Worf

[GeekUSACarl]

So, DS9 is my favorites of the shows. I can't tell you how many times I've seen the entire series, I usually watch it at least once a year straight without skipping episodes. I'm in my mid 30's. I've seen it a loooot.

So I decided to compare Discovery with DS9, my favorite installment. I started a fresh run through, and I can't shake this feeling and thought cropping up now that had never popped into my head about Worf, one of my favorite characters.

He complains A LOOOOOOT. I mean my god, how many times can he complain about practically everything, I just finished the episode where Quark's workers go on strike, and it seems up through now since Worf entered the show he complains complains complains complains complains.

Am I nuts? I mean I never ever thought this or noticed before but for some reason im noticing it so much I'm kinda starting to kinda.... not like Worf?

 

[Kor]

Worf is uptight. Uptight people are always complaining about things.

Kor

 

[TheCrankyCardassian]

I always thought of Worf as the token whipping boy on TNG and the token whiney little bitch on DS9. Even though I did love his presence in DS9.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

I guess Worf just got sick of being told 'no' all the time, and he's not going to take it anymore!

 

[Danlav05]

The funny thing is even though he was a regular for 4 seasons in my head I still associate Worf more strongly with TNG!

Obviously DS9 was a very different dynamic so it was great to see how Worf fitted that.

 

[Farscape One]

I feel Worf got more development as a character in those 4 years than the 7 years he did on TNG.

 

[Paradise City]

Wolf is the uptight curmudgeon, straight guy, perpetually angry "pity-the-fool" type and the big-name import the writers are using to jump start the ratings. In short, he's going to get alot of focus, he's also gonna moan and he's going to moan alot.

They usually did it right though and the thing with curmudgeon types is when their vulnerable side does make an appearance - they are joyous dramatic moments. So it was with Worf.

 

[Farscape One]

You essentially described Odo, as well.

 

[kkt]

I thought Garrick was more the complainer. Customers in a hurry for their hemming. Headache. Can't make people disappear just because I don't like them anymore. The Doctor eats too fast and keeps trying to make me appreciate Shakespeare. Sisko hit me, Picard never hit me! No other Cardassians to talk to.

 

[Xhiandra]

Sisko hit me , Picard never hit me!

That's Q when the writers decided they needed to hammer "Sisko isn't Picard" home once again.
I swear, they might as well have named Sisko "NotPicard".

 

[Jedman67]

That's Q when the writers decided they needed to hammer "Sisko isn't Picard" home once again.
I swear, they might as well have named Sisko "NotPicard".

Thankfully Q never returned to DS9. He was overused in TNG as it was.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

I always saw Worf as someone who overcompensates the Klingon attitude/perspective thing because he's insecure, given his background. That interpretation makes him a lot more relatable.

 

[kkt]

That's Q when the writers decided they needed to hammer "Sisko isn't Picard" home once again.
I swear, they might as well have named Sisko "NotPicard".

I know that... I was trying to make a joke for other people who know DS9 well.

 

[JesterFace]

I don't like some of the things that happened with Worf in DS9, one of them being the thing that OP brought up, the whining.

"I am a mighty warrior!"
"But... this station is totally not my thing, I need to sleep in the Defiant, it's more like the Enterprise, my decor and Bat'Leth collection totally crashes with Cardassian architecture."