PERSONNEL FILE: FEDERATION

NAME: Worf
RANK: not on file
BORN: not on file
PLACE OF BIRTH: not on file
ORIGIN: not on file
ASSIGNMENT: not on file
LAST SHIP: not on file
ACADEMY CLASS: not on file
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: The first Klingon warrior to serve in the Federation Starfleet and an influential figure in Klingon politics. Childhood and family.Worf, son of Mogh, was born on the Klingon Homeworld in 2340. As a young child, Worf was fond of his pet targ. He accompanied his parents to the Khitomer outpost in 2346. Worf was orphaned later that year in the brutal Khitomer massacre, a Romulan attack in which 4,000 Klingons were killed. Worf was rescued by Sergey Rozhenko, a human crew member from the U.S.S. Intrepid. Sergey and his wife, Helena Rozhenko, adopted Worf and raised him as their own son, because it was believed that Worf had no remaining family on the Homeworld. With his new family on the farm world of Gault, and later on Earth, Worf found it difficult to fit into the alien world of humans and was a bit of a hell-raiser. In 2353, while living on Gault, Worf accidentally caused the death of a human boy named Mikel during a soccer match. During a championship game Mikel's and Worf's heads collided, breaking the human boy's neck. Worf felt responsible, and ever since that day, Worf practiced extreme restraint whenever dealing with humans, who were physically fragile compared to Klingons. Worf was raised along with an adoptive brother, Nikolai Rozhenko, the Rozhenkos' biological son. For some reason, Worf's experiences on Earth never included drinking prune juice. When given a taste of it by Guinan in 2366, Worf pronounced it "a warrior's drink." Worf visited the homeworld as a boy, but he was shunned by his cousins for being too human. His parents once allowed him to visit No'Mat, where a vision of Kahless the Unforgettable appeared to Worf, telling him that he would do something no other Klingon had ever done. Nikolai entered Starfleet Academy at the same time as Worf, but later dropped out because he found Starfleet not to his liking. Worf's hobbies include building models of ancient Klingon ocean sailing vessels in a bottle, considered difficult handiwork. Worf's adoptive parents remained close to him over the years, and made it a point to visit him in early 2367 when the Enterprise-D was docked at Earth Station McKinley for repairs. Worf had a son, Alexander Rozhenko, in 2366, with Ambassador K'Ehleyr, with whom he had been romantically involved. When K'Ehleyr was murdered by Klingon high council member Duras, Alexander returned to Earth to be cared for by Sergey and Helena. 
THE FIRST KLINGON IN STARFLEET: Following his graduation from Starfleet Academy in 2361, Worf held the rank of lieutenant, junior grade, and served as flight control officer (conn) aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise-D. Worf was promoted to acting chief of security and made a full lieutenant following the death of Lieutenant Natasha Yar at planet Vagra II in late 2364. Worf felt intense guilt when Lieutenant Marla Aster was accidentally killed on an away mission in 2366, orphaning her son Jeremy Aster. Worf later took Jeremy into his family through the Klingon R'uustai, or bonding, ceremony. In 2368, Worf's spinal column was shattered in an accident when several cargo containers collapsed onto him. Worf was left paralyzed, and his prognosis indicated little hope for a full recovery. In accordance with Klingon tradition, Worf refused medical treatment and opted for the Hegh'bat form of ritual suicide. He was dissuaded from taking his life when Dr. Toby Russell performed a dangerous experimental surgical procedure called genetronic replication, in which a new spinal column was generated to replace the damaged organ. The surgery was successful, in part because Klingon physiology includes redundancy for nearly all vital bodily functions. SEE: brak'lul. Worf once investigated a claim that his father had not died at Khitomer, but was instead being held prisoner at a secret Romulan prison camp in the Carraya System. Although the report was false, Worf did indeed find a prison camp where survivors of the Khitomer massacre and their families were being held. At the camp, Worf fell in love with a half-Romulan, half-Klingon woman named Ba'el. Worf led some of the prisoners to freedom, but the majority (including Ba'el) chose to remain, regarding the Carraya prison as their home. Worf was promoted to lieutenant commander in 2371 in a ceremony held on a holodeck representation of the 19th-century sailing frigate Enterprise. Following the destruction of the Enterprise-D, Worf returned to study for a year at the monastery on Boreth before he accepted an assignment to serve as strategic operations officer at station Deep Space 9. The promotion marked a change in career path for Worf, from operations to command. For some reason, Worf found living on the station uncomfortable, so he moved his residence from quarters from in the station to a stateroom aboard the U.S.S. Defiant. Worf took advantage of time alone on the Defiant by playing Klingon opera very loudly on the ship's sound system. He particularly liked the singing of Barak-Kadan. In 2373, Worf found himself attracted to the Lady Grilka when she visited station Deep Space 9, although she prefered the company of Quark. Worf's interest in Grilka nearly blinded him to the attentions of Jadzia Dax, who had always had a fascination for things Klingon. It was not until the two shared a holosuite opera of Kahless and Lukara that Worf and Jadzia consummated their romantic relationship. Worf commanded the Starship Defiant on stardate 50893 as part of the Starfleet armada that intercepted a Borg cube at Earth. After the Defiant was incapacitated in that battle, Worf and his crew were beamed aboard the Starship Enterprise-E, where Worf served as tactical officer for the remainder of the encounter. He returned to Deep Space 9 the following week.
IN KLINGON POLITICS: Worf was thrust into high-level Klingon politics in 2366 when he discovered that he had a biological brother, Kurn. The Klingon High Council had ruled that their father, Mogh, had committed treason years ago at Khitomer. Worf and Kurn challenged this judgment, but found the High Council unwilling to hear evidence that the politically powerful Duras family had falsified the charges against Mogh. Although Worf was willing to die in the challenge to protect his family honor, he eventually chose to accept a humiliating discommendation rather than allow his brother to be killed. Worf later killed Duras for having murdered K'Ehleyr. Worf was once again dragged into high-level Klingon politics in late 2367 and early 2368 when a challenge to Gowron's reign by the Duras family triggered a Klingon civil war. Worf and Kurn agreed to support the Gowron regime in exchange for the rightful restoration of honor to the Mogh family. During the conflict, Worf was forced to resign his Starfleet commission because he would not otherwise be permitted to take sides in that internal political matter. In 2369, Worf experienced a crisis of faith, and requested a leave of absence to visit the Klingon monastery on Boreth. While meditating to invoke visions of Kahless the Unforgettable, Worf met a very real vision of Kahless. It was discovered that this Kahless was in fact a clone of the original, created by the clerics of Boreth. At Worf's suggestion, and with the support of Chancellor Gowron, the new Kahless was installed as the ceremonial emperor of the Klingon people in 2369. Despite Worf's support of Gowron's regime, he refused to join in the Klingon invasion of Cardassia in 2372, an act of defiance for which Gowron ordered Worf's family removed from the High Council, his titles stripped, his land seized, making Worf persona non grata anywhere in the empire. Shortly thereafter, Worf became an pawn in a deception orchestrated by the Klingon government. Worf was accused of destroying a civilian transport ship and murdering 441 Klingon citizens. A hearing at Deep Space 9 revealed that government agents had faked the deaths by using the names of Klingon citizens who had died earlier in a crash on Galorda Prime. The Gowron regime had hoped to disgrace Worf, and to gain sympathy for the empire's plan to annex Cardassian territory.
ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS: not on file
FAMILY: Father, Mogh, Deceased; Adopted Father, Sergey Rozhenko, whereabouts not on file; Adopted Mother, Helena Rozhenko, whereabouts not on file; Adopted Brother, Nikolai Rozhenko, whereabouts not on file; Mate, K'Ehleyr, deceased; Adopted son, Jeremy Aster, whereabouts not on file; Son, Alexander Rozhenko, Warrior in the Klingon Army.