PERSONNEL FILE: Worf
Played By: Michael Dorn
Last Starfleet Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Current position: Federation Ambassador to Qo'noS; previously, strategic
operations officer, Deep Space Nine and first officer, U.S.S. Defiant
Full Name: Worf
Date of birth: Earth equivalent: Dec. 9, 2340
Place of birth: Qo'noS, Klingon Empire
Parents: Son of Mogh; foster parents Sergey and Helena Rozhenko
Education: Starfleet Academy, 2357-61
Marital status: Widowed: married to Jadzia Dax, 51247.5 (died 2374)
Children: One son, Alexander, born 43rd day of Maktag (Earth equivalent
2366)
Quarters: Currently relocating to Qo'noS from residence at DS9;
formerly, Enterprise Deck 7, Sect. 25B
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. Took detached leave from Enterprise after loss of
vessel.
2372 – Transferred to
command division for assignment on 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. During mission to Gamma
Quadrant, captured by Dominion and held captive on Jem'Hadar internment camp
until successful escape. Assigned to serve aboard I.K.S. Rotarran under
command of General Martok during Dominion occupation of DS9.
2374 – Resumed service on
DS9 under Capt. Sisko. Dispatched on mission to rendezvous with Cardassian
operative/defector Glinn Lasaran, but abandoned mission to save wife, receiving
serious reprimand in service record. Served aboard Defiant during
Chin'toka offensive.
2375 – Commanded U.S.S.
Defiant for three months during Capt. Sisko's absence. Served as first
officer during successful Klingon mission to destroy Dominion shipyard at
Monac. Commanded I.K.S. Koraga when ambushed by Dominion patrol near
Badlands, forcing evacuation; ultimately rescued by Ezri Dax, but then captured
by Breen and held captive by Dominion for execution until released by
Cardassian resistance. Defeated Klingon Chancellor Gowron in challenge to
death; handed over chancellorship to General Martok. Served as tactical officer
aboard U.S.S. Defiant during final battle of Dominion war. Accepted
position as Federation Ambassador to Qo'noS.
Psychological Profile:
Report of Starfleet Counselor Telnorri, DS9 Service Area
Update to Enterprise File Report by Counselor Deanna Troi
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 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.
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 Earth 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 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.
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'leth tournament on Forkas
III in 2370, and for a time tutored Dr. Crusher on the weapon; there is no word
that he took her offer to join her acting workshop. He trains with a
multi-level holo-program of personal combat "calisthenics," has also
played Parrises Squares, and picked up the nickname "Iceman" from his
U.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'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.
Disciplinary Notation:
Captain Jean-Luc Picard, SD 44248
It is with regret that I
make this entry in the personal file of Lt. Worf, whom I consider a fine
officer. However, despite whatever sympathy I have for his personal reasons and
the ways of his culture I cannot condone murder by anyone wearing the Starfleet
uniform. The officer in question is spared further disciplinary action only due
to the circumstances of the location aboard the Klingon vessel Vorn and
the not-unexpected indifference of the Klingon Empire to the incident.
Psychological Profile:
Update SD 50500, DS9 CMO J. Bashir, M.D. 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.
Personnel Update:
Starfleet Personnel Review Board, SD 50900
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 the Defiant's crew and fought off the Borg's
would-be temporal sabotage.
Worf's action in recovering
a new Jem'Hadar vessel intact ca. SD 50050 has already been duly noted in the
record.
Disciplinary Notation:
Starfleet Intelligence, SD 51604
Under the temporary command
of Major Kira Nerys, Lt. Cmdr. Worf and Lt. Cmdr. Jadzia Dax were assigned to
rendezvous with a Cardassian operative, Glinn Lasaran, who had been passing
military intelligence to Starfleet for two months. Lasaran requested a
face-to-face meeting with Starfleet representatives at coordinates in the
Badlands, in order to personally convey information about the whereabouts and
activities of Founders in the Alpha Quadrant. As was learned later, in exchange
for the information, Lasaran desired immediate assistance to defect from the
Dominion, in fear for his life.
Worf and Dax attempted to
rendezvous with Lasaran on Soukara, outside a Dominion base. During a two-day
hike through the planet's jungle, Dax was injured by a Jem'Hadar patrol. An
anti-coagulant rendered Dax untreatable. Worf then opted to abandon the
rendezvous in order to return Dax to a Starbase for surgery. Lasaran was killed
attempting to re-enter the Dominion base after a two-day absence.
The information Lasaran had
to offer would likely have brought the war to a swifter end, thus saving
millions of lives. Jadzia Dax is highly valued by Starfleet, but every officer
puts his or her life on the line every day for the common good. Worf was aware
of his duty, and the consequences of failure, and nonetheless deserted his
mission for strictly personal reasons.
Therefore let it be noted
that Worf is reprimanded for his conduct of SD 51597-51600. No formal charges
shall be filed due to the sensitive nature of the case, but this notation shall
hereby render Lt. Cmdr. Worf ineligible for any further promotion or any
permanent command position in Starfleet.
In addition, Worf's
commanding officer, Capt. Sisko, has been instructed that Worf and Dax are
never to be assigned to missions on their own again.
Personnel Update:
Starfleet Personnel Review Board, SD 52950
At the behest of Admiral
Ross and Klingon Chancellor Martok, Lt. Cmdr. Worf has petitioned this board to
allow him to conclude his service as a Starfleet officer and transfer to the
Federation diplomatic corps in the position of Ambassador to Qo'noS. Worf's
service record with Starfleet has been distinguished — and eventful to say the
least — but certainly not spotless. A number of disciplinary notations and
other dubious actions (e.g., resigning his Starfleet commission to fight in the
Klingon Civil War of 2367-2368) necessarily limit his ability to advance much
further in rank or responsibility in this agency. Bureaucratic considerations
aside, though, he deserves high commendations for his crucial role in the
Alliance victory over the Dominion, particularly his efforts to bridge the
political gap between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. The Alpha Quadrant
has much to thank Mr. Worf for.
Despite his conflicts and
struggles over being a Klingon amongst human and other Federation cultures, he
remains loyal to the UFP and its ideals. Plus, he has the respect of the
Klingon people due to his defeat of the late Chancellor Gowron in a bat'leth
fight. We believe the Qo'noS ambassadorship is the most ideal role for Worf to
fulfill at this time. Therefore this board grants approval to Worf's transfer, and
trusts that his presence on the Klingon homeworld will ensure a continued peace
between our peoples. We wish him luck.