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The Bonding - Worfs 'Other Brother'

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parsonsm

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'You will become part of my family now, and for all time, we will be brothers.'
Given how seriously Worf takes Klingon ceremonies and traditions, he would have followed through on the above statement.

But did Star Trek?

Is Jeremy ever mentioned again by Worf? In TNG, DS9, the films, or even in the books?

I don't think he has been, but would be happy to be stand corrected.

The character could have been a good intermediary between Worf and Alexander, but that opportunity was never used.
 
We've seen how he deals with his biological son, it's really not a surprise we never heard about Jeremy Aster again.

According to MemBeta, Jeremy also appeared in a staggering number of tie-ins. ...A comic and two novels.
 
parsonsm said:
'You will become part of my family now, and for all time, we will be brothers.'
Given how seriously Worf takes Klingon ceremonies and traditions, he would have followed through on the above statement.

But did Star Trek?

Is Jeremy ever mentioned again by Worf? In TNG, DS9, the films, or even in the books?

I don't think he has been, but would be happy to be stand corrected.

The character could have been a good intermediary between Worf and Alexander, but that opportunity was never used.
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I agree. it would have been very interesting to see Jeremy come back here and there. Interacting with Alexander would've been great too. What a wasted opportunity.
 
parsonsm said:
'You will become part of my family now, and for all time, we will be brothers.'
Given how seriously Worf takes Klingon ceremonies and traditions, he would have followed through on the above statement.

But did Star Trek?

Is Jeremy ever mentioned again by Worf? In TNG, DS9, the films, or even in the books?

I don't think he has been, but would be happy to be stand corrected.

The character could have been a good intermediary between Worf and Alexander, but that opportunity was never used.
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Great point in that Jeremy and Alexander would have a lot for an adopted family unit... it would be far better than what transpired with Alexander, not that it would take much. But, even if they were all one big happy family and not like the sarcastic way that Ramones song dawdles on about, they could still do cameos and one-off scenes and still remind audiences that the big bad flagship has kids aboard. Might take care of "Imaginary Friend", for those who dislike that episode - one that's clearly aimed at younger audiences, not unlike Prodigy but without as much CGI. But I digress upon a digression...

But was Alexander addressed in the films? Nope. They're too busy fumbling around with action shlock and Picard clones and/or Borg drones that know how Picard does things running around.

Books? Unsure.

Standard TV fare; sequels are only brought up for what the makers think are the most interesting. In Startrekland, everyone ends up shiny happy, regardless if they grew up and escaped from rape gangs and stuff. Which is arguably the largest allegory Trek has ever made, but I digress, since that doesn't account for the Cousin Oliver trope Alexander appearing out of nowhere and oh-so-tall and articulate by the age of three. It was inconsistent, but by season 5 they'd do anything for a soapbox.

But did the makers think Jeremy was worth following up on? He's doing well with his new adopted family. Naah. There's more drama out of Worf's direct family.

I'm sure Jeremy went to the academy and is an Ensign, being commanded by Sarjenka and the Horta, and off-hours they go have a BBQ with the Horta providing the lighter fluid.
 
<near the end of parallels>

WORF: How can we find my original quantum state and return me to it?
WESLEY: We could scan the quantum fissure using a subspace differential pulse. Maybe we could locate the quantum state that shares Worf's signature and find a way to get him back.
DATA: An excellent idea, Lieutenant.
WORF: Wait! I just had a thought. In the past I have made some promises that ..... inconvenience me now. Is it possible to find a quantum state that is very close to my own, yet where Jeremy Aster is out of the picture somehow, Alexander isn't much of a nuisance either, and I get to f... I mean, explore the possibility of a relationship with Deanna?
DATA: That is possible in theory. However, it would involve recursively computing all possible subatomic transitions using Feynman diagrams, first expanding, then collapsing them. The sums of the infinite series should converge to...
Riker: Booo-ringgggg! Just do it!
 
Jeremy getting on better with Worf than Alexander would be some interesting drama. I once compared it to Miguel getting on better with Johnny than Robby on Cobra Kai.
Jeremy could have joined the Legion of Surrogate Offspring with Wesley, Alexander, Lal, Jason Vigo, Ian Troi, and Barash
 
I wonder if Jeremy is part of the House of Martok now like the rest of them. Martok will make him a warrior!

Worf is terrible with Alexander, with Nikolai, with Kurn. And in fact seems to have trouble forming friendships to some extent beyond admiring/respecting colleagues. As Guinan said “some Klingons laugh…” but Worf doesn’t.

I think of Worf as looking at his responsibility as a Klingon as like how you would act if you were going off the Canterbury Tales as your only guide to being a person.

He even compares what he misses about the D as it being like the warriors of the epic poems. He has a romantic view of life (and Klingon life) not a realistic one.

I think the ceremony and meaning of it probably matters a lot to Worf. He would probably stop what he was doing to go avenge Jeremy Astor if called to do so.

But checking in on how Jeremy’s studies are going wouldn’t cross his mind because Kahless never had an epic poem written about the time he hung out with his buddy. Worf struggles with the little things. That’s why Martok, Jadzia and Riker all constantly tease him about his rigidness and yet almost all other Klingons seem easy going (even sometimes in battle).
 
Worf is perhaps the classical child-caught-between-two-cultures archetype. He's neither fully at home in his new culture, nor does he fully belong to his original culture. And as a result, he creates his identity by idolising his supposed culture of origin to a completely unrealistic degree, being blind to the fact that folks actually living in that culture adopt a much more down-to-earth approach to it than he does.
 
That, and his near-pathological desire to send his so-called loved ones away.

Jeremy Aster, never seen again.
Alexander Rozhenko, sent away.
Kurn, brainwashed and sent away.

And let's not even go into what happened to K'ehleyr, Jadzia, and to a lesser extent, Ezri. ;)
 
And even Deanna, in that All Good Things future!

(although to be honest, I never understood why they hooked them up at the very end of TNG in the first place)
 
I can gloss this episode by considering that Worf is providing comfort to a bereaved child by supplying what the child has lost - a family. Once Jeremy left the ship, his need for a family would have been provided by his aunt and uncle. Fairly naturally, as Jeremy gets older, he drifts away from Worf (who, after all, he's not going to see and with whom he has little in common) regardless of what Worf does or doesn't do. There's no need to think that Worf doesn't continue to take an interest. There must be lots of things that happen offscreen about which we never know.
 
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