Worf's not so subtle name.

[Jayson1]

Well maybe it was subtle because I never noticed this until now but when you say it and you leave off the f it can sound like your saying, war! Klingons were written to be warriors Granted these are the same people who called the android "Data" so maybe I shouldn't be shocked. Troi has the name Troi that connects to Helen of Troy who people also was seen as being sexual and exotic. Crusher if you take off the, er just says "Crush" and that is what Picard was supose to have on her.

Jason

 

[tharpdevenport]

Shortening Picard gets you Pic, which he always did whenever somebody else had an idea -- pick at it.


And if you shorten Wesley to Wes, you get something annoying. ;-)

 

[Jayson1]

Shortening Picard gets you Pic, which he always did whenever somebody else had an idea -- pick at it.


And if you shorten Wesley to Wes, you get something annoying. ;-)

Actually with Picard if you take out the, ard and change how you pronouce the i it comes out as sounding like peace which was important since TNG was the first show to deal with the Roddenberry vision of the future.

Jason

 

[Mojochi]

I always just assumed that in the initial drafts, they just called him that wolf guy, & eventually someone typo-ed & accidentally turned it into Worf, & they just stuck with it. It's pretty telling when Mark Twain calls him a werewolf

I also really wanted a scene on the sailing Enterprise during Generations, where they give an order to head toward a wharf, & Data confuses it for Worf

 

[Jayson1]

I always just assumed that in the initial drafts, they just called him that wolf guy, & eventually someone typo-ed & accidentally turned it into Worf, & they just stuck with it. It's pretty telling when Mark Twain calls him a werewolf

I also really wanted a scene on the sailing Enterprise during Generations, where they give an order to head toward a wharf, & Data confuses it for Worf

Not to mentio

I always just assumed that in the initial drafts, they just called him that wolf guy, & eventually someone typo-ed & accidentally turned it into Worf, & they just stuck with it. It's pretty telling when Mark Twain calls him a werewolf

I also really wanted a scene on the sailing Enterprise during Generations, where they give an order to head toward a wharf, & Data confuses it for Worf

Not to mention Mrs. Troi kept calling him Mr Woof and Q made the joke about "Eat any good books lately" though that was also a joke on the 80's phrase that was used to try and get kids to read, more. "Read any books lately."

Jason

 

[Christopher]

Honestly, I always thought "Worf" was an incongruously goofy name for a Klingon. It sounded like the name of some cartoony dwarflike creature, or like Tim Conway's comedy character Dorf. It wasn't until relatively recently that I realized it sounded like "warfare."

Troi has the name Troi that connects to Helen of Troy who people also was seen as being sexual and exotic.

Keep in mind that Riker and Troi were a revamp of Decker and Ilia from Phase II and ST:TMP. And keep in mind that the alternate name for ancient Troy was Ilion in Greek, or Ilium in Latin. I think it was only last year that I recognized that wordplay -- Ilia / Ilium / Troy / Troi.

Crusher if you take off the, er just says "Crush" and that is what Picard was supose to have on her.

Actually I think it was a pun on "Bonecrusher," because somebody thought that was an ironic name for a doctor.

 

[Mojochi]

Not to mention Mrs. Troi kept calling him Mr Woof

Yup... Woof, werewolf, wolf/Worf. It all points to one thing, the dog-faced boy

 

[Forbin]

Actually, when Roddenberry was trying to think up a name, his dog barked at him.
"That's it!! Good boy."

 

[Destructor]

Honestly, I always thought "Worf" was an incongruously goofy name for a Klingon.

Woah, hey! I've got a few Klingon friends, let's keep it civil everybody.

 

[Mojochi]

Why the hell would Worf's grandfather, or whatever that guy in ST:UC was, be named Worf? How the hell can you have namesakes when they have whole house lineages named for them? That shit gotta be confusing lol

 

[Timewalker]

I think it was only last year that I recognized that wordplay -- Ilia / Ilium / Troy / Troi.

Really?

As far back as 1989, my local club fanzine was putting out chapters of a fanfic parody with one of the characters being "Helanna of Troy".

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

"Wolf", Data, "Troy", "Jacques-Yves Cousteau"... Nothing subtle about them at all.

 

[Orac]

Worf, huh, yeah!
What is he good for?
Absolutely nothing!

 

[Tallguy]

Two weeks before TNG premiered I got to meet Majel Barrett. She said that TNG had a mom, and a dad, and a kid. They didn't have a dog, but they did have a guy named "WORF!"

 

[Herbert]

I thought they named him Worf because he liked to pick up sailors when the ships came in?

 

[Herbert]

Actually, when Roddenberry was trying to think up a name, his dog barked at him.
"That's it!! Good boy."

The other day my cat worfed up a hairball the size of a targ

 

[Kor]

Worf's name doesn't even conform to the rules of Klingon phonology as developed by Okrand.

Kor

 

[F. King Daniel]

I kinda remember seeing an early TNG casting sheet or character breakdown where Worf had a different name (along with Julian Picard and Mascha Hernandez), I think it was M'something?

Or did I imagine this?

 

[fireproof78]

I thought they named him Worf because he liked to pick up sailors when the ships came in?

I thought he just liked to fish?

 

[Triskelion]

If you put Picard and Beverly together you get a Cab Driver.

Riker and Deanna Troi get you an Aerotrain.

Data, Geordi and Wes will give you Goatweeds.

Which may or may not be secret Masonic codenames.