Worfs sexy time

[sinesoma]

first off I just joined today and I don't know if this has been addressed before. Also, I am a casual Star Trek fan so this all comes from memory and not memory alpha. Anyway, I was under the impression Klingons had a more monogamous perspective on sex yet worf takes a run at DAX, two daxes actually as well as tori, Alexander mother and Pulaski (that's my theory).
anyway I appreciate worf is one fine looking dude but is he a bad klingon?

 

[Tiberius]

first off I just joined today and I don't know if this has been addressed before. Also, I am a casual Star Trek fan so this all comes from memory and not memory alpha. Anyway, I was under the impression Klingons had a more monogamous perspective on sex yet worf takes a run at DAX, two daxes actually as well as tori, Alexander mother and Pulaski (that's my theory).
anyway I appreciate worf is one fine looking dude but is he a bad klingon?

Like most people, Worf doesn't believe that you can only have a single mate. Just a single mate at a time.

 

[bbjeg]

Welcome to TrekBBS sinesoma and Tiberius says it. Worf didn't do anything wrong. He was either separated, became a widower, or single during his endeavors.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Worf started that whole thing with Klingons sniffing eachother as some sort of weird foreplay. And the goofy-assed howling and taking an oath after The Deed is done. "We Are Mated." Uh ... I can't even imagine that Klingon couple in TOS' "Day of the Dove" acting like that and they were cool! I just hate what Worf brought to the Klingons, in terms of their "new" traits and stuff. I like Worf as part of the crew, though. The only other thing about his getting his freak on, though, was getting with Deanna. I don't know what the hell that was about, other than Dorn and Siritis wanting to have more scenes together, because they're best buds and everything.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I always got the impression that Klingons have sex with pretty much whoever they want. It's only people like Worf who seem to be more conservative (i.e. when he and K'Ehleyr hooked up, he immediately asked her to take the vows with him).

 

[Melakon]

I suspect Klingons are as monogamous as some human societies anyway. They might take a single wife, yet still have assorted mistresses and concubines hanging around. That doesn't mean they're "bad Klingons".

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Worf never cheated on anybody he was dating. If K'elyhr hadn't died he would have been loyal to her forever, same with Jadzia. And with Troi, well I'm guessing what we didn't see is that he threw a chair at her, and she woke up in sickbay three days later.

I think that in noble houses like most/all of the Klingons we see in the house, sexual proclivities are seen as something shameful. Obviously it happens, but if people find out about it, it will greatly reduce your house's standing in everyone's eyes.

Whether normal Klingons who aren't part of noble houses sleep around? Most likely. We just never see any Klingons who aren't upper class.

 

[HIjol]

...and what was that Duran Duran song?... "...Hungry Like the Worf?"

 

[Tiberius]

lol, I was wondering who Tori was. :P

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I wonder if it's any different on Klingon SHIPS. If the captain takes an "interest" in a member of the crew...maybe they think twice before saying no.

 

[Armored Saint]

I always got the impression that Klingons have sex with pretty much whoever they want. It's only people like Worf who seem to be more conservative (i.e. when he and K'Ehleyr hooked up, he immediately asked her to take the vows with him).

Between his traditionnalism and his self-control, I hardly see Worf as a great libertine as Curzon. His relationship with Troi was more based on the fact he saw in Parallels he could have a family with her, not wild bang bang with the Goddess of Empathy.

Kurn drinks with his ennemies like they were biker, so I don't think having some one-night stands is a problem for him.

 

[Jono]

I think other Klingons might see him as a bad Klingon not because he had multiple partners over his life, but that his relationships were with non-Klingons (or not with full blooded Klingons). We've seen a bit of the mentality from several Klingons that all other species are inferior. So it wouldn't be hard to believe that they might consider the idea of taking one for a long term relationship as wrong.