Rank: Lieutenant Commander
 Current assignment: Strategic operations officer, Deep Space Nine; first
 officer, U.S.S. Defiant
 Full Name: Worf
 Date of birth: Terran equivalent: Dec. 9, 2340
 Place of birth: Qo'noS, Klingon Empire
 Parents: Son of Mogh; foster parents Sergey and Helena Rozhenko
 Education: Starfleet Academy, 2357-61
 Marital status: Married to Jadzia Dax, 51247.5
 Children: One son, Alexander, born 43rd day of Maktag, equivalent 2366
 Quarters: Aboard U.S.S. Defiant at DS9; formerly, Enterprise Deck 7, Sect.
 25B

 Starfleet Career Summary

 2364 -- As lieutenant j.g. in command division, assigned to U.S.S. Enterprise
 as relief con and tactical officer under Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, later made acting
 security chief

 2365 -- Promoted to lieutenant, named permanent Enterprise security chief

 2367 -- Resigned Starfleet commission to fight in Klingon civil war

 2368 -- Starfleet commission reactivated, no change in rank

 2371 -- Promoted to lieutenant commander; on detached leave from Enterprise
 after loss of vessel

 2372 -- Transferred to command division for current assignment, Deep Space
 Nine under Capt. Benjamin Sisko

 2373 -- On detached leave in command of U.S.S. Defiant and on service with
 Sovereign-class U.S.S. Enterprise, helped repel Borg temporal invasion

 Psychological Profile: Report of Starfleet Counselor Telnorri, DS9
 Service Area
 Update to Enterprise File Report by Counselor Deanna Troi

 As the only Klingon in Starfleet, Worf has already achieved an illustrious and
 honorable career aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise as well as played a key role in
 Empire politics, but he keenly feels the effects of an often tragic life caught
 uniquely between the two conflicting cultures - immediately evidenced by the
 traditional Klingon baldrics he wears over his Starfleet uniform. This inner-felt
 conflict stems in part from his perception of honor as taught but not always
 practiced by his native people, and is complicated by family relationships which
 echo his duality of culture in both his personal and public life. Worf has even
 been put on report.

 He was born into a powerful political house on Qo'noS and carries vivid
 memories of a typical Klingon childhood. On his first ritual hunt before the age
 of six with his father's friend L'Kor, he attacked a large beast and it mauled his
 arm, providing a lifelong scar.

 However, Worf's life was changed forever in 2346 when his family was wiped out
 by Romulans at the Khitomer Outpost along their border; he has no memory of
 his father. The young man was thought to be the only survivor, and was soon
 adopted by Chief Sergey Rozhenko, a human engineer nearing retirement
 aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid, which provided the first assistance at the scene.

 The next year Worf lived with him, his wife Helena, and their son Nikolai among
 20,000 colonists on the farm world Gault and later Earth, where the bigger and
 stronger Worf had a hard time adjusting to less-violent human culture and the
 two boys often disagreed. Finally, at the age of 13 while playing in a
 championship game as captain of his school soccer team, he unintentionally
 broke the neck of an opponent and the boy died a day later - forever guilting
 him into a life of restraint among humans. On the other hand, the Khitomer
 incident instilled in him a life-long hatred of Romulans.

 To feed his thirst for his native people's culture, the Rozhenkos consciously
 exposed Worf to as much as they possibly could - serving him Klingon food,
 including his favorite rokeg blood pie, and sending him to Qo'noS for his initial
 Age of Ascension ceremony in 2355, at age 15. As usual, when on the
 homeworld he stayed with a cousins' family but felt rejected and ran away to
 the nearby mountains. There, while undergoing the Rite of MajQua in the lava
 caves of No'Mat, the vision of the original Klingon warrior Kahless came to him,
 prophesying that Worf would do what no other Klingon had done.

 Worf entered Starfleet Academy with Nikolai in 2357, but his impetuous brother
 left school and returned to Gault while Worf went on to graduate in 2361. The
 fear of depending on others to protect him had been the prime point of his own
 entrance exam's psych test.

 In 2364 he signed aboard Picard's U.S.S. Enterprise in command division as a
 junior-grade lieutenant, at the time wearing a century-old Klingon baldric. After
 the death of Security Chief Tasha Yar, he became acting chief and then
 assumed the post full-time in early 2365, switching to security full-time n the
 operations division and gaining a promotion to full lieutenant. His shipmates
 formally promoted him to lieutenant commander six years later with a
 ceremonial holographic ocean-dunking on an ancient Terran naval vessel.

 Aside from a few weeks of dating fellow officer Deanna Troi in 2370 on the
 U.S.S. Enterprise, his most serious romance to date involved the half-human
 Ambassador K'Ehleyr. Worf had ended their initial affair in 2359, during his
 Academy years, but K'Ehleyr refused to begin anew and take vows after they
 mated in 2365 during her mission regarding the T'Ong sleeper ship incident.

 Worf's family tree took on surprising twists during his U.S.S. Enterprise career,
 beginning with the trumped-up charge that Mogh had betrayed Khitomer to the
 Romulans. The resulting probe turned up not only a second survivor and
 eyewitness to the massacre, his old nursemaid, but a younger brother who'd
 been left behind on Qo'noS, Kurn. Even when the traitor was proven to be not
 Mogh but Jared, father of the powerful Duras, Worf later accepted
 discommendation from Klingon society rather than cause an uproar in Empire
 politics had the cover-up been revealed.

 Worf was shocked to discover in 2367 that his interludes with K'Ehleyr had
 fostered a son, Alexander, when she accompanied the dying Klingon
 Chancellor K'mpec while old foe Duras, a challenger for succession, was a
 suspect. With her mate and son present, K'Ehleyr died after being attacked by
 Duras when she drew too close to the truth about Khitomer, and Worf in
 anguish killed Duras on his own ship. His captain was more than
 understanding, as he had been when Worf refused to donate blood to save a
 Romulan, but he was put on formal report for his actions.

 During the Klingon Civil War of 2367-68 Worf felt compelled to resign his
 Starfleet commission to become involved, but it was reactivated after the war.
 During that time he persuaded Kurn to support Gowron against Duras' sisters
 and their Romulan backers, standing up to the sisters when abducted and
 tortured. His aid of the victor Gowron eventually restored his family's honor, and
 Kurn won a seat on the High Council.

 Mogh was later rumored to be alive in a secret Romulan prison on Carraya IV,
 but though Worf's covert 2369 mission found the rumor to indeed be false he
 did discover - and agree to keep secret - a colony of shamed Klingon survivors
 from Khitomer, led by his father's old friend, L'Kor, and their Romulans guards
 who'd resigned to live with them.

 Worf dipped back into Klingon politics in 2370 after he questioned his own faith
 in the teaching of Kahless following the Carraya IV incident. His visit to the
 caves of Boreth, the legendary site of the great warrior's predicted return, was
 shaken up when Kahless did appear to return. Although later found to be
 cloned from ancient relics of the original Klingon warrior by the Boreth clerics,
 the response of spiritually empty Klingons to his presence led Worf to insist
 that Gowron accept the cloned Kahless as a returned Emperor and moral
 leader - in effect creating a constitutional theo-monarchy.

 He was even reunited with his foster brother Nikolai in 2370, when the two
 clashed again over the human's saving of the doomed Borallan village against
 Picard's orders and the Prime Directive to save his pregnant mate, a native. The
 two parted more amicably after the incident, however.

 After his mother's death Alexander was initially sent to live with the Rozhenkos
 on Earth, but a year later Helena returned with him to plead that Worf take him
 back for support and guidance. The two shared a testy relationship at first, but
 thanks to sessions with the ship's counselor - whom he eventually selected as
 the boy's foster parent if need be - they fared better. When a shipboard
 accident left him paralyzed, Worf considered the ritual Hegh'bat suicide until
 both Riker and Troi talked him out of it, pointing to Alexander's need for a
 parent; an experimental genotronic spine later restored his health. Shocked in
 2370 to find his son returned through a time loop from 40 years in the future, be
 began allowing Alexander to find his own way - even if it was not the way of a
 Klingon warrior.

 During his U.S.S. Enterprise tenure, he birthed Keiko O'Brien's baby in
 Ten-Forward during a shipwide crisis in 2368, his only prior experience having
 been a Starfleet emergency first aid class. He dislikes surprise parties and
 diplomatic duty.

 He also taught mok'bara classes to those interested aboard ship, won a
 bat'tleh tournament on Forkas III in 2370, and for a time tutored Doctor Crusher
 on the weapon; there is no word that he took her offer to join her acting
 workshop. He trains with a multi-level holo-program of personal combat
 "calisthenics," has also played Parrises Squares, and picked up the nickname
 "Iceman" from his U.S.S. Enterprise poker play. Other interests include Klingon
 novels, love poetry, and a love of Klingon opera. His favorite beverage,
 christened as a "warrior's drink" when introduced to it by Guinan, is prune juice.

 Following the destruction of the Enterprise and break-up of its staff in 2371,
 Worf sent Alexander once again to live with the Rozhenkos on Earth and went
 on extended leave to revisit the Klingon monastery and clerics of Boreth in
 search of a spiritual answer to the letdown the rapid events provoked. He found
 their discussions enlightening and considered resigning his Starfleet
 commission, but in early 2372 he accepted Captain Benjamin Sisko's request
 to join the Deep Space Nine staff in light of renewed Klingon friction after
 dissolution of the Khitomer Accords and their short-lived invasion of the
 Cardassian Empire. He had all but decided to resign and join a Nyberrite
 cruiser crew when the Deep Space Nine offer persuaded him to stay, having felt
 that his Starfleet uniform was a disgrace to his own people.

 Early on in the assignment Worf admitted to continued bouts of depression
 over the end of what he perceived as glory days on the Enterprise, and
 countered it somewhat by taking quarters on the station's starship, the U.S.S.
 Defiant, and finding a kinship with Dax, who trains with the bat'tleh and mek'leth
 as well.

 He soon got the chance to meet Klingon legend Kor, but that honor too was
 ripped away when image gave way to reality as the two fought over the Sword
 of Kahless relic they found on a quest.

 Worf's public opposition to Gowron's invasion left him largely unaffected until
 the Empire attempted to frame him for the so-called slaughter of 141 Klingon
 civilians amid a skirmish; the hoax was revealed only shortly before he would
 have been extradited for the crime and faced certain death. However, on Qo'noS
 his house was once again stripped of its honor and properties, including Kurn's
 seat on the High Council.

 His depressed brother showed up on the station asking for his own suicide rite.
 Only Dax's interruption stopped the ritual Worf was aiding, but after Kurn's
 unsuccessful death wish as a Bajoran deputy Worf realized his brother had no
 future and, short of suicide, opted to have his memory wiped and replaced with
 another Klingon identity, sending him to live with a family friend. Even then he
 lived with the regret that his actions had been forever tainted by his
 human-learned values of mercy.

 Disciplinary Notation: Captain Jean-Luc Picard, SD 44248

 It is with regret that I make this entry in the personal file of Lt. Worf, whom I
 consider a fine officer. However, despite whatever sympathy I have for his
 personal reasons and the ways of his culture I cannot condone murder by
 anyone wearing the Starfleet uniform. The officer in question is spared further
 disciplinary action only due to the circumstances of the location aboard the
 Klingon vessel Vorn and the not-unexpected indifference of the Klingon Empire
 to the incident.

 Psychological Profile:
 Update SD 50500, DS9 CMO J. Bashir, M.D. recording

 Sparked by his spurning by Grilka and his uncharacteristic aid to Quark on
 wooing her the Klingon way, Worf's immediate friendship with Lt. Cmdr. Dax
 has now blossomed into full-blown romance; luckily she is one of the few
 species on the station compatible with the physical demands of the situation.
 The arrangement with Dax as his Par'machkai has stopped short by mutual
 consent of the traditional mating step required and seems to be affecting Worf
 in a positive way, aside from the squabble on Risa when what I perceive as
 Worf's reactionary tendencies held sway during his brief alignment with some
 New Essentialist activists there.

 Worf has encountered few further difficulties regarding his divided heritage. He
 had no problem helping to expose secret Klingon mining of the space around
 outer Bajoran colonies and fighting his brethren of a century ago when
 time-traveled to Station K-7. He was part of the covert team trying to prove
 Gowron was actually a Changeling double earlier this year, and sparked a
 challenge to the death with the chancellor. Although the team helped expose
 General Martok as a Founder, Worf left with the two still at odds over his
 defiance of Gowron a year earlier that cost the House of Mogh its official honor.

 His biggest qualm has been a quest for privacy, and took quarters on the
 usually empty Defiant to relieve the edginess he had felt ever since arriving
 here. I am told he often can be found there listening to Klingon opera blaring
 over the com system, usually from his favorite singer Barak'karan -- not
 surprisingly, a traditionalist.

 He continues to utilize the Holo-programs for recreation, including his combat
 "calisthenics," commanding the historic Battle of Tong Vey, but has no
 stomach for zero-G exercises. His posting here has broadened his horizons in
 at least two ways: he has renewed his study of the Ferengi Rules of
 Acquisition, and has admitted a healthy respect for native Bajoran beliefs
 concerning the Prophets based on his own spiritualism.

 Personnel Update:
 Starfleet Personnel Review Board, SD 50900

 Worf commanded the Defiant in Admiral Hayes' fleet against the second Borg
 invasion ca. SD 50890, and briefly found himself back with his old colleagues
 on the new Sovereign-class Enterprise when Picard rescued his crew and
 fought off the Borg's would-be temporal sabotage.

 Worf's action in recovering a new Jem'Hadar vessel intact ca. SD 50050 has
 already been duly noted in the record and decorated.