Worf
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- For the mirror universe counterpart, see Worf (mirror). You might also be looking for information about Colonel Worf from the 23rd century.
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| Worf, son of Mogh
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| Gender: | Male |
| Species: | Klingon |
| Born: | 2340 |
| Parents: | Mogh (biological)
Sergey and |
| Siblings: | Kurn (biological) Nikolai Rozhenko (foster) |
| Marital Status: | K'Ehleyr (mate, deceased) Jadzia Dax (wife, deceased) |
| Children: | One son, Alexander Rozhenko |
| Actor: | Michael Dorn |
Worf – son of Mogh, of the Klingon House of Martok, of the Human family Rozhenko; mate to K'Ehleyr and father to Alexander Rozhenko, husband to the magnificent Jadzia Dax; Starfleet officer and soldier of the Empire; bane of the House of Duras and slayer of Gowron; Federation ambassador to Qo'noS – was one of the most influential Klingons of the latter half of the 24th century.
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Early Life
Mogh, patriarch of one of the Klingon Empire's Great Houses, was given a son in 2340. The scion of the House of Mogh was born on the Klingon homeworld, Qo'noS, and given the name of a respected ancestor, Worf. Five years later, Mogh took the mother of his children and his eldest son to live on the Khitomer colony. The younger, infant son of Mogh, Kurn, remained behind, in the care of family friend, Lorgh. (TNG: "Sins of the Father")
After arriving at their new home, Mogh took Worf on a ritual hunt, in the company of a garrison warrior, L'Kor. The boy had not yet reached the Age of Inclusion, and was barely able to hold a bat'leth, but he was eager. Worf was mauled by a beast, leaving behind a scar and memory he kept throughout his life. (TNG: "Birthright, Part I")
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 Empire open to betrayal. Romulan forces attacked the Khitomer colony, killing nearly all the 4,000 Klingon colonists, including Worf's parents. (TNG: "Sins of the Father", "The Neutral Zone")
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, alone and left for dead, and cared for him. Sergey took Worf to his homestead on the farming colony of Gault, and informed his wife Helena that they would raise the Klingon child as their own. Worf was raised alongside his elder human brother, Nikolai Rozhenko. (see Family: Nikolai Rozhenko) (TNG: "The Neutral Zone", "Heart of Glory", "Family")
As the sole Klingon in a small farm culture, Worf had some difficulty adapting to his new circumstances. Soon after his arrival on Gault, the seven-year-old bloodied the noses of five teenage boys, whom Worf deemed "disrespectful". A far more consequential, albeit accidental, incident occurred in 2353. At thirteen years of age, Worf led his school's soccer team to the championships, and the Klingon captain was determined to win. With the score tied late in the second half, a crucial play led Worf and an opponent, Mikel, to leap up and 'head' a high-flying ball. Worf thrilled at the contest, laughing as he threw himself into the goal-making shot. His roar of triumph was dashed by the sight of Mikel bleeding on the grass. Worf hadn't felt the contact, but the impact of Klingon ridges against a Human skull had snapped the boy's neck. Mikel died the next day. The deadly lesson in Human frailties made a huge impact on Worf's nascent character, by teaching him restraint from customary Klingon exuberance. That learned self-control, interpreted by some as a denial of his Klingon heritage, was a large factor in setting him apart from others of his species for much of his life, (TNG: "Family"; DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...")
Sergey took his boys on camping trips in the Ural Mountains on Earth. The howling wolves frightened Nikolai, but the animal's cries kept Worf awake with fascination, until the urge to join them... to become something wild... nearly overwhelmed him. The restlessness of his "difficult adolescence" came with a desire to assume the mantle of his Klingon heritage. Going far beyond cooking a few Klingon dishes, his parents actively encourage Worf's quest to find himself. (DS9: "Change of Heart"; TNG: "Family")
Coming of Age
At fifteen years of age, Worf voyaged to Qo'noS, where he stayed with cousins of the House of Mogh in 2355. Two years older than the traditional age for such a moment, he made the formal declaration of his intent to become a warrior and performed the Rite of Ascension. During the ceremony, Worf was presented with a well-forged knife, a gift from a Klingon who had known Mogh. Seeing the Great Domes of Qo'noS made him feel at home, but his kin rejected his marked human taint. (TNG: "The Icarus Factor", "Rightful Heir"; DS9: "The Sword of Kahless")
Worf found solace in the mountains, fasting for three days before undertaking the Rite of MajQa. After six days of meditation in the sweltering, volcanic Caves of No'Mat, the legendary Klingon warrior Kahless the Unforgettable appeared to Worf in a vision and prophesied that Worf would do something that no other Klingon had ever done before. (TNG: "Birthright, Part I"; DS9: "The Sword of Kahless")
Worf became the first Klingon to enter Starfleet Academy. Nikolai Rozhenko had joined the Academy as well, but dropped out after his first year. After completing his training and studies he became the first Klingon to graduate from the Academy. His achievement seemed to be Kahless's prophecy fulfilled. (TNG: "Homeward"; DS9: "The Sword of Kahless")
- In a scene cut from DS9: "Resurrection", Worf mentioned that he had served as an ensign aboard the USS Hawk prior to his posting on the Enterprise-D. It is likely that this was his first assignment after graduation and his only posting before taking his position on the Enterprise as a junior lieutenant.
Service aboard the USS Enterprise-D
In 2364, Lieutenant junior grade Worf was assigned to one of the most prestigious postings available to a young officer in Starfleet, as a command division bridge officer on the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (see Friendships: Jean-Luc Picard) Worf spent most off his first year on the Enterprise-D as a relief officer for the conn and other bridge stations. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint")
Worf was permitted a variation from the Starfleet uniform dress code, and wore a Klingon warrior's sash over his regular duty uniform. Worf's quarters were on Deck 7, in Section 25 Baker; until 2370, when he moved to Deck 2, Room 2713. (TNG: "Rightful Heir", "Phantasms")
Following the death of Natasha Yar at the hands of the Armus entity, Worf assumed her responsibilities. In 2365, Worf transferred to the operations division and officially became the Enterprise-D's chief tactical officer and security chief. After seven years of service aboard the starship, Worf rose in rank to lieutenant commander in 2371. (TNG: "Skin of Evil", "The Child", Star Trek: Generations)
Borg encounters
Q performed a tremendous service for the peoples of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants in 2365, when he gave the Enterprise-D a preview of the oncoming Borg juggernaut. Worf and his security team were the first Starfleet officers to take on Borg drones when two boarded his ship. Worf, along with Commander William T. Riker and Lieutenant Commander Data were the first officers to infiltrate a Borg cube, gathering the first real clues about the true nature of the new threat. (TNG: "Q Who?")
Worf played a significant role in repelling the Borg invasion of the Federation in 2366. At his tactical station when the Enterprise-D engaged the Borg Cube, he was unable to prevent the abduction of Picard when drones appeared on the bridge. His hands triggered the ship's weapons, firing upon his assimilated Captain, now Locutus. On Riker's orders, Worf and Data boarded the Cube, and were able retrieve Picard, allowing Dr. Crusher to restore their Captain's humanity. It was one of the most dangerous missions of his career, but six years later he would say he had no doubt about the outcome, likening the exploits of his companions to the sagas of ancient warriors. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part I & Part II"; DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
Regardless of his optimism, in 2368 Worf was wary enough of a wounded and isolated Borg drone that he earnestly recommended killing it on sight, but his words went unheeded. The decision to rehabilitate the drone, restoring a sense of individuality (naming him "Hugh") and returning him to the collective, nearly proved disastrous. Rather than infecting the collective with freedom, as Picard hoped, only a few drones were affected, and only to the point of rendering them susceptible to manipulation by Lore, Data's brother and nemesis. (TNG: "I, Borg". "Descent")
Q encounters
Like so many who have encountered the powerful trickster, Worf immediately developed a strong antipathy towards Q. Worf's contempt for Q's character was plainly expressed with a complete disregard for the being's immense power. During their first meeting in 2364, Worf asked Picard, "and now, sir, a personal request. Permission to clean up the bridge?" (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint")
In his latter visits, Q frequently took pleasure in teasing Worf ("Macro head, micro brain") into more slow burns. In humbled circumstances, stripped of his powers from the Q Continuum, Q desperately asked how he could prove to the Enterprise-D crew that he was, indeed, mortal. Worf helpfully suggested, "die". (TNG: "Hide and Q", "Deja Q")
Q tried to teach Picard a lesson in love in 2367, and forced him and his crew to play out a detailed Robin Hood fantasy scenario. Worf found himself in tights and jerkin, dressed as the character Will Scarlet. He was not pleased with the situation ("I am NOT a Merry Man!"), nor was his temper soothed by Geordi's idle plucking of a period-mandolin. Worf ripped the instrument from his senior officer's hands and smashed it to kindling against a tree. (TNG: "QPid")
Klingon affairs
The exposure to Klingon society that Worf longed for began in earnest in his time aboard the Enterprise-D. Slowly, exposure led to inclusion, and in a few short years, the forgotten orphan of the House of Mogh was a player in the highest levels of the Empire's politics.
The Enterprise-D picked up three Klingons from a disabled cargo ship in 2364, and for the first time in nearly ten years, Worf spent time in the company of (renegade) Klingon warriors. One of the rescued was mortally wounded, and Worf joined in the Klingon death ritual for Kunivas, exposing non-Klingons to the event for the first time. The charismatic Korris, tried to provoke Worf to anger, and became intrigued by the wolf he found in Starfleet-sheep clothing. Korris tried to enlist Worf in taking the starship, but could not budge the officer's loyalty. Worf's oath was tempted a second time by Commander K'Nera, who offered Worf a place in the Klingon Defense Forces. Worf politely declined. (TNG: "Heart of Glory")
More than 20 years after the Khitomer Massacre, the honor of the House of Mogh was called into question in 2366. Worf's brother Kurn (see Family: Kurn) brought the news that Duras ,of the rival House of Duras, had accused Mogh of betraying the Empire by facilitating the Romulan attack on the Khitomer colony. With Kurn and Picard by his side, Worf appeared before the Klingon High Council to protest their judgment of guilt, and provided evidence that would have exonerated his father. Chancellor K'mpec dismissed Worf's defense, knowing the true traitor of Khitomer was Duras' father Ja'rod. Considering the cost of his appeal and revelation of the truth – Duras' powerful clan inciting a civil war, and his intention to kill Kurn – Worf kept his silence and accepted a discommendation that ruined his name throughout the Empire. (TNG: "Sins of the Father")
Chancellor K'mpec was dying a year later, and he asked Picard to serve as the Arbiter of Succession – giving the Captain oversight of the competition between Duras and Gowron, both with claims on the title of Chancellor. The event coincided with Worf's reunion with K'Ehleyr, an iconoclastic ambassador and Worf's former lover, who introduced their child, Alexander. (see Family: K'Ehleyr and Alexander)
The Sonchi ceremony over the body of K'mpec was interrupted by an explosion that proved to be an attempt on the life of Gowron, perpetrated by Duras. The contenders were offended by the dishonored Worf presenting the result of Enterprise-D's investigation, but with Klingon glee, Worf revealed the evidence that implicated Duras. Concurrently, K'Ehleyr discovered the truth of Worf's discommendation as well as the scope of the House of Duras' treachery. Besieged from both sides, Duras confronted K'Ehleyr and murdered her. The question of succession was ultimately decided by Worf. Exercising his Right of Vengeance, he challenged Duras to duel, and left his bat'leth in the chest of the last Klingon to know the truth of the Khitomer betrayal. The death of Duras allowed Gowron to become the new Chancellor. (TNG: "Reunion")
The civil war K'mpec had feared broke out in late 2367, when the House of Duras and allies rebelled against Chancellor Gowron's leadership. Worf felt it was his place to help his people, and resigned from Starfleet to side with Gowron. Worf's influence proved instrumental in the war when he ordered Kurn, who had control over a fleet of ships, to back Gowron. Starfleet came to his aid without getting directly involved when they were able to reveal that the Duras family were garnering support from the Romulans. With help from Starfleet, the Romulan involvement was stopped, thus enabling Gowron's forces to quickly end the war and solidify his position as Chancellor. In appreciation for Worf's help, Chancellor Gowron restored honor to the House of Mogh, gave his brother Kurn, who publicly announced his bloodline to Mogh, a seat on the Klingon High Council, and gave Worf the life of Duras' illegitimate son, Toral. Worf, unable to kill an innocent boy, let Toral go and returned to Starfleet without incident. (TNG: "Redemption, Part I & Part II")
In 2369, while the Enterprise was docked at Deep Space 9, Worf was met by a Yridian named Jaglom Shrek. Shrek told Worf that Mogh may not have died at Khitomer after all. He may still be alive, living with Romulans in a remote prison camp. This disturbing fact, if true, would dishonor Worf and his family (even Alexander) for three generations, since a true warrior would fight to the death rather than get captured by the dishonorable Romulans. With advice from Data and Troi, Worf decided to meet Shrek and guide him to the Carraya sector, where the prison camp was located.
On the surface, Worf had found L'Kor, now an old man. After identifying himself as the Son of Mogh, L'Kor informed Worf that his father died at Khitomer, and that a number of prisoners were taken to this camp at the Carraya Sector. Worf attempted to free the prisoners, but the leaders refused, and instead took custody of Worf. Inside the main prison camp, Worf found Klingons and Romulans living together in harmony. Unfortunately, in their isolation, the Klingons abandoned all honor and had forgotten their warrior ways. He found the young Toq, was using the gin'tak battle spear to plough the local farmland, and he found a Klingon girl Ba'el, who knew nothing of her heritage, or the Khitomer Massacre. When Worf told the camp members that Klingons are now allies with the Federation, the Klingon elders laughed in disbelief. To calm himself afterward, Worf performed a mok'bara outside. All the younger Klingons watched in awe and whilst Worf told the stories of Kahless to them, Ba'el became infatuated with him. Despite attempts by Gi'ral to stop her advances, Ba'el refused and agreed to escape with Worf. Then Worf found out that Ba'el was Romulan. Tokath, the Romulan leader of the camp was her father. When Worf confronted Gi'ral about why she married a Romulan, Gi'ral explained it was due to her sorrow at losing her Klingon husband at Khitomer. Worf left and continued his influence on the camp's youth. He taught hunting with Toq, and after catching an animal, delivered it to the main hall as a feast. Tokath was horrified at the sight and pointed a phaser at Worf. By now, Worf had exerted enough influence on the camp. Toq, L'Kor and even Ba'el had blocked Tokath's path, and he had to let Worf go. Worf returned to the Enterprise. (TNG: "Birthright, Part I", "Birthright, Part II")
Ba'el was the daughter of the male Romulan Tokath and the female Klingon Gi'ral, living in the Romulan prison camp on Carraya IV. Her first contact with the outside world came in 2369 when Worf came to the camp. She fell in love with Worf and protected him when Tokath was going to kill him for influencing some Klingons to leave. Ba'el never left the planet as she felt she would not be accepted by either Klingons or Romulans because of her mixed heritage. (TNG: "Birthright, Part I")
Although it had a profound influence on the settlers of Carraya IV, it also forced Worf to challenge his own beliefs. To renew his faith, Worf decided to visit the Caves of Boreth, and re-summon Kahless the Unforgettable. He was about to give up, when Koroth convinced Worf to have one more go. It was this attempt that made Kahless appear before him, for real. Kahless seemingly returned to lead the Empire once more. Despite this Kahless correctly recalling the story of the forging of the bat'leth (known only to the clerics of Boreth, convincing them of his authenticity), knowing the story behind Worf's first Kahless vision, and passing tricorder scans, Worf was still skeptical of the Klingon's authenticity. When Gowron claimed that Kahless could not recall any of his legendary stories, Gowron challenged him in combat, to which Kahless lost. The loss forced the clerics to reveal the truth about this Kahless, that he was a clone. Despite the discovery, Worf was instrumental in getting this clone of Kahless installed as emperor to the Klingon people. The position had not been held for centuries and was ceremonial but he felt that the Klingon Empire had lost its way from Kahless' original teachings and thought the new emperor could bring further stability. (TNG: "Rightful Heir")
Other notable missions
Worf's first major task was to take command of the Enterprise-D saucer module and lead it to safety, when the ship separated prior to engaging Q for the first time. The order ran contrary to his nature and Worf briefly objected, before Picard shut down his aggressive young officer and reminded him of his duty. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint", "All Good Things...")
Worf was present for the first Federation contact with the Romulans since the Tomed Incident, when a mysterious third-party's devastating attacks on Romulan Neutral Zone outposts alarmed the powers on either side of the border. Worf was enraged by the prospect of dealing with the race responsible for the Khitomer Massacre, and was rebuked by both Picard and the Romulan Commander Tebok, who urged, "silence your dog, Captain." (TNG: "The Neutral Zone")
That year, Worf was a member of the away team sent to investigate the Iconian gateway located at the Romulan Neutral Zone. The experience with Iconian technology would serve him well many years later, in the Gamma Quadrant. On another away mission, to Theta 116 VIII, he participated in a recreation of the pulp-novel The Hotel Royale. (TNG: "Contagion", "The Royale")
Worf helped exposed Ardra as an impostor trying to take control of Ventax II, despite her attempts to take the form of Fek'lhr. (TNG: "Devil's Due",
The Enterprise was caught in an energy field, which threw them away from an M-class planet inhabited by the xenophobic Paxans. The energy field was designed to erase the memories of the planet. However, Worf's surgically mended arm proved that something happened at the Paxan homeworld, and for someone deliberately erased their memories of the event. To appease the Paxans, the crew agreed to have their memories erased again, only this time, no clues would be left. "Clues",
A month later, the Enterprise had become trapped in the Tyken's Rift whilst trying to find the USS Brattain. The insanity and fear brought out by the Tyken's Rift caused Worf to nearly kill himself with a bat'leth. (TNG: "Night Terrors")
When Kieran MacDuff altered the memories of the crew and the computers (including Data's) with a plasma energy beam, Worf temporarily took command of the Enterprise, because his sash gave the mistaken impression that he was the highest ranking officer. (TNG: "Conundrum")
In 2369, Worf had been reassigned by Admiral Alynna Nechayev to infiltrate Celtris III. Starfleet Intelligence had discovered bursts of theta-band subspace emissions from the planet, indicating an illegal metagenic weapon in operation. Worf, Dr. Crusher and Picard were part of the intelligence team sent to investigate. After Picard was captured by Gul Madred, Worf and Crusher escaped back to the rendezvous point, where they informed Captain Jellico of the situation. (TNG: "Chain of Command, Part I, & Part II")
Worf helped Byleth understand the humanoid emotion of antagonism. "Liaisons"
The ship was destroyed by Lursa and B'Etor in the battle of Veridian III. (Star Trek: Generations)
Service on Deep Space 9
While awaiting reassignment following the destruction of the Enterprise, Worf took an extended leave of absence from Starfleet to evaluate his future. He returned his son to Earth to live with the Rozhenkos while he himself took refuge on Boreth. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Federation, Captain Benjamin Sisko and the crew of Deep Space 9 were having trouble keeping order with the Klingons present at the station. When the treaty with the Klingon Empire was threatened during the Klingon's invasion of Cardassia in 2372 (after the Enterprise-D had been destroyed), Sisko stated, "The only people who can understand Klingons... are Klingons." It was at this time he requested the help of Worf.
Worf again became a player in galactic politics as the Federation tried to avert war between the Klingon Empire and the Cardassian Union. Worf was the Federation's best link to Chancellor Gowron and a meeting between them was arranged. He was asked to resign from Starfleet and join Gowron on the Klingon campaign to invade Cardassia. Worf felt the war was wrong and that it was incompatible with his loyalties with the Federation. As a result, Gowron threatened to strip Worf and his family of their honor, confiscate their lands, and treat them as traitors to the Klingon Empire. When Worf again refused Gowron made good on his threat.
The Klingons failed to bring down the Cardassian government with the Federation protecting them and an enraged Gowron withdrew the Khitomer Accords and made an enemy of the Federation. Following the mission, Worf was considering resigning from Starfleet to take a berth on a Nyberrite Alliance cruiser. After learning this, Sisko offered Worf a position as the strategic operations officer, which Worf humbly accepted. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
When the USS Orinoco was sabotaged by the True Way in 2372, Worf, along with Major Kira Nerys, Sisko, Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax, and Chief Miles O'Brien were lost in the transporter. However, Odo and Michael Eddington managed to save their transporter signatures on the station's computers. The character data was saved in the holosuite (where Julian Bas hir and Elim Garak were running a holosuite simulation). Worf's character data was superimposed onto Duchamps, a holosuite character who played the henchman to Dr. Noah. (DS9: "Our Man Bas hir")
Worf's quarters were on Level 3, Section 27, Room 19. (DS9: "Inquisition") When Worf married Jadzia Dax, he moved into her quarters, which were located in the habitat ring, Section 25 Alpha. DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited...", "Resurrection").
USS Defiant missions
Whenever Sisko was not commanding the USS Defiant, Worf would get a chance to demonstrate his command. One of the first missions he commanded was the science mission headed by Lenara Kahn. The Trill science team was attempting to create Starfleet's first artificially-created stable wormhole. Worf found it hard to be excited about a science mission, claiming that his dreams were more exciting. (DS9: "Rejoined")
While beside a gas giant in the Gamma Quadrant, where the Defiant was escorting Quark to continue negotiations with the Karemma, the Jem'Hadar opened fire on the Karemma starship and the Defiant as punishment for their treason. Captain Sisko was severely injured in the incident, leaving Worf to in command. Taking command at engineering (the bridge had been damaged by Jem'Hadar fire) Worf found many engineers (especially Muñiz and Stevens) unused to his authoritarian methods. After receiving advice from Miles O'Brien, Worf undertook a more interactive approach. Better able to work under this style of command, Muñiz and Stevens were able to devise a way to destroy the Jem'Hadar attack ship. By modifying the main deflector, the Defiant successfully defeated the Jem'Hadar. (DS9: "Starship Down")
In a subsequent mission, Worf had to escort some Cardassian freighters across a volatile sector of Klingon space. After being hit by Klingon warships that continually cloaked and decloaked, he opened fire on the next ship that de-cloaked. However, this ship was a Klingon civilian transport, and Worf destroyed it. The Klingon Advocate Ch'Pok demanded that Worf be extradited to the Klingon Empire for punishment.
The Federation decided to stage a court martial with Admiral T'Lara as chair and with Sisko as defense, and Ch'Pok as prosecution. Had it not been for Odo's discovery that there were no civilians on the destroyed ship, Worf would have had to return to his dishonored home. After the court martial, which the defense won, Worf remarked at how difficult command was. Sisko replied, "Wait until you get four pips on your collar." (DS9: "Rules of Engagement")
Following a year of hostilities and border skirmishes between the Federation and Klingons (See: Second Federation-Klingon War), Odo discovered that Gowron may have been replaced by a Founder. In order to establish whether Gowron was a shapeshifter, Starfleet Command ordered Sisko to lead a team (which included Worf) to expose Gowron as a shapeshifter. The team would pose as Klingon warriors being inducted into the Order of the Bat'leth. The team would each plant polaron emitters that, when activated, would force a shapeshifter to lose its shape. Worf initially found it difficult to turn the team into convincing Klingons. However, Sisko helped him refocus, and with practice, the team pulled through. The plan worked out relatively well on the surface, and Sisko was ready to activate the polaron emitter. However, just before he could activate the emitters, Martok, chief military advisor and overseer of the Cardassian invasion, recognized Sisko through his Klingon disguise, and the entire team were thrown into prison. While incarcerated, the team managed to explain their mission to Martok. It turned out that Martok had always suspected that Gowron may have been a changeling, but he was waiting for the right time to expose him. With the polaron emitters destroyed, Worf decided that the only way to expose Gowron as a shapeshifter was to get him to spill blood. Once released by Martok, Worf fought Gowron in a duel. Gowron's Klingon-like honor and behavior led Odo to find it was not Gowron, but Martok who was the Dominion Changeling agent. After he was destroyed by the Klingon warriors, it was discovered that his mission was to destabilize relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. With Worf's help in uncovering the Dominion presence as the common enemy, he helped reunite peace between the Federation and Klingon Empire. (DS9: "Broken Link", "Apocalypse Rising")
A couple of months later, the Defiant was tasked with the mission of sending the Bajoran Orb of Time back to the station. However, Defiant passenger Arne Darvin had other ideas, and used the Orb to travel back to 2268, to the time of Captain Kirk and the first USS Enterprise, and the year the tribbles had invaded Klingon space. Darvin's plot was to kill Captain Kirk and eliminate the tribbles before they would have a chance to invade Klingon space. While searching for Darvin, Worf (along with Odo, Bas hir and O'Brien) encountered Klingons scarred by the augment virus of the 22nd century. When Bas hir and O'Brien asked how the augmented people could be Klingons, Worf could only respond with "We do not discuss it with outsiders". The crew apprehended Darvin on Deep Space Station K-7, and returned to the present. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles", DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")
The Dominion War
In 2373, Elim Garak had received a encoded transmission from his father, Enabran Tain. It stated that he had survived the Battle of the Omarion Nebula and was being held by the Dominion in the Gamma Quadrant. Garak convinced Sisko that he could enter Dominion space but only under supervision from Worf. In order to avoid detection whilst in Dominion space, Worf decided to hide in a nearby nebula. The diversion proved to be a bad idea, as that nebula housed the first Dominion invasion fleet, on its way to invading the Alpha Quadrant. Worf knew that they were planning to enter the wormhole, and that the Dominion War was about to begin. Before they were captured by the fleet, Worf managed to transmit a message to the wormhole relay station about the impending invasion. (DS9: "In Purgatory's Shadow")
Worf and Garak were taken to Internment Camp 371, where they discovered Enabran Tain, the real General Martok, and surprisingly, the real Julian Bas hir. Bas hir had been captured for a month and had been replaced by a Changeling infiltrator. All the prisoners knew they had to escape, to warn DS9 about the Changeling. Although Tain died at the camp shortly thereafter, Garak devised a plan to modify his transmitter to contact their runabout in orbit and escape from the internment camp. The transmitter was tucked away in a cramped compartment, and Garak had to overcome his acute claustrophobia to complete it. Worf and Martok commended Garak's courage, stating that "There is no greater enemy than one's own fears". Once the prisoners escaped, they managed to warn DS9 that Bas hir had been replaced by a Changeling. Kira managed to destroy the Bas hir Changeling before he could blow up the Bajoran sun. (DS9: "By Inferno's Light")
From then on to the end of the year, the Dominion sent weekly fleets through the wormhole to fortify the Cardassian sectors. Starfleet, needing to find a way to halt the buildup, decided to block the entrance to the wormhole with a minefield. Sisko assigned Kira and Worf to deploy a field of self-replicating mines, all of which would need to be deployed before any could be activated. Starfleet forces were unable to assist in the deployment, so the Defiant and IKS Rotarran had to do it alone, and they only had one day to finish the minefield. Weyoun approached the station with 300 Dominion and Cardassian ships, and when Sisko refused their ultimatum, Gul Dukat opened fire, starting the Battle of Deep Space 9 and the Dominion War. While the Dominion's fire power proved ineffective to the station's shields, Worf, in command of the station's weapons array, managed to destroy 50 ships, and the Rotarran helped protect the Defiant so it could complete the minefield. With the minefield deployed, and the station vastly outnumbered, Sisko ordered all Starfleet crew members to evacuate the station. Due to the conquest of DS9 by the Dominion, Worf had been assigned to the Rotarran as first officer. (DS9: "Call to Arms")
Unlike the rest of Starfleet, first officer Worf, ever the warrior, relished the opportunity to engage in combat with the Dominion. A joint operation where the Defiant played a decoy to three Jem'Hadar attack ships allowed the Rotarran to decloak and help destroy those ships in the front line. However, both ships had been called back to Starbase 375 for retreat. By now even Worf was beginning to lose morale from the retreats from the Dominion. What the alliance needed was a victory, something that Sisko had been planning all along – Operation Return, the plan to retake Deep Space 9.
The original plan of taking three Federation fleets and a Klingon contingent were scuttled when Sisko received word that the minefield was about to come down. The second and fifth fleets had to take Deep Space 9 themselves. Even so, Martok and Worf tried to convince Chancellor Gowron to send some ships to the battle. Although it took a long time Gowron realized that both an ally and enemy was telling him the same thing, so agreed to send the ships. Outside the Bajoran system, the Federation was on the verge of losing the battle (Sisko had fallen for a trap set by the Cardassians), but then Worf and Martok's Klingon forces entered at an opportune moment. They inflicted enough damage on the Dominion for the Defiant to poke through the lines. The Defiant went on to retake the station and win the battle. (DS9: "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels")
In 2375, 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 acclaimed the new chancellor of the Klingon High Council. However, Worf stepped aside and nominated Martok to the position. After the war, Martok asked that Worf be appointed Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire. Thereafter, Worf left Deep Space 9 to take his new post on Qo'noS. (DS9: "Tacking Into the Wind", "What You Leave Behind")
Service aboard the USS Enterprise-E
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-E took on board the survivors of the Defiant, including Worf. Reunited with his old crewmates, Worf assisted in destroying the cube with the tactical information divulged by Picard. After it was destroyed, Worf discovered that a sphere was travelling 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. (DS9: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", Star Trek: First Contact)
In 2375, Worf visited the Federation colony on Manzar to establish a new defense perimeter against the Dominion. At this opportunity, however, he visited his old friends on the Enterprise-E, which was on a diplomatic mission nearby. For a brief period Worf rejoined his old crew to reveal Admiral Dougherty's conspiracy concerning the Ba'ku relocation. (Star Trek: Insurrection)
Worf rejoined his old crewmates on the Enterprise-E on Earth when he attended William Riker's 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. Upon discovering that the source of the positronic signals was the Soong-type android, B-4, Rear Admiral 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, together with Romulans, had to face Shinzon and the Remans. Finally, he admitted that the Romulans fought with honor, possibly getting over his life-long grudge against this species. (Star Trek: Nemesis)
Personality
Worf's intense desire to become a part of his lost culture was matched by enduring loyalty to the world that adopted him in his darkest hour. Those impulses forged a character of indomitable courage and integrity, uncompromising idealism, and a more-Klingon-than-Klingon facade that was occasionally lifted to reveal romanticism, gentleness, and humour.
While coming from a species frequently regarded as aggressive and enthusiastically boisterous, Worf often gave the first impression of being a rather dour and reserved, though vaguely threatening, individual. Beverly Crusher described Worf as a tall Klingon, who rarely smiles. Likewise, Jadzia Dax referred to Worf as a man difficult to get along with, but she did see him as a good person. Jadzia admitted that whenever it came to Klingon culture, Worf would always get misty-eyed with sentiment. (TNG: "Remember Me", DS9: "Children of Time", "You Are Cordially Invited...")
Worf's conservative nature and respect for tradition occasionally brought him in of the side of issues that brought him in conflict with the views of his friends. Antipathy for his species' historical enemy made him refuse to donate tissue from his body that may have saved a dying Romulan officer in 2366. He helped Rear Admiral Norah Satie uncover treason among the crew of the Enterprise-D in 2367, leading to unfounded accusations against Captain Picard and crewman Simon Tarses. After the witch-hunt was stopped, Worf apologised for the trouble he helped cause, but Picard commended his vigilance, reminding him of the difficulty of spotting a villain. During what should have been a romantic vacation on the pleasure world of Risa, Worf joined Pascal Fullerton's New Essentialists movement, helping them to sabotage Risa's weather modification network. (TNG: "The Enemy", "The Drumhead"; DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...")
Worf' s reputation for a lack of humor, inspired regular teasing from those close enough get away with it, like Riker, or too powerful to care, like Q. It pleased Martok and Jadzia Dax to no end whenever they could squeeze a joke from the tight-lipped Klingon. Worf denied his lack of humor to Jadzia once, claiming that he was quite amusing on the Enterprise-D, causing her to theorize. "it must have been one dull ship." ( DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited...", "Change of Heart")
Although shy about it, Worf enjoyed singing Klingon operas. While at a bar on Qualor II in 2368, Worf requested that Amarie play Aktuh and Maylota and briefly graced the patrons with his baritone voice. He was stranded for some time in an escape pod in 2375, and passed the time taking advantage of the favorable acoustics. Though he initially denied the private performance, Ezri Dax guessed that he had been singing Shevok'tah gish. Chagrined, he admitted to actually singing Gav'ot toh'va, a piece with rather ambitious solos. (TNG: "Unification, Part II"; DS9: "Penumbra")
The combination of his human upbringing and Klingon taste buds made for an unusual palate. Among traditional Klingon foods like live gagh for breakfast, he loved his Mother's version of rokeg blood pie. Guinan introduced Worf to a treat that he relied on with regularity for satisfaction, "warrior's drink". He did not react well to Romulan ale, and agreed with its' prohibition. (DS9: "Inquisition"; TNG: "Family", "Parallels"; TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise"; Star Trek: Nemesis)
Physicality
Worf was an admirer of Natasha Yar and her martial arts skills, and joined her on the ship's parrises squares team. Three days before she died, Worf placed a wager that Yar would be victorious in an upcoming martial arts competition. (TNG: "11001001", "Skin of Evil")
Worf ran regular Mok'bara classes, of which Deanna Troi and Dr. Crusher became regular students. Worf ran several classes of differing difficulties, such as the beginning and advanced levels. Advancing between levels required that one pass an initial gik'tal. (TNG: "Birthright, Part I", "& Part II", "Lower Decks")
Physical Combat
Worf was a proven expert with both the bat'leth and his personal mek'leth. He had won a bat'leth tournament on Forcas III just before his birthday. While teaching his moves to his young son Alexander, he described the bat'leth as an extension of one's body. (TNG: "Reunion", "Parallels")
That year, the fugitive Roga Danar escaped the brig of the Enterprise-D to return to Lunar V, Worf led the security staff in an attempt to recapture. but Roga managed to evade phaser explosions, transporter locks, decompressions and force fields to reach the shuttlebay. Worf and Roga fought hand-to-hand but his opponent's genetic enhancements proved too powerful for Worf. (TNG: "The Hunted")
Worf's unarmed combat skills progressed to the point that, while being held in a Dominion prison camp, he defeated twelve consecutive Jem'Hadar soldiers in honorable combat, and forced the thirteenth to yield in deference to his courage. Martok promised that a song would be written of Worf's accomplishment (DS9: "By Inferno's Light").
Ailments and Injuries
During a diplomatic mission to convey delegates from the Beta Renner system to Parliament, Worf was temporarily possessed by an energy being, displaced from its natural environment by the passing of the Enterprise-D. The being passed on to Beverly Crusher and eventually, Captain Picard, before the incident was resolved. (TNG: "Lonely Among Us")
The ship had picked up a Zalkonian in the final stages of an evolutionary change. Since he had suffered memory loss, the crew just referred to him as John Doe. When Worf tried to stop him from stealing a shuttlecraft, John Doe emanated an energy bolt in self defense. Unfortunately, that bolt proved to be fatal to Worf, who had been declared dead by the medical crew. However, John Doe's strange transformations allowed him to heal Worf's injury and restore his life. (TNG: "Transfigurations")
In 2365, Dr. Katherine Pulaski discovered Worf suffered from rop'ngor, normally a childhood disease, and protected his dignity by keeping his illness secret. In gratitude, Worf invited Pulaski to participate in a Klingon tea ceremony, where he beguiled her with Klingon love poetry. (TNG: "Up the Long Ladder")
One day, while performing an inventory check, a cargo container fell on Worf, injuring his back and leaving him paralyzed. Unwilling to live on as a paralyzed Klingon, Worf asked his young son Alexander to perform the hegh'bat. Opposition from Riker, Troi and Dr. Crusher, in addition to Alexander's lack of knowledge of Klingon culture led Worf to change his mind. He permitted Dr. Toby Russell to perform a dangerous and experimental procedure to replace his spinal column. The surgery was a failure, and Worf was declared dead. However, due to the redundancies of Klingon physiology, where every organ in the Klingon body had a backup organ that activates whenever damage occurs to the first, his internal backups were intitiated and Worf woke up. It took time, but with the help of his son and Troi, Worf made a full recovery. (TNG: "Ethics")
While the Enterprise was upgrading its sensor array, Worf, along with Riker, Kaminer, Edward Hagler, Sariel Rager, and La Forge, was abducted by mysterious solanagen-based lifeforms for strange experiments. Since they were abducted in their sleep, many began to experience afterimages of the experiments. Worf experienced one such flashback when he went to get his hair cut by Mot. When he saw the scissors Mot would be using, it reminded him of the blade used to probe him. In order to discover the location of the aliens, Worf suggested planting a homing device on Riker so when his next abduction came, they would locate him and the aliens. (TNG: "Schisms")
Later that year, when the Enterprise became affected by Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome, Worf was one of the first crew members to devolve. He de-evolved into a Klingon prehistoric venomous predator, and after he sprayed Beverly Crusher with venom, he went on a rampage and terrorized the entire ship, killed Ensign Dern, and tried to mate with Deanna Troi, who had devolved into an amphibian creature. (TNG: "Genesis")
While the rest of the Enterprise-E crew enjoyed the age-reversing qualities of exposure to metaphasic radiation on the planet of the Ba'ku, Worf suffered the indignity of an affliction normally suffered by Klingons half his age, a gorch. (Star Trek: Insurrection)
Family
Alexander
Worf was unaware of Alexander's existence for the first years of the boy's life, until K'Ehleyr introduced their child in 2367. Under the Empire's discommendation at the time, Worf hesitated to acknowledge his son and thus perpetuate dishonor into the next generation of the House of Mogh. As K'Ehleyr's lay dying from the stabs of Duras, her last act brought the family together. Worf raged the Klingon death ritual, terrifying his son, but he brought Alexander to his mother for the last time, telling him, "You have never seen death... then look – and always remember." After avenging K'Ehleyr's death, Worf confirmed to Alexander that indeed he was his father. (see also: K'Ehleyr) (TNG: "Reunion")
K'Ehleyr held little regard for Klingon traditions, let alone indoctrination, conflicting with Worf's theories of Klingon child-raising . Despite trying to teach Alexander about the Klingon artifacts located in his quarters (including a bat'leth), Alexander seemed to show no interest. After K'Ehleyr's death, Alexander was sent to live with his grandparents, but the Rozhenkos found that raising a Klingon child was now more than they could handle in advancing years. Helena returned the boy within a year to be with Worf. Lwaxana Troi's infulence added to Worf's headaches, but father and son settled in to a home life aboard the Enterprise-D. (TNG: "New Ground", "Cost of Living").
Worf and Alexander played sheriff and deputy pursuing a dangerous criminal in an ancient-west theme holodeck program. One of Data's experiments accidentally turned all the holodeck characters into manifestations of Data, and disabled the holodeck safety protocols. With his son Alexander kidnapped, Worf arranged for his return by agreeing to a duel with the villain in the town square. Worf managed to survive by manufacturing a makeshift force field. (TNG: "A Fistful of Datas")
When Alexander was approaching his first Age of Ascension, Worf was appalled to discover that Alexander did not want to become a warrior. An encounter with K'mtar (a future Alexander from an alternate timeline) forced Worf to let Alexander follow his destiny. (TNG: "Firstborn")
Once the Enterprise-D was destroyed, Alexander was sent back to his grandparents. While he was growing up, Alexander decided he wanted to join the Klingon Defense Forces after all, eventually ending up on the Rotarran, Martok's ship. When reporting for duty, he referred to himself as Alexander Rozhenko instead of the son of Worf. A confused Martok asked what this house of Rozhenko was, to which Worf replied that Alexander was his son. Martok and Worf became concerned when Alexander was not getting along with his Klingon comrades. He interrupted a fight between Alexander and Ch'Targh when Alexander was on the verge of losing. Alexander revealed that he hated feeling like the unwanted son that Worf would rather get rid of. Worf tried to explain that the Jem'Hadar will not go easy on him, and that if he didn't learn how to fight quickly, they would kill him. After Alexander mistook a battle simulation as the real thing, the crew accepted him as the ship's fool. However, in the real battle, he successfully sealed a leaking plasma impulse injector. After this victory, Martok and Worf deemed him worthy of joining the House of Martok. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior", "Sons and Daughters"
When Alexander revealed that he would be transferring to the IKS Ya'Vang, Jadzia Dax decided to push forward her wedding ceremony to before he left so that he could serve as Worf's Tawi'Yan. With the date moved up, Alexander was allowed to participate in Worf's Kal'Hyah ceremony (Klingon bachelor party), along with Sisko, Martok, Bas hir and O'Brien. Despite being a Klingon, he struggled through the ceremony almost as much as Bas hir and O'Brien. (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited...")
Jeremy Aster
In 2366, Worf performed the R'uustai ceremony with Jeremy Aster, admitting him into the House of Mogh, after Jeremy's mother was killed on an away mission. (TNG: "The Bonding")
Jadzia Dax
Jadzia Dax was Worf's first wife. The two became good friends because of Curzon's understanding and interest in Klingon culture. When they first met at Quark's bar, he instantly recognized the station's science officer as the new host of Curzon, a name honored amongst Klingons, to which Jadzia responded (in Klingon) that she is more attractive than Curzon was. Worf, however, was distracted by Drex, attempting to stir up trouble in the bar. When Worf managed to stop Drex and take his dagger, Dax said in amazement, "He's good."
Jadzia gave him a copy of her calisthenics program, which Worf mistook for Curzon's program. At this, Jadzia challenged Worf to a bat'leth match, which Jadzia lost. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
When Worf moved his quarters to the Defiant, Jadzia gave him her collection of Klingon operas, and suggested that he play them through the Defiant's communications systems. Worf accepted them as a thoughtful gift, especially after Jake Sisko helped retune and remaster them. (DS9: "The Bar Association", "In the Cards")
Worf became romantically involved with Jadzia Dax in early 2373. It started when Quark's former wife Grilka came aboard the station. When Worf had an instant crush on Grilka, he couldn't fathom how she could have married a Ferengi. Jadzia's explanation of the full story (DS9: "The House of Quark") merely exacerbated Worf's confusion. In order to win her heart, Worf decided to perform deeds that were uncharacteristically Klingon, such as throw Morn off his stool, demand bloodwine, and insult Grilka's bodyguard, Thopok. However, since Mogh's family honor had been disgraced, Grilka could not possibly mate with Worf.
Dejected, Worf chose to help Quark win Grilka's heart, with advice from Jadzia. By controlling Quark's movements using a remote control device, he helped Quark defeat Thopok and win the heart of Grilka. Then Jadzia jumped on Worf and the pair had their own mating ritual. As required by tradition, Worf demanded that Jadzia marry, but Jadzia responded that Worf is not a traditional man. (DS9: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")
The romance had a rocky start. In their first holiday together (to Risa), Worf grew immediately jealous of Arandis, the chief facilitator at the resort planet and Curzon's former lover. Even though Jadzia explained that she had moved on long ago, However, after a heart-to-heart talk with him, Jadzia helped Worf get over his jealousy.
When Dax found out from Sisko that Worf would be accompanying Elim Garak on a suicide mission to find Enabran Tain, she took back her Klingon operas, motivating Worf to survive his mission to the Gamma Quadrant with an embrace. (DS9: "In Purgatory's Shadow")
