When Star Trek fans think of the most famous characters in the franchise, names like Spock, Kirk, Picard, Riker, Sisko, and Uhura tend to be mentioned first. Scotty is, of course, famous even to normies for the whole “Beam me up” thing, and in more recent years, Seven of Nine and Captain Janeway have also gotten even more popular. But what if the most famous and most important character in Star Trek is actually Worf?
In terms of the number of episodes and movies, Worf, as played by Michael Dorn, is the one character who exists in the most installments of Star Trek. This includes all seven seasons of The Next Generation, all four Next Generation feature films, nine out of the ten episodes of Picard Season 3, and, starting on October 2, 1995, Seasons 4-7 of Deep Space Nine. In short, Worf appears in 12 separate seasons of Star Trek, across three different TV series. (Oh, and Dorn also played his own ancestor, also named Worf, in the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.) So, if there is one character who is holding the Final Frontier together, it’s almost certainly Worf. And, arguably, Worf’s role as Trek’s MVP all started 30 years ago, with DS9’s “The Way of the Warrior.”
