying that if the friendship was in jeopardy, it was his fault alone. After that exchange, their working and personal relationship quickly returned to normal. ( TNG : " Gambit, Part II ")

Deanna Troi [ ]

Worf was distrustful and uneasy around telepaths, but ship's counselor Deanna Troi became a trusted exception. When he was severely injured in 2368 , he asked her to care for Alexander if he died, reasoning that his own parents were too elderly to cope with the difficulties of raising Alexander and assuring Troi that he could think of no better parent for his son than her. By late 2370, Worf asked her to become a Soh-chIm to Alexander, a role she gladly accepted. ( TNG : " Dark Page ", " Ethics ", " Parallels ")

Worf and Troi during their romance

After an encounter with alternate realities showed him a life with Troi as his wife, Worf's eyes were opened to a new possibility, and he began to pursue her. Though surprised, Troi welcomed the advances, and the two enjoyed a romantic relationship through 2370 . Deanna wasn't thrilled by Worf's concern for Will Riker's interest in the matter, but the triangle's tension was eased on the advice of Captain Picard. ( TNG : " Parallels ", " Eye of the Beholder ", " All Good Things... ")

By the next year, the romance seemed to have dissolved amicably, and eventually, she and Riker resumed their relationship. Worf's only visible unease at their wedding in 2379 was the result of imbibing too much Romulan ale , and the prospect of appearing naked at their Betazed marriage ceremony. ( Star Trek Generations ; Star Trek: Insurrection ; Star Trek Nemesis )

Deep Space 9 companions [ ]

By contrast, Worf found it quite difficult to adjust to life aboard Deep Space 9, right from the day he arrived. When Worf entered Quark's , Quark asked if he wanted bloodwine (since he was Klingon, and every Klingon Quark met ordered only bloodwine). When Worf asked for prune juice, Quark laughed in disbelief. Worf did not share his humor, so Quark was forced to bring him the prune juice. It was the first of many confrontations with Quark, and the Ferengi in general (whom Worf thought unworthy to serve in Starfleet). ( DS9 : " The Way of the Warrior ", " Little Green Men ") During his time on DS9, Worf maintained an immense distrust of Quark, always referring to him as "the Ferengi bartender".

When Worf discovered Quark was dealing with a smuggling operation, he was confounded as to why security officer Odo never arrested Quark. After a disappointing response, Worf decided to take matters into his own hands. When the next smuggled crystal arrived, Worf stepped forward and arrested Quark. It was then that Odo shapeshifted himself and revealed the entire operation as a setup. Odo was going to follow the smuggler and uncover the entire Tarkalean smuggling operation. However, thanks to Worf's interference, Odo had to settle for the middle man. ( DS9 : " Hippocratic Oath ")

Events came to a head one day when Worf's quarters were robbed by a burglar. The response by Odo proved to be disappointing to Worf. This event happened to coincide with a union strike taking place in Quark's Bar. Dr. Julian Bashir and O'Brien were betting who would enter Quark's Bar despite the strike. Both unanimously agreed that Worf would not enter the bar, recalling he rarely entered the bar even before the strike. When they saw that Worf actually entered the bar, O'Brien approached Worf to talk some sense into him. This proved a serious mistake, and led to the three of them being thrown into the brig . At this final incident, Worf decided that the only way to adjust to life aboard the station was to live outside it, on the Defiant . Eventually though, Worf managed to adjust to the activities of the station, even enjoying a Ferengi tooth sharpener in the process. ( DS9 : " Bar Association ", " Little Green Men ")

Benjamin Sisko [ ]

Worf with Captain Sisko in 2372

When Worf was posted to DS9 and transferred to the command division, Benjamin Sisko took him under his wing and began grooming him to one day be a captain. Their relationship was that of mentor and student.

Worf and Sisko became personal friends thanks to Sisko's experiences with Curzon and Jadzia, as well as being Worf's defense in his extradition proceedings against Ch'Pok and the Klingon Empire. Sisko also risked his own life to keep Worf alive. The Defiant crew had joined the Dominion in an attempt to destroy the Iconian gateway at Vandros IV . Worf was one of the officers who found tolerating the Jem'Hadar difficult. After a brawl erupted between Worf and Toman'torax (who was threatening O'Brien at the time), Omet'iklan decided to have both officers punished. For his disobedience, Toman'torax's punishment was execution by his commanding officer, Omet'iklan. Upon seeing that Sisko's punishment merely was to confine Worf to his quarters, Omet'iklan described the Federation as weak, and vowed to kill Sisko once the Iconian gateway was destroyed. Worf vowed that while the Jem'Hadar commander may succeed in carrying out his threat, he would not live to boast about it, which Sisko wryly found very comforting. ( DS9 : " Rules of Engagement ", " To the Death ")

When it was discovered that there was a Changeling in a high position in the Klingon Empire, Worf took part with Sisko in a daring mission to uncover the identity of the changeling and helped to train the Human officers to better appear as Klingon warriors. ( DS9 : " Apocalypse Rising ")

When Kira was praying for the Emissary during his visions of 2373, Worf surprisingly understood her faith in the Prophets (as opposed to the rest of the crew). He felt that the strength of Sisko's faith would be what pulled him through. ( DS9 : " Rapture ")

Worf helped Sisko capture and apprehend the Maquis leader, Michael Eddington . He helped reorganize the Defiant after its computers were disabled by Eddington's cascade virus . Worf also modified and fired a quantum torpedo so it released a trilithium resin into the atmosphere of Solosos III , the act of which forced Eddington to surrender. Worf had assumed the quantum torpedo was going to be used on Eddington's Maquis fighter. ( DS9 : " For the Uniform ")

When Garak persuaded Sisko that he could enter the Gamma Quadrant to search for Enabran Tain, he only allowed him to do so if Worf could accompany him. Later, Worf asked Sisko if he could join General Martok on the Rotarran ; Sisko needed a good officer like Worf defending the station, but Worf described his moment of tova'dok with Martok and convinced Sisko to allow Worf to join the Rotarran . He did not oppose Martok's request that Worf remain on the Rotarran even after the Operation Return, knowing that he was the only officer he knew that could never get enough work. ( DS9 : " In Purgatory's Shadow ", " Soldiers of the Empire ")

When Sisko was reassigned to Starbase 375 in 2374, leaving Jadzia Dax to command the Defiant to the Argolis Cluster , both he and Worf were concerned for the safety of the ship and her crew. Sisko reassured Worf that Dax wanted to get back for the wedding, while Worf suggested that Sisko get some rest. ( DS9 : " Behind the Lines ")

Sisko took part in Worf's Kal'Hyah ceremony, and tried his best to last the entire four days. He motivated O'Brien, Bashir, and Alexander throughout the entire four day ceremony. After Sirella called off the wedding, Sisko convinced both officers that they were in love and that they could not call off the wedding. ( DS9 : " You Are Cordially Invited ")

Worf took command of the Defiant , searching for survivors of the USS Honshu , gunned down by Cardassian destroyers . Two of the survivors were Sisko and Dukat, trapped near the Badlands . When Kira relayed Starfleet's orders to call off the search for Sisko, the message came through garbled with interference. Despite Bashir's claims that the message was too unclear to understand, Worf knew what the message ordered, and said it would be dishonorable to disobey them. Fortunately, Dukat relayed a distress signal detailing the location of Sisko. ( DS9 : " Waltz ")

Worf found the captain to be intimidating, but he kept it secret from Sisko. It was Ezri Dax who had to reveal this fact to Sisko, much to Sisko's amusement. ( DS9 : " Afterimage ")

Worf participated in Sisko's grudge game against former Academy classmate, Captain Solok . Although he performed well in training, Worf received three strikes when he faced the Logicians . Both Sisko and Worf were enraged that he did not obtain a single run. ( DS9 : " Take Me Out to the Holosuite ")

Miles O'Brien [ ]

Worf with Chief O'Brien aboard the Enterprise -D

Worf knew Chief O'Brien from his early days on the Enterprise -D, although their relationship was that of a noncom and his superior. However, they were both participants in the crew's poker games. O'Brien was also a participant in Wesley Crusher's Age of Ascension recreation for Worf, where he commented on the power of the Klingon painstiks . ( TNG : " The Emissary ", " The Icarus Factor ")

Although Worf had to man the bridge at O'Brien's wedding to Keiko, following Data's observation that the gift should reflect the personality of the giver, he gave O'Brien a Klingon weapon as a wedding gift. In 2368, when the Enterprise was damaged by a quantum filament , Worf was forced to deliver Keiko's baby daughter, Molly. He humorously noted that Molly resembled Miles. ( TNG : " Data's Day ", " Disaster ")

O'Brien greets Worf upon his arrival at Deep Space 9

The friendship really took off when Worf transferred to Deep Space 9. O'Brien was the first person to greet Worf when he arrived. Later he introduced Worf to the game of darts , describing it as "poker, but with pointed tips." Once Worf accepted the role of strategic operations officer (with a change of uniform from yellow to red), O'Brien commented how good Worf looked in red. ( DS9 : " The Way of the Warrior ")

Worf gets into a fight with O'Brien

When the Defiant was damaged by the Jem'Hadar during their Karemma negotiations, and Worf found commanding the engineering team difficult, it was O'Brien who helped Worf take a different approach to command. ( DS9 : " Starship Down ")

When Worf discovered that the O'Briens were having another child, he altered his holiday plans to coincide with the birth, just so he wouldn't have to deliver O'Briens' baby like he did with Molly. ( DS9 : " Accession ")

During Worf's trial that demanded his extradition to the Klingon Empire, O'Brien described Worf as "an honorable man". In turn, Worf described O'Brien as an "outstanding officer" and a friend, relaying their mutual respect out loud. ( DS9 : " Rules of Engagement ")

Worf incited a fight with the Jem'Hadar, Toman'torax , in retaliation for threatening O'Brien. ( DS9 : " To the Death ")

In 2373, Worf participated in recovering a Jem'Hadar ship from Torga IV , the last mission of Enrique Muniz who was severely wounded with a Jem'Hadar weapon. Although Worf believed that Muniz would not survive his wounds, O'Brien did not agree and clashed with Worf's pessimism escalating into a near brawl between the two. However, Worf was later proved right and Muniz did succumb to his wounds. Once the mission was over, Worf found the chief at the casket of Muniz, holding somewhat of an improvised wake for him. Worf offered to performed the Klingon tradition of ak'voh with the chief as they would both "keep the predators away." The two men did not speak of their hostility, just held vigil over Muniz. ( DS9 : " The Ship ")

O'Brien politely refused Worf's offer of help when Keiko, possessed by a Pah-wraith, fell down the Promenade crossway. ( DS9 : " The Assignment ")

O'Brien had to undergo a ritual fasting with Julian Bashir and Sisko as part of Worf's Kal'Hyah ceremony, which was different than what he thought it would be. He couldn't last the four days (even joining Bashir in vowing to kill Worf at one point), and when he heard the wedding ceremony was called off, he and Bashir immediately ordered a large feast of Earth and Bajoran food. However, Sisko stopped them and helped put the wedding back on track. ( DS9 : " You Are Cordially Invited ")

At one point, while watching Jadzia and Quark playing a game of tongo against each other and a group of Ferengi waiters, Worf made a bet with O'Brien that Jadzia had the game in hand. He wagered that if she won, O'Brien would owe Worf a bottle of bloodwine. If Jadzia lost, however, Worf would then owe the chief a bottle of Irish whiskey . In the end, however, Worf ended up saying that he would need time to come up with O'Brien's payment. ( DS9 : " Change of Heart ")

Worf was more than happy to babysit Kirayoshi while the O'Briens were busy taking care of Molly, who traveled through an ancient time portal. Once Kirayoshi was returned to his parents, he chose to honor their dinner invitation rather than go in a holosuite. ( DS9 : " Time's Orphan ")

After Jadzia Dax died at the hands of Gul Dukat, O'Brien was one of the first people who attempted to cheer up Worf. While drinking bloodwine and reminiscing about old crewmates (most notably Reginald Barclay ), O'Brien found out what was bothering Worf – the fact that his wife did not die an honorable death, and thus could not enter Sto-vo-kor . O'Brien then directed Martok to help Worf, who assigned him the mission to destroy the Monac IV fleet yards. ( DS9 : " Tears of the Prophets ", " Image in the Sand ", " Shadows and Symbols ")

It was O'Brien who helped Worf ease his hostility to Ezri. Over a bottle of bloodwine, O'Brien asked how Jadzia would feel if she knew how poorly Worf treated Ezri. When Worf claimed that there was no way to know, O'Brien refuted the claim, suggesting he talk to the one person Worf had been avoiding. After keeping her in Starfleet, Worf and O'Brien attended Ezri's promotion party. ( DS9 : " Afterimage ")

When O'Brien's authorization code was used to access sixteen cases of bloodwine sent to Martok by Sirella, Martok and Worf had to quiz O'Brien on where the cases went. O'Brien had to explain to Worf and Martok that Nog must have taken the bloodwine to barter for a graviton stabilizer . Worf and Martok gave O'Brien one day to find the bloodwine. Fortunately, Nog returned with 16 cases of 2309 bloodwine bought from his cousin Gant , an even better vintage than the ones he took. Both Klingons gave O'Brien a bottle of the bloodwine as an "apology". ( DS9 : " Treachery, Faith and the Great River ")

Ezri Dax [ ]

Ezri Dax's relationship with Worf did not go quite as smoothly as Jadzia's, despite many of Jadzia's friends and colleagues quickly accepting the presence of a new Dax in their lives. Initially, Worf wanted nothing to do with her, or even Dr. Bashir, considering Ezri's presence and her relationship with Bashir an affront to his wife's memory. However, he soon realized that his actions were more of an affront, and relations between them began to warm. ( DS9 : " Afterimage ")

During the latter half of the year, Worf commanded the IKS Koraga when it was destroyed by the Dominion; his escape pod was rescued by Ezri, with whom Worf was captured by the Breen shortly after an implied sexual encounter. After undergoing an interrogation (which included killing one of the clones of Weyoun), Worf and Ezri were freed by Legate Damar as part of his resistance to the Dominion, the two subsequently putting aside the last of their issues regarding Worf's relationship with Jadzia as Ezri began to accept her own feelings for Bashir. ( DS9 : " Penumbra ", " Strange Bedfellows ")

It was Ezri who pointed out to Worf how deep corruption ran in the Klingon Empire, asking him who the last chancellor he respected was. She finished by asking what hope there was for the Empire if such an honorable man as him was willing to accept leadership like Gowron's, prompting his decision to challenge Gowron to a duel and kill him. ( DS9 : " Tacking Into the Wind ")

Although Kurn's new life gave him a chance to regain honor, Worf had to continue living with his dishonor. Kor (considered a hero, according to Worf) offered him the perfect opportunity to regain his honor. Kor, who disliked the High Council enough to consider any enemy of it a friend, revealed to Worf that he and Jadzia knew the secret location of the legendary Sword of Kahless, stolen by Hur'q pillagers a millennium ago. If Worf could find the sword and present it to the present emperor it would almost certainly restore his honor among his people. Kor accepted Worf's request to join the expedition, knowing it would annoy Gowron.

Dax, Kor, and Worf find the Sword of Kahless

Although the antechamber that apparently held the sword had been ransacked, Worf discovered that a holographic projection hid the true chamber. With the help of some Hur'q DNA , Kor, Worf, and Dax gained access to the hidden chamber, where they found the legendary sword. Worf believed that the discovery of the sword was one of the events in his life that his vision of Kahless foretold him accomplishing.

When the team exited the chamber, they came face-to-face with Toral, son of Duras , an individual whose life Worf had spared following the Klingon Civil War. After a brief battle with Toral and his bodyguards, the team made a dash back to the ship, being chased by Toral. However, while heading back to the ship, Kor and Worf had a difference of opinion about the sword. Worf was disgusted when Kor used the sword to eat a vole : " The sword is not something that you use to shovel food down your mouth ." When it came time to sleep, Kor and Worf could not sleep, for fear that if they did sleep, the other would seize the opportunity to steal the sword and reap the glory. After a restless night, the team had to maneuver across a steep chasm. Kor lost his footing and nearly fell down the slope. Worf, barely able to hold onto Kor, told him to let go and drop onto a ledge beneath him. Kor, preferring to die rather than let go of the sword, refused and climbed back up with the help of Dax. Kor took a look at the ledge, and found that it was too small to support his weight. This proved too much for Kor, and he decided to fight Worf in battle. If it wasn't for Toral catching up to the team, they would have killed each other. After dealing with Toral, the team realized how much the sword was dividing the two Klingons. They decided that the Empire was not ready for the return of the sword, so they beamed it into space, to be lost until Klingons were ready for it. ( DS9 : " The Sword of Kahless ")

In 2375, when Kor came to the station looking for command of a ship, Worf discovered that Martok held a personal grudge against Kor. Kor was responsible for striking Martok's name from the officers' list because his family was from the lowlands of Ketha Province , and due to his influence, Martok was barred from even enlisting as a common soldier. In order to mend ties between Martok and Kor, Worf managed to sneak him into the IKS Ch'Tang . The Ch'Tang was part of a small fleet assigned to raid the Dominion base on Trelka V . Kor was experiencing lapses in concentration, one of which nearly led to the destruction of the Ch'Tang . While trying to retreat from enemy space, the crew discovered they were being pursued by ten Jem'Hadar fighters. If the Ch'Tang could not find a way to delay the Jem'Hadar fighters, they would not be able to reach friendly space in time. Worf planned to use the IKS Ning'tao to divert the pursuers, a move that would be suicidal. However, before he could reach the transporter, Kor used a hypospray to take Worf's place. Although Kor did not return from the battle, he bought enough time for the Klingon fleet to escape. ( DS9 : " Once More Unto the Breach ")

Alternate realities and timelines [ ]

Worf, governor of H'atoria

A script note for "Yesterday's Enterprise" suggested that the Klingon officer who ordered the surrender of the Enterprise -D was "possibly Worf".

• In 2370 , when he returned from a bat'leth tournament on Forcas III , Worf encountered a quantum fissure , and began switching places with other versions of himself in alternate quantum realities . In two realities he visited, he was married to Counselor Deanna Troi. In one of these realities, they had two children: Shannara and Eric-Christopher , whereas Alexander had never been born. It was in this same reality that Worf had been promoted to full commander and appointed first officer of the Enterprise -D under Captain Riker, Picard having been lost in the Borg encounter of 2367 . An alternate Lieutenant Worf, who served on board the Enterprise -D from a reality where the Federation had been completely wiped out by the Borg, died when his ship exploded after being fired upon by the other Enterprise -D. All of the alternate versions were returned to their own realities when the fissure was sealed. ( TNG : " Parallels ")
• In an alternate future , Worf had been reluctant to become involved with Troi, and her subsequent death led to a rift between William Riker and himself as a result. He later served as a member of the Klingon High Council, and was the governor of the Klingon colony of H'atoria . ( TNG : " All Good Things... ")
• In an alternate timeline created by the Defiant 's time travel back two hundred years, Jadzia Dax and Worf had married and fostered a large family whose descendants formed a significant part of a colony numbering eight thousand people, including Yedrin Dax and Brota . ( DS9 : " Children of Time ")
• In another alternate future, Worf had influence in the Klingon Empire during the early 25th century . ( DS9 : " The Visitor ")
• In yet another alternate future, Worf was killed on the floor of the High Council in 2410 , while his son, Alexander, helplessly watched. ( TNG : " Firstborn ")

Holograms [ ]

A hologram of Worf created by Picard inside Moriarty's Enterprise -D program

Worf was holographically duplicated on a number of occasions.

• Lt. Reginald Barclay in 2366 recreated the entire crew of the Enterprise -D when he was suffering from holo-addiction . The recreation of Worf was present when Barclay said goodbye to his fantasies and deleted the programs. ( TNG : " Hollow Pursuits ")

Duchamps with Worf's appearance

• In 2367 , Barash created a holographic future version of the crew of the Enterprise -D on Alpha Onias III to keep Commander Riker there. This holoprogram took place in a fictional 2383 where Worf had been promoted to lieutenant commander and had become the operations officer. He had a scar from an unknown battle, a fact which Riker used to prove he was in a fantasy. ( TNG : " Future Imperfect ")
• The James Moriarty hologram recreated the entire Enterprise -D in 2369 as part of a ploy to escape the holodeck. Captain Picard was forced to create the program Picard Delta One , another recreation of the Enterprise -D, within Moriarty's own program to foil him. Both of these recreations had a holographic Worf. ( TNG : " Ship In A Bottle ")
• When Deanna Troi took Riker's version of the Bridge Officer's Test in 2370 , it contained a recreation of Worf. ( TNG : " Thine Own Self ")
• A transporter accident in 2372 aboard Deep Space 9 resulted in transporter patterns that would normally be stored in the pattern buffer to overwrite some of the characters in the Julian Bashir, Secret Agent 1960s holoprogram. The character of Duchamps was overwritten with the appearance of Worf. ( DS9 : " Our Man Bashir ")
• Luther Sloan recreated the entire station and staff of Deep Space 9 in 2374 as part of his investigation into Julian Bashir. This program had a recreation of Worf. ( DS9 : " Inquisition ")

Memorable quotes [ ]

" I do not understand. "

" I don't understand their humor, either. "

" Immobilized by the damn Ferengi! "

" Nice planet. "

" That is how the Klingon lures a mate. " " Are you telling me to go yell at Salia? " " No. Men do not roar. Women roar.Then they hurl heavy objects. And claw at you. " " What does the man do? " " He reads love poetry. He ducks a lot. "

" Delicious. "

" With... all due respect – BEGONE! ... Sir. "

" Good tea. Nice house. "

" Be quiet!"

" Q, the miserable, Q, the desperate! What must I do to convince you people? " " Die. "

" A warrior's drink! "

" I am KLINGON! If you doubt it, a demonstration can be arranged!"

" You know, I had a bet with the Captain that I could make you laugh before you became lieutenant commander. " " Not a good bet today. " " I've seen you laugh. I like it. " " Klingons do not laugh. " " Oh yes they do. Absolutely they do. You don't. But I've heard some Klingon belly laughs that would curl your hair. "

" Human bonding rituals often involve a great deal of talking... and dancing... and crying. "

" Sir, I protest! I am not a merry man! "

" Nice legs. For a Human. "

" We are in law enforcement. "

" You wrote this holodeck program yourself... " " Well, Mr. Barclay helped a little. " " I must have a little talk with Mr. Barclay. "

" What are his rights in this century? Will there be a trial or shall I execute him? "

" I am not easy to get along with. "

" Nice hat. "

" Our women are considered our partners in battle. Formidable warriors. " " And great fun at parties. " " True. "

" Look at you! You stand so far away from me. You speak so softly. Are you afraid of me, or just disgusted by my presence? "

" I don't know what she sees in that parasite . "

" You are NOT in my shoes. " " Too bad. You'd be amazed at what I can do in a pair of size 18 boots. "

" Perhaps today is a good day to die! Prepare for ramming speed! "

" If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand! "

" Assimilate this! "

" What about Garak? " " I want him back, too. I suppose I don't have to tell you to keep a close eye on him? " " At the first sign of betrayal, I will kill him. But I promise to return the body intact. " " I assume that's a joke. " " We will see. "

" Victory is life! " " Today is a good day to die! "

" Are you the son of Mogh? " " Yes, I am. " " Is it true you can kill someone just by looking at them? " " Only when I am angry. "

" I'm a married man. I have to make certain adjustments to my lifestyle. " " Adjustments? Worf, you're practically easygoing. What's next, a sense of humor? " " I have a sense of humor. On the Enterprise , I was considered to be quite amusing. " " That must've been one dull ship. " " That is a joke. I get it. It is not funny, but I get it. " " I don't know if I can get used to the new you. It's kind of eerie. "

" Definitely feeling aggressive tendencies, sir! "

" We will destroy them! "

" Death to the opposition! "

" You're a good friend, Worf. " " I know. "

" I do not think it is appropriate for a Starfleet officer to appear... naked. "

" The Romulans fought with honor. " " Yes they did Mr. Worf. "

" I told you, Do Not Engage! "

" I am Worf, Son of Mogh, House of Martok, Son of Sergei, House of Rozhenko, Bane of the Duras Family, Slayer of Gowron, I have made some chamomile tea, do you take sugar? "

" Beheadings are on Wednesdays. "

" I have slaughtered countless enemies over the years and considered sending their heads to all of you. But I was advised that that was... passive-aggressive. "

Chronology [ ]

Appendices [ ], see also [ ].

• Willie Hawkins

Appearances [ ]

• " Encounter at Farpoint "
• " The Naked Now "
• " The Last Outpost "
• " Where No One Has Gone Before "
• " Lonely Among Us "
• " Justice "
• " The Battle "
• " Hide And Q "
• " The Big Goodbye "
• " Datalore "
• " Angel One "
• " 11001001 "
• " Too Short A Season "
• " When The Bough Breaks "
• " Home Soil "
• " Coming of Age "
• " Heart of Glory "
• " The Arsenal of Freedom "
• " Symbiosis "
• " Skin Of Evil "
• " We'll Always Have Paris "
• " Conspiracy "
• " The Neutral Zone "
• " The Child "
• " Where Silence Has Lease "
• " Elementary, Dear Data "
• " The Outrageous Okona "
• " Loud As A Whisper "
• " The Schizoid Man "
• " Unnatural Selection "
• " A Matter Of Honor "
• " The Measure Of A Man "
• " The Dauphin "
• " Contagion "
• " The Royale "
• " Time Squared "
• " The Icarus Factor "
• " Pen Pals "
• " Samaritan Snare "
• " Up The Long Ladder "
• " Manhunt "
• " The Emissary "
• " Peak Performance "
• " Shades of Gray "
• " Evolution "
• " The Ensigns of Command "
• " The Survivors "
• " Who Watches The Watchers "
• " The Bonding "
• " Booby Trap "
• " The Enemy "
• " The Price "
• " The Vengeance Factor "
• " The Defector "
• " The Hunted "
• " The High Ground "
• " A Matter of Perspective "
• " Yesterday's Enterprise "
• " The Offspring "
• " Sins of The Father "
• " Allegiance "
• " Captain's Holiday "
• " Tin Man "
• " Hollow Pursuits "
• " The Most Toys "
• " Ménage à Troi "
• " Transfigurations "
• " The Best of Both Worlds "
• " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II "
• " Brothers "
• " Suddenly Human "
• " Remember Me "
• " Reunion "
• " Future Imperfect "
• " Final Mission "
• " The Loss "
• " Data's Day "
• " The Wounded "
• " Devil's Due "
• " First Contact "
• " Galaxy's Child "
• " Night Terrors "
• " Identity Crisis "
• " The Nth Degree "
• " The Drumhead "
• " Half a Life "
• " The Host "
• " The Mind's Eye "
• " In Theory "
• " Redemption "
• " Redemption II "
• " Ensign Ro "
• " Silicon Avatar "
• " Disaster "
• " The Game "
• " Unification I "
• " Unification II "
• " A Matter Of Time "
• " New Ground "
• " Hero Worship "
• " Violations "
• " The Masterpiece Society "
• " Conundrum "
• " Power Play "
• " The Outcast "
• " Cause And Effect "
• " The First Duty "
• " Cost Of Living "
• " The Perfect Mate "
• " Imaginary Friend "
• " The Next Phase "
• " The Inner Light "
• " Time's Arrow "
• " Time's Arrow, Part II "
• " Realm Of Fear "
• " Man Of The People "
• " Schisms "
• " Rascals "
• " A Fistful of Datas "
• " The Quality of Life "
• " Chain Of Command, Part I "
• " Chain Of Command, Part II "
• " Ship In A Bottle "
• " Face Of The Enemy "
• " Tapestry "
• " Birthright, Part I "
• " Birthright, Part II "
• " Starship Mine "
• " Lessons "
• " The Chase "
• " Frame of Mind "
• " Suspicions "
• " Rightful Heir "
• " Second Chances "
• " Timescape "
• " Descent "
• " Descent, Part II "
• " Liaisons "
• " Interface "
• " Gambit, Part I "
• " Gambit, Part II "
• " Phantasms "
• " Dark Page "
• " Attached "
• " Force of Nature "
• " Inheritance "
• " Parallels "
• " The Pegasus "
• " Homeward "
• " Sub Rosa "
• " Lower Decks "
• " Thine Own Self "
• " Eye of the Beholder "
• " Genesis "
• " Journey's End "
• " Firstborn "
• " Bloodlines "
• " Emergence "
• " Preemptive Strike "
• " All Good Things... "
• Star Trek Generations
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Star Trek: Insurrection
• Star Trek Nemesis
• " The Way of the Warrior "
• " The Visitor "
• " Hippocratic Oath "
• " Indiscretion "
• " Rejoined "
• " Starship Down "
• " Little Green Men "
• " The Sword of Kahless "
• " Our Man Bashir "
• " Homefront "
• " Paradise Lost "
• " Crossfire "
• " Return to Grace "
• " Sons of Mogh "
• " Bar Association "
• " Accession "
• " Rules of Engagement "
• " Hard Time "
• " Shattered Mirror "
• " The Muse "
• " For the Cause "
• " To the Death "
• " The Quickening "
• " Body Parts "
• " Broken Link "
• " Apocalypse Rising "
• " The Ship "
• " Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places "
• " Nor the Battle to the Strong "
• " The Assignment "
• " Trials and Tribble-ations "
• " Let He Who Is Without Sin... "
• " Things Past "
• " The Ascent "
• " Rapture "
• " The Darkness and the Light "
• " The Begotten "
• " For the Uniform "
• " In Purgatory's Shadow "
• " By Inferno's Light "
• " Doctor Bashir, I Presume "
• " A Simple Investigation "
• " Business as Usual "
• " Ties of Blood and Water "
• " Ferengi Love Songs "
• " Soldiers of the Empire "
• " Children of Time "
• " Blaze of Glory "
• " Empok Nor "
• " In the Cards "
• " Call to Arms "
• " A Time to Stand "
• " Sons and Daughters "
• " Behind the Lines "
• " Favor the Bold "
• " Sacrifice of Angels "
• " You Are Cordially Invited "
• " Resurrection "
• " Statistical Probabilities "
• " Who Mourns for Morn? "
• " Far Beyond the Stars "
• " One Little Ship "
• " Honor Among Thieves "
• " Change of Heart "
• " Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night "
• " Inquisition "
• " In the Pale Moonlight "
• " His Way "
• " The Reckoning "
• " Valiant "
• " Profit and Lace "
• " Time's Orphan "
• " The Sound of Her Voice "
• " Tears of the Prophets "
• " Image in the Sand "
• " Shadows and Symbols "
• " Afterimage "
• " Take Me Out to the Holosuite "
• " Treachery, Faith and the Great River "
• " Once More Unto the Breach "
• " The Siege of AR-558 "
• " Covenant "
• " It's Only a Paper Moon "
• " The Emperor's New Cloak "
• " Field of Fire "
• " Chimera "
• " Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang "
• " Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges "
• " Penumbra "
• " 'Til Death Do Us Part "
• " Strange Bedfellows "
• " The Changing Face of Evil "
• " When It Rains... "
• " Tacking Into the Wind "
• " Extreme Measures "
• " The Dogs of War "
• " What You Leave Behind "
• " Remembrance " (picture only)
• " The Next Generation " (text/chat interaction only)
• " Disengage "
• " Seventeen Seconds "
• " Imposters "
• " The Bounty "
• " Surrender "
• " The Last Generation "

Background information [ ]

Significance [ ].

Dorn as Worf in Webster

Worf was played by Michael Dorn throughout his time on TNG and DS9, and in all four TNG movies.

Due to his appearances as a regular in eleven seasons (seven in TNG and four in DS9), and half a season of PIC, the character Worf holds the record of the most appearances in Star Trek .

Worf is notable for being the character with the most revivals in the franchise. He was killed three times in the episodes " Hide And Q ", " Transfigurations ", and " Ethics ", each time recovering. However, Kathryn Janeway has the record for the most "deaths", at nine.

Worf appeared in two series finales, " All Good Things... " and " What You Leave Behind ", and is one of four characters, including Miles O'Brien , William T. Riker and Deanna Troi , to do the same.

In addition to his film and television appearances, Worf appeared prominently in the game Star Trek: Armada . Michael Dorn also portrayed Worf in the series finale of the television series Webster , titled "Webtrek", in 1989 during the second season of The Next Generation . He shared his scenes on the Enterprise -D bridge with Lorine Mendell , James G. Becker , and Dexter Clay .

Origins and early development [ ]

Part of the premise Gene Roddenberry wrote for The Next Generation , was that it was set at a time when Klingons had set aside their differences with the Federation, and had become their allies. Robert H. Justman proposed a "Klingon Marine" serve on the Enterprise as a symbol of this. The character was later made a full Starfleet officer, and was one of the last additions to the permanent cast. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion , 2nd ed., p. 16)

Michael Dorn recalled his audition as follows: " I did not wear makeup, but I took on the psychological guise of a Klingon. I walked into Paramount in character. No jokes. No laughing with the other actors. I sat by myself waiting for my interview. When my turn came, I walked in, didn't smile, did the reading, thanked them, and walked right out. " ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion , 2nd ed., p. 20)

According to Robert H. Justman , Dorn's stage training, as well his lack of a "street accent", were some of the factors which led to Dorn securing the role. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion , 2nd ed., p. 20)

Rick Berman recalled that Worf was intended to be merely a recurring character in seven of the first thirteen episodes. Worf's role was expanded after filming and editing of "Encounter at Farpoint" began as the producers felt that the character had presence. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion , 2nd ed., p. 20)

Worf's originally planned backstory, in the "TNG Bible", was that he had been on a Klingon ship in one of the last Earth-Klingon battles; and had been rescued by Starfleet, at the age of 8. The episode " Heart of Glory " established the slightly different backstory involving the sneak Romulan attack on Khitomer.

In his online review of " Hide And Q ", Wil Wheaton made a comment on Worf's early character and giving Dorn respect for playing Worf as he was back then. Wheaton said he couldn't imagine what it must have been like for Dorn in that first season, describing first season Worf as "one-dimensional and so incredibly stupid." Wheaton also noted that Dorn didn't do much more than Denise Crosby did in those early episodes, and in contrast to Crosby, who quit the show out of frustration, Dorn stayed with it, and over time was allowed to develop Worf into a much more complex and beloved character, eventually becoming a regular on DS9, and also being in all the TNG movies. [5]

Costume and makeup [ ]

A sketch of Worf including his new baldric by Durinda Rice Wood

Worf's first-season baldric was fabric. It was a re-use of the prop used in TOS by Kor in " Errand of Mercy " and Kang in " Day of the Dove ". ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion , 2nd ed., p. 20) During the second season, costume designer Durinda Rice Wood created a new metal one for Worf, made out of bicycle chains she bought in a hardware store. Michael Dorn liked the new design, and agreed to its use. ( Departmental Briefing Year Two: Costumes , TNG Season 2 DVD special features)

Worf's ridge patterns evolved due to experimentation by Michael Westmore , mainly for aesthetics, but also to be more comfortable for the actor. While the prosthetics initially took two and a half hours to apply each time, by the end of TNG the process was shortened to about two hours. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion , 2nd ed., pp. 21 & 66)

Gene Roddenberry had initially insisted that Worf have a short hairstyle so as to reflect the "no-nonsense" military look of Starfleet. While Westmore accepted this, it grew somewhat longer over the years. In the sixth season of TNG, due to lobbying from Dorn and hairstylist Joy Zapata , Worf debuted a ponytail (beginning from " Face Of The Enemy "). Zapata explained, " [Worf's hair] used to remind me of a Klingon that had gone to the beauty salon; it looked like Donna Reed! Now we tie it back, [Dorn] carries himself differently – he's a whole different person. " ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion , 2nd ed., pp. 21 & 234-235)

The Undiscovered Country [ ]

Between the fourth and fifth seasons of The Next Generation , Michael Dorn played Colonel Worf in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country . Although the relationship was not stated on screen , the filmmakers' intention was that the Star Trek VI character was the grandfather of the Next Generation character. ( Star Trek Encyclopedia , 2nd ed., p. 563; [6] )

Deep Space Nine [ ]

As part of several sweeping changes for Deep Space Nine 's fourth season , Worf was added to the regular cast list as the station's strategic operations officer , a position he held until the end. Worf's posting aboard DS9 was commented on in the first draft script of VOY : " Death Wish ", in which Q referred to Worf as having been one candidate who Q believed might have been promoted to command the USS Voyager . Q then added, " Oh that's right, they sent him to try to fix that dreary space station, didn't they... "

When asked why he returned to Star Trek , actor Michael Dorn stated, " What interested me was the idea that my character, and I always loved my character, I really was close with him, the idea that my character would grow even more, and that I would become a larger part of the Star Trek universe than I already was, that's what interested me. And I told the producers, and we had many discussions about that that's what attracted me back ." ( Crew Dossier: Worf , DS9 Season 4 DVD special features)

Ira Behr , Deep Space Nine 's executive producer, said that fitting Worf into the show was one of the biggest challenges he had to face during the show's run. However, he felt he had managed this task well. He remarked, " Obviously, one of the reasons Worf was brought on the show was to increase the ratings. After all, they call it show "business". But if we did not feel that Worf would've brought something to the party, we never would've done it. Sometimes business decisions and artistic decisions can ride the same wave. " ( AOL chat , 1997 )

Similarly, as Behr's writing partner Robert Hewitt Wolfe states, " In the beginning it was difficult, I gotta be honest with you, to integrate this new character, but that was good because it challenged us, and made us sort of re-examine the show in a whole new light. How do we make this guy work? How do we bring him in? How does he change the relationships for all of our characters? He stirred up the whole thing again, gave the whole show sort of a second phase, or a second stage rocket. Suddenly, there's Worf and we've got to deal with him and his issues, and suddenly there's Klingons everywhere and that brought a new favor to play with ." ( Charting New Territory: Deep Space Nine Season Four , DS9 Season 4 DVD special features)

The decision to have Worf transfer from security to command was Ronald D. Moore 's, and was prompted by the fact that the writers didn't simply want to rehash the Next Generation Worf, they wanted to give to the audience a new Worf. As Moore explains, the writers asked themselves, " What is going to make our Worf a little different from the other Worf, and make it worth watching week after week ?" Ira Steven Behr further explains, " We had to give the audience a Deep Space Nine Worf. We had to move the character away from where he was before. All the characters on DS9 grow, and we always try to take them farther than where they began ." ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion , p. 260)

Ronald D. Moore has also commented, " I've been happy to see the changes in the character since he was brought onto DS9 – I think we ran the danger of "de-fanging" Worf by the end of TNG and there's been a concerted effort made to roughen him up and give him some sharper edges. He's more likely to err now, more likely to do the wrong thing for the wrong reason... I think that makes him more interesting as a character and more compelling to write for. " ( AOL chat , 1997 )

Michael Dorn summates his portrayal of Worf by saying, " Only time will tell, in a way, you know what I mean, what my contribution is. If anything, I'd like to think that I took a character that was not a major character to start with and brought him into the light. It's sort of like one of those things where it's not so much that 'Oh yeah, the star, I have to be the star' and dadada, but the character was not a major character, he was there, but he wasn't a major character. And I was able to bring whatever it is I brought to the character to put him closer to the forefront. I think it kind of bears up because, you know, out of all the people they got to go on Deep Space , who knows? But the character played well on the show, and helped the show over the years. If I had to be remembered for something, that'd be it ." ( Crew Dossier: Worf , DS9 Season 4 DVD special features)

Apocrypha [ ]

Worf in Star Trek: Countdown

Worf's orphaning and subsequent adoption by the Rozhenkos was seen in the The Lost Era novel The Art of the Impossible .

In Peter David 's Star Trek: New Frontier and Starfleet Academy novels, Worf's roommate at Starfleet Academy was Zak Kebron, a Brikar who later became a prominent character in the New Frontier novel series.

Worf's somewhat ill-defined role in the initial stages of the series is explained in The Buried Age as being the "chief bridge watch officer" whose duties were to essentially fill in where needed, which allowed him to gain command experience. According to the novel, Worf had put in for security, but Picard refused, saying that he needed more experience which would give him more opportunities later on. When Worf says he will do his best to learn all he can, Picard tells him he will be expected to learn all he can.

The novel Triangle: Imzadi II established that shortly after the destruction of the Enterprise -D, Worf proposed to Deanna Troi, and she accepted. However, their engagement was short lived and after a harrowing experience involving the Romulan Sela , Troi realized that she still had feelings for her first love, Commander Riker, while Worf concluded that he was emotionally unsuitable as a long-term partner for Troi. The two broke off their relationship but remained friends.

In the novel Diplomatic Implausibility , Worf's first assignment as Federation Ambassador brought him to the planet taD (the Klingon word for "frozen") to settle a dispute between the indigenous population, who had appealed for recognition from the Federation after overthrowing the local Klingon government, and the Empire, who wished to have taD back under their own control. With the assistance of his new attaché, Giancarlo Wu, and the crew of the IKS Gorkon , Worf adapted to the needs of his new post and came up with a solution that pleased all parties and avoided bloodshed and installed a Klingon engineer from the Gorkon crew as a ceremonial emperor while also granting practical autonomy to the populace.

The novel A Time for War, A Time for Peace established that Worf decided after various events had occurred, that he was not of the right temperament to be the Federation ambassador and although the new Federation president disagreed, she accepted his resignation. Worf then nominated his son Alexander, to be his replacement as ambassador. Worf decided that after serving the Klingon Empire and the Federation and always doing what was expected of him that the time had come for him to be selfish and he wanted to go back to Starfleet, where he felt the most fulfilled. Admiral Ross immediately reinstated his rank of lieutenant commander and assigned him to be first officer on the Titan under Captain Riker. Worf was filling in at the tactical station during the events of Star Trek Nemesis as the Enterprise 's chief of security, Christine Vale , had taken shore leave on Earth and the second in command of security had recently resigned. After the events of Nemesis , in the wake of Data's death, Picard asked Worf to remain aboard the Enterprise and Worf agreed. Novels set after Nemesis , such as Resistance , Before Dishonor , Q&A , and Greater than the Sum , showed Worf serving as acting first officer and then initially refusing the position on a permanent basis. Worf felt that he did not deserve it after what happened back on Soukara and how he abandoned the mission to save Jadzia. After rescuing Picard from the Borg and receiving some sage advice from Dr. Crusher, Worf accepted the position on a permanent basis and was promoted to the rank of commander.

In the PlayStation game Star Trek: Invasion , Worf was put in command of the USS Typhon from early to mid- 2376 . After the Valkyrie Squadron was put on active duty, Worf left the Typhon .

A picture of Worf can be found in Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force on the USS Voyager inside the quarters of Alexandria Munro should you choose the female character in the game.

The comic book series Star Trek: Countdown , a tie-in to the 2009 Star Trek film, depicted Worf as a general in the Klingon Defense Force in 2387 . Worf was critically wounded by Nero while on board the Narada and was last seen unconscious on the Enterprise -E and about to be transported to sickbay .

In Star Trek Online , set thirty years after the events of DS9 and Nemesis , Worf has remained ambassador to Qo'noS and remains one of the few pro-Federation voices in the Empire after the breakdown of the Khitomer Accords. He has become gin'tak to the House of Martok and weds Grilka and they have one son. In describing her to reporter Jake Sisko , he echoes his previous comments on her, saying " She is glorious. " He later denounces the Federation when they refuse to help the Klingons fight an Alpha Quadrant infiltration of Species 8472 . Players interact with him early on in the Klingon faction story line, and during the special event celebrating the 25th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation from July 19 to 24, 2012 could meet a hologram of Worf as he appeared in 2364. The player also fights alongside him in the cross-faction missions "Sphere of Influence" and "Brushfire" and starting with "Brushfire", Michael Dorn provides voice-overs for all the character's lines. In the mission "Home", part of the "Victory is Life" expansion, Worf becomes Martok's Torchbearer , lighting the Beacon of Kahless in order to fully bring the Empire into the battle against the Hur'q .

In the Star Trek: Picard novel The Last Best Hope , Worf is revealed to have replaced Picard as the captain of the Enterprise -E following Picard's becoming an admiral to aid in the Romulan evacuation in advance of the Romulan sun going supernova. Though there is a token objection due to his reprimand for his actions in prioritizing the life of Jadzia Dax over his mission on Soukara , he is accepted for the role, in part because Starfleet believes it will foster good relations with the Klingon Empire.

Worf of the alternate reality

The alternate reality version of Worf appears in the third issue of the Star Trek: Ongoing story arc The Q Gambit where he is Chancellor of the Klingon colony of Earth after the Empire defeated the Federation and conquered Earth renaming it "Tera'." Worf is introduced to James T. Kirk , who instantly recognizes him and the Starfleet insignia and asks how he got here. Kirk explains that he and his crew were brought over a hundred years into the future by Q and Worf believes that both the crew of the USS Enterprise and the Klingons can be of mutual benefit to one another. Worf then prepares to meet with the advisory council over Sisko's intelligence reports and the events that brought Kirk and his crew to the future while also having rooms prepared for Kirk and his party when he is suddenly killed by his guards and Kurn, but it is revealed that they're actually Changelings who proclaim Earth is now under Dominion control.

External links [ ]

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Worf was directly responsible for the ascension of two Chancellors of the Klingon Empire , Gowron in 2367 , and Martok in 2375 . Worf was also responsible for the installation of Emperor Kahless in 2369 .

The first Klingon in Starfleet , Worf served notable tours of duty aboard the USS Enterprise -D , the USS Defiant , IKS Rotarran , and Starbase Deep Space 9 before being appointed Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire in 2375. In 2378 , Worf resigned from his ambassadorial post and returned to Starfleet, serving on the USS Enterprise -E as first officer. He was later promoted to the rank of Captain and named commanding officer of the USS Enterprise after the promotion of Jean-Luc Picard to the rank of Admiral. ( PIC novel : The Last Best Hope )

• 1.1 Early life
• 1.2.1 K'Ehleyr
• 1.3.1 USS Aldrin
• 1.3.2 Enterprise -D
• 1.3.3 Deep Space 9 and the Defiant
• 1.4.1 The Wardens
• 1.5 Back with Starfleet
• 1.6 Promotion
• 1.7 Path to the 25th century
• 2.1 Other alternate realities
• 3 Interests
• 4 Worf's service record
• 5.1.1 Appearances
• 5.2 External links

Biography [ ]

Early life [ ].

Worf was born on the Klingon homeworld Qo'noS on May 23, 2340 . He was named after his grandfather, General Worf .

His father, Mogh , head of a noble house , was an influential starship captain who served as first officer under K'mpec , and became a friend and ally during K'mpec's career on the Klingon High Council ; his mother, Kaasin , was a master of the mok'bara art of combat. He had one younger brother, Kurn .

By the age of six, Worf was already proficient with the bat'leth , a traditional Klingon bladed weapon . When his father and mother were given the task of rooting out a traitor on the outpost on Khitomer , Worf insisted on accompanying them.

Mogh did not find the traitor in time to save the Khitomer outpost from being devastated in a brutal and unprovoked assault from the Romulan Star Empire , in response to false intelligence indicating weapons of mass destruction were being developed on Khitomer. Worf was one of the few survivors of the massacre. His infant brother, Kurn , was left behind on Q'onoS in the care of a family friend and Klingon Imperial Intelligence agent named Lorgh .

The first vessel to respond to the outposts distress call was the Federation starship USS Intrepid . Worf was discovered buried in the rubble of his family's residence by a Starfleet officer named Sergey Rozhenko , and it was determined that he had suffered some brain damage, losing part of his memory. Rozhenko spent much of his off-duty time with Worf, aiding in his recovery. After learning from another survivor, Worf's nursemaid Kahlest , that the boy's life may be in danger if he stayed in the Klingon Empire , Rozhenko convinced his wife Helena that they should adopt the boy. Lorgh used his connections in the Empire to ensure the adoption's legality, and began to raise Kurn himself. ( TLE novel : The Art of the Impossible )

The Rozhenkos raised Worf on the farming colony of Gault and on Earth in Russia and the city of Minsk , with their own son Nikolai "Simon" Rozhenko . In his childhood, Worf saved Nikolai from drowning in a river. ( TNG - Starfleet Academy novel : Worf's First Adventure ; TNG - Shadowheart comics : " My Brother's Keeper ", " The Prince of Madness ")

While living on Gault, Worf, alongside his brother Nikolai, was active on the local soccer team, serving as team captain. Worf was often mocked by other players, but was held back by his brother, who defended him.In 2353 , during a tense game, a crucial play caused Worf and an opponent named Mikel to leap up and attempt to hit a high-flying ball with their heads. The two impacted, and force of the impact was such that, while Worf did not even feel the hit, Mikel's neck was broken. Mikel died the next day; the tragic accident prompted Worf to become very restrained in his behavior and emotional outbursts for the rest of his life, mindful of Human frailty. ( DS9 episode : " Let He Who Is Without Sin... "; TNG - Shadowheart comic : " My Brother's Keeper ")

In 2355 , when his foster parents arranged for him to stay at his cousins on the Klingon homeworld. He visited the Great Domes of Qo'noS and upon gazing at them, he stated that he felt that he had finally came home even if his cousins didn't want to have anything to do with him.( DS9 episode : " The Sword of Kahless ")

Starfleet Academy [ ]

Cadet Worf in 2357.

In the year 2357 , Worf and Nikolai enrolled in Starfleet Academy . Upon arriving at the Academy, a Brikar cadet named Zak Kebron picked a fight with Worf believing that Klingons had no right to join Starfleet. Rather than expel the two students before they could even report to their first classes, the Academy decided to make the pair roommates, forcing them to work out their differences.

Worf soon joined a study group that originally included his brother, cadets Mark McHenry and Tania Tobias of Earth, and Soleta of Vulcan . After Worf and Kebron came to state of mutual understanding and respect (if not actual friendship), Kebron joined the group as well.

When the squad was told that they were going on a training exercise on Prometheus Station , the cadets had no reason to believe that anything was amiss. They unexpectedly came under attack from a Romulan warbird and, suddenly without a commanding officer , were forced to work together to save each other's lives. In the end, however, none of it was real. The real training exercise was not on Prometheus Station , but on an Academy holodeck .

During his time at the academy, Worf's overshadowing behavior to help his brother caused friction between them, especially during fights with other cadets.The experience made Worf's brother realize that Starfleet was not the place for him, and he returned to Russia and eventually Gault. ( TNG - Starfleet Academy novel : Worf's First Adventure ; TNG - Shadowheart comics : " The Lion and the Lamb ", " Dealers in Darkness ")

During his time at the academy, other people would give Worf a hard time regarding his heritage. This led his ancestry to become a "sensitive issue." ( TNG video game : The Transinium Challenge )

K'Ehleyr [ ]

Cadet Worf and K'Ehleyr on Dantar IV.

A few months later, Worf's squad (dubbed the " Dream Team "), were assigned as liaisons to the colony world of Dantar IV , a Federation/Klingon co-venture that was having troubles. Once on Dantar, Worf met a Klingon emissary named K'Ehleyr , to whom he formed an immediate attraction.

When an unknown force attacked the colony, there were not enough evacuation ships for everyone. Worf, his squad, and a squad of Klingons under the command of K'Ehleyr stayed behind so the civilians could escape. Worf and K'Ehleyr worked together and got their respective squads to work together as well. During this time, Worf's attraction to K'Ehleyr grew. ( TNG - Starfleet Academy novel : Line of Fire )

After Soleta captured one of their attackers, a Brikar named Baan , Worf would not allow the Klingons to incarcerate Kebron simply because of his ancestry. After rescue came in the form of the USS Repulse , it was revealed to the cadets that the Brikar government had briefly declared war against the Federation.

Worf and K'Ehleyr parted company in the transporter room of the Repulse , and Worf said that he did not believe that the two of them would meet again. K'Ehleyr disagreed. ( TNG - Starfleet Academy novel : Survival )

It turned out that K'Ehleyr was correct. The two would meet more than once in the coming years, and engage in a physical relationship. K'Ehleyr hid from Worf the fact that she became pregnant and gave birth to his son, Alexander .

Starfleet officer [ ]

Uss aldrin [ ].

Worf served as an ensign aboard the USS Aldrin from the years 2361 to 2364 . Also on the Aldrin were "Dream Team" alumni Soleta and Tania Tobias.

In 2363 , Worf was a part of an away team on the planet Kalandra Minor that was attacked by Romulans . This was the first time Worf had encountered the race since his parents' deaths all those years ago, and he did not hesitate to use lethal force against those that he encountered. ( NF - No Limits short story : " Revelations ")

Enterprise -D [ ]

In 2364, Worf transferred to the Federation's new flagship, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) with the rank of Lieutenant, junior grade under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard . ( TNG episode : " Encounter at Farpoint ") Although he had applied for a position in security, Picard initially appointed Worf bridge watch officer, whose duty would be to fill in where needed on other stations, reasoning that such a role would give Worf important experience for his future career in Starfleet. ( TNG novel : The Buried Age )

Worf's life changed quickly aboard the Enterprise . In late 2364, he became the ship's Chief of security after the death of the previous position holder, Lieutenant Tasha Yar . ( TNG episodes : " Skin of Evil ", " The Child ") By 2366, he was given the rank of full Lieutenant . ( TNG episode : " Evolution "; WizKids module : Attack Wing )

In 2365 , Worf was briefly reunited with K'Ehleyr on her mission to prevent a Klingon sleeper IKS T'Ong from attacking lightly defended Federation colonies. After the mission, Worf and K'Ehleyr parted ways with Worf saying he would not be complete without her. ( TNG episode : " The Emissary ")

Earlier that same year, Picard learned that Worf carried 14 weapons (mostly hidden) on his person while on duty. ( TNG novel : Strike Zone )

In 2366 , he was reunited with his brother, Kurn, who was now serving in the Klingon Defense Force . Kurn informed Worf that their father, Mogh, was accused of being the traitor that aided the Romulans at Khitomer all those years ago. Mogh's accuser was Duras, son of Ja'rod . It was later revealed that Ja'rod himself had been the traitor, and that the Klingon High Council was covering up the truth behind Khitomer to protect Duras' politically powerful family, the House of Duras . Worf accepted discommendation to protect the Klingon Empire and prevent a civil war. ( TNG episode : " Sins of the Father ")

When K'Ehleyr discovered the truth in 2367 , she confronted Duras and Duras murdered her, leaving Worf with the young son that he only just discovered that he had. Worf slew Duras under the Klingon Right of Vengeance aboard Duras' ship; only by virtue of the intervention of Captain Picard, then serving as Klingon Arbiter of Succession, was Worf spared a court-martial and dishonorable discharge from Starfleet. ( TNG episode : " Reunion ")

Worf was then part of the Commander Riker's shuttle crew of the Albert Einstein to Beta Hydros Four to help treat the Zelaznan fever breakout. When the Albert Einstein was sucked into a vortex, Riker was seriously wounded, and Worf was left in charge of the shuttle crew. He then ordered Ensign Crusher to proceed at best speed back to Federation space. Five days later, Worf and the crew came across a structure composed of various ships. Worf was cautious about approaching the structure. When the shuttle got caught in a tractor beam Worf suggested reversing engines, but then had the crew arm themselves. When they were taken aboard, Worf and the crew met a Betazoid man named Darios Appolene . Worf demanded an explanation of the structure and its people.( TNG - The Star Lost comics : " The Flight of the Albert Einstein ", " Mourning Star ", " Trapped ")

Worf was then assigned as a liaison to the nation of Dorossh on Allios IV to look over their history. Unfortunately, after his tour, Worf voluntary allowed himself to be taken prisoner by Worikk and the Dorosshians for supposedly assassinating elder Kalkass . During his time there, Worf was brutally tortured by the Dorosshians even as the Enterprise -D negotiated his release. Worf saw that he was becoming dishonored and that he would be sent to Gre'thor . Worf then attempted to fight his way out but was subdued. Just as he was about to be executed, Worf was saved when Captain Picard and elder Kalkass appeared before his executioners. ( TNG - Ghosts (TNG) comics : " Ghosts, Issue 2 ", " Ghosts, Issue 3 ", " Ghosts, Issue 5 ")

While the Enterprise was escorting Captain Morgen to Daa'V to ascend to his new position as king of the planet, Worf was troubled by the presence of some of the Stargazer crew, as the Klingons had a long history of tension with Daa'V and Worf was personally troubled by Idun Asmund , a human raised by Klingons as a 'counter' to Worf's own history. Events occurred to suggest that Idun was attempting to kill Morgen after her sister Gerda had tried the same thing on the Stargazer , but Worf accepted Idun's argument that the methods being used for these murders reflected a lack of honor. Eventually, the true culprit was exposed as Doctor Carter Greyhorse , the former CMO of the Stargazer and Gerda's secret lover. In acknowledgement of the bond he had formed with Worf during the crisis, Morgen invited Worf to join his chosen honor guard on Daa'V after Greyhorse's actions rendered two of Morgen's original choices impractical. ( TNG novel : Reunion )

Worf and Kurn were instrumental in the accession to power of Chancellor Gowron, son of M'Rel , over Toral, son of Duras , in the years 2367 and 2368 . For their assistance, Gowron restored their family name and gave Kurn a seat on the High Council. He then temporarily resigned his Starfleet commission and joined Gowron's Klingon Defense force as weapons officer aboard the IKS Bortas ( TNG episode : " Redemption ")

In late 2368, he began a romantic relationship with ship's Counselor Deanna Troi that lasted close to two years. ( TNG episodes : " Ethics ", " Parallels ")

Late in 2368 (stardate 45934.7), Worf was set on the diplomat's path when Picard chose him to handle negotiations in a dispute between Rigelians and Kaylar on the Federation colony of Votar VII . After choosing Ensign Ro Laren to assist him, Worf spoke with the involved parties to little gain and made a failed non-lethal assault on a Kaylar-held dam. Using the early French diplomat Talleyrand as example, Picard suggested Worf try an alternative approach. After uncovering Rigelian duplicity, Worf threatened to abandon them to it and to cut future Federation contracts with the Rigelian group. Administrator Pahtel yielded and both sides returned to negotiations ( TNG comic : " A Matter of Dates ").

Worf and Ro fighting the monks

In early- 2369 Worf, Geordi and Ro Laren took the shuttlecraft Goddard to receive Starfleet briefings. On their return journey the shuttle was forced to drop out of warp due to solar flare activity and crash-landed on the planet Riat . The shuttle damaged beyond immediate repair and the planet inhospitably cold the away team sought shelter in a nearby Dracon monastery . Unfortunately the order of monks in the monastery had become violent and cannibalistic due to radiation from the solar flares causing a mutation in an algae in their water supply. The team was forced to fight the monks off several times before another shuttle from the Enterprise arrived to rescue them. ( TNG - The Space Between comic : " Light of the Day ")

In 2369 , Worf was instrumental in having the clone of the original Kahless the Unforgettable installed as Emperor of the Klingon Empire . ( TNG episode : " Rightful Heir ")

In 2370 , the Enterprise -D rendezvoused with the Goddard , carrying retired Captain Montgomery Scott . Scott utilized the old logs of the original USS Enterprise and recreated the gravity slingshot that propelled the Bounty 2 back through time, with the Enterprise following. Although they were able to determine the ship was in the late 23rd century , Worf was unable to detect any subspace traffic on any frequency used by the Federation, Klingons, or Romulans. Later, after assuming the Borg were controlling an officer aboard the Alliance vessel they encountered, the Wisdom , Worf and two of his ensigns, Porfirio and Houarner , waited to take the spy into custody. The Borg Queen -controlled Narisian Balitor was able to take a phaser from Porifio, but Worf and Houarner were able to subdue her, allowing the Enterprise to return Captain James T. Kirk to the Nexus and undo this reality. ( Star Trek novel : Engines of Destiny )

Later that year, Worf defied orders to report to the bridge when the Enterprise came under attack, instead going straight to Deanna Troi's quarters. Fortunately his instincts were correct and his actions saved Deanna's life, he was reprimanded by Captain Picard for defying orders never the less. Later when Deanna had recovered, he walked in on her and Commander Riker having a pillow fight, dropping the flowers he had bought her in the process, the two were able to reassure Worf they were just acting as friends as Riker departed on a date leaving Worf and Deanna to their romantic evening. ( TNG - The Space Between comic : " Strategy ")

By the time the Enterprise was lost on the planet Veridian III in 2371 , Worf had risen to the rank of Lieutenant Commander . ( TNG movie : Star Trek Generations )

Shortly after the destruction of the Enterprise -D, Worf proposed marriage to Deanna, and she accepted. The engagement was short lived. After a harrowing experience involving Romulan known as Sela , Deanna realized that she still had feelings for her first love, Commander William T. Riker , while Worf concluded that he was emotionally unsuitable as a long-term partner for Deanna. The two broke off their relationship, but remained friends. ( TNG novel : Imzadi II )

Deep Space 9 and the Defiant [ ]

Worf faces the Klingon attack.

After the destruction of the Enterprise and his break-up with Deanna, Worf took a leave of absence from Starfleet and traveled to the Klingon monastery on Boreth . It was there that he received his orders to report to Starbase Deep Space 9 in the Bajor sector in early 2372 . Klingon Chancellor Gowron had amassed a large fleet of ships for reasons unknown, and the station's commander, Captain Benjamin Sisko , had requested Worf's assistance in discovering the truth behind the Klingons' paranoia and to talk sense into them.

When Worf discovered that the Klingons were planning on attacking Cardassia , Worf relayed this information to Sisko. Gowron was willing to forgive Worf for this, but only if he accompanied Gowron for the assault on Cardassia. When Worf refused, Gowron stripped his family of land and title, effectively restoring his state of discommendation.

Sisko offered Worf the position of station's strategic operations officer , coordinating Federation assets throughout the bustling Bajor sector, as well as the position of first officer of the USS Defiant -- a switch to the command track. Worf accepted. ( DS9 episode & novelization : The Way of the Warrior ; ST reference : Star Trek 101 ).

Following a time-travel mission to DS K-7 in 2268 , Worf then participated in removing DS9's tribbles using a phaser rifle. ( DS9 episode & novelization : Trials and Tribble-ations , DS9 comic : " Nobody Knows the Tribbles I've Seen ")

Worf served in those positions for four years, throughout the Dominion War . He also commanded the Defiant during the Second Borg incursion where the Defiant was almost destroyed but still salvageable. ( TNG movie , novelization & comic adaptation : Star Trek: First Contact )

Worf helped rescue General Martok, son of Urthog , who had been replaced by a Founder , from a Dominion internment camp in 2373. The two became fast friends, and Worf eventually underwent a ritual making himself Martok's brother by blood and a member of the House of Martok .

He briefly commanded his son Alexander, who had joined the Defense Force, when Worf was temporarily attached to General Martok's vessel, the IKS Rotarran . In early 2374, Worf married Starfleet Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax , a Joined Trill ; the union lasted until her untimely death in late in December of that year. During the war, Worf and Jadzia served together on an important mission to extract a Cardassian defector; when Jadzia's life was endangered, Worf chose to save her instead of the defector, earning a major reprimand /permanent demerit due to "dereliction of duty". It was Captain Sisko's opinion the reprimand might prevent Worf from ever earning command of his own ship, but that as a man Sisko could not fault Worf for rescuing his wife. On stardate 51604, a disciplinary note was entered into Worf's record, stating that he was therefore "ineligible for any further promotion or any permanent command position." ( DS9 episodes : " You Are Cordially Invited ", " Change of Heart ", " Tears of the Prophets ", ST video game : Starship Creator , ST website : StarTrek.com )

Ambassador Worf [ ]

Towards the end of the war, Worf was instrumental in the installation of Martok as the new Klingon Chancellor, after Gowron's dishonorable actions caused the deaths of many Klingon warriors. Gowron had taken personal command of Defense Force assets on the front lines, and was purposefully launching suicidal and wasteful attacks in an attempt to discredit the popular Martok, whom Gowron had come to see as a threat to his power base. Worf challenged Gowron to a duel for his actions and killed him; Worf then had the right to become Chancellor himself, but instead chose to bestow the office upon Martok.

After the war was over in late 2375 , Martok 'thanked' Worf by requesting that he be named as the new Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire . Worf had lived in between the two societies for his entire life. He was responsible for the installation of the last two Chancellors and an Emperor. Furthermore, both K'Ehleyr and Jadzia's previous host, Curzon Dax , had held the position. He was the perfect choice. ( DS9 episode & novelization : What You Leave Behind )

Before Worf could take on the position, he had to assist Martok in securing his position as Chancellor. A coup engineered by the Klingons Morjod and Gothmara destroyed the Great Hall and threw Qo'noS into chaos in early 2376. It was only when Ezri Dax brought the legendary Sword of Kahless into Martok's possession that Martok's position was solidified. ( DS9 - The Left Hand of Destiny novels : Book One , Book Two )

Worf's first assignment as Ambassador brought him to the world of taD , Klingon for "frozen," to settle a dispute between the indigenous population, who had appealed for recognition from the Federation after overthrowing the local Klingon government, and the Empire, who wished to have taD back under their own control.

With the assistance of his new attache, Giancarlo Wu , and the crew of the IKS Gorkon Worf, adapting to the needs of his new post, came up with a solution that pleased all parties and avoided bloodshed, installing a Klingon engineer from the Gorkon crew as a ceremonial emperor while granting practical autonomy to the populace. His new career was off to a good start. ( TNG novel : Diplomatic Implausibility )

Following the discovery of a Tholian attack on a Klingon colony in 2268 , Worf oversaw the first peace talks between the Tholian Assembly and the Klingon Empire. ( SCE eBook : Foundations, Book Three )

Worf's time as ambassador was shortlived. During the time post-war, Worf's duties as ambassador slowed to managerial and Targ Hunts. While awaiting the arrival of a liaison to Andor for a suitable punishment for an altercation, he was confronted by Ezri Dax. As it turns out, the day she approached him was the day that Jadiza had perished and Worf was acting strange. Through her role as psychologist, she gets Worf to admit that he only took up the position of ambassador to run away from his lingering feelings of Jadiza within Erzi. Ultimately, after rebuking the liaison, Worf decided to return to Federation space, intending on contacting both Martok and Picard. ( Waypoint 2019 Special )

During 2376, Worf was given temporary command of the Defiant-class USS Avenger , at first to protect the Ba'ku and later to stop Sela in assisting Toral. ( ST video game : Armada )

The Wardens [ ]

Also in 2377 Worf was one of the many victims of the Wardens plot to take over the galaxy . Whilst the Klingon High Council , under Warden control, prepared to go to war with the Federation, the Wardens kidnapped Worf in an effort to prevent him from defusing the situation. Fortunately, the crew of the USS Incursion were at hand and promptly rescued Worf from captivity, delivering him to the Council chambers where he quickly moved to dissuade Chancellor Martok from launching the planned attack. ( ST video game : Away Team )

Back with Starfleet [ ]

When Captain Benjamin Sisko and the crew of the USS Theseus witnessed the death of numerous Crystalline Entities , they detected a particle trace found only at Sarkadesh , a planet deep in Klingon space. They traveled to Qo'noS to ask permission to visit said planet, but their request was denied. Seeing no other alternative, Sisko disobeyed the Emperor and went there anyway, asking that Worf would accompany him. While Sisko and an away team beamed up to the planet, Worf was left in charge of the bridge, having to handle a horde of Klingon ships that had been sent to arrest them. Thanks to his cunning, Worf was able to avoid any casualties, and, upon the Captain's return, he decided to resign from his post as ambassador and officially rejoin Starfleet. ( ST - Godshock comic : " Part 2 ")

Promotion [ ]

After serving as the Captain of the Enterprise for many years, Captain Picard was promoted to the rank of Admiral in order to lead the mission to assist the Romulans in evacuating their home system. After his own promotion Picard suggested that Worf be promoted to Captain and given command of the Enterprise . Some in Starfleet objected due to Worf's reprimand for his actions on Soukara many years ago, but Picard argued that the experience had made Worf a better officer and that his service since then had been exemplary. Starfleet agreed with Picard, and promoted Worf to Captain right after Picard's promotion. ( Picard novel : The Last Best Hope )

Path to the 25th century [ ]

After leaving Starfleet and returning to the Klingon homeworld, in 2385 Worf began a relationship with Grilka. The next year, he married Grilka . ( ST website : The Path to 2409 )

In 2387 , Worf accepted a provisional commission in the Klingon Defense Force, and was eventually granted the rank of general. He led a task force to stop Nero 's quest for vengeance following the destruction of Romulus . The task force was quickly overwhelmed and Nero demanded that Worf deliver himself as a captive. Worf agreed, but uses the surrender as cover to lead an EVA mission onto Nero's vessel. The Klingons met with initial success, while Worf made his way to the command center to find Nero. Worf rejected Nero's attempts to persuade him, and was impaled by the vessel's Borg-enhanced mechanisms. Alive but only tenuously, Worf was beamed to the Enterprise as part of a ploy to lower the Starfleet vessel's shields, and was immediately transported to sickbay. ( TNG comic : " Countdown, Number Four ")

It took some time for Worf to fully recover from the wounds received onboard the Narada . On stardate 65548.43, Grilka gave birth to Worf's second child, a boy named K'Dhan . ( ST website : The Path to 2409 )

Worf, circa 2409.

Sometime prior to 2401 , Worf again became a Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire . In that year, he was among a number of retired and current Starfleet officers who urged the Federation Council to reconsider their position on the Klingon-Gorn War . These veterans argued that the UFP should join the Klingons in fighting the Undine , but the Council was not swayed. After the session closed, Worf resigned his position and returned to Qo'noS for the final time, saying that he could no longer serve a regime who would willingly endanger its people and that he must follow the path of honor. ( ST website : The Path to 2409 )

In 2409 , Worf was often found in the First City , seeing to the business of the House of Martok and assisting young warriors. Later, he traveled to New Romulus to act as a liaison between Klingon and Federation forces assisting the Romulan Republic with the activation of an Iconian gateway discovered there. ( STO missions : " Friend or Foe ", " Bringing Down the House ", " Sphere of Influence ")

In 2410 , after the defeat of an Undine planet killer over Qo'noS by a joint Federation/Klingon/Romulan fleet, Worf was present for the signing of the armistice that ended the Federation-Klingon War of 2405-2410 . ( STO mission : " Surface Tension ")

Alternate realities [ ]

A major tangent of the prime timeline was created in 2373 . Called the First Splinter timeline , this alternate reality 's Worf was an influential player in Federation politics and also the battle to stop the Devidian temporal apocalypse . ( Coda )

Other alternate realities [ ]

In an alternate timeline created when the USS Enterprise -C was accidentally sent through a temporal rift from 2344 to 2366 , the Federation had been at war with the Klingon Empire for almost 20 years as the Enterprise -C's disappearance resulted in the destruction of the Klingon colony Narendra III . In this timeline, Worf was not a member of the Enterprise crew. The positions of tactical officer and security chief were held by Lieutenant Tasha Yar in 2366. ( TNG episode : " Yesterday's Enterprise ")

In an anti-time future experienced by Jean-Luc Picard , Worf was the governor of the H'atoria colony in 2395 . He held great antipathy for Admiral William T. Riker in that timeline, stemming from the death of Deanna Troi in 2375 . ( TNG episode & novelization : All Good Things... )

In another alternate timeline, Worf was serving as Chancellor of the Klingon Empire in 2402 . ( TNG short story : " Staying the Course ")

In another alternate timeline in which Captain Sisko became trapped in a subspace field in 2372 , Worf was an influential member of the Klingon High Council in 2422 . ( DS9 episode : " The Visitor ")

In another alternate timeline created by the USS Defiant being sent back in time to the 22nd century , the ship's crew, including Worf, settled on Gaia IV . He and Jadzia eventually married and had several children. By 2373 , they had numerous descendants, including Yedrin Dax , Brota and Lisa . ( DS9 episode : " Children of Time ")

In another alternate timeline, Worf was murdered in the Klingon High Council chamber in 2410 in front of his son Alexander Rozhenko . ( TNG episode : " Firstborn ")

In another alternate timeline in which Doctor Noonien Soong 's dream of widespread acceptance of artificial life in the form of Soong-type androids was realised, Worf transferred from the Enterprise -D to Deep Space 9 in 2372 . ( TNG - Myriad Universes novel : Brave New World )

Commander Worf in an alternate reality.

While returning from a bat'leth tournament on Forcas III in 2370 , Worf's shuttle, the Curie , encountered a quantum fissure and its warp engines caused a rupture in the barrier which separated one quantum reality from another. Consequently, Worf began switching places with his counterparts in different alternate realities.

In one of these realities, Worf only achieved ninth place in the bat'leth competition while, in another, he was unable to attend and his younger brother Kurn participated in his stead.

In two realities, Worf was married to Deanna Troi . In one of these, they had two young children, Eric-Christopher Rozhenko (born 2367 ) and Shannara Rozhenko (born 2368 ), while his son Alexander Rozhenko had never been born. In the latter reality, he was a commander and the first officer of the USS Enterprise -D , which was under the command of Captain William T. Riker as Jean-Luc Picard had been killed during the Borg Incursion of 2366-2367 .

Multiple Worfs from different alternate realities

In another reality in which the Borg Collective had succeeded in conquering the Federation and much of the Alpha Quadrant by 2370, the Enterprise , under Riker's command, was one of the last surviving ships. Along with Riker, Worf was one of its few remaining crewmembers. After it became one of the approximately 285,000 different Enterprise s to be sent to the same reality, Worf was killed when the Borg -infested Enterprise was accidentally destroyed by the Enterprise indigenous to that reality. ( TNG episode : " Parallels ")

In another reality, Worf was the Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire in 2380. By this time, he and Deanna were married and lived on Qo'noS .

In another reality, Worf was a general in the Klingon Defense Force . Prior to 2380, he had captured the United Earth Space Probe Agency vessel Enterprise for the Klingon Empire and renamed it the IKS Qu' . He executed the entire crew with the exception of Captain Picard, who became a slave and was kept in shackles on the ship's bridge. After the Qu' arrived in the primary universe , he opened fire on the Enterprise indigenous to that reality.

In another reality, Worf was the captain of the USS Enterprise -E in 2380. He referred to himself as "Worf Rozhenko" and spoke an ancient Klingon dialect . ( TNG novel : Q & A )

Chancellor Worf of the Klingon colony of Earth.

In the alternate reality created by Nero and a future in which Q brought the USS Enterprise a hundred years into the future, Worf was Chancellor of the Klingon colony of Earth in the 24th century. Worf was then introduced to Captain James T. Kirk . However, Worf was then killed by his brother Kurn and his guards, who revealed themselves to be Changeling infiltrators. ( TOS - The Q Gambit comics : " Part 2 ", " Part 3 ")

Interests [ ]

One of Worf's interests/hobbies was poetry reading. Another interest of the Klingon's was Parisi Squares . His other interests included the Mok'bara martial arts , Klingon opera (his favorite singer being traditionalist Barak'karan ), culture and mythology and building models of Klingon sailing-ships . Worf liked to command in the Battle of Tong Vey holographic program. ( TNG video game : Echoes from the Past , ST video game : Starship Creator , ST website : StarTrek.com )

Worf's service record [ ]

• Personal log , Worf

Appendices [ ]

Connections [ ], appearances [ ], external links [ ].

• Worf article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
• Worf article at the Star Trek Timelines Wiki .
• Worf article at Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia.
• Worf article at Tardis Data Core , the Doctor Who wiki
• 1 Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
• 2 Odyssey class
• 3 Typhon class

The Untold Truth Of Star Trek's Worf

"Star Trek" has a rich tradition of turning enemies into allies. The former Borg drone Seven of Nine becomes a valued crewmember on "Star Trek: Voyager," even as the Borg Collective attempts to conquer Starfleet. The Ferengi  are considered an enemy of Starfleet, until the bartender Quark makes them more than just a caricature of greed on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." 

And then there's Lieutenant Commander Worf, who does more to improve the image of the Klingons, the go-to villains of the original "Star Trek" series, than any other character. Portrayed by Michael Dorn, Worf is the first Klingon to become a Starfleet officer after generations of Klingon-human hostility. While this promotes Starfleet's policy of inclusivity, being a Klingon among humans is not easy, and Worf regularly functions as an outsider. Still, his presence often reveals the beauty and value of Klingon culture. Ultimately, he becomes a key character and a beloved fixture of the "Star Trek" universe. We're here to examine how Worf evolved on screen and off, from his favorite beverage to his surprising origins.

Worf wasn't supposed to be a regular Star Trek cast member

Considering how popular Worf is with fans, it's surprising to learn that the producers of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" did not initially want him as a regular cast member. As Larry Nemecek's "Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion" notes , Worf was originally imagined as a recurring character in seven of the first 13 episodes. Supervising producer Robert Justman also originally saw Worf as a "Klingon Marine" serving on the Enterprise as a symbol of better Federation-Klingon relations.

However, Dorn's performance as Worf was so magnetic that the showrunners felt the character had the potential to be part of the main cast. Over the years, Worf grew in importance and popularity, eventually becoming a central character who's done much to make Klingons actual protagonists in the "Star Trek" universe.

Today, Worf holds the record for appearing in more "Star Trek" franchise episodes than any other character, having appeared as a regular character in 11 seasons of both "Next Generation" and "DS9." In the "DS9" Season 5 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations," Worf is even digitally inserted into scenes from the classic "Star Trek" Season 2 episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles."

Worf's grandfather once defended Captain James T. Kirk

In "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country" (1991), Colonel Worf, Lieutenant Commander Worf's grandfather, is a Klingon attorney and diplomat who takes it upon himself to defend both Captain James T. Kirk and Doctor Leonard McCoy when they're accused of murdering Chancellor Gorkon. Although the trial is basically for show, with the majority of Klingons hoping for a double execution, Worf offers a strong defense and manages to get their sentence commuted to a life term of hard labor on Rura Penthe. This gives our heroes enough time to save both Kirk and McCoy and prove their innocence by unmasking Gorkon's true assassins. Colonel Worf himself helps reveal one of the assassins at a peace conference held at Camp Khitomer, thus vindicating his clients.

Michael Dorn plays Colonel Worf in the movie, and the filmmakers confirm in "Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages" that this Worf is indeed Lieutenant Commander Worf's grandfather. Aside from creating a strong link between the old and new "Star Trek" generations, this appearance reveals that Worf's family has always been full of honorable people willing to fight for justice.

Worf is a child of two worlds

Worf's backstory is eventually revealed in multiple "Next Generation" and "DS9" storylines. In time, we learn that Worf's birth parents were killed by Romulans while he lived on the Khitomer colony. A distress call led the USS Intrepid to Khitomer, where chief petty officer Sergey Rozhenko found a young Worf in the rubble. He took him home to be raised by his wife Helena alongside their son Nikolai on the farming colony of Gault.

Being the only Klingon in a largely human society proved difficult for Worf, but the Rozhenkos made a point of making sure Worf still practiced Klingon culture. He only ate Klingon food (motivating Helena to learn how to make Rokeg blood pie) and immersed himself in Klingon history, art, and philosophy. He also returned to the Klingon homeworld of Qo'noS at 15 and vowed to become a Klingon warrior. Sadly, his remaining kin rejected him due to his human upbringing.

Despite this, Worf maintains great respect for the humans who raised him and makes sure to adapt aspects of their ideals into his personal code. This is what leads him to enlist in Starfleet, making him the first Klingon to serve as an officer aboard a Federation vessel.

Worf considers Earth his home

Worf may have a great love of Klingon culture, but when it comes to what planet he considers home, his heart lies with humanity. In the "Next Generation" Season 4 episode "Family," Worf's adoptive human parents, the Rozhenkos, come to visit him on the Enterprise. In the process, they manage to embarrass Worf multiple times and become worried about their son's recent discommendation from the Klingon Empire.

Shortly after, the ship's bartender, Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) , approaches the Rozhenkos. She tells them that when Worf looks out the ship's windows toward the star he calls home, he doesn't look toward the Klingon Empire — he looks to Earth, and his adoptive parents. Later, in the "DS9" series finale episode "What You Leave Behind," Worf reveals he has a great love for the Rozhenkos' home of Minsk and suggests repeatedly to his crewmate Chief O'Brien (Colm Meaney) that he settle down there.

Worf killed a childhood playmate by accident

Other Klingons may come across as overly aggressive warriors with plenty of swagger, but Worf always presents himself with a very controlled and reserved demeanor. In the "DS9" Season 5 episode "Let He Who is Without Sin ... " he discloses the tragic reason for this to his lover, Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax.

According to Worf, he was a very forceful child who didn't hesitate to get into fights with kids he deemed disrespectful. He also loved participating in sports, and led his school's soccer team to the championships when he was only 13. Unfortunately, as he attempted to score, he smashed into another player, Mikel, and accidentally broke the boy's neck with his hard Klingon skull.

The experience scarred Worf, who realized he needed to practice greater self-restraint among human beings. As a result, he developed a more serious personality and honed his fighting abilities — not just so he could become a more efficient warrior, but also so he would know how to not accidentally hurt his friends.

Worf killed the Klingon chancellor on purpose

To say Worf's relationship with other Klingons is complicated would be an understatement. As the only Klingon to be raised by humans and serve in Starfleet (at least until  half-Klingon B'elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) becomes the USS Voyager's engineer), Worf is regarded as an outcast among his people. 

The Klingon government treats him with particular harshness. At one point, Worf's father is accused of treason, only for Worf to discover he's been framed by the rival Klingon House of Duras, to cover up their own sins. Realizing exposure of the truth could be devastating for Klingons and lead to in-fighting, Worf offers to take the blame for treason in the "Next Generation" Season 3 episode, "Sins of the Father." This ruins his family name, but lets him secretly spare the Klingon Empire from civil war.

Later, Worf helps Gowron, a new Klingon chancellor, rise to power. Gowron restores Worf's family honor in the "Next Generation" Season 4 episode "Redemption," but in the "DS9" Season 7 episode "Tacking into the Wind," Worf realizes Gowron is a dishonorable ruler who puts Klingons in needless danger during wartime. The two fight, and Worf kills Gowron, then passes on the role of chancellor to the Klingon general Martok. Thus, despite his outsider status, Worf's effect on Klingon politics is considerable.

Worf gets beaten up ... a lot

Even among Klingon warriors, Worf stands out as a formidable fighter. He's taken on Borg drones in hand-to-hand combat — and won. He's earned the title "Champion Standing" at a Klingon bat'leth tournament. He even teaches regular martial arts classes to Starfleet officers, including some advanced courses.

So it might come as a surprise for fans to learn that this  unbelievably tough Klingon tends to get beaten up ... a lot. In multiple "Next Generation" episodes, Worf is thrown around the bridge of the Enterprise or shot at by some new alien threat. At one point, in the Season 4 episode "Clues," he even gets his wrist broken by a possessed Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), who takes him out in under two seconds.

Worf is so frequently beaten up, in fact, that fans coined a phrase to describe the trope: " The Worf Effect ." This term refers to the storytelling practice of indicating how dangerous an unknown character is by having them beat up an established tough guy. Sadly, since the Enterprise regularly encounters unknown forms of life, writers used this trope to excess. Fortunately, by the time Worf transfers to Deep Space Nine, he starts winning most of his battles.

Worf's ideas get shot down ... a lot

"Star Trek" supposedly depicts a society that has moved past outdated prejudice. Here, people no longer discriminate against others based on race, gender, or species, and everyone's ideas are valued.

Well ... unless you happen to be Worf. Then your requests and recommendations keep being denied, no matter how politely and respectfully you ask. One enterprising "Star Trek" fan even combined the many instances of Worf's ideas being shot down, and ended up with a nearly 15-minute-long video . Over and over again, the poor Klingon is invalidated by his captain, first officer, and fellow Klingons.

To be fair, Worf does occasionally offer suggestions that his crewmates accept as sound advice. However, his tendency to be denied suggests that the "Worf Effect" which causes him to get beaten up all the time also sees him function as a constant counterpoint to his superiors.

Amusingly, Michael Dorn viewed the YouTube video in question, and found it hilarious. He even joked that he accepted the chance to reprise the character on "DS9" so he could make Worf more than " just the guy who got his ideas shot down all the time. " Happily, Worf's ideas are better accepted on "DS9," showing the Klingon does get some respect ... eventually.

Worf is unlucky in love

Klingons might be scary, but there's something about Worf that makes him irresistible to women. Both Counselor Deanna Troi and Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) fall for Worf and have relationships with him. 

This is risky, as Worf's girlfriends tend to receive gruesome deaths. In the "Next Generation" Season 2 episode "The Emissary," Worf renews a relationship with the half-Klingon ambassador K'Ehleyr (Suzie Plakson). After she discovers a conspiracy against Worf, however, she gets murdered and dies in Worf's arms in Season 4's "Reunion."

K'Ehleyr's death weighs heavily on Worf, but he gets a chance to move on when he marries Jadzia Dax in Season 6 of "DS9." However, when  Terry Farrell was denied the chance to be a recurring character and decided not to renew her contract for Season 7 , the producers opted to have Jadzia murdered by Gul Dukat in the Season 6 finale "Tears of the Prophets," leaving Worf a widower.

At least Troi is alive, right? Well ... not quite. In the "Next Generation" series finale "All Good Things," we visit an alternate future where Troi is dead — possibly due to a love triangle between Troi, Worf, and Riker. Worf and Troi eventually break up in the mainstream timeline, which may allow Troi to survive. He may be a devoted partner, but relationships with Worf tends to be hazardous to one's health.

Worf's many promotions

While some Starfleet officers have to wait a long time to be promoted ( we're looking at you, Ensign Harry Kim ), Worf is one crew member whose worth is constantly being recognized, resulting in multiple promotions.

Worf starts out as a lieutenant, junior grade in the early seasons of "Next Generation," and serves as a relief officer. He then takes over as acting security chief after the death of Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) in the "Next Generation" Season 1 episode "Skin of Evil," and later becomes both chief tactical officer and security chief, which leads him to be promoted to full lieutenant.

In the movie "Star Trek: Generations" (1994), Worf gets promoted to lieutenant commander. He later accepts reassignment as the strategic operations officer of Deep Space Nine in the "DS9" Season 4 episode "The Way of the Warrior." During his time on Deep Space Nine, he disobeys orders to save his wife Jadzia in the "DS9" Season 6 episode "Change of Heart," marring his service record and making his commanding officer Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) predict he'll never receive a command of his own.

However, in Una McCormack's novel "Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope," it's revealed that Worf does get promoted to captain of the Enterprise-E after Jean-Luc Picard gets his promotion to admiral. He may suffer a lot, but no one can say Worf isn't respected by his peers.

Worf is really bad at being a single dad

As if losing K'Ehleyr wasn't bad enough, Worf also discovers that his lover had a secret child with him — and that he's now responsible for young Alexander Rozhenko (Jon Steuer). To make matters more difficult, K'Ehleyr never taught Alexander about Klingon culture and the boy has no interest in being a warrior. Worf struggles to accept Alexander for who he is, and initially tries to force his son to change.

At one point, Worf sends Alexander to live with his adoptive parents, the Rozhenkos. They send him back, stating they are too old to handle raising another Klingon. Such actions have even prompted Michael Dorn himself to call Worf a "terrible father" in "Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages," and declare that "he hasn't got a clue."

Like a lot of children on TV shows, Alexander ages at a strange rate, forcing Worf to deal with him as a child, a teenager, and a young adult within a few short years. When he shows up as a young man on "DS9" played by Marc Worden, he finally chooses to become a warrior, but his early lack of training makes him clumsy among other Klingons, much to his father's embarrassment.

Worf loses his brother in a heartbreaking way

If there's one word that should be synonymous with Worf, it's "loss." Not only does this Klingon lose multiple lovers, he also loses family members — even when they don't actually die.

In the "Next Generation" Season 3 episode "Sins of the Father," Worf learns his younger brother Kurn  ("Candyman" acting legend Tony Todd) escaped death at the Khitomer massacre that killed their entire family. Now a Klingon commander, Kurn reunites with Worf, and is convinced to keep his identity a secret after Worf allows himself to be discommended from the Klingon Empire to save Kurn's life. Later, Kurn helps Worf restore their family honor, but when Worf refuses to invade the Cardassian Union with the Klingons, his family's lands and titles are stripped and Kurn is disgraced.

Depressed, Kurn attempts to kill himself. In the "DS9" Season 4 episode "Sons of Mogh," Worf elects to have his brother's memory wiped and his appearance altered so he can start a new life as "Rodek." In the process, Worf loses his brother and is even forced to tell him, "I have no family."

Worf considers prune juice a 'warrior's drink'

Klingons make a big deal about drinking plenty of "bloodwine" during ceremonies and celebrations. Worf himself has been known to partake in bloodwine, liking his to be very young and very sweet. However, bloodwine occupies a distant second place when compared to Worf's drink of choice: prune juice.

Introduced to the beverage by the Enterprise's bartender Guinan in the "Next Generation" Season 3 episode "Yesterday's Enterprise," Worf immediately proclaims prune juice to be "a warrior's drink," and begins consuming it in large quantities. He continues ordering prune juice during his tenure on Deep Space Nine, causing the Ferengi bartender Quark (Armin Shimerman) to break out in hysterical laughter until he realizes Worf is serious. As he learns, prune juice is very popular among Klingons in general.

Indeed, according to Keith R. A. DeCandido's "Next Generation" novel "Q&A," prune juice becomes the largest export from Earth to the Klingon Empire by 2380. As Klingons and humans have different biological systems, it's possible that Klingons experience an intoxicating effect from prune juice that humans can't enjoy — although it's also possible they simply appreciate not needing to worry about irregularity on the battlefield.

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Wayward Sons: How Worf Helps Me Navigate Adoption

“Are you the son of Mogh?" "Yes, I am."

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From his first appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation , Worf is cast as an outsider. He’s the first Klingon in Starfleet, but even more than that, he is a Klingon orphan raised by Humans. He is different and that’s made clear from the beginning. In “Encounter at Farpoint'' Captain Picard orders Worf to take command of the Enterprise-D ’s saucer section, to which Worf objects immediately: It’s against the Klingon way to abandon his commanding officer. Picard gives him a stern talking to on duty, and already we can see that Worf is out of place. Throughout the rest of TNG’s run and later, stationed on Deep Space Nine , Worf grows with and towards his Klingon heritage, eventually finding his own relationship with his dual heritages. And yet, his Klingonness is never really his own. Even in that first “Klingon vs Human'' interaction in “Encounter at Farpoint'' we see that Captain Picard is using Worf’s identity against him. Picard’s appeal to Worf’s duty goes beyond just that of a Starfleet officer. If Worf were to disobey, he would not just face a probable court martial, but he would be an example of a stereotypical “bad” Klingon in the eyes of those around him.

I, myself, am an adoptee. I was born in Cambodia and when I was 3 months old my mother left me in an orphanage where I was adopted 3 months later and was brought to the United States.  Like Worf, I’ve spent most of my life trying to figure out what Cambodianness means to me, if and how it can coexist with my white, American upbringing. I’ve always identified myself with Worf, but what’s drawn me to Worf above the other “outsider” characters (Odo, Data, Spock, etc.) was the way his identity is informed and dictated by those around him. As a transracial adoptee , my identity is a series of choices I have made to balance — or not balance — what feel like two radically different sides of myself. I was raised and socialized in white suburbs, which shaped the way I saw the world and myself. I am fortunate enough that most people I encountered weren’t openly hostile or racist towards me, but I also have a vivid memory of looking into the mirror by the front door and knowing that I looked “wrong.” For most of my life, I chose my adoptive side. When I would make attempts to learn about or connect with my Cambodian past, it felt artificial at best, or at worst, dishonest and ungrateful. The Khmer images and items  I had felt like tokens that might as well have been from the Gamma Quadrant. Certainly, at least, they didn’t represent me. Over time, I’ve come to embrace more of my heritage through small items like jewellery, and using the name my mother gave me, but it has been a long and intensely personal process to reach that point.

Pure Klingon joy and the ability to just exist are rare things for Worf. His triumphs are often framed through the lens of his two identities. His abilities as a tactical officer are often implied to be linked to (if not resulting from) his Klingonness. Throughout Trek, the dominant narrative of the Klingon culture is one of ancient glory, exemplified through the belief in Kahless, contrasted with a recent history of bloody conflict. Cambodian culture is seen through a similar lense. On one hand, the ruins of the Khmer Empire, especially the Angkor Wat complex, spring to mind. On the other, the genocide of the mid 20th Century is always present. To exist and be joyous in Khmer identity, then, is an act of liberation, just as Worf’s pride in his bat’leth victory liberates him from being viewed by his peers solely as the representative of an old enemy who has now been civilized.

Being made to be a representative of a community, through no real actions of your own, is something I can relate to deeply. I’m all too familiar with the experience of meeting a new person, only to find out they want to tell me about their backpacking trip through Southeast Asia. Cool, I guess. People tell me how they were warned about leaving the paths for fear of landmines and how beautiful they found the landscape in the same breath because, at the bottom line, they are one in the same. It throws my perception of my own homeland into flux, alongside my entire concept of identity. And yet, through Worf, I’ve seen a character who faces similar struggles: alienation both from himself, and from two cultures he would like to call his own in different ways. Worf’s lifelong process of defining and accepting himself, fully and authentically continues to be an inspiration for myself as I work through my anxieties and hopes around my own identity, and what it means to be me.

Matthew (they/he) is a recent McGill University graduate with a BA in Religious Studies and Classics, now preparing to explore the final frontier (the future) and hoping to continue their writing and research. Follow them on twitter at @sadmattyh.

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Lieutenant Worf

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Living... as the first Klingon to enroll in and complete his time at Starfleet Academy. Eventually he ends up on the USS Enterprise exploring the unknown and getting into adventures all over the universe.

Profession... Lieutenant under Captain Jean-Luc Picard. As a skilled warrior and member of the Klingon race, he’s an invaluable asset when the Enterprise comes up against enemy Klingon forces. Worf fights honorably under Picard, and is allowed to break dress code and wear a Klingon sash over his uniform.

Interests… soccer, battle, Klingon operas. Worf is a jack of many trades, and his versatility is necessary for his job as Lieutenant.

Relationship Status... married to Jadzia Dax, a Starfleet science officer from the planet Trill. They began dating after he became extremely impressed by her knowledge of Klingon culture and history. She was not his first love, though. As a young man he was in a tumultuous relationship with K’ehleyr, a half-Klingon woman with whom he had a son named Alexander.

Challenge... reconciling his violent Klingon heritage with his adoptive Federation upbringing. Though the Klingons are a warrior species, Worf was raised to be kind and caring. He always feels like an outsider, no matter how many friends he makes on the Enterprise.          

Personality... conservative, quiet, and occasionally humorless. He gets emotional when talking about his birth planet, but usually he maintains the highest level of composure as he feels it’s necessary to downplay his aggressive Klingon genes.

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Worf (Star Trek)

Worf , Son of Mogh is a heroic character from the Star Trek franchise. He was also the first Klingon in Starfleet, to be followed by B'Elanna Torres and her daughter, Miral Paris.

He was voiced by Michael Dorn , notable for his voice roles as Marcus and Frank Horrigan in Fallout 2 , as well as Maero in Saints Row 2 .

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History [ ]

Worf was born on the Klingon homeworld of Qo'noS on the Earth date Dec. 9, 2340. He was the son of Mogh and his wife Kaasin, and was named after Mogh's father . He was the elder brother of Kurn . At a young age Worf accompanied his parents to the Khitomer as Mogh attempted to track down a traitor who was working with the Romulans . Mogh was unable to uncover Ja'rod's treason before the Romulans attacked, killing over 4,000 Klingons - including both of Worf's parents.

The Starfleet vessel Interpid responded to the disaster. Worf was discovered by a Chief named Sergey Rozhenko. Worf had some injuries that resulted in some memory loss. Informed that Worf had no surviving relatives, Sergey and his wife Helena took Worf into their family. Mogh's friend Lorgh assisted in making sure the adoption was approved by the Klingon government. In order to ensure the survival of the House of Mogh Lorgh in turn raised Kurn as his own son.

Worf tragically learned the need to be disciplined in his reaction with humans when he accidentally head butted another young human named Mikel during a soccer match. Mikel broke his neck in the process. Even though it was an accident Worf felt a great deal of guilt over causing that death, and worked to make sure another accident like that never happened again. This caused him to distance himself from others and carry himself with a serious demeanor.

When Worf came of age he and his human brother Nikolai entered Starfleet Academy. Nikolai found he didn't like life at the academy and left after about a year. Worf stayed with it and graduated in 2361. During his time at the academy he met a female Klingon/human hybrid named K'Ehleyr and began a relationship with her. The pair broke off their relationship when they realized they were not ready for a long term commitment to each other.

In 2364 Worf was assigned to the Enterprise-D under Captain Jean-Luc Picard . He was reunited with K'Ehleyr in 2365 for a mission to find the Klingon ship T'Ong , whose crew had been in cryosleep for over 70 years. During the mission Worf and K'Ehleyr conceived a son who K'Ehleyr named Alexander.

Reunited with his brother Kurn in 2366, Worf was discommended by the Klingon High Council in order to cover up the crimes of Ja'rod, the father of Duras and a leader of a rival house. The following year Worf met K'Ehleyr again when she traveled with Chancellor K'mpec to ask Picard to be the arbiter of succession after K'mpec's death. She brought their son Alexander along, introducing the young Klingon to his father. K'Ehleyr was murdered by Duras a few days later. Claiming the right of vengeance on the grounds that K'Ehleyr was his wife, Worf slew Duras. While the death of Duras was in keeping with Klingon law and tradition, Picard considered it unacceptable for a Starfleet officer to kill another in this manner, and entered a formal reprimand in Worf's record.

Worf left Starfleet in late 2367 to fight in the Klingon civil war on behalf of Gowron. After Gowron was restored as chancellor, his first act was to restore the honor of Worf and the House of Mogh. Due to his actions in the war, Worf would become highly respected. Upon the war's conclusion, Worf requested reinstatement and was allowed to return to duty on the Enterprise Worf remained on the Enterprise until the ship was destroyed in 2371.

Worf later began a relationship with Deanna Troi, but that relationship did not work out long term and the pair parted amicably by 2375. Troi resumed her earlier relationship with Commander Riker, and would later marry him.

After the destruction of the Enterprise Worf traveled to Boreth for extended leave, spending time in discussions with the clerics who maintained the monastery on that world. Worf seriously considered leaving Starfleet as he no longer felt he had a purpose in Starfleet. He was called to assist Captain Benjamin Sisko on Deep Space Nine . At Sisko's behest Worf decided to remain on DS9. He accepted a transfer from security to operations, and became DS9's strategic operations officer.

During his time on DS9 Worf became close friends with and eventually married the joined Trill Jadzia Dax. In 2374 Worf chose to save Jadzia's life instead of going to a rezendevous with a Cardassian defector, this seriously damaged Worf's career and Benjamin Sisko told him he would probably never be given his own command after this. Starfleet entered a reprimand in Worf's file stating that due to the nature of the mission Worf would not face further discipline but that he would not be promoted any further nor given his own command.

He was assigned to DS9 until 2375, when he was named Ambassador to the Klingon Empire. Some time prior to 2382 he left that posting and returned to Starfleet, accepting a posting on the Enterprise . After Commander Riker finally accepted a promotion to Captain and was named the new commanding officer of the USS Titan , Worf accepted the role of first officer of the Titan . However, after the death of Commander Data , Worf remained on the Enterprise and was promoted to full commander and first officer.

After Picard was promoted to the rank of Admiral in 2382, Picard recommended Worf be promoted to Captain and appointed to succeed him as commanding officer of the Enterprise -E. There was some small resistance from officers such as then Captain Kristen Clancey due to Worf's reprimand for putting Jadzia Dax's life ahead of his mission on Sakura, but Picard argued Worf was a better officer due to his experience and had given exemplary service in all the years following that incident. Picard also argued that it would be good for Klingon-Federation relations to have a Klingon commanding Starfleet's flagship. Agreeing with Picard, Starfleet promoted Worf to Captain and gave him command of the Enterprise .

Worf was still alive in 2399, when retired Admiral Picard's aide Zhaban suggested he contact Worf and his other former Enterprise crewmates to assist him in his quest to save the life of Soji Asha . Picard admitted he thought about doing so but decided against doing so as Worf and the others would have joined him without hesitation, and Picard did not want Worf or his former colleagues to endanger themselves on his behalf.

By 2401, Worf was working as an independent contractor for Starfleet Intelligence , and was Raffi Musiker 's handler. When she went to confront the Ferengi Sneed over his role in destroying a Starfleet recruitment center, Sneed saw through her deception and attempted to kill her. Worf was forced to go and rescue her. Afterwards Worf revealed that he had received information from Odo about renegade Changelings who rejected the Dominion surrender and were trying to take revenge on the Federation for their defeat in the Dominion War.

Worf's concerns on this intel were justified as a faction of rogue Changelings led by Vadic had infiltrated Starfleet and infected the transporter system with Borg DNA taken from Picard's original body that had lingered there ever since his assimilation as Locutus of Borg. During Frontier Day, as Fleet Admiral Shelby was leading Starfleet from the USS Enterprise -F in the new Fleet Formation protocol (really another step by the Changelings in the Borg Queen's endgame), Worf, Picard, and the rest of the former Enterprise command crew tried to warn Shelby of the danger. Though she was alarmed at the mention of the Borg still being around, it was too late. Every Starfleet crew member under the age of 25 was assimilated into loyal Borg Drones and began slaughtering all of the unassimilated, including Shelby. Seven of Nine and Raffi provide cover for Worf, Picard, Troi, Riker, Crusher, Data, and LaForge to escape and retreat back to the Starfleet Museum, where Geordi reveals a surprise to the rest of the reunited crew: The refurbished USS Enterprise -D, salvaged from Veridian III per the Prime Directive, her destroyed stardrive section replaced with that of her sister ship, USS Syracuse , and despite still bearing the scars of its last battle with the Duras Sisters over Veridian III, it was more than ready to return to active duty to save Earth and the Federation from the Borg once more. Worf still argues over wanting to use the weapon systems on the Enterprise -E, such as the quantum torpedoes, but Troi shuts him up on the matter. Once the ship is powered up, they set course back to the Sol System to save Earth.

However, they soon discover the Borg Queen's Cube hidden in the Big Red Spot of Jupiter's surface, and go to investigate. Worf beams down with Riker and Picard, and while Picard goes to look for the Borg Queen and Jack, Riker and Worf look for the core as destroying that will sever the Queen's control over Starfleet. Once they find it, and fight off several surviving Borg Drones using phasers and Worf's Klingon sword, they refuse to evacuate without Picard, and head in to find him, locating him just as Jean-Luc willingly rejoins the Collective to try and free Jack from it as the Enterprise destroys the core, setting off a chain reaction to destroy the entire Cube. Riker asks Worf is this is a good way to go out, and Worf agrees this is the perfect way to die with honor, as a Klingon would want, with sacrificing your life to save thousands more, including your own kind, the highest level of honor there can be. Thankfully, Picard frees Jack from the hive mind of the Collective, and Troi pilots the Enterprise down to beam Picard, Jack, Riker, and Worf to safety, leaving the Borg Queen to howl in anguish as she and her Cube are destroyed, ending the threat of the Borg once and for all.

Back on the Enterprise , Worf returns to the bridge, and soon collapses in one of the command chairs, so worn out from the excitement that he falls asleep, his snoring immediately noticed by Geordi and Data.

Once back at Earth, Worf helps Raffi with patching things up with her family, and she thanks him for it. Afterwards, Worf joins the rest of his old crewmates at Guinan's bar, Ten Forward, in Los Angeles for one last toast and poker game.

First Splinter Timeline Continuity [ ]

Due to temporal interference by the Borg, a separate timeline branched off from the prime reality when the Enterprise -E returned to the 24th century after stopping the Borg from interfering in human history. The timeline, which would come to be called the First Splinter Timeline, was at first identical to the prime reality timeline, with Worf becoming an ambassador to the Klingon Empire after the Dominion War. As an ambassador Worf played a critical role in helping Chancellor Martok regain control of the Empire following Gothmara's coup.

Feeling unfulfilled in his role as Ambassador, Worf approached President Nanietta Bacco and requested to be reinstated in Starfleet, the one place where he felt fulfilled. He nominated his son Alexander to be his replacement as Ambassador. President Bacco agreed to his request and his recommended replacement, and Worf rejoined Starfleet by 2379. Like in the prime reality, he became first officer of the Enterprise -E after William Riker was promoted to Captain and named commanding officer of the USS Titan and Commander Data sacrificed himself to save the Enterprise .

Due to his exemplary service Admiral Leonard James Akaar placed Worf on a list of officers to be promoted to Captain and offered his own ship in 2386. Captain Picard expected that the promotion would happen within a year and told Worf that with the exception of Geordi LaForge that Worf might want to start thinking of candidates to be first officer. Worf responded he already had someone in mind.

In this timeline, Worf died in 2387, fighting to keep the prime reality safe from the Devidians, who were collapsing timelines to obtain neuro energy. A short time later, Captain Picard initated a temporal reversion, stopping the timeline from ever forming.

Memorable Quotes [ ]

Gallery [ ].

• Worf was portrayed by Michael Dorn in The Next Generation (TV series and films), Deep Space Nine , and most recently, Star Trek Online mmo game. Dorn won the part by showing up to his audition acting like what a Klingon did. That along with Dorn's stage training and lack of what the producers called "street accent" led to them offering the part to Dorn.
• Worf was originally intended to be a reoccurring character during the first few episodes of the series. Seeing that the character of Worf had a presence they made him a regular character on the series.
• Guinan introduced Worf to prune juice, which quickly became his preferred drink. Though he still enjoys blood wine, preferred sweet and young. (Don't know WHAT its made of, but somethings are better left unknown).
• Due to the sheer number of appearances in TNG, DS9, and films the character of Worf currently holds the record of the most appearances in all of Star Trek .
• Dorn also portrayed Worf's grandfather in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country .
• The late James Avery, Julian Christopher and the late Brock Peters were all considered for the role of Worf before Dorn was cast.
• Romulan Ale gives him headaches.
• Worf is the only male in the main TNG cast to not wear the Voyager -style uniform in Star Trek: Generations , he would later wear the Voyager -style uniform when joining the DS9 crew in the last four seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , but sporting command red like in the first season of TNG.
• Worf, along with Beverly Crusher and Troi are the only three in the TNG main cast to remain wearing the TV series uniform in Star Trek: Generations .
• While not canon, the idea of a Klingon Starfleet officer was first explored in Star Trek comic books with the character Konom , a pacifist who defected to the Federation after becoming disgusted by his people's warlike ways.
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Physical Strength Levels of Trek Species

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el Chalupacabra

Lieutenant commander.

• Feb 23, 2011

TiberiusMaximus

Fleet captain.

I think it's stated that Vulcans are 3 times stronger in 'Take Me Out'. Also, Augmented humans beat the snot out of Klingons, so I'd accept that Klingons are only slightly stronger than a human, at least on average. Some individuals of either species may be stronger or weaker. Trill seem to be almost as strong as Klingons, but not quite, so I'd say they're about equal to humans. Ditto for Bajorans and Cardassians.  

If Vulcans are 3 times stronger, not 5 in "Take me Out..", I will have to modify that chart a bit. This also throws off Klingons, because they can't be stronger than Vulcans. I would agree Cardassians and Bajorans are equal to humans.  

From what we've seen, I'd guess Klingons are from half again to twice as strong as humans, on average.  

TiberiusMaximus said: From what we've seen, I'd guess Klingons are from half again to twice as strong as humans, on average. Click to expand...

T'Girl

Vice admiral.

el Chalupacabra said: Star Trek 3, where Kruge picks up Kirk and throws him easily, indicating superior strength. However, young Spock threw a Klingon about as far, himself.? Click to expand...

Ferengi: They seemed the weakest, at probably half that of a human, except in their debut, The Last Outpost. In that, Data said they were "stronger than they appear," and seemed as strong as a human. Click to expand...

Romulans: This is a weird one. They never demonstrated superior strength in any series, and even seemed equal to humans, DESPITE their Vulcan lineage. Click to expand...

T'Girl said: A pregnant Kira once dropped a Klingon warrior with a single kick. Did I mention that she was preggers? Click to expand...

I like your Klingon reasoning, T'Girl. Good points, Saito...it's really not that clear cut.  

• Feb 24, 2011

TiberiusMaximus said: I like your Klingon reasoning, T'Girl. Good points, Saito...it's really not that clear cut. Click to expand...

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el Chalupacabra said: I've always been fascinated as to how humans stack up against alien species, physically, so I am starting this thread. If you have anything to add, or corrections to make, feel free It seems to me that physical strength levels vary in the Trek universe, but I have always been curious how humans stack up against other Trek species. First, it is hard to define the average strength level of a human. For simplicity, let's just accept the following as the "average man." The Average Man: height = 5'8 - 5'10 weight = 160 - 180 lbs. bench press (max) = 135 - 185 lbs. deadlift (max) = 185 - 235 lbs. squat (max) = 185 - 235 lbs. bicep curl (max double) = 60 - 100 lbs. bicep curl (max single) = 30 - 50 lbs. ...and just accept for sake and simplicity of argument, the "average" woman is roughly somewhere between half to 2/3s that. Relative to the average human, it's been stated: Human augments: Khan says to Kirk in Space Seed, "I have 5 times your strength." Vulcans: Their strength level varies, but I believe it is stated in DS9, "Take Me Out To The Holo Suite," Vulcans are 5 times as strong as humans. Other sources seem to indicate 3 times as strong. *Correction: Vulcans are 3 times that of humans, according to DS9's "TMOTTHS" Romulans: This is a weird one. They never demonstrated superior strength in any series, and even seemed equal to humans, DESPITE their Vulcan lineage. However, Star Trek 2009, Nero picks Kirk up like a rag doll, with one hand. It is reasonable to assume they are as strong as Vulcans, I think, so they must be 3 times as strong as a human. Klingons: While Klingons can be agreed to be tougher than humans (redundant vital organs, train as warriors from childhood and assumed to focus on physical fitness and fighting), on average they seem to be about as strong as humans. Worf would be an exceptionally strong Klingon or human, so I am not sure he would be a good example as the average "Klingon," and there is Star Trek 3, where Kruge picks up Kirk and throws him easily, indicating superior strength. However, young Spock threw a Klingon about as far, himself. So, I think Klingon must be somewhere between a human and a Vulcan, at maybe 1-3 times the strength of a human. *Correction: Average Klingons are probably not as strong as Vulcans, so they are likely 1-2 times as strong as humans. Jem Hadar: They seemed on par with Klingons Ferengi: They seemed the weakest, at probably half that of a human, except in their debut, The Last Outpost. In that, Data said they were "stronger than they appear," and seemed as strong as a human. Andorians: When Shran and Archer dueled in United, Shran displayed no superhuman strength. However, in Cease Fire, Tarah, the female Andorian,seemed to be stronger than Archer. Also, in United, Talas took out a Maco pretty easily. This could mean Andorian women are stronger than Andorian men. Data\Lore\B4: I think several times, Data says to various humans he has "many times" a human's strength. I don't know why, but for some reason I have stuck in my mind that Data is 10 times as strong as a human. ODO\Founders: Not stated, but has to be at least equal to Data. Borg: Data overpowered a Borg (assumed to be human) with one arm easily in Descent, but probably depends on the race of the Borg prior to assimilation. Maybe human Borg is as strong as an average Vulcan? Click to expand...

el Chalupacabra said: +2 T'girl, I hadn't accounted for gravity. Even after a couple years on a higher G planet, say 1.2 G, a person would be stronger just walking around and doing normal stuff. Since Nero is the only example of a stronger Romulan, it's quite possible he was an exception, and Romulans are equal to humans. But I minor disagreement here. I can buy Klingons being equal to humans with higher endurance, but not weaker. Saito... Didn't you know? Pregnant Bajorans have 5 times normal human strength. Click to expand...

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IDW continues to expand their universe of Star Trek comics with the announcement of a new ongoing series titled Star Trek: Defiant , a spinoff of the upcoming ongoing Star Trek series launching later this month . Set to debut in March 2023, the new Defiant series will see Worf put together a unique crew for a series described as “ The Dirty Dozen meets Star Trek .”

Worf assembles his crew

The simply-titled Star Trek that kicks off later this month will feature a pre- Nemesis story with Benjamin Sisko returning from the Bajoran wormhole on a mission to save the gods. And this new Defiant comic will be part of that same continuity. Here is the official synopsis:

In Defiant , someone is killing the gods…but while Benjamin Sisko and the U.S.S. Theseus have been facing the threats in the higher cosmos, very real casualties are growing on lower ground. The true enemy is a man, not a god, and Worf of House Martok has put together his own crew aboard the U.S.S. Defiant in the hopes of defeating the dangerous messiah behind a genocidal cult.

IDW is describing the series as “dark” and “edgy,” and it will be pulling from “all eras of Star Trek canon.” This is evidenced by Worf’s crew which includes Spock, B’Elanna Torres, Lore, and more as they set off on “a mission with very little guarantee of success!” Ro Laren can also be seen on the cover of issue one.

Defiant #1 cover A by Angel Unzueta

Defiant is helmed by two well-known comic veterans. It is being written by Chris Cantwell ( Iron Man , Star Wars: Obi-Wan ) with art by Ángel Unzueta ( Star Wars: Poe Dameron , The Flash ).

“Ever since I made my dad take me to my first Star Trek convention when I was ten, I have been waiting for this moment,” says Cantwell in a statement. “When Heather Antos, Jackson Lanzing, and Collin Kelly reached out to me about writing the first book to spin out of their flagship Star Trek title, I wanted the quality to match my massive wells of enthusiasm; I knew this book needed to be undeniably Star Trek first and foremost, but also something new and complex that would have readers leaning forward as they engaged with a more unexpected journey to the stars. Whereas the new Star Trek book carries forward the grand tradition of Starfleet’s saga of discovery and exploration, Defiant immediately sets out to break the rules of the Federation and go on a fugitive run from Starfleet with a cast of Trek ’s best iconoclastic heroes and ne’er-do-wells, each of them straddling worlds in their identities and calibrations in their moral compasses as they embark on a high-stakes galactic manhunt…the Prime Directive be damned.”

“To be part of this amazing new Star Trek universe is a big challenge, and I love big challenges,” says Unzueta. “It will be very exciting to show how far our crew can go to save the universe, how many rules they can break just to make things right, how ‘badass’ these guys can be when compared to the more clean-cut crew of the Theseus from the ongoing series. Also, I’m working with a great writer, friend, and partner from our Iron Man days, and with my favorite editor, who is pushing me to the stars once again. I am so excited and ready to make this book a new experience for the Trek audience!”

Defiant #1 Cover B by Malachi Ward

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With the announcement of this title, by early 2023 IDW will have two concurrent ongoing Star Trek comic series, which will be a first for the publisher since taking on the franchise over a decade ago.

“Just when you thought Star Trek comics couldn’t get any bigger, we’re continuing to boldly explore new frontiers,” says Senior Editor Heather Antos in a statement. “Between the flagship title and Defiant , it’s safe to say that we have comics’ biggest Trek fans—Lanzing, Kelly, Cantwell, Rosanas, and Unzueta themselves—crafting what is going to be Star Trek’s biggest and boldest interconnected comics story ever. And this is only just the beginning!”

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The folks writing this haven’t noticed that “dark” and “edgy” Star Trek hasn’t been all that popular recently?

Maybe its not popular in some circles- but it’s certainly been successful since Discovery is currently in production of its fifth season and Picard is gearing up for its third. It’s obviously resonating with people outside of the members of this particularly community.

The classic mistake of every greedy franchise owner: ditching the old fans and pleasing the new fans, no matter the cost, up to the point of making a franchise an antithesis of what it used to be. The end result is always the same: the “new fans” grow bored, find something “new and kewl” to spend their money on and when the greedy franchise owner suddenly runs out of cash brought in by the initial “new fans'” cash influx, it turns to the old fans, asking them to return. The old fans’ reply is always the same: “Oh, NOW you need us?! Where was this mindset of yours when we were telling you that you’re doing it WRONG?!” And this is what will happen to “dark and edgy” Star Trek.

I wonder, why is it that Star Trek cannot be its own POSITIVE thing and always has to emulate things which are in direct contradiction to its ethos? Why cannot Star Trek “win” in this contest and make OTHER shows try to emulate it? A little more than a decade ago everyone and their cat wanted Star Trek to become “battleSTAR TREKactica” just because Ronald D. Moore’s remake show was on TV. Today we are still dealing with the fallout of the last decade during which execs required everything, even toilet paper commercials, to emulate the “Game of Thrones,” even if there was no logical incentive to do so.

Perhaps, at one point, average people looking for entertainment had so much “light” in their lives that it made them embrace “darkness” out of spite. Maybe once they finally understand that having “darkness” for breakfast, lunch and dinner isn’t what entertainment is all about, they will welcome the “light” when it reappears. The good thing is that, sooner or later, this day will come. The bad thing is that, the way things are now, this “light” will NOT be Star Trek (or whatever remains of it) but its successor.

It’s just a comic book. It’ll be okay.

You could do worse. You could please not the new fans or the old. Like Disney Star Wars. They literally pissed off everyone. OT fans, prequel fans and sequel fans with the Rise of Skywalker. Even the new Trek’s at their worst haven’t managed that. At best they’ve been extremely poor written. With good effects and actors.

Oh man, I’m digging the cover by Malachi Ward! Worf as pop art.

I did some looking around and found that Ward did one in the same style featuring Data.

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Lore is in Worfs crew? Do the comics have the same new rule like the novels that they are canon until contradicted by onscreen media? If so…might this that Lore is NOT a villian in Season Three??

I would hope so. I am a bit tired of seeing Brent Spiner as villain again and again :-P

I don’t know, this may actually be genius. Spiner recently courted Paramount+ for his own series. I can see the concept coming together…

Somewhere…out there in the darkness…on Planet Spiner arises a new threat. An ancient madman, possessed by an obsession: to infiltrate and destroy the Federation. Brent of the Planet Spiner (shortened to Brent Spiner or sometimes B.S.) spends centuries cloning himself and developing sentient androids to infiltrate Starfleet and the Federation.

Before long…he’ll be everywhere.

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It’s going to be huge.

The comics and novels are not canon and never have been. The shows and movies have always been free to contradict them.

It doesn’t seem THAT far fetched that Lore could actually be reprogrammed to do good instead of evil.

So Something is Killing … “The gods” *Sigh*

It sounds like you were planning to make a comment of some sort here.

Numerous noncorporeal beings in TOS and TNG and the entirety of DS9 should show you exactly how this is not a contradiction of terms. “gods” in Star Trek just means all-powerful being, which is attainable within the fictional rules of the universe. It’s a very sci-fi idea to explore what that word means, and this is coming from an atheist.

I get the *sigh* – the killing the gods thing was literally just done in Thor 4, and Q & the wormhole aliens was already a faily decent comic a few years ago. Might still give it a shot but I get the gut reaction of _ugh_

no… the Q for example are not referred as gods

I think he refers to himself that way a time or two

Allpowerfull beings may are depicted by Star Trek species as gods but in the end they are always not gods. They may be non-linear, they may be very powerfull, but in the end they are no gods.

So when a comic speaks of some beings in the Trek Universe as “The Gods” this is just a missunderstanding of how beings in Trek are being depicted.

The Bajorans may view the wormhole entitys as gods. however, no one else does! And certainly the Q are not depicted as gods.

So no… there is nothing like “the gods” in star trek. This is not marvel…

This seems to be a lead-in to PICARD season three, as it centers around Lore and Worf. Something will happen that result in Worf embracing pacifism and Lore ending up in prison. And the “gods” being killed include the Q, thus explaining that dangling question from season two. If I’m right, that has interesting implications for season three. Are B’Elanna, Ro, and Spock in it? They have two viable Spock actors now to replace Nimoy.

There is already a lead in comic to Picard Season 3 focusing on Seven and Picard on the Stargazer post season 2. This looks like something entirely different.

There can be more than one tie-in.

In any case, this comic is about someone killing gods. The monthly comic it’s spinning off from is about the wormhole entities being killed. Picard season two is about Q dying. And Picard season three features Lore, who is in this series.

It has to be related.

Its not being marketed as related and this seems like just an attempt to play in multiple parts of the Trek sandbox at once. Star Trek Countdown while initially considered canon, got contradicted on screen (eg. Captain Data)

These comics always have an extreme case of small universe syndrome. But the fans need their fanwankery in order to buy comics I guess.

Lore is really giving me some Tom Hiddleston vibes, there.

if they ever needed to do a parallel / de-aged thing Tom could totally do a great version of a Soongian-android

“post- Nemesis”? Nope, it’s pre-Nemesis…set in that gap between the end of “Voyager” and pre-Nemesis…

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In the constantly expanding universe of Star Trek, a plethora of little details in the characters and scenery help flesh the world out. There are complex socio-political atmospheres present throughout the franchise, wonderful science fiction technology that is grounded in real world science , and often background props that act as Easter eggs for avid fans. One such addition to Worf is notable, not only because it’s uniquely out of place in comparison to his fellow officers, but that it symbolizes the Klingons and his strained relationship with Klingon culture . The item in question is his iconic shoulder sash.

The sash's proper name is a baldric. These are not inventions of Star Trek ; rather, they have their origin in ancient Earth history, most notably as military dress for the Roman Empire. They are basically a belt worn over the shoulder, sometimes used to carry a weapon such as a sword. They were considered better than traditional belts, as they would distribute the item's weight better than a belt worn around the waist. They allowed for quick access to the weapon when necessary. Today the baldric is still used, most notably by the Knights of Columbus, but also rather amusingly by Morris dancers. However, it normally fulfills a ceremonial role rather than practical.

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In the sci-fi world of Star Trek , Worf is not the only character to wear the baldric. Other Klingons wear it too, but it is also used by the Romulans to carry swords as part of their uniform. When designers for the Original Series and The Next Generation were coming up with costume ideas, they looked to real world history , and thought the baldrics were a great accessory to be used en masse by the Klingon empire. Interestingly, the baldric that Worf wears at the start of TNG, the gold one that looks more like fabric than his later versions, was the same prop used by the actors who played Kor and Kang in The Original Series . Worf had this baldric for the majority of the first season. Canonically he changed it to the more iconic silver plated version to denote his promotion to full lieutenant and security chief, but the change was actually be due to the original prop being stolen.

The baldric didn't just show that Worf was Klingon. It was also an important celebration of Klingon heritage. While other baldrics might have been used to carry weapons, the Klingon ones were solely for honoring their family or house, something that was important to Worf. The baldric bears his family emblem, the symbol of the House of Mogh. This was changed later when he became a member of House Martok.

Still, the question remains as to why Worf was allowed to wear the baldric at all. Seemingly every other character is required to wear a strict uniform (ignoring the obvious attempt at sex appeal from the Betazoid Deanna Troi). Put simply, uniform exceptions come down to how good an officer an individual is, and how lenient their captain is. Worf might be the most recurring character to break with uniform regulation, but he was by no means the only one. Some of these, like Deanna Troi’ s clothing choices were just ignored by their captains, or given an off-screen explanation. Others were explored as part of the narrative or character arc.

The wonderful Nog and Ensign Ro are great examples of the two ends of the spectrum. Nog was an exemplary engineer who never got into trouble wearing a traditional Ferengi head skirt. Ro, however, came to the iconic USS Enterprise with a reputation of bad behavior and little respect for the chain of command. Thus, when she boarded, Riker made a point of ordering her to remove her earring as it was not up to uniform code. Later on, when she proved herself as a team player and competent officer, she was allowed to wear it again. Another example is during the Voyage r series , when Tuvok is trying to get the Maquis crew members to behave themselves. He reprimands Chell for wearing a pendant over his uniform, something he probably would have let slide if they weren’t causing so much trouble.

Worf falls into the category of an exceptional officer ( despite being beaten up a lot ). But in addition to this, Picard has a deep knowledge, understanding, and respect for Klingon culture. He likely understands the significance of the baldric for a Starfleet Klingon trying to retain their sense of Klingon culture.

It’s important to remember that not only is Worf the only Klingon in Starfleet at this time, but he also has a very complex history with Klingon culture, having been orphaned at a young age and raised by humans away from his own people. He didn't have a bad upbringing, but he always felt out of place, desperately learning everything he could about his heritage. He overcompensates, and thus feels much more inclined to wear the baldric, when most other Klingons would not have felt the need. Picard likely knows this, and knows that the baldric and its house emblem are Worf's only tangible link to his dead parents and his family's honor. Either way, it is a wonderful way to set the character aside from the others, and give him a visual complexity that perfectly mirrors his inner turmoil and need to be seen as a Klingon — if the forehead ridges were not enough.

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While all Star Trek characters have their own corners of the Trekkie fandom, few are as popular as Worf, son of Mogh. As the first official Klingon in Starfleet, he was stationed in the Enterprise under Captain Picard . However, later he moved to Deep Space Nine during the Dominion War.

Starring into two different series, Worf is one of the most prolific Trek characters. For his popularity, though, he still manages to have a lot of holes in his story. That includes the stories of his people. Plot holes always get sci-fi fans theorizing, and few theorize as incessantly as Trek fans.

However, it only gets wilder when some of those theories are proven.

Here are 10 Crazy Worf Theories That Were Actually Confirmed.

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The Writers Hated Worf

There's a running joke among the Star Trek community that the writers hate Worf. Between the countless jokes at his expense, all the horrible or fatal romances, and his terrible relationship with his son, there's more than enough tragedy on the screen. Off-screen, though, the theory continues. Michael Dorn, who played Worf, has been lobbying for a "Captain Worf" show for years. While the theory started off as a joke, clearly there's some merit to it. Despite being a fan-favorite who spanned multiple Trek series, writers chose to revive a Picard series instead of giving "Captain Worf" a shot.

Better luck next time, Mr. Dorn.

Klingons Experimented With Genetic Re-Sequencing

Fans used the genetic manipulation theories to try to explain the countless, differing looks for Klingons over the years. However, Star Trek: Discovery confirmed this with their first season. In it, Ash Tyler passed away and they genetically manipulated the albino Klingon, Voq, to take on his appearance and his place on the Discovery.

With that kind of serious genetics capabilities, of course the Klingons are pretty advanced in that way. It definitely proves that they might have done some genetic enhancements to alter their own people. It can account for a lot of the inconsistencies in Klingon looks, styles, and mannerisms.

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Worf's Version of Klingon Culture Is Warped

When TNG started, Worf was the only modern window into Klingon culture. However, as time went on, the Enterprise crew interacted more and more with the warrior species. Fans became very aware that Worf revered Klingon culture but didn't seem to act anything like other Klingons. They theorized that Worf idolized being a Klingon, but for various, probably "raised by humans" reasons, didn't digest the more fun-loving, revelry side of it.

Eventually, the writers confirmed this in DS9 . While on a vacation with Jadzia, fans learned that Worf was more reserved because of a specific childhood experience. Growing up on Earth warped his perception, but breaking another child's neck on accident because of his Klingon strength made him pull back every Klingon part of himself.

Worf's An Incarnation of Kahless

Ever since the clone of Kahless was exposed, fans have been creating crazy theories about Worf actually being the the reincarnation of Kahless. Later Star Trek books have even partially confirmed the theory by saying the clone isn't even Kahless, but his brother.

The theory is rooted in Worf's past: a son loses his family in a tragedy, he grows up and does things no one else does, and then when he goes back to his people he immediately wins battles and brings people together. Whether he actually is a reincarnation or not isn't the truest part of the theory, it's the fact he emulates Kahless' ideals. Many other Klingons adore and know the legends, but Worf knows every bit of their history by heart and lives them every day.

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L'Rell's Empire Fell Before He Was Born

By the time that L'Rell took power in Star Trek: Discovery , fans were already perplexed about the different looks that Klingons were sporting. Creators tried to remedy the whole thing by making L'Rell look more like a classic Enterprise era Klingon. However, the true, easy reason that helps explain the phenomenon already laid around in fan theories.

Fans, looking between TOS Klingons and TNG ones, theorized that maybe there were different subsects of the Klingon race that constantly overpowered each other. This would not only explain why TOS Klingons looked so different, but why the ENT Klingons looked like TNG and others didn't.

Furthermore, it seems these different subsects ignore one another, and the best proof of that is that in TNG , Worf tells Gowron that no one has united the many houses before. However, in Discovery, L'Rell has. Best way to explain that away is with the "superseding subsects" theory (that'd basically been proved, let us have this one).

Worf Isn't Actually The FIRST Klingon In Starfleet

TNG makes a big deal about Worf being the first Klingon in Starfleet. However, for anyone watching the show, that's easy to doubt. There are so many people in the universe and it's hard to believe there's only one Klingon, and only one raised by humans, that would want to join Starfleet. Fans surely theorized that Worf was the only one the show liked talking about, understandably.

However, Star Trek: Discovery proved any fans wondering about that right.

While it wasn't exactly in an official capacity, Worf was not the first Klingon in starfleet. The first, actually, was Voq as Lieutenant Ash Tyler. Maybe he wasn't a good officer, maybe he actually was a shady spy, but he did get there first and he deserved that recognition.

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A Second Chance For Captain Worf

Even though Star Trek creators have been denying Michael Dorn a Captain Worf series for years, fans always theorized that he still has a chance. It seems with the new Picard series, those theories have some merit to them. If the writers are willing to bring back old Trek captains and Seven of Nine, then Captain Worf still definitely has a chance.

Much like before, Michael Dorn is totally still up for the challenge. While fans adore the character, no one seems to love Worf as much as the actor who played him. There's a fair shot he'll show up in the Picard series, but even if he doesn't, his own show seems plausible again.

The Clone Of Kahless Isn't Kahless At All

When the "Rightful Heir" episode happened, fans were already speculative about the validity of Kahless' claim. His creators already admitted to him being a clone, but was he even a clone of the right man? After all, the original Kahless was a great fighter who naturally brought people together. This one was a terrible fighter and caused dissent among his people until Worf got involved.

Eventually, the  Star Trek continuation books confirmed this wild fan theory. The novel, Kahless , said that the blood found wasn't actually Kahless', but his brother, Morath's. It explains not only all the inconsistencies, but also the flaws in the original plan. How would they have ever known it was really Kahless in the first place?

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Klingons Have Had A Wild Evolution Path (And Worf Doesn't Want to Talk About It)

Fans have always had serious questions about Klingons, but none raised so many as TNG 's episode "Genesis". Between the questions about genetic engineering science, cloning capabilities, and all the different evolutionary paths Klingons have taken, their history has always been a mystery.

Well, TNG all but confirmed the fact that Klingons have a unique, complex, and violent genetic history in Genesis. Like all other crew mates, Worf devolves into a much older version of his species. But unlike the others, Worf's new form is that of a plated, merciless predator that stalks the halls and destroys anything it finds.

If Troi was just a Betazoid but with gils, there has been some serious, unaccounted for genetic evolution between the Klingons nowadays and that. They must have manipulated their genes in the mean-time.

The Generation-Spanning Feud Wouldn't Die With Duras

One of Worf's earliest and most beloved arcs involved K'Ehleyr, a half Klingon woman that he falls in love with. They don't stay together, but a few years later she reappears with a son (Worf's) in tow. By this time Worf already learned that the Duras family framed his father for a horrible massacre, to keep their name clean. And that fued only worsened when Duras shot K'Ehleyr, leaving Alexander mother-less. Worf takes revenge by cutting him down, but fans knew that the fued wouldn't end there.

Their theories were correct and the Mogh/Duras confrontations lasted for years. After Duras, Worf clashed with his sisters and his son. All three of them would do anything for power, and Worf felt obligated to his father and the empire to stop them.

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• Similar to his work on Star Trek, Moore brought darker and more complex storytelling, expanding the sci-fi genre on television.
• The rebooted Battlestar Galactica series offers a fresh take on the original, with human-created Cylons, internal divisions, and survival at stake.

Battlestar Galactica first came to life as an imitation of Star Wars , which inspired a cult-classic TV series in the late 1970s. Ironically, however, the property really came into its own during the critically acclaimed reboot in the early 2000s, which has much closer ties to another science fiction franchise. Ronald D. Moore -- one of the strongest creative forces behind Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- brought Battlestar Galactica back to life once his term on those shows had ended. It's one of the reasons why his Battlestar was so well received, and indeed, Star Trek fans who are not yet familiar with it will find a lot of similarities in its tone and story.

In many ways, it's a continuation of the work Moore did in Star Trek , and by extension, a reason why the new Battlestar Galactica is so much richer and more complex than the old. Science fiction on television was rapidly changing in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as advancing CGI made special effects cheaper and epic storylines easier to deliver. Moore stood at the forefront of that thanks to his work on Star Trek , which saw the final frontier become darker and more compromised than it had in Gene Roddenberry's day. Battlestar Galactica gave him more freedom to develop his ideas, and while its cultural footprint isn't as deep, it makes up for it with its complex and fascinating storylines.

Ronald D. Moore Excelled at the Dark Side of the Final Frontier

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Ronald D. Moore first joined the writing team for Star Trek: The Next Generation with the Season 3 episode "The Bonding," in which Worf expresses an interest in helping an orphaned human boy recover from his grief. He went on to write 27 more episodes during the show's remaining 4 seasons, many of which helped The Next Generation reach its delayed potential. He was often interested in the politics of the 24th Century, and often focused on the machinations of the Klingon Empire in his scripts. Worf was the biggest beneficiary, as the fulcrum through which Star Trek truly brought the Klingons to life. Other Moore scripts include the likes of Season 3, Episode 10, "The Defector," which depicts the various intelligence games the Romulans and the Federation play.

Moore's stories were often darker than previous Star Trek scripts, offering moral dilemmas that had no easy answer and revealing how species outside the Federation conducted their affairs. It helped The Next Generation break out of the static formula imposed by series creator Gene Roddenberry and step out of the immense shadow of The Original Series in the process. Moore even got to co-write the series finale, "All Good Things…" alongside his regular collaborator Brannon Braga. He followed that up by writing the scripts for the first two Next Generation movies : Generations and First Contact . The latter is considered one of the best Star Trek movies ever made.

Moore's stories were often darker than previous Star Trek scripts, offering moral dilemmas that had no easy answer and revealing how species outside the Federation conducted their affairs.

It was Deep Space Nine, however, that the writer truly got a chance to stretch his wings , serving as supervising producer starting in Season 3 and promoted to co-executive producer beginning with Season 6. He kept producing Klingon scripts, coinciding with Worf's arrival at the station in Season 4, as well as detailing a number of key episodes in the Dominion War. The latter was perhaps Star Trek's darkest plotline yet, as the Federation faced a seemingly insurmountable enemy in the Changelings and their minions, forcing them to join forces with long-time foes like the Romulans in order to stop them.

It was a sea change in how Star Trek presented itself, as its optimistic vision ran up against Darwinian realities. The Federation ultimately defeats them, but at great cost, and the ramifications will haunt them for decades. The villains in Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard include a radical faction of Changelings in alliance with the Borg. Moore's work played a big role in that change, and while it was still bound by Star Trek's utopian positivity, it greatly expanded the kinds of stories that the franchise could tell. He left the franchise in 1999 after a fallout with co-producer Brannon Braga.

Battlestar Galactica Had Untapped Potential

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The first Battlestar Galactica series aired in the fall of 1978 , a little over a year after the premiere of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope , and constituted an ambitious effort to create the same sense of operatic grandeur. It was originally conceived as a series of three made-for-television movies. The pilot did exceedingly well, and even received a theatrical release in 1979. Midway through the production, the decision was made to expand it into a weekly series. That caused significant story issues as the writers struggled to deliver scripts on time, and the overarching metaplot needed to be expanded. That came on top of considerable legal troubles arising from its similarity to Star Wars , which included a lawsuit from Lucasfilm for using ILM equipment in its special effects.

It debuted to high ratings, with the sci-fi crazed public eager for something that felt like Star Wars on their television screens every week. It ultimately became a victim of ratings wars, as CBS countered with its hit comedy All in the Family , causing Battlestar Galactica to shift around in the schedule. When combined with its large budget (an all-too-common fatality for sci-fi TV), it was enough to cancel the series after one season. A follow-up -- Galactica: 1980 -- appeared in early 1980, but it too was canceled after just 10 episodes. In some ways, it isn't hard to see why. The show's Star Wars envy could be palpable at times, and individual episodes often struggled to connect with the larger overarching plot.

At the same time, however, Battlestar Galactica held a great deal of potential it never fully capitalized on. Its backstory was terrific, with Earth serving as the lost “13th Colony” of an ancient human civilization that spanned the stars. When sentient machines called Cylons launch a genocidal war, humanity's last remnants gather in a fleet searching for that colony, with their mechanical foes in hot pursuit. Combined with a winning cast of characters, it delivered a glimpse of what science fiction could accomplish on television given a little care and attention.

Ronald D. Moore's Reimagined Battlestar Galactica Is a Classic

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It took Moore to unlock Battlestar Galactica's potential with the reboot, which -- like its predecessor -- began as a miniseries which aired on Syfy in late 2003. Four more seasons followed, which gave the new show the time and wherewithal to truly explore what the original series only skimmed. Once again, twelve colonies of humans are attacked by the Cylons and all but wiped out, leaving a "rag-tag fleet" of some 50,000 humans who may be the last of the species. They set out for the rumored thirteenth colony -- Earth -- more as an effort to keep morale from collapsing than as any concrete plan.

Moore and his co-creators keep the essence of the scenario while enacting huge changes in the details. The Cylons are human-created for starters (in the original series, they were created by aliens who they wiped out before turning on humanity), and have infiltrated the human survivors with stealth units who believe they're human. Those are bedrock sci-fi tropes that the original series all but ignored.

The reboot brought them out and explored them at length, as well as giving the Cylons humanizing motives that make them far more than one-note killing machines. Politics and survival play a huge role in Battlestar Galactica as well. The human fleet is beset with internal divisions, with a military chain of command that doesn't always sit well with civilians. Survival is almost a day-to-day affair, and everyone is acutely aware that if they fail, the human race will likely go extinct.

All of it speaks to the kinds of stories Moore was telling on Star Trek , for a new franchise that offered more room for development and greater creative control. That resulted in one of the best science fiction series of the 2000s , which not only reinvigorated the franchise but revealed to long-time fans what they had only seen glimpses of in the earlier series. Moore cut his teeth on such content on Star Trek , and fans of the mega-franchise who haven't had a chance to look at it will find a great deal to like.

Battlestar Galactica 2004 is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. Battlestar Galactica 1978 is available for rent or digital download.

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When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine writers didn't get Worf but thankfully Michael Dorn did

S tar Trek: The Next Generation closed out its run in the late spring, early summer of 1994. It's feature-full length film debut was months away in November, and a new spinoff show was entering it's second season with Avery Brooks at the helm. It as a budding show that featured mostly new characters like Quark, Benjamin Sisko, Odo and Kira Nerys. It also featured one character from The Next Generation in Miles O'Brien.

He wouldn't remain the only one for too long. By season 1996, season four was underway, and joining the crew of the space station was one of O'Brien's former colleagues, Worf, once again played by Michael Dorn.

Dorn came to the station as a way of giving the show some heft that some felt was missing. The inclusion worked well. Worf fit right in with the show and the direction they were going; all-out war. Having a character like Worf would give the denizens of Deep Space Nine a true combat-tested warrior to protect them. It made perfect sense.

Yet, had Dorn not gotten involved, things could've been wildly different. In an interview with TrekMovie.com , Dorn spoke about how the writers on DS9 tried to make him just one of the crew, saying;

"That's always been his charm. On 'Next Generation' they got it, and it was very understandable, and I didn't have to say too much about that. On 'Deep Space Nine,' I really had to corral them a lot, because if he's in on the joke, he becomes just another one of the characters. He doesn't stand out at all. And it was easy, because all they had to do was just write a line, and everybody else gets the joke, and [then] they make a joke, and they're funny. And Worf is just looking around going, 'Okay, I wasn't trying to be funny. I don't know why people are laughing.'"

Dorn was right to bring the writers under control with what they wanted him to do. The character of Worf is matter-of-fact, but not stupid. He's not a Marvel Cinematic Universe character. When Worf speaks, he speaks with a purpose and usually to give relevant and timely news to his colleagues. If that news is absurd (how to woo a woman) or outlandish (the day beheadings occur), then that's on the non-Klingons to deal with.

This article was originally published on redshirtsalwaysdie.com as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine writers didn't get Worf but thankfully Michael Dorn did .

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The Best Star Trek Books Ever Written

Star Trek goes boldly beyond the moving image with these great novels.

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Star Trek has always been about boldly going, so it’s no surprise the franchise quickly moved beyond television sets. Even before the series jumped to the big screen, Star Trek expanded into the world of paperbacks, first with novelizations of Original Series and Animated Series episodes and then with original stories created for the page.

Starting with 1970’s Spock Must Die! by James Blish, the novels gave fans a chance to check in on the continuing missions of their favorite crews and characters. As of this writing, over 850 novels have made it to print, encompassing not only every series except Lower Decks but also spin-off series about totally new characters, such as Captain Calhoun of the USS Excalibur .

With so many options, the world of Trek books can get overwhelming. But these entries are a great place to start. Here are the best Star Trek novels ever written.

My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane (1984)

Ever since their first appearance in the TOS episode “Balance of Terror,” the Romulans have been among the best enemy aliens in the series, and no one has done more to flesh out this species than author Diane Duane, who penned the five-book Rihannsu series of novels that begins with My Enemy, My Ally .

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My Enemy, My Ally follows Romulan Commander-General Ael t’Rllallieu on her daring mission to convince Kirk to help her attack a secret medical facility that is performing tests on Vulcans. Duane establishes the Romulans’ duplicitous culture, while also featuring Kirk at his strategic best.

How Much for Just the Planet? by John M. Ford (1987)

Not everyone loves it when Trek gets silly, but for those who like the lighter side of boldly going, there are books like How Much for Just the Planet? by John M. Ford. The book deals with some heavy concepts, with the Klingons and Starfleet coming to odds over Direidi, a planet rich in dilithium. Restricted from open warfare because of the limitations that the powerful Organians set in the episode “Errand of Mercy,” the two enemies must compete the Direidian way.

And that way is very silly. How Much for Just the Planet? plays like a musical comedy, forcing Kirk and Klingon Captain Kaden to go along with big theatrical numbers. The Klingon lore used by the book has been heavily-retconned in the years since, which might distract readers. But anyone who’s into singing competitions instead of phaser battles or intellectual debates won’t take this stuff too seriously anyway.

Vendetta by Peter David (1991)

Vendetta is the first book on this list written by Peter David, the comic book legend who also authored some of the best Trek books of all time. Vendetta feels like the Next Generation movie we never got, one that ties the Borg to the classic TOS episode “The Doomsday Machine,” while also fleshing out Guinan’s race, the El-Aurian.

When a spectral figure who first haunted Picard while at Starfleet Academy returns, the Enterprise discovers a planet-killing ship designed to take revenge against the Borg. Vendetta manages to tighten up Trek lore, including more information about the El-Aurian’s history with the Borg and the mystery of the ship in “The Doomsday Machine,” while managing a thrilling, character-driven tale.

Imzadi by Peter David (1992)

The romance between Commander Riker and Counselor Troi was a constant on TNG since the pilot episode. However, that relationship often fell by the wayside as writers had no idea about what to do with Troi, and wanted Riker to be the ladies’ man that many saw in Kirk. Leave it to Peter David to help flesh out that relationship with Imzadi , which goes back to the couple’s early days together.

David takes inspiration from one of the greatest Trek episodes of all time, “City on the Edge of Forever,” to send Riker across time to save a dying Troi. Along the way, readers see how Riker and Troi first fell passionately in love with one another on Betazed, establishing a love that not even disinterested writers could destroy.

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Sarek by A.C. Crispin (1994)

Spock’s father Sarek looms large in Trek lore, so it’s surprising that he only had one appearance in TOS and one on TAS before showing up in several of the movies. The J.J. Abrams reboot and Star Trek: Discovery further developed Sarek, but that was after author A.C. Crispin wrote the definitive Sark novel.

Set shortly after Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , Sarek finds Spock’s dad defending the Federation from the same conspiracy that tried to continue the war against the Klingons. Crispin gives readers a glimpse into unlikely relationship between Sarek and the human Amanda Grayson, giving us a more nuanced look at the love that gave birth to Spock. Sarek even checks in on another relative in Peter Kirk, son of George and the nephew of Captain Kirk.

The Return by William Shatner with Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens (1996)

As these books demonstrate, Captain Kirk’s life extends far beyond Star Trek television shows or movies. Yet, William Shatner couldn’t let Kirk’s story come to an end with his death in Star Trek: Generations . And so Shatner, along with Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Judith Reeves-Stevens, brought Kirk back in a series of books, dubbed The Shatnerverse because they take place in their own continuity.

Look, there’s no denying that the Shatnerverse books are exercises in vanity, the most obvious sort of self-insert fan-fiction. But as is so often the case with Shatner, the arrogance makes for an entertaining Kirk story. The Return features Kirk not only romancing a beautiful Romulan but also teaching Picard how to really fight the Borg. It’s at once absurd and enjoyable, just like Shatner himself.

Planet X by Michael Jan Friedman (1998)

Crazy crossovers are nothing new to comic books, even Trek comics. In those pages, Federation members rode the TARDIS from Doctor Who , wore Green Lantern power rings, and crossed paths with Marvel’s Merry Mutants, the X-Men. It’s those last set of meetings that inspired Planet X by Michael Jan Friedman.

Planet X picks up the threads from two X-Men /Star Trek comic books published by Marvel, the first of which involved the TOS crew and the TNG crew in the second. In Planet X , alternate reality shenanigans involving the Shi’ar bring the X-Men back onto the Enterprise -D, which gives Friedman a reason for some goofy fan moments. Worf and Wolverine rack up kills on a holodeck training program, while Storm and Picard have a pseudo romance (in which the former notes a striking similarity between the Captain and Professor X).

A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson (2000)

Deep Space Nine was packed with outstanding characters, none more so than the Cardassian Garak. Garak may have said he was just a tailor, plain and simple, but he carried secrets that made him far more dangerous. A Stitch in Time uncovers a lot (but not all!) of those secrets, and it comes from none other than Garak’s actor, Andrew J. Robinson.

Set shortly after the end of the Dominion War, A Stitch in Time operates as an epistolatory novel, consisting of letters sent from Garak to Dr. Bashir. Through the letters, Garak explains his childhood entry into Cardassia’s intelligence wing, the Obsidian Order, as well as his role in the resistance against the Founders’ occupation of his planet. Some readers might be shocked by Garak’s revelations, but as he taught Bashir, everything in his story is true, especially the lies.

The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh by Greg Cox (2001)

It’s easy to see why Nicholas Meyer keyed into “Space Seed” when doing research for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . Portrayed by Ricardo Montalbán, Khan Noonien Singh presents the greatest challenge for Kirk. Beyond his great strength, Khan also has charm and brilliance, which explains the franchise’s insistence on bringing him back, again and again.

The Eugenics Wars series by Greg Cox provides the best look at Khan’s history, explaining how he rose to power and how his actions led to the worst war since World War III. Cox makes the surprising choice to tell the story from the perspective of agent Gary Seven and his partner Roberta Lincoln. Seven, Trekkies remember, was a time-traveler who encountered Kirk in the season two finale “Assignment: Earth,” which Gene Roddenberry hoped to spin off into a new series. To Cox’s credit, Seven’s inclusion doesn’t distract from Khan’s story, allowing the future conqueror shine.

Star Trek: Voyager Homecoming by Christie Golden (2003)

Star Trek: Voyager has overcome the initial resistance from fans in the ’90s and become a beloved series. Part of that change in opinion came from Voyager ‘s finale, the excellent “Endgame.” With Homecoming , author Christie Golden takes “Endgame” one step further, showing the difficulties that the Voyager crew faces upon their return. Janeway might receive a hero’s welcome, but she comes with people that Starfleet looks upon with suspicion, especially the one-time Borg Seven of Nine and Maquis rebels such as Chakotay.

With Homecoming , Golden answers a lot of questions that still linger, even after Picard and Prodigy caught up with some of the characters. We see the way the Dominion War affected Starfleet’s concern for the missing Voyager as well as the desperation that forced them to accept Seven and the Maquis, albeit not without suspicion.

Titan: Taking Wing by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels (2005)

Before Picard or Lower Decks , the only place that Trekkies could find Riker at the helm of his own Starfleet ship, the Titan , was in print, namely a series of novels about Riker and his wife Troi coming into their own after their adventures with the Next Generation crew.

Taking Wing takes place after Star Trek: Nemesis , with the Romulan Star Empire still reeling from Shinzon’s attack. The Romulan Civil War offers a strategic advantage to Starfleet, but only if Riker can manage the difficult negotiations. Authors Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels give Riker a diverse crew, which helps him distinguish his command style from that of Picard, while bringing back some old favorites, including Tuvok from Voyager .

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