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PERSONNEL FILE: Worf
**Includes updates, addenda through SD 50900 (2373)
Played By: Michael Dorn
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Current assignment:
Strategic operations officer, Deep Space Nine; first officer,
U.S.S. Defiant
Full Name: Worf
Date of birth: Terran 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: Married to Jadzia Dax, 51247.5
Children:
One son, Alexander, born 43rd day of Maktag, equivalent 2366
Quarters: Aboard U.S.S. Defiant 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; 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
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 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 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'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.
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 his 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 and decorated.
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