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Worf
son of Mogh
2340 Qo'noS, Klingon Empire Starfleet Academy, 2357-61 Lieutenant Commander Klingon Strategic operations officer First officer -mostly in command Active duty |
*** Starfleet Career Summary
2364
-- As lieutenant j.g. in command division, assigned to U.S.S. Enterprise
as relief con and tactical officer
under
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, later made acting security chief
2365 -- Promoted to lieutenant, named permanent Enterprise security chief
2367 -- Resigned Starfleet commission to fight in Klingon civil war
2368 -- Starfleet commission reactivated, no change in rank
2371 -- Promoted to lieutenant commander; on detached leave from Enterprise after loss of vessel
2372 -- Transferred to command division for current assignment, Deep Space Nine under Capt. Benjamin Sisko
2373
-- On detached leave in command of U.S.S. Defiant and on service with Sovereign-class
U.S.S. Enterprise,
helped
repel Borg temporal invasion
***Starfleet Biographical File
As
the only Klingon in Starfleet, Worf has already achieved an illustrious
and honorable career aboard the U.S.S.
Enterprise
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.
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 U.S.S.
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 l
ife-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.
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.
In
2364 he signed aboard Picard's U.S.S. 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
n the operations division and gaining
a
promotion to full lieutenant. His shipmates formally promoted him to lieutenant
commander six years later with
a
ceremonial holographic ocean-dunking on an ancient Terran naval vessel.
Aside
from a few weeks of dating fellow officer Deanna Troi in 2370 on the U.S.S.
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 U.S.S. 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.
Worf
dipped back 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.
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
needbe - 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.
During
his U.S.S. Enterprise 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 U.S.S. Enterprise poker play.
Other interests include
Klingon
novels, love poetry, and a love of Klingon opera. His favorite beverage,
christened as a "warrior's drink"
when
introduced to it by Guinan, is prune juice.
Following
the destruction of the Enterprise and break-up of its staff in 2371, Worf
sent Alexander once again to
live
with the Rozhenkos on Earth and went on extended leave to revisit the Klingon
monastery and clerics of
Boreth
in search of a spiritual answer to the letdown the rapid events provoked.
He found their discussions
enlightening
and considered resigning his Starfleet commission, but in early 2372 he
accepted Captain Benjamin
Sisko's
request to join the Deep Space Nine staff in light of renewed Klingon friction
after dissolution of the
Khitomer
Accords and their short-lived invasion of the Cardassian Empire. He had
all but decided to resign and
join
a Nyberrite cruiser crew when the Deep Space Nine offer persuaded him to
stay, having felt that his Starfleet
uniform
was a disgrace to his own people.
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 station's starship, the U.S.S.
Defiant,
and finding a kinship with Dax, who trains with the bat'tleh 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.
Update SD 50500, CMO J. Holzken. recording
Sparked
by his spurning by Grilka and his uncharacteristic aid to Quark on wooing
her the Klingon way, Worf's
immediate
friendship with Lt. Cmdr. 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 I perceive
as Worf's reactionary tendencies
held
sway during his brief alignment with some New Essentialist activists there.
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
earlier this year, 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. I am told 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
here 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.
Worf
commanded the Defiant in Admiral Hayes' fleet against the second Borg invasion
ca. SD 50890, and briefly
found
himself back with his old colleagues on the new Sovereign-class Enterprise
when Picard rescued his crew
and
fought off the Borg's would-be temporal sabotage.
Update , CMO J. Holzken. recording
Worf's
action in recovering a new Jem'Hadar vessel intact ca. SD 50050 has already
been duly noted in the record
and
decorated.
after
being captured by the Dominion, during which he had to fight for his life
with one Jem'hadar soldier after
another
to keep the soldiers entertained. He escaped this nightmare with Julian
Bashir,Garrak and General Martok
whom
where captives themselves,more exciting and dangerous events took place
including joyful ones like his
marriage
to Jadzia Dax in 51247.5..whom sadly to say deceased recently due to an
assault on DS9 by the
Dominion
(specially noted by this one,: Gul Dukat) thus adding sad times as wel..this
leaves just one love in his
life..Prune
juice