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.
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...
Timo Saloniemi
