Michael Dorn’s most challenging story in Star Trek: The Next Generation

For more than 35 years, actor Michael Dorn has played Klingon warrior and Starfleet officer Worf, son of Mog, in the “Star Trek” franchise. It’s the actor who has it She appeared on screen in most episodes of “Star Trek”,” This means that he and his personality have gone through a fair number of challenges. Worf has survived murder attempts, mourned the loss of Par’Mach’kai Jadzia, and gone from being a violent rage to a peaceful rage. But there was one aspect of Worf’s personality and actions that he found… Dorne finds it the most difficult to deal with: his strained relationship with his son, Alexander.

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, we’re introduced to Worf as a stuffy guy with a ridiculous haircut who takes being a Klingon almost as seriously as he takes being a Starfleet officer. Despite developing romantic feelings for Counselor Troi (Martina Sirtis), Worf wasn’t the type to experiment… until he met K’Ehleyr (Susie Blackson). Kahler was a half-human, half-Klingon ambassador Which prompted Worf to challenge his own ideas about what it meant to be a Klingon, and after a brief affair he returned a few years later with their son, Alexander. Unfortunately, K’Ehleyr was killed soon after, leaving Worf not only reeling from the news that he was a father, but also leaving him as a single parent.

Worf is not the type to join his fellow crew members in sports or chance games, nor is he much less likely to get involved in something as trivial as a holodeck adventure. However, when he discovered that he had a son, he suddenly fell into all sorts of foolishness in the name of trying to make the child happy. He tried to be a fairly good father, but mostly he had no patience for poor Alexander, who just wanted his father’s approval. Eventually, Worf shipped the boy back to Earth to live with his adoptive parents, the Rozenkos, and their relationship became more difficult. In a 2012 interview with Star Trek.comDorn revealed that Worf and Alexander’s story was difficult for him to film:

“The only challenge was the son having a son, because Worf wasn’t a great father. He moved his son to another place. That was a big challenge and the episodes were very good. Worf’s development was great, especially in ‘Deep Space Nine’. It was great.” I thought the father thing was a real challenge (…) People might expect me to say a Worf-Troi romance, but I actually liked it because Troi was like that so it’s not like Worf.”

Dorn kept joking about how Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes, who played Troi’s eventual lover William T. Riker, hated the Worf-Troi romantic subplot, but he didn’t really mind. The only thing he really hated was… The Next Generation episode “Code of Honor” and we kind of agree. However, Worf was truly a worthless father.

Worf wasn’t expecting to become a father and it was forced upon him, but he really struggled to rise to the challenge. He wasn’t great with the family in general, nor was his relationship with them His missing brother Korn (Tony Todd) He was strained at best and his marriage to Trail science officer Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) was only successful because she possessed the wisdom of seven lives in addition to her own. (Fortunately, it was It’s easy for Dorn and Farrell to play husband and wife on “Deep Space Nine.” Because they were good friends.) Heck, when he took a mission on Deep Space Nine, he was so annoyed by being around everyone that he ended up using the Defiant as his personal apartment. Although this is somewhat relatable, it also shows that Worf is probably not good at being elegant, which makes his family relationships a little more troubled than most.

At the end of “Deep Space Nine,” the older Alexander ends up trying to prove that he’s a real Klingon by serving aboard General Martok’s ship, the Rotaran, and things don’t go particularly well. All the same, Worf He does At least he realized that he should let his son make his own choices, and he was officially brought into the House of Martok. We have yet to find out what happened to Alexander after that (it’s not even mentioned in… Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard), but I like to imagine him in charge of his own Klingon ship somewhere, showing those who laughed at him that he has what it takes — because he’s Alexander, Worf’s son.