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Worf is a Klingon Ambassador and gin'tak to the Great House of Martok . He is the father of Alexander Rozhenko and K'Dhan , the husband of Grilka , and brother to Kurn .

• 1 Personal history
• 3 Missions given
• 4 Other involvement
• 5.1 References
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Personal history [ | ]

Once a highly decorated Starfleet officer, Worf served as Lieutenant and Lt. Commander on the U.S.S. Enterprise -D under Captain Picard and on Deep Space 9 under Benjamin Sisko . After the Dominion War , he became Federation ambassador to the Klingon Empire on Qo'noS .

In 2385 , Worf resigned his Starfleet commission and begins to pursue a relationship with Lady Grilka , marrying her the following year . He tried to mediate between the Federation and the Empire to prevent the upcoming war.

After the destruction of the Hobus star in late 2387 , Martok , Chancellor of the Klingon High Council , appointed Worf to the rank of General in 2388 . He attempted to stop the Romulan Nero and his Romulan/ Borg technology hybrid ship Narada . However, the Narada destroyed the Klingon forces. Leading a Klingon boarding party, Worf was critically injured, but was rescued by the U.S.S. Enterprise -E under Captain Data . While recovering on Vulcan , Worf was attacked by an Undine agent attempting to replace him; Worf was able to repel the attack, but retained no memory of the battle itself. Worf's defeat weakened Martok's position on the High Council, since Worf was still regarded a Federation outsider by many Klingons.

On stardate 65548.43, Worf's and Grilka's son K'Dhan was born.

Despite his best efforts, Worf was unable to prevent the Klingon Empire from going to war with the Gorn Hegemony in 2399 . In 2401 , Worf was part of a contingent of retired and current Starfleet officers, also including Admirals Kathryn Janeway , Beverly Crusher and Chakotay , as well as retired Captains Ezri Dax and Tuvok , who all appealed to the Federation Council to reconsider its position on the Klingon-Gorn War and to support the Klingon Empire. In protest against the Council's refusal to assist the Empire and subsequent condemnation of the war, Worf cut his ties with Starfleet and returned to Qo'noS.

At the request of Drex , son of Martok, General Worf took the position as gin'tak to the House of Martok in 2405 . Thus, he would advise Drex in his struggle with the House of Duras that was supporting Chancellor J'mpok .

Missions involved [ | ]

Worf on a Solanae station

Celebrating the end of the Civil War with Martok and Koren.

Events [ | ]

Holographic representations of Worf as he appeared in 2364

Missions given [ | ]

Other involvement [ | ].

• "A Warrior Reborn" : Worf meets with Kurn at Starfleet Medical, following procedures which restored Kurn's original memories and appearance. Kurn tells Worf that if Martok restores the House of Mogh, he will not contest Worf's right to lead it. Kurn states that he will honor his debt to the House of Noggra, who took him in as Rodek, and treated him well. Kurn says he intends to move to the Alpha Quadrant after he recovers from his surgery, intending to continue the fight against the Tzenkethi. He suggests that he and his family may settle aboard Deep Space 9. Worf warns Kurn that enemies within the Klingon Empire will be moving against them in retaliation for the rescue of Martok.

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Worf as he used to appear in-game until early October 2013

Worf as he appeared between October 2013 and June 2020

Worf's model since June 2020

Worf as a young Starfleet officer in 2364

• Michael Dorn , who portrayed Worf during all his on-screen appearances, also speaks the welcoming message as well as the level-up-notifications for KDF characters. These have been removed from the game however, as J.G. Hertzler took over the level-up-notifications in 2020 while the welcoming message is no longer played in the remastered KDF tutorial from Season Twenty: House Divided as part of the Year of Klingon updates.
• Worf was first added to Star Trek Online with the release of “Bringing Down the House” as part of Season 2 in July 2010. In early October 2013, Worf's in-game model was revamped to more closely resemble Michael Dorn's actual likeness - just as Sela 's model was when Legacy of Romulus launched.
• On October 29, 2013, it was announced that Michael Dorn would reprise his role as Worf for Star Trek Online , adding voice overs for all missions already in the game featuring Worf as well as one new Featured Episode “Sphere of Influence” , which was released one day later. For the other KDF-story missions, Worf's voiceovers were added to the game on December 5, 2013.
• Although Worf appears in missions released after “Sphere of Influence” , Michael Dorn recorded no new lines afterwards. Therefore Worf either speaks re-purposed lines from the previous missions or has no speaking part at all.
• Worf's model was revamped again with Season Twenty: House Divided as part of the Year of Klingon updates.

References [ | ]

• ↑ As the Romulan Republic wasn't available as a player-faction at the time, only Starfleet and KDF players could take part in “The Next Generation: 25th Anniversary” event.

External links [ | ]

• Season 8 Dev Blog #15 - Anatomy of a Worf
• Season 8 Dev Blog #28 - Michael Dorn as Worf
• Worf at Memory Alpha , the Star Trek Wiki.
• Star Trek: Countdown at Memory Alpha , the Star Trek Wiki.
• The Needs of the Many at Memory Alpha , the Star Trek Wiki.
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Worf , son of Mogh of the House of Martok , was a 24th century Starfleet officer. Orphaned and raised by humans , Worf became the first Klingon to join Starfleet. Despite his ties to the Federation , he proved influential in the political landscape of the Klingon Empire during the 2360s and 2370s . ( Star Trek: The Next Generation , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine )

• 1.1 Star Trek: Artemis
• 1.2 RIS Bouteina
• 1.3 Bait and Switch
• 1.4 Star Trek: Phoenix-X
• 2.1 See also
• 2.2 External links

History [ ]

Following the end of the Dominion War , Worf was made the Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire . ( DS9 : " What You Leave Behind ")

Worf was promoted to commander and became the executive officer of the USS Enterprise -E in 2380 . ( TNG novel: Resistance )

Star Trek: Artemis [ ]

In 2385 , he was promoted to captain and became the commanding officer of the USS Vindicator . He was placed in temporary command of the USS Artemis while Fleet Captain David Hawk was away. He later was allowed to return to his command after the Vindicator was repaired. ( Star Trek: Artemis )

RIS Bouteina [ ]

Some time before 2387 , he left Starfleet to marry Grilka . In 2387 , he returned to the Klingon Defense Force and took the command of the fleet of the House of Grilka during the Evacuation of Romulus to fight Nero , promoted to admiral for this mission. He had the Klingon Prison Fleet to cover their backs at Romii. ( RIS Bouteina : " Gogmagog ")

Bait and Switch [ ]

In 2410 , with Qo'noS under heavy attack by Iconian Heralds , Worf, along with Captain Ja'rod and General Brokosh , led a fleet of mercenaries and discommendated warriors to the Imperial capital's rescue. ( Beat the Drums of War )

Star Trek: Phoenix-X [ ]

In 2379 , Worf attempted to fight a trespassing Lore aboard the USS Enterprise -E , unable to stop Lore from completing a download from B4 . (" Resurrections : Part V")

In 2411 , while looking for a place to eat on Qo'noS , a Klingon from the 2250s named Dova'ch encountered Worf who was quick to criticize Dova'ch and all Klingons from his era. (" Tethers : House of Uggh")

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See also [ ], external links [ ].

• Worf article at Memory Alpha , the canon Star Trek wiki.
• Worf article at Memory Beta , the non-canon Star Trek wiki.
• 1 Axanar (fan film)
• 2 Dominion War
• 3 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-H) (Endurance 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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For Mirror Universe counterpart, see Worf (mirror) .

Worf , son of Mogh, House of Martok, is a male Klingon Starfleet officer in the 24th century . As of 2385, is the Commanding Officer of the Akira -class Heavy Cruiser USS Bat'leth , which is part of Task Force Invincible and the Vanguard Fleet .

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Overview [ ]

As the first Klingon to join Starfleet, Worf has already achieved an illustrious and honorable career aboard the USS Enterprise -D as well as played a key role in Empire politics, but he keenly feels the effects of an often tragic life caught uniquely between the two conflicting cultures - immediately evidenced by the traditional Klingon baldrics he wears over his Starfleet uniform. 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.

Childhood [ ]

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 2346 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 USS Intrepid , which provided the first assistance at the scene.

The next year Worf lived with him, his wife Helena, and their son Nikolai among 20,000 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 2355, at age 15. 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.

Starfleet Academy [ ]

Worf entered Starfleet Academy with Nikolai in 2357 , but his impetuous brother left school and returned to Gault while Worf went on to graduate in 2361 . The fear of depending on others to protect him had been the prime point of his own entrance exam's psych test.

USS Enterprise-D [ ]

In 2364 , he signed aboard Picard's USS 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 2365, switching to security full-time in 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 Terran naval vessel.

Aside from a few weeks of dating fellow officer Deanna Troi in 2370 on the Enterprise , his most serious romance to date involved the half-human Ambassador K'Ehleyr. Worf had ended their initial affair in 2359, during his Academy years, but K'Ehleyr refused to begin anew and take vows after they mated in 2365 during her mission regarding the T'Ong sleeper ship incident.

Worf's family tree took on surprising twists during his 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 2367 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 2367-68 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 2369 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.

He was even reunited with his foster brother Nikolai in 2370, 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 2370 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.

Deep Space Nine [ ]

After the destruction of the Enterprise -D 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 Bajoran sector in early 2372 . Klingon Chancellor Gowron had amassed a large fleet of ships for reasons unknown, and the stations commander, Captain Benjamin Sisko , had requested Worf's assistance in discovering the truth.

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.

Early on in the assignment Worf admitted to continued bouts of depression over the end of what he perceived as glory days on the Enterprise, and countered it somewhat by taking quarters on the Defiant , and finding a kinship with Dax, who trains with the bat'leth and mek'leth as well.

He soon got the chance to meet Klingon legend Kor, but that honor too was ripped away when image gave way to reality as the two fought over the Sword of Kahless relic they found on a quest.

Worf's public opposition to Gowron's invasion left him largely unaffected until the Empire attempted to frame him for the so-called slaughter of 141 Klingon civilians amid a skirmish; the hoax was revealed only shortly before he would have been extradited for the crime and faced certain death. However, on Qo'noS his house was once again stripped of its honor and properties, including Kurn's seat on the High Council.

His depressed brother showed up on the station asking for his own suicide rite. Only Dax's interruption stopped the ritual Worf was aiding, but after Kurn's unsuccessful death wish as a Bajoran deputy Worf realized his brother had no future and, short of suicide, opted to have his memory wiped and replaced with another Klingon identity, sending him to live with a family friend. Even then he lived with the regret that his actions had been forever tainted by his human-learned values of mercy.

Sparked by his spurning by Grilka and his uncharacteristic aid to Quark on wooing her the Klingon way, Worf's immediate friendship with Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax has now blossomed into full-blown romance; luckily she is one of the few species on the station compatible with the physical demands of the situation. The arrangement with Dax as his Par'machkai has stopped short by mutual consent of the traditional mating step required and seems to be affecting Worf in a positive way, aside from the squabble on Risa when what was perceived as Worf's reactionary tendencies held sway during his brief alignment with some New Essentialist activists there.

Borg Invasion [ ]

In 2373, Worf was ordered to take the USS Defiant and join the fleet of ships set to intercept a Borg cube in Sector 001 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 a kamikaze attack, when the USS Enterprise -E came to Worf's rescue. The Enterprise 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 Borg deflector array and prevented the Borg from changing history.

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.

Marriage [ ]

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, and Sirella would wed the two. 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. 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, then told Jadzia afterward 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.

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") 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 proved 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.

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.

The Ba'ku [ ]

Also in that year, 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.

Later that year, back on DS9 , Worf became disillusioned with the leadership of Gowron . 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.

Ambassador to the Klingon Empire [ ]

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.

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.

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.

A month after the Tezwa incident in 2379 , the Federation Embassy on Qo'noS was seized by terrorists who demanded that Martok step down as Chancellor and the treaty with the Federation be terminated. The terrorist leader, a Klingon named Rov, also made the odd claim that Emperor Kahless had been replaced by a hologram. Worf eventually re-took the embassy from the terrorists.

Two weeks later, Worf discovered that Rov's claim of the Emperor being replaced by a hologram was actually true. When Worf returned to Earth to get the Federation 's assurance that they had nothing to do with Kahless' disappearance, he left his son Alexander with his embassy duties.

After the recovery of the Emperor and the election of new Federation President Nanietta Bacco, Worf tendered his resignation as Federation Ambassador to Qo'noS . Worf had done his duty for years and decided that he wanted to return to where he had been truly fulfilled- Starfleet. Impressed with the diplomatic skills shown by his son, Worf suggested that Alexander succeed him as Ambassador. President Bacco accepted the nomination.

First Officer, Enterprise-E [ ]

Upon his return to the fleet, Admiral William Ross offered Worf the position of First Officer on the USS Titan , under Captain William T. Riker . Worf initially accepted the assignment. He traveled with Riker and Deanna Troi to Betazed to attend their wedding there aboard the Enterprise , (he was also serving as acting chief of security/tactical officer as Christine Vale had taken shore leave on Earth). 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. Following the discovery that the source of the positronic signals was the Soong-type android, B-4, Admiral   Kathryn Janeway of Starfleet Command assigned the Enterprise 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, together with Romulans, had to face Shinzon and the Remans. Finally, he admitted that the Romulans fought with honor, possibly overcoming his life-long grudge against this species. After the death of Commander Data in battle with Reman warlord Shinzon, Captain Picard requested Worf remain aboard the Enterprise and Worf accepted, serving as acting first officer. Worf did not feel worthy to accept the position permanently when Picard offered him the job due to his actions on Soukara in 2374 , when he abandoned an important mission in order to save his wife Jadzia.

When Captain Picard was transformed once again into Locutus in early 2380, Worf led the mission that rescued Picard. This and advice from ship's CMO Beverly Crusher convinced Worf to accept the promotion on a permanent basis. The promotion also increased Worf's rank from Lieutenant Commander to Commander.

In early 2381, Worf seemed to begin a relationship with the ship's new head of security, Jasminder Choudhury. He eventually renewed his relationship with Ba’el, the half-Romulan, half-Klingon survivor of Carraya IV who became a Federation Diplomatic Assistant on Q’onoS later that year. They were later married and now have two sons, Mogh and Martok.

Alternate realities and timelines [ ]

In a reality where K'Ehleyr was not killed in 2367, Worf and K'Ehleyr would have a tumultuous relationship before ultimately splitting up. Alexander would end up being lovingly raised by his grandparents, as neither parent could fully commit go raising the child, due to their duties. Following this, Worf hit the bottle hard (and not the prune juice variety), leading to many issues with his performance. After many (too many) chances given to him by Picard and others, Worf would request and be given a transfer off of the Federation flagship.

Worf was transferred to the "antiquated" USS Zhukov as its operations manager and second officer . Worf hated this assignment and did not get along with its crew. Once again requesting a transfer, he was assigned to Starbase 37 . Learning of the Enterprise' s destruction and unable to concentrate on his duties, he took a leave of absence. Traveling to Boreth and a number of other worlds. During his time on Kavretes Prime , a neutral world near Cardassian space, he was recruited by Thomas Riker and Ro Laren into the Maquis .

Worf would find purpose again in this new life and would turn out to be one of the greatest members of the Maquis. He managed to obtain a number of proper starships for the cause, including a retired Starfleet Miranda -class starship from the Chalnoth and an old stolen B'rel -class bird-of-prey from the Orions . Worf would personally command the bird-of-prey on a number of successful hit-and-run missions, despite its lack of a cloaking device. Worf eventually brokered a second hand Suliban cloak, that worked about 79% of the time and a pair of up-to-date Nausicaan disruptors . Making his ship a force to be reckoned with and a serious thorn in the side for the Cardassians.

Following the beginning of the Second Federation-Klingon War, a number of Maquis turned on Worf and he was forced to fight them off, both onboard his ship and in space combat, forcing him to leave the Maquis with a grievous wound.

Worf, alone on his cloaked bird-of-prey, departed for the Gamma Quadrant, wishing to take his chances with the Nyberrite Alliance. His cloak unfortunately failed, on the threshold of the wormhole and he was killed when his ship was destroyed by DS9.

Starfleet performance evaluation [ ]

Worf dipped into Klingon politics in 2370 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.

During his USS Enterprise -D tenure, he birthed Keiko O'Brien's baby in Ten-Forward during a shipwide crisis in 2368, 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'tleh tournament on Forkas III in 2370, and for a time tutored Doctor 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 USS 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.

Worf has encountered few further difficulties regarding his divided heritage. He had no problem helping to expose secret Klingon mining of the space around outer Bajoran colonies and fighting his brethren of a century ago when time-traveled to Station K-7. He was part of the covert team trying to prove Gowron was actually a Changeling double at one time, and sparked a challenge to the death with the chancellor. Although the team helped expose General Martok as a Founder, Worf left with the two still at odds over his defiance of Gowron a year earlier that cost the House of Mogh its official honor.

His biggest qualm has been a quest for privacy, and took quarters on the usually empty Defiant to relieve the edginess he had felt ever since arriving here. He often can be found there listening to Klingon opera blaring over the com system, usually from his favorite singer Barak'karan -- not surprisingly, a traditionalist.

He continues to utilize the Holo-programs for recreation, including his combat "calisthenics," commanding the historic Battle of Tong Vey, but has no stomach for zero-G exercises. His posting on DS9 has broadened his horizons in at least two ways: he has renewed his study of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, and has admitted a healthy respect for native Bajoran beliefs concerning the Prophets based on his own spiritualism.

External links [ ]

• Worf article at Memory Alpha , the canon Star Trek wiki.
• Worf article at Memory Beta , the non-canon Star Trek wiki.
• Worf article at Star Trek Expanded Universe .
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Worf – son of Mogh, of the Klingon House of Martok, of the Human family Rozhenko; mate to K'Ehleyr, father to Alexander Rozhenko, and husband to Jadzia Dax; Starfleet officer and soldier of the Empire; bane of the House of Duras; slayer of Gowron; Federation ambassador to Qo'noS – was one of the most influential Klingons of the latter half of the 24th century.

• 2340 Born on Qo'noS to Mogh. 
• 2345 Brother Kurn is born. Moves to Khitomer along with his parents while Kurn remains on Qo'noS.
• 2346 Raised by the Rozhenkos on Earth after the Khitomer Massacre in which his parents are killed.
• 2353 Moves to the Gault colony. Becomes captain of his school soccer team.
• 2355 Travels to Qo'noS, where Kahless the Unforgettable appears to him in a vision.
• 2357 Joins Starfleet Academy.
• 2361 Graduates the Academy to become the first Klingon Starfleet officer.
• 2364 Serves onboard the USS Enterprise-D as a lieutenant junior grade. Dies, but is revived by William T. Riker with Q powers. Appointed acting security chief after the death of Lieutenant Natasha Yar.
• 2365 Involved with K'Ehleyr, a Human-Klingon emissary. Becomes the Enterprise's permanent security chief.
• 2366 Promoted to lieutenant. Meets Guinan and is introduced to his favorite drink, prune juice. Reunites with brother Kurn, who asks to challenge family dishonor. Joins Picard and Kurn to discover truth of Khitomer massacre. Accepts discommendation to avoid civil war. Is killed, and revived, by John Doe.
• 2367 Meets his son, Alexander, for the first time. Kills Duras in claiming revenge on the death of K'Ehleyr. Resigns from Starfleet to assist the forces of Gowron against the forces of the Duras family in the Klingon Civil War.
• 2368 Returns to Starfleet. Delivers O'Brien's first child, Molly. Shatters first backbone, and is later declared dead during a replacement procedure, until redundant heart activates. Takes son Alexander into his care.
• 2369 Meets the inhabitants of Carraya IV, where he has a brief infatuation with Ba'el, Instrumental in having a clone of Kahless the Unforgettable installed as the emperor.
• 2370 Helps Nikolai save the population of Boraal II to relocate them to Vacca VI. Travels accidentally between various quantum realities, upon his return asks Deanna Troi to be Soh-chim to his son, then begins a romance with the Counselor.
• 2371 Parts amicably with Deanna Troi. Promoted to lieutenant commander. Sends son to live with parents after the destruction of Enterprise, while undergoing extended leave to the Caves of Boreth.
• 2372 Recalled from extended leave and re-assigned to Deep Space 9. House of Mogh is disowned and stripped of all lands. Brother Kurn requests Mauk-to'Vor. Refused, and instead has memory erased.
• 2373 Begins romantic relationship with Jadzia Dax. Takes holiday to Risa. Leads the USS Defiant in the Battle of Sector 001, where he joins the crew of the USS Enterprise-E in preventing the Borg from changing history. Captured by the Dominion and placed in Internment Camp 371. Discovers and frees the real General Martok. Serves as first officer aboard the IKS Rotarran under General Martok. Joins the House of Martok. Participates in Second Battle of Deep Space 9.
• 2374 Helps Sisko escape from Dominion territory. Reunites with Son, Alexander on board the IKS Rotarran. Convinces Gowron to spare ships for Operation Return. Helps the USS Defiant break through Dominion lines. Successfully retakes station. Marries Jadzia Dax. Saves Dax from anti-coagulant wound. Considers fatherhood and attempts to conceive a Trill-Klingon child. Jadzia killed by Dukat.
• 2375 Commands the IKS Koraga, which is subsequently destroyed. Visits the old crewmates on board the USS Enterprise-E to reveal Admiral Dougherty's conspiracy concerning the relocation of the Ba'ku. Returns to DS9; slays Gowron in personal combat and installs Martok as Chancellor, left DS9 for his new assignment as the Federation ambassador to Qo'noS.
• 2379 Rejoins his old crewmates on the Enterprise-E on Earth. Battles with Shinzon and the Remans alongside the Romulans, potentially ending his life-long vendetta against them.

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Worf  – son of Mogh, of the Klingon House of Martok, of the Human family Rozhenko; mate to K'Ehleyr, father to Alexander Rozhenko, Starfleet officer and soldier of the Empire; bane of the House of Duras; slayer of Gowron; Federation ambassador to Qo'noS – was one of the most influential Klingons of the latter half of the 24th century

• 1.1 The Rozhenkos
• 1.2 Coming of age 
• 1.3.1 K'Ehleyr
• 2.1 USS  Aldrin(2363-2364)
• 2.2 Enterprise -D(2364-2372
• 2.3 Deep Space 9 and the  Defiant
• 2.4 Ambassador Worf
• 3.1 Shinzon Incident

Early life [ ]

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. 

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. 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 by a beast, leaving behind a scar and memory he kept throughout his life.

At some point when Worf was a child, he had a pet targ.

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.

The Rozhenkos [ ]

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.

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". 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. His self-control, interpreted by some as part of his Klingon heritage, was a large factor in his serious demeanor.

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.

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.

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.

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

Starfleet Academy(2357-2361) [ ]

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.

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."

K'Ehleyr [ ]

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.

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.

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(2363-2364) [ ].

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. 

Ensign Worf

Enterprise -D(2364-2372 [ ]

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. 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.

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. By 2366, he was given the rank of full Lieutenant.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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  

In late 2368, he began a romantic relationship with ship's Counselor Deanna Troi that lasted close to two years.

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

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.

In 2369, Worf was instrumental in having the clone of the original Kahless the Unforgettable installed as Emperor of the Klingon Empire.

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.

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.

By the time the  Enterprise  was lost on the planet Veridian III in 2371, Worf had risen to the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

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.

Deep Space 9 and the  Defiant [ ]

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.

Following a time-travel mission to DS K-7 in 2268, Worf then participated in removing DS9's tribbles using a phaser rifle.

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.

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; 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."

Late into the War Jadzia was nearly killed by Gul Dukat, leaving Jadzia in a Coma for Severial Months during this time Worf Mourned her as if she was dead. When she woke While Happy to see her he was ashamed of himself for his feelings of abandonment.

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.

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 Jadzia Dax brought the legendary Sword of Kahless into Martok's possession that Martok's position was solidified.

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.

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.

During this time period the strain of different career paths between Worf and Jadzia deteriorated their Relationship, Worf continued as Ambassader while Jadzia continued on her Starfleet Career, Eventually in 2378 Worf returned to his Duties in Starfleet, His and Jadzia relationship improved and by the time he rejoined his Enterprise Crew they were closer then ever.

Return to Starfleet [ ]

In 2379 with his mind set on moving back to Starfleet Worf rejoined his old crewmates and returned to the  Enterprise -E and was given his Rank of Lt Commander again.

Shinzon Incident [ ]

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. 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 Worf finally admitted that the Romulans had fought with honor, possibly overcoming his lifelong grudge towards them.

For a Year Worf served as First Officer under Captain Picard until his Retirement in 2380 when with his recommendations he was assigned as Commanding officer of the Enterprise-E.  

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Biography [ ]

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In the year 2368 , he gave Miral the assignment of Intendant of Earth as punishment for spurning his "crude advances". ( VOY - Mirror Universe novel : The Mirror-Scaled Serpent ; ST - Mirror Universe novel : Rise Like Lions )

After the capture of Terok Nor by the Terran Rebellion in 2372 , Worf lead a fleet of Alliance ships to reclaim the station aboard his flagship. However the rebels, with the help of the prime universe's Benjamin Sisko , were able to complete their own version of the Federation Starfleet starship USS Defiant , calling it the ISS Defiant , and successfully defended the station, forcing the Regent to retreat. ( DS9 episode : " Shattered Mirror ")

In 2375 , Worf was captured by the Terran Rebellion after his ship was disabled by a cloaking device brought to the mirror universe by Quark and Rom . ( DS9 episode : " The Emperor's New Cloak ")

After his capture, he was briefly held on Terok Nor, before being moved to a location in the Badlands . ( DS9 - Mirror Universe novel : Saturn's Children )

In his absence, he was deposed as Regent and replaced by Martok . ( DS9 novel : Warpath )

Despite his status as a major antagonist to the Rebellion, Worf was treated fairly in his confinement. He was allowed to decorate his prison cell according to Klingon tastes, was given Klingon food to eat, and was not harassed by his guards. After the final Terran victory and the defeat of the Alliance in January 2379 , Worf was visited by Miles O'Brien , who released Worf from confinement, handed him his d'k tahg , and told him he was free to go. Worf immediately committed Klingon ritual suicide; with his dying words he thanked O'Brien for allowing him to regain his honor in death. ( ST - Mirror Universe novel : Rise Like Lions )

Dark Passions [ ]

Worf was the son of Mogh, who along with his wife Kaasin , was killed by Rihannha in the Khitomer Massacre , as were 3,998 other Klingons. The first ship to come to the rescue included officer Ja'rod , who adopted the orphaned Worf. As a member of Ja'rod's family, Worf was an opponent of Gowron .

Worf's brother, Kurn , died in a second massacre at Khitomer shortly after the first one. Worf was, in fact, the only survivor of the two attacks.

His closest political ally was Duras , who would frequently support him against senseless demands from the leader of the Klingon High Council , K'mpec .

Worf's ship was the IKS Negh'Var , and the ship's first officer was Koloth .

Early in Worf's time as an Alliance captain , he met Deanna Troi at an Orion spaceport.

As of 2369 , Deanna Troi - the Intendant of Betazed - was Worf's servant woman and the two called each other Imzadi .

It was in 2369 that Worf initiated a battle against the Rihannsu for the good of the Klingon Empire and was visited by Kira Nerys and Annika Hansen . ( TNG novel : Dark Passions )

At their advice, Worf passed through the Elas system, but was refused assistance from the Dohlman of Elas, so he blew up one of her ships. The Elasians then begged for forgiveness. After the incident, Worf began planning a Kot'Baval Festival and hoped to install Duras as the Empire's Overseer . He looked forward to drinking Trakian ale during both events.

Later, Worf joined Troi, Kira and B'Elanna Torres in a meeting regarding deep-core mining chaired by Jennifer Sisko . It was shortly after this that K'mpec died in his sleep, whereupon Gowron summoned Worf back to Qo'noS . Gowron was eventually elected as the new High Chancellor.

When Troi was in the process of giving birth to her and Worf's child on the planetoid New Hope , she was murdered by Kira, who then comforted Worf in his grief. Worf's investigation into Troi's death led him, as per Kira's plans, to blame the Andorians , so he went to Andor and slaughtered virtually every Andorian existent, on Andor and its two sister planets. Worf named this victory the Great Andorian Massacre .

After Worf discovered the true killer of Troi, he and Torres assisted Agent Seven of Corps Nine in her plan to overthrow Kira as Overseer. This was accomplished with the acquisition of an Iconian portal. Worf's help in this matter is later publicly submerged. ( TNG novel : Dark Passions )

Through a Glass, Darkly [ ]

Worf became the Regent of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance after killing his predecessor, Korex , in a brutal melee. It was said that he finished his opponent by strangling Korax with his bare hands. In 2367 , following the death of Intendant K'mpec , who had been poisoned by an unknown assailant, Regent Worf appointed Gowron as the new Intendant of Qo'noS. The Regent's reasons for this choice remained unclear. While a popular warrior, Gowron and his House were not among the most powerful on the High Council and he enjoyed no great popularity among the members of that body. Most observers considered his chief rival, Duras (leader of the House of the same name), the most likely candidate.

The selection of Gowron immediately split the High Council. A few Houses, perhaps a third, supported him either out of fear of the Regent or to curry favor with him. The rest backed Duras, who declared that he would take the intendancy by force rather than let an upstart remain in office. Ordinarily such a declaration would have brought the Regent down on Duras with the full might of the Alliance behind him, resulting in the swift execution of everyone in the offending House. This time, however, Regent Worf declared the matter a local Klingon affair, decreeing that the two had to decide the matter as warriors.

Perhaps he simply wanted to ensure that the most powerful of the two assumed the intendancy, or maybe he did not want to draw any ships away from the war against the Tholians. Perhaps he saw a chance to draw out two enemies and have them eliminate one another. Whatever Worf's reasoning, his decision ignited a civil war .

The forces and Gowron and Duras would battle until near the end of 2368 , when Duras' sisters, Lursa and B'Etor , distanced themselves from him. After his sisters withdrew from the conflict, Duras found himself trapped in the Tolkath System along with his remaining fleet. There, Gowron annihilated his enemy, bringing the civil war to an end. After Gowron became the unquestioned intendant of Qo'noS, Worf gave him his full support. However, rumors persisted that Gowron resented Worf's refusal to support his own appointment (thus causing the war), and that he had plans in motion to eliminate the Regent and assume the throne himself.

That same year, the Tholian Assembly , despite having never made any diplomatic overtures toward the Alliance, raised the possibility of peace. In light of Klingon domestic difficulties, the casualties of 17 years of war and the incredibly generous terms proposed by the Tholians, Worf declined the suggestions of many in the Alliance to reject the overtures and continue the Tholian War . In 2369 , he signed a treaty with the Tholians , after which Tholian forces withdrew to their original territory and the Alliance formally recognized the boundaries (including territorial annexes) claimed by the Assembly. Although the Alliance claimed victory, speculation would continue as to why the Tholians decided to end the war and whether they could have won it if they had continued to fight. ( Decipher RPG module : Through a Glass, Darkly )

Dark Mirror [ ]

In one permutation of the mirror universe in which the Terran Empire survived into the 24th century , all non- Terrans and non- Vulcans were termed "slaves", including ISS Enterprise -D crewmember Worf, who - not being a warrior - wore no baldric .

After a meeting with Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise -D , Worf told Picard that the entire Klingon race had been conquered centuries earlier. Picard urged Worf to be the force of change in his universe , as the Terran Empire (which was referred to as the United Empire of Planets in that timeline) had grown too large to sustain itself based solely on conquest, and would collapse within a century. ( TNG novel : Dark Mirror )

Appendices [ ]

Connections [ ], external link [ ].

• Worf (mirror) article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
• 1 The Chase
• 2 Preserver (race)
• 3 Totality (Andromeda)

How Star Trek's Klingons Evolved the Behind the Scenes

As rich as their onscreen history is, the way Gene L. Coon and Star Trek storytellers created and evolved the Klingons is an equally epic saga.

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There is a constant question about which alien species is the most iconic in Star Trek : Klingons or Vulcans. While Spock is the most famous alien in the universe, he's also a part of the crew. Worf is the second most famous alien in the universe, and he's still very much at arm's length. They still feel alien in Gene Roddenberry's future. This makes Klingons excellent contenders for the most famous Star Trek alien in history.

As it stands, Klingons are the only Star Trek alien race other than Vulcans to appear in every iteration of the franchise, including most of the films. Early Klingon appearances were even explained away with a particularly clever storyline in Star Trek: Enterprise . Their language -- guttural noises as improvised by James Doohan in Star Trek: The Motion Picture -- became an actual language by Star Trek: The Search for Spock . The Klingons are one of the biggest things Star Trek ever produced, and yet, they almost didn't exist.

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While Roddenberry gets a lot of credit for dreaming up the show in the first place, Star Trek's other Gene gets too little. Gene L. Coon was a television writer who was extremely prolific at his typewriter, churning out quality scripts and rewrites faster than any other writer. "Whenever there was something going wrong, they would call Gene Coon," Mort Zarcoff said in The Fifty-Year-Mission - The First 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman. "He would fix scripts; he would fix pilots. He was a jack-of-all-trades." In multiple interviews, both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy credit Coon for creating much of what fans love about Star Trek , including the Klingons .

The Klingons first appeared in The Original Series Season 1's "Errand of Mercy," a clear allegory between the United States and the Soviet Union. Subsequent appearances depicted them as totalitarians, eager for combat with Starfleet. Story editor and writer Dorothy D.C. Fontana wrote some scenes depicting the Klingons as more ruthless and without honor, but those were cut according to the These Are The Voyages books by Marc Cushman with Susan Osborn. She also wanted to establish a Klingon alliance with the Romulans to explain why they sometimes used the same ships (a budget consideration). Yet, the Klingon culture was mostly undefined. For example, not a word of the Klingon language was ever heard in The Original Series .

The Klingons were depicted with dark brown makeup, beards and golden tunics over black uniforms. Roddenberry and Coon wanted to make them look more alien, but both budget and the time required to shoot the series wouldn't allow for it. William Campbell, who played Koloth in The Original Series and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , said that Gene L. Coon didn't even like the name "Klingon," in a featurette on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country's home release . It only stuck because neither he nor the other writers could think of anything better. When Star Trek came back for its second wave of films and series, the name stayed but the look of the signature heavies of the universe would change drastically.

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The Klingons appeared in what was almost a cameo in Star Trek: The Motion Picture , when a small fleet of ships are the first vessels destroyed by the approaching V'Ger. Robert Fletcher, the costumer on The Motion Picture , Fred Phillips, the makeup lead, and Roddenberry each shaped the new look of the Star Trek Klingons . Roddenberry took the idea of forehead ridges that were an extension of the spine from a pilot he wrote, according to Cinefantastique. Fletcher then worked with the costume and makeup artists to develop this new look. To him, the evolution of the Klingons was just the realities of production catching up to his imagination.

The updated Klingon look persisted through the films of The Original Series era, and into The Next Generation where Hollywood makeup legend Michael Westmore continued its evolution . He created the ridges, according to the Star Trek VI home release, by copying patterns from dinosaur fossils. This was born from an idea of Fletcher and Roddenberry's concept that the Klingons evolved from reptilian ancestors. This was actually evolved further in the Star Trek: Discovery redesign that proved very controversial among the fans. However, it wasn't until the creation of Worf that the Klingons got a culture .

While developing Star Trek: Phase II the Klingon culture was meant to be examined, and early drafts and notes suggest something very different from the honor-obsessed warrior race. In both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , the Klingons were shown less as totalitarians and more of a military culture focused on honor and glory. They were ritualistic and spiritual, following Kahless the Unforgettable, a pre-Federation Klingon historical ruler turned deity. The governmental structure and caste society were examined in numerous episodes of the series. However, it wasn't until the prequel series that the disparity in the Klingon appearance got a canon explanation.

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In Season 4 of Star Trek: Enterprise , Manny Coto took over the show and used the final episodes of this series to examine the history of the universe. One arc featured a crew of genetic augments like Khan Noonien Singh, but this time led by one of Brent Spiner's Dr. Soong characters. In the episode they capture a Klingon vessel, which alerts the still mostly mysterious race to genetic augmentation. A Klingon scientist tries to create augments using the advanced human DNA, creating a super virus.

The cure, created by Dr. Phlox of the NX-01 Enterprise saved the Klingons but smoothed out their ridges and made them look more human . At the end of the episode, Dr. Phlox posits the ridges could return with time or advanced sci-fi surgery. This was added to explain how John Colicos's Kor and Campbell's Koloth showed up on Deep Space Nine with ridges when they didn't have them in The Original Series . It's one of those masterful uses of disparate pieces of Star Trek canon that weave in-real-life limitations together to tell an interesting story that seems as if it was always intended by the various generations of writers.

Star Trek: Picard also, inadvertently, added the subtle notion that Klingon ridges can change . Michael Dorn's Worf returned in that series with a slightly less pronounced set of forehead ridges than in previous series. This was an aesthetic decision (and likely to give Dorn less time in the makeup chair). Yet, those sorts of decisions are always behind the evolution of the look of the Klingons. While fans accepted the upgrade from The Original Series to The Next Generation , future attempts to evolve the look of the Klingons have been met with consternation and outright fan anger.

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A key component of the Kelvin Timeline films was that everything would look different and more modern sci-fi than what was established in past Star Trek series. This meant the Klingons got an upgrade. In the 2009 Star Trek , the Klingons were only seen wearing helmets. In Star Trek: Into Darkness the Klingons were given a sleeker, hairless appearance that leaned into the Roddenberry-esque idea that they evolved from reptiles . Yet, these films never spent much time with the iconic heavies of the 23rd Century iteration of this universe.

Series creator Bryan Fuller, a veteran of Star Trek: Voyager , was the driving force behind the Klingon redesign for 2017's Discovery . Once he left the series, the producers continued to embrace the idea that Klingons evolved from reptiles and used the most advanced prosthetics and makeup to show that. The Klingon language was also extremely accurate in the series, because this was done in the same spirit Phillips, Fletcher and Roddenberry embraced for The Motion Picture .

However, they pushed the limit too far, with the Klingons adopting a more familiar appearance in Discovery Season 2 and reverting to their TNG era look in Strange New Worlds. The Klingons have yet to appear in the 32nd Century future in which Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 takes place. Even if they don't show up in the series' final season, there's sure to be some Klingon encounters in Starfleet Academy , the new young-adult focused series currently in development. Just like Vulcans and starships with dual nacelles, Klingons are never far from Star Trek stories.

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Published Apr 10, 2024

The Best Star Trek Siblings

Best friends and/or bitter rivals, here are some best groups of siblings from throughout the Star Trek universe.

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The Star Trek universe is full of siblings. Sometimes they are the best of friends. Sometimes they are bitter rivals. But, regardless of the tenor of their relationship, each familial clan still thrives and stands out through the rich storytelling the franchise serves up.

The rules for this list are as follows — they have to have appeared on-screen (not merely mentioned) and be identified as a sibling, no matter if that means biological, adopted, foster, or chosen. Additionally, siblings connected through different familial relationships are kept separate.

In celebration of Siblings Day, here are the a handful of the best sets or groups of siblings from throughout the entire franchise.

22. Wesley and Jack Crusher

Dr. Beverly Crusher bore two incredible gifted sons — Wesley Crusher (son of Jack R. Crusher) and Jack Crusher (son of Jean-Luc Picard). Despite being decades apart in age, we're certain Wesley's journey as The Traveler allowed him to watch over his mother and half-brother from afar.

Losing her husband, the elder Jack, and Wesley to the stars made Beverly more protective of her youngest child, hiding him away from all of Jean-Luc's enemies and Jean-Luc himself.

21. D'Vana and D'Erika Tendi

"Something Borrowed, Something Green"

The daughters of B'Rt and Shona Tendi, one of the fifth largest families in the Orion Crime Syndicate, grew up very close. However, D'Vana would crave more out of life other than piracy. Pursuing her love of science and space, D'Vana would leave the family trade and her role as the Prime for a career in Starfleet.

D'Erika would see this abandonment as a betrayal as it forced her to take on the role as the family's prime assassin and live in the shadow of her sister's Mistress of the Winter Constellations legacy. The two sisters would reconcile when D'Vana returned home to Orion following news that her sister was kidnapped ahead of her nuptials. In later negotiations to save her best friend Beckett Mariner and provide the Cerritos with an Orion warship, D'Vana negotiates an offer D'Erika cannot refuse — her return to Orion, reuniting the sisters once more.

20. Worf and Nikolai Rozhenko

"Homeward"

The son of Worf’s foster parents, Nikolai Rozhenko, and Worf didn’t get along as children, though they respected each other’s strong wills and personalities. Their paths crossed as adults when Worf was assigned to prevent his foster brother from further violating the Prime Directive as he observed a race known as the Boraalans.

19. Cleveland Booker and Kyheem

"Sanctuary"

Though not biologically related, Cleveland Booker and Kyheem referred to each other as brothers. Raised together, Kyheem felt Booker was a coward who abandoned their family. They shared the same empathic abilities and worked together to drive the Emerald Chain’s swarms of locusts to the ocean, healing their rift in the process.

18. Tasha and Ishara Yar

Tasha Yar essentially raised her younger sister Ishara on the torturous colony Turkana IV. The two sisters parted ways as young teenagers when Tasha escaped their homeworld and joined Starfleet. They never saw each other again; Ishara resented her sister.

Years later, Ishara used her relationship to Tasha to manipulate the crew of Enterprise into helping her commit an act of terrorism.

17. Kestra and Deanna Troi

"Nepenthe"

The firstborn child of Ian and Lwaxana Troi, Kestra Troi died in a tragic accident when she was six years old, shortly after the birth of her younger sister Deanna. Deanna learned of her late sister while helping her mother through a traumatic telepathic episode on the Enterprise .

Some years later, Deanna would go on to name her first daughter Kestra after her sister.

16. Narek and Narissa

"Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

Two of the children of members of the mysterious Romulan cabal known as the Zhat Vash, Narek and Narissa were committed to the group's efforts of annihilating all artificial life in the galaxy. They worked together in this effort, though distrusted each other and frequently questioned and criticized each other’s methods. Narek often felt inferior to Narissa as he believed she judged him as the family's "Zhat Vash washout."

15. Ezri, Norvo, and Janel Tigan

"Prodigal Daughter"

Before she was Ezri Dax, she was Ezri Tigan, the middle child between two brothers, Norvo and Janel. Though there was tension in their family, Ezri was particularly close to her brother Norvo who she believed had several artistic gifts. The three siblings went their separate ways after Ezri learned Norvo had murdered a woman and Janel was involved with the Orion Syndicate.

14. Paul and Travis Mayweather

"Horizon"

Like many brothers, a stiff sibling rivalry existed between Travis Mayweather and his younger brother Paul. Paul resented Travis for leaving their family’s cargo ship the Horizon to join Starfleet.

When the two brothers reunited during Travis' visit "home" to the ship, Travis used his Starfleet training to upgrade the Horizon 's system, further irritating, but also helping Paul, and allowing a bit of a détente between them.

13. Kor, Curzon, and Jadzia Dax

"The Sword of Kahless"

Having first met during the peace negotiations between The United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Klingon warrior Kor and Trill Curzon Dax formed a close bond through adventurous escapades together, referring to each other as a blood brother.

When the Dax symbiont was passed from Curzon to Jadzia, Kor continued their familial relationship, going on more adventures with his blood sister.

12. Spock and Sybok

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

The two sons of the Vulcan Sarek, Spock and Sybok travelled very different paths. Although half human, Spock embraced the logical traditions of his people, while his older brother Sybok, a full Vulcan, rejected them, instead embracing emotions.

Estranged for decades, the brothers reunited and reconciled after a fashion when Sybok hijacked the Enterprise as part of his quest to find the Edenic Sha-Ka-Ree in the center of the galaxy.

11. Worf and Martok

"Soldiers of the Empire"

Worf and Klingon General Martok first encountered each other in a Dominion prison camp. They helped each other survive and subsequently fought side-by-side in the Dominion War.

After Worf helped Martok rediscover his honor and courage, the General welcomed Worf into his House as a brother. The two were almost inseparable after that, supporting each other with honor through the trials of their lives.

10. Dahj and Soji (and their Coppelia siblings)

Created from a single positronic neuron by Dr. Bruce Maddox and Dr. Altan Soong through a process called fractal neuronic cloning, Dahj and Soji were twins who appeared to be fully human. The women each separately encountered Jean-Luc Picard. Though Dahj was killed, Soji relied on Picard to save her home world, Coppelia, where dozens of other synthetic twins who had been created from Data’s neural network also lived.

9. Molly and Yoshi O’Brien

"Time's Orphan"

The children of the man considered by many to be the most important officer in Starfleet history, Molly and Kirayoshi O’Brien were both born under unique circumstances. Molly was born when the Enterprise was struck by a quantum filament, disabling the ship. While pregnant with Yoshi, Keiko O’Brien was injured on a mission, necessitating her son’s transfer into Kira Nerys’ womb, who carried him to term. Molly doted on Yoshi, and their bond was shown to be strong.

8. Saru and Siranna

"The Sound of Thunder"

Kelpiens Saru and Siranna were devoted to each other from childhood through adulthood. Though they parted ways when Saru left Kelpinar to join Starfleet, their hearts were permanently linked.

When Saru returned to his homeworld, he helped Siranna lead their people in breaking free of their fearful natures. Siranna, in turn, came to Saru and the Discovery 's aid when it battled the sentient computer Control.

7. Worf and Kurn

"Sons of Mogh"

Worf and Kurn, the Sons of Mogh, were separated for most of their lives following the attack that killed their parents. Kurn sought out Worf, revealing their relationship during an officer exchange aboard the Enterprise . Kurn was loyal to his brother and their family, but hid his heritage during his brother’s discommendation.

During the Dominion War, Kurn also faced dishonor. Worf helped Kurn assume a new identity to regain honor in the empire.

6. The Duras Sisters

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Lursa and B’Etor were the devious sisters of Duras. Their family held great honor within the Klingon Empire until the treachery of their father Ja’rod and brother Duras came to light as well as their own conspiring with the Romulan Sela. They had successfully instigated a Klingon civil war and were responsible for the destruction of the Enterprise before dying in the same battle.

5. Jim and Sam Kirk

"Lost in Translation"

Growing up in Iowa, both James Tiberius Kirk and his brother George Samuel "Sam" Kirk saw their futures in the stars. Jim, of course, became one of the greatest starship captains in Starfleet history. Sam became a celebrated scientist.

Long before James would take command of the Enterprise , Sam Kirk served aboard the flagship under Captain Pike as his younger brother was rising the ranks aboard the Farragut. While their relationship often had hurdles, as Sam felt their father favored Jim's career, specifically achieving the title of youngest first officer in all of Starfleet, as it modeled his own career while the elder brother pursued a path in sciences. No matter the timeline, there was never shortage of love, support, and old-fashioned sibling ribbing.

4. Michael Burnham and Spock

"If Memory Serves"

Having been rescued by the Vulcan Sarek and his human wife Amanda Grayson, Michael Burnham was raised alongside Sarek and Amanda's son Spock. The foster siblings faced a strained relationship at times, but when Michael was missing, Spock searched for her with the help of the Red Angel.

Michael returned the favor years later, leading the search for Spock when he disappeared and was accused of murder. Spock credited Michael with helping him become the man he did, and Michael was moved and proud when she travelled to the future and learned of Spock's legendary life.

3. Quark and Rom

"Family Business"

On the surface, it appeared that Quark and Rom didn’t like each other very much, but the truth was few brothers loved each other as much as this Ferengi pair did. Quark often berated and manipulated Rom, but Rom always stood by his brother in his times of need. Quark also unfailingly helped his brother during crises, even breaking him out of a holding cell to prevent his execution by the Dominion. When Quark learned Rom was being named Grand Nagus, he was initially jealous but also expressed how much he truly loved his brother.

2. Jean-Luc and Robert Picard

"Family"

As boys, Robert and Jean-Luc Picard bickered and battled constantly. The older brother, Robert, enjoyed bullying Jean-Luc. It wasn’t until Jean-Luc's return to the family vineyard following his assimilation by the Borg and subsequent rescue that the two brothers settled their decades-long rivalry.

Four years later, Jean-Luc was devastated to learn Robert and Robert’s son René had been killed in a fire at the vineyard.

1. The Soong Androids and Altan Inigo Soong

"Datalore"

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Dr. Noonien Soong had a large family. Of his four sons, three were androids and one was human. The androids Data, Lore, and B-4 had challenging and complex relationships with each other. Data long believed he was inferior to Lore while Lore was jealous of their father’s pride in Data. Meanwhile, B-4 was used to lure Data and Picard into a Romulan trap. Data tried helping B-4 improve, but his programming was insufficient, despite Data giving B-4 his memory engrams.

Their human brother, Dr. Altan Inigo Soong, helped use some of those engrams to reconstitute Data in a simulation after the android’s death as well as using them to create numerous new pairs of synthetic twins. Altogether, they were, as Data described them, "An acquired taste." Most siblings are.

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This article was originally published on April 9, 2021.

Jake Black is a writer whose credits include Star Trek: Starfleet Logbook, Star Trek Magazine, and works for DC Comics, Marvel, WWE, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Supergirl, and many more. An eleven-year cancer survivor, he lives in a quiet Connecticut town with his wife, son, and twin daughters. Found online @jakeboyslim

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Not only I'm a Star Trek lover, but I'm also a mystery fanatic. I've binge watched Murder, She Wrote for four years and discovered that many Star Trek alums have appeared on the iconic murder mystery series.

Can you think of any Star Trek alums that appeared alongside the legendary master sleuth, Jessica Fletcher?

I think Rene Aberjonois was in an episode and John De Lancie

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