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Worf (wo'rIv in the Klingon language) is a Klingon in the Star Trek fictional universe. This character appears in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and in movies based upon The Next Generation series. Worf is played by actor Michael Dorn. He was the first regular Klingon character to appear in Star Trek and has also appeared in more Star Trek episodes than any other character.

As a child, Worf was adopted by a human couple, the Rozhenkos, however he never uses their last name, but prefers to be addressed by the Klingon designation, "Worf, son of Mogh." His son by K'Ehleyr, Alexander Rozhenko, who was raised for a brief time by the Rozhenkos, does use their surname, however. The Rozhenkos raised Worf both in Minsk, and on a small farm colony on the planet Gault, a world of about 20,000 inhabitants, almost all of them humans (DS9, "Let He Who Is Without Sin"). It was during their time on Gault that the 13-year old Worf, captain of his school's soccer team, accidentally killed another boy named Mikel during a championship game by throwing himself at him as the two children went after a ball that flew into the air. This resulted in Worf's head colliding with Mikel's, breaking the boy's neck. Worf would later explain to his fellow Starfleet officer, then-girlfriend and future wife Jadzia Dax in the fifth season episode Let He Who Is Without Sin ... that up until this event, he was the biggest, strongest and most fearless boy on the planet, uncontrollable, and that he did as he pleased, but that following this event, he was overcome with guilt, and realized that because humans were more fragile than he was, that he must always practice restraint, a sense of caution that not only became a part of who he was, but which prevented him at times from enjoying himself.

One of the emblems on Worf's sash is the crest of the House of Mogh, which he continued to wear even after Klingon Chancellor Gowron stripped the House of its title and properties when Worf refused to join in the Klingon invasion of Cardassia in the DS9 fourth-season premiere "The Way of the Warrior". Following the rapport that formed between Worf and then-General Martok by the end of the fifth season episode Soldiers of the Empire (DS9 episode), however, Martok invited Worf to be a part of his family, and Worf replaced the old crest with the crest of the House of Martok. From this point forward, Worf was regarded as Martok's brother, and as much a member of his family as a biological one.

Worf is the son of Mogh and the grandson of Colonel Worf. His parents are deceased. Following his excommunication from the Klingon Empire by Chancellor Gowron in "The Way of the Warrior," his brother Kurn's memory was erased, in order to provide with a new identity as a way to escape the dishonor and prescribed ritual suicide that would have resulted from this event. Kurn is currently living with the family of his father's friend Noggra; Kurn now has the identity of Rodek, believing, as Noggra told him, that he is Noggra's son, and lost his memory after being hit by a plasma discharge, as depicted at the end of the fourth-season episode "Sons of Mogh".

Duels

In TNG, Worf killed Duras in a duel for killing his mate K'Ehleyr, the only rival to Gowron as Klingon Chancellor. In DS9, Worf killed Gowron in a duel, after challenging the way he was commanding General Martok to make futile troop-losing attacks, because Gowron was afraid of Martok's growing prestige. Worf was the winner of a bat'leth tournament (Parallels (TNG episode)) so it is not surprising that he could defeat Duras and Gowron.

Worf truly held to the ideals of honor of Klingon culture. But Ezri Dax asked him who the last Klingon leader was whom he could truly respect. This prompted him to challenge Gowron.


Memorable quotes

These quotes and many others depicts Worf's aggressive and authoritarian nature, and awkwardness when faced with situations a male Klingon would not expect (such as acting as midwife to Keiko O'Brien), which has an amusing effect when he is the only Klingon in a largely human society.

  • "Sir I protest! I am not a merry man!" (Qpid (TNG episode))
  • "Your ambush would have been more successful if you bathed more frequently." (The Vengeance Factor (TNG episode))
  • "Congratulations, you have achieved full dilation of 10 cm. You may now deliver." (Disaster (TNG episode))
  • "What are his rights in this century? Will there be a trial, or shall I execute him?" (A Fistful of Datas (TNG episode))
  • "If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand." (Star Trek: First Contact, to Picard)
  • "Assimilate this!" (Star Trek: First Contact, to Borg Drones)
  • "Definitely feeling aggressive tendencies, sir!" (Star Trek: Insurrection)
  • "I am Worf, son of Mogh. I now take my place as first officer. I serve the captain, but I stand for the crew. It is clear to me that none of you are worthy of my blood or my life; but I will stand for you." (Soldiers of The Empire (DS9 episode))
  • "gung-gung-gung" (DS9, to Yoshi O'Brien)
  • "Spot! Come here!" (said while attempting to command Data's cat Spot)
  • "Death to the opposition!" (said while playing baseball)
  • "Die." (said to Q after he'd become mortal and asked the bridge crew — while trying to convince them that he HAD lost his powers "What do I have to do to CONVINCE you people?" After Worf's comment Q's response was "Very good, Worf ... eat any good books lately?")
  • "Then perhaps today *is* a good day to die! ... Prepare for ramming speed! (while engaged in a hopeless battle with a Borg cube in Earth orbit while commanding the Defiant, when informed that the Defiant has been crippled, weapons and life support are gone, the reactor is going critical, the hull is falling apart, and the engines are pretty much the only thing still working).

As with Captain Picard, DarkMateria also released a song about Worf. Like the Picard Song, it featured memorable quotes from Worf mixed with a techno beat and some Klingon music and singing.

Download the Worf song here.

Timeline of Worf's life

See also: Timeline of Star Trek

Expanded Universe

Template:Spoiler After the death of Data, Worf becomes the new first officer of the Enterprise-E in the novels of the Star Trek Expanded Universe. The first novel where Worf holds this position is "Resistance".

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