No one listens to Worf
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Another reason why DS9 is way superior to TNG. Suddenly Worf became an actual character.
Now THAT illustration brought a few laughs and smiles. Thanks for that.
I agree. I'd be interesting to watch an assortment of clips where he was actually correct.
Hell, there's a couple in that very segment. He shows reservations about dicking around with the "void" in "Where Silence has Lease" and is pretty much told he's being a baby. In the end messing around with the void ended up trapping the crew with a malevolent being who intended to perform actions on the crew that's kill half of them and prompted Picard to activate the self-destruct of the ship. In that one episode listening to Worf would've been a very, very, good idea.
I also think it's rather easy prey, dramatically speaking, to emasculate the big badass
One of my favorite moments is in Gambit when Data considers Worf's suggestion of the health & safety inspection, & comes up with a rationale for using it. It was like the best victory Worf ever had on that ship
One of my favorite moments is in Gambit when Data considers Worf's suggestion of the health & safety inspection, & comes up with a rationale for using it. It was like the best victory Worf ever had on that ship
I dunno, hooking up with Deanna has to be on that list.
I love it when Worf has to run down the ramp to help the captain and ends up hopping over the end of it.
I love it when Worf has to run down the ramp to help the captain and ends up hopping over the end of it.
That video is hilarious !!!!! Quite an effect watching him get shot down over and over. I wonder how often Jadzia did the same thing to him.
A friend and I watched "Q Who" last night we're at the scene in 10-Foward after Q and Picard return to the ship, they're soon joined by Riker and Worf (as well as Guinan) and when Picard decides to listen to Q's pleas to join the crew he says something like, "Mr. Worf..." and indicates the door leading out of the room. We both had to laugh as it just struck as a sort of "Big boy, talk, Mr. Worf. Go outside."
We also had to laugh later in the episode when the Borg is in engineering messing with the computer and Picard tells Worf to neutralize him, Worf simply looks to one of the "Yellow Shirts" behind him and nods at him. It was just such a micromanaging "I'm not doing it, you go in!" moment it struck us as funny.
We also had to laugh later in the episode when the Borg is in engineering messing with the computer and Picard tells Worf to neutralize him, Worf simply looks to one of the "Yellow Shirts" behind him and nods at him. It was just such a micromanaging "I'm not doing it, you go in!" moment it struck us as funny.
The best to me is (a paraphrase since I cannot remember the exact lines) in I,Borg, when they encounter Hugh for the first time:
"Kill it now, and conceal the carcass so the Borg don't suspect tampering."
Ha! If this suggestion were followed, no softsoaping and giving Hugh a name.
"Kill it now, and conceal the carcass so the Borg don't suspect tampering."
Ha! If this suggestion were followed, no softsoaping and giving Hugh a name.
Worf provided much comic releif in the series, but I wonder if that was to make him more familair to the fans watching than if he had been a STIII-kind of Klingon?
On the other hand, Worf in that episode appeared to be menstruating, or undergoing some Klingon thing amounting to same.
He starts out attempting to decapitate his XO, and showing remarkable difficulty in understanding the spoken word. In the background, his CO is quite worried about his "Klingon psyche" - a worry that seems to pan out when he recommends going to yellow alert for no good reason, then quoting a Klingon children's tale, then begging for permission to fire a photon torpedo still for no good reason. He's still twitchy and at a failure to explain himself when going aboard the fake Yamato, and then falls to pieces when confronted by a maze.
I'd hardly consider that confused writing or anything like that - it appeared to be a major plot point that Worf was off kilter in the episode, right from the teaser. It's just too bad that we were never given an explanation to what was going on! But we could assume Worf would keep on having these odd days every now and then. Unless it was a bout of Klingon puberty, and the species has it easy...
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In The Wounded there is a scene where Worf suggests that the Cardassians be limited in their access to certain systems on the ship. Picard shoots him down as in the video, but Riker actually agreed with Worf's suggestion in this matter and says that the Cardassians shouldn't be given "the run of the ship."
The best to me is (a paraphrase since I cannot remember the exact lines) in I,Borg, when they encounter Hugh for the first time:
"Kill it now, and conceal the carcass so the Borg don't suspect tampering."
Ha! If this suggestion were followed, no softsoaping and giving Hugh a name.
I agree. I have always felt "I Borg" was a bad episode, flawed on many levels. Worf had the right idea here, but was overruled by the soft sensibilities of someone who took it upon herself to act even before the Captain of the ship could make the decision. Within context of the continuing story, the results would be both death and suffering of Enterprise crewmen and on the "liberated" Borg.
Of course the idea was to put a human face on the Borg, but all it really did was emasculate them.
Which was totally lame since previous episodes indicated he was one of the best shots on the ship. That's one thing I hated about TNG...they made Worf lame. He almost nver won a fight. Compare that to DS9 where Worf went toe to toe with the Jem'Hadar and kicked their asses especially in that two part episode where he was forced to fight Jem'hadar in an arena.
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