This inner-felt conflict stems in part from his perception of honor as taught but not always practiced by his native people, and is complicated by family relationships which echo his duality of culture in both his personal and public life. Worf has even been put on report. He was born into a powerful political house on Qo'noS and carries vivid memories of a typical Klingon childhood. On his first ritual hunt before the age of six with his father's friend L'Kor , he attacked a large beast and it mauled his arm, providing a lifelong scar.
However, Worf's life was changed forever in when his family was wiped out by Romulans at the Khitomer Outpost along their border; he has no memory of his father.
The young man was thought to be the only survivor, and was soon adopted by Chief Sergey Rozhenko , a human engineer nearing retirement aboard the U.
Intrepid , which provided the first assistance at the scene. The next year Worf lived with him, his wife Helena , and their son Nikolai among 20, colonists on the farm world Gault and later Earth, where the bigger and stronger Worf had a hard time adjusting to less-violent human culture and the two boys often disagreed. Finally, at the age of 13 while playing in a championship game as captain of his school soccer team, he unintentionally broke the neck of an opponent and the boy died a day later — forever guilting him into a life of restraint among humans.
On the other hand, the Khitomer incident instilled in him a life-long hatred of Romulans. To feed his thirst for his native people's culture, the Rozhenkos consciously exposed Worf to as much as they possibly could — serving him Klingon food, including his favorite rokeg blood pie, and sending him to Qo'noS for his initial Age of Ascension ceremony in , at age As usual, when on the homeworld he stayed with a cousins' family but felt rejected and ran away to the nearby mountains. There, while undergoing the Rite of MajQua in the lava caves of No'Mat, the vision of the original Klingon warrior Kahless came to him, prophesying that Worf would do what no other Klingon had done.
Worf entered Starfleet Academy with Nikolai in , but his impetuous brother left school and returned to Gault while Worf went on to graduate in The fear of depending on others to protect him had been the prime point of his own entrance exam's psych test.
In he signed aboard Picard's U. Enterprise in command division as a junior-grade lieutenant, at the time wearing a century-old Klingon baldric.
After the death of Security Chief Tasha Yar , he became acting chief and then assumed the post full-time in early , switching to security full-time n the operations division and gaining a promotion to full lieutenant. His shipmates formally promoted him to lieutenant commander six years later with a ceremonial holographic ocean-dunking on an ancient Earth naval vessel.
Aside from a few weeks of dating fellow officer Deanna Troi in on the U. Enterprise , his most serious romance to date involved the half-human Ambassador K'Ehleyr. Worf had ended their initial affair in , during his Academy years, but K'Ehleyr refused to begin anew and take vows after they mated in during her mission regarding the T'Ong sleeper ship incident.
Worf's family tree took on surprising twists during his U. Enterprise career, beginning with the trumped-up charge that Mogh had betrayed Khitomer to the Romulans. The resulting probe turned up not only a second survivor and eyewitness to the massacre, his old nursemaid, but a younger brother who'd been left behind on Qo'noS, Kurn. Even when the traitor was proven to be not Mogh but Jared , father of the powerful Duras , Worf later accepted discommendation from Klingon society rather than cause an uproar in Empire politics had the cover-up been revealed.
Worf was shocked to discover in that his interludes with K'Ehleyr had fostered a son, Alexander , when she accompanied the dying Klingon Chancellor K'mpec while old foe Duras, a challenger for succession, was a suspect. With her mate and son present, K'Ehleyr died after being attacked by Duras when she drew too close to the truth about Khitomer, and Worf in anguish killed Duras on his own ship.
His captain was more than understanding, as he had been when Worf refused to donate blood to save a Romulan, but he was put on formal report for his actions. During the Klingon Civil War of Worf felt compelled to resign his Starfleet commission to become involved, but it was reactivated after the war.
During that time he persuaded Kurn to support Gowron against Duras' sisters and their Romulan backers, standing up to the sisters when abducted and tortured. His aid of the victor Gowron eventually restored his family's honor, and Kurn won a seat on the High Council. Mogh was later rumored to be alive in a secret Romulan prison on Carraya IV , but though Worf's covert mission found the rumor to indeed be false he did discover — and agree to keep secret — a colony of shamed Klingon survivors from Khitomer, led by his father's old friend, L'Kor , and their Romulans guards who'd resigned to live with them.
Worf dipped back into Klingon politics in after he questioned his own faith in the teaching of Kahless following the Carraya IV incident. His visit to the caves of Boreth , the legendary site of the great warrior's predicted return, was shaken up when Kahless did appear to return. Although later found to be cloned from ancient relics of the original Klingon warrior by the Boreth clerics, the response of spiritually empty Klingons to his presence led Worf to insist that Gowron accept the cloned Kahless as a returned Emperor and moral leader — in effect creating a constitutional theo-monarchy.
He was even reunited with his foster brother Nikolai in , when the two clashed again over the human's saving of the doomed Borallan village against Picard's orders and the Prime Directive to save his pregnant mate, a native. The two parted more amicably after the incident, however.
After his mother's death Alexander was initially sent to live with the Rozhenkos on Earth, but a year later Helena returned with him to plead that Worf take him back for support and guidance.
The two shared a testy relationship at first, but thanks to sessions with the ship's counselor — whom he eventually selected as the boy's foster parent if need be — they fared better. When a shipboard accident left him paralyzed, Worf considered the ritual Hegh'bat suicide until both Riker and Troi talked him out of it, pointing to Alexander's need for a parent; an experimental genotronic spine later restored his health.
Shocked in to find his son returned through a time loop from 40 years in the future, be began allowing Alexander to find his own way — even if it was not the way of a Klingon warrior. During his U.
Enterprise tenure, he birthed Keiko O'Brien's baby Molly in Ten-Forward during a shipwide crisis in , his only prior experience having been a Starfleet emergency first aid class.
He dislikes surprise parties and diplomatic duty. He also taught mok'bara classes to those interested aboard ship, won a bat'leth tournament on Forkas III in , and for a time tutored Dr. Crusher on the weapon; there is no word that he took her offer to join her acting workshop. He trains with a multi-level holo-program of personal combat "calisthenics," has also played Parrises Squares, and picked up the nickname "Iceman" from his U.
Enterprise poker play. Other interests include Klingon novels, love poetry, and a love of Klingon opera. His favorite beverage, christened as a "warrior's drink" when introduced to it by Guinan , is prune juice.
Following the destruction of the Enterprise and break-up of its staff in , Worf sent Alexander once again to live with the Rozhenkos on Earth and went on extended leave to revisit the Klingon monastery and clerics of Boreth in search of a spiritual answer to the letdown the rapid events provoked. He found their discussions enlightening and considered resigning his Starfleet commission, but in early he accepted Captain Benjamin Sisko's request to join the Deep Space Nine staff in light of renewed Klingon friction after dissolution of the Khitomer Accords and their short-lived invasion of the Cardassian Empire.
Joining DS9 in its fourth season, Worf immediately became one of the focus characters of the series. Following the dissolution of his ancestral Klingon House, the House of Mogh, Worf was welcomed into the family House of Martok by General Martok, who would eventually become the new Klingon chancellor.
Their wedded bliss was short-lived, however, as the Cardassian Gul Dukat — DS9's resident big bad — killed Jadzia in the season 6 finale. By the end of his time with both series, Worf had made onscreen appearances, the most by any single character in Star Trek history. Unlike most of his TNG castmates, he hasn't been featured in any of the show's promotional material, and Michael Dorn has expressed reluctance at getting back into his Klingon makeup for a simple cameo.
Whatever the future may hold for Worf, his place in Star Trek history as the definitive Klingon is already secure. Next: Rewatching TNG? 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. 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 ". There was nothing we could not do. 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 ". On stardate 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 ". Following Worf's promotion to lieutenant commander in , he was instrumental in a battle that ensued after the Duras sisters attacked the Enterprise. He first remembered a critical flaw that had caused their class of Bird-of-Prey to be retired and, when Data then made use of this flaw to remotely cause the vessel to cloak, 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. 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 , Sisko stated, " Curzon told me once that in the long run, the only people who can really handle Klingons are Klingons.
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. 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.
DS9 : " Our Man Bashir ". 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. 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.
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. 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.
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 , 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. In , 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 ". 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.
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. 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 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. 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.
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 In , 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. 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 , 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. In , 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. 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.
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 Worf finally admitted that the Romulans had fought with honor, possibly overcoming his lifelong grudge towards them.
Star Trek Nemesis. Soon after, this retired Admiral Picard still considered Worf a loyal colleague who would not hesitate to join him on a mission if asked. 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. 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 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. 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. Worf did not appreciate the misnomer. Although shy about it, Worf enjoyed singing Klingon operas.
While at a bar on Qualor II in , 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 , 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.
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 refer 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 regarded the result as tasting terrible, Worf after a careful sniff ate his with gusto, simply remarking "delicious".
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 : " ", " Skin of Evil ". Crusher became regular students. Worf ran several classes of varying difficulties, such as the beginning and advanced levels. 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 ". 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 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; Worf's skills as a warrior ushered in two successive Klingon rulers — Gowron, in , and Martok, in 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 ". 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. Worf was considered to be a warrior of great renown. Advocate Ch'Pok referred to Worf as "a famed Klingon warrior. 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.
Worf tended to get sick to his stomach when he was in zero gravity. 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. Later in , 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 , 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.
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. 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 , 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 ". 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.
Worf dated K'Ehleyr, a Human-Klingon woman, while he attended Starfleet Academy, but the relationship at the time ended acrimoniously. In , 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.
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 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.
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!
Worf was unaware of Alexander's existence for the first years of the boy's life, until K'Ehleyr introduced their child in 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 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. 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. 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. Despite being a Klingon, Alexander struggled through the ceremony almost as much as Bashir and O'Brien.
In , 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 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. 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. Worf became romantically involved with Jadzia Dax in early 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.
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