Star Trek: The Next Generation
InStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 7 , Worf ( Michael Dorn ) and Deanna Troi ( Marina Sirtis ) had a romance that did n’t work for a sort of reasons . The Klingon Security Chief and the Betazoid Counselor of the U.S.S.Enterprise - Dstarted their family relationship in theTNGepisode " Parallels " , where the two Starfleet Officers were married in an alternate timeline . After that , Worf and Troi start dating untilTNGended , but the relationship was dropped and it was never mentioned again afterTNGjumped to the big screen inStar Trek Generations .
WhenTNGbegan , it was build thatTroi and Commander Will Riker(Jonathan Frakes ) had a preceding relationship ; indeed , they were each other’s"Imazdi"(the Betazoid word for " darling " ) . However , Riker and Troi remain platonic throughoutTNG , until they rekindle their making love occasion inStar Trek : Insurrectionand they finally married in the lastTNGmovie , Star Trek : Nemesis . Star Trek : Picardpicked up their family relationship 20 age afterwards and the retired Starfleet heroes now subsist on the planet Nepenthe with their daughter Kestra ( Lulu Wilson ) . Meanwhile , Worf had a coloured calling inTNGwhere he fill his Word Alexander ( Brian Bonsall ) , who he had with his lover K’Ehleyr ( Suzie Plakson ) . AfterTNGended , Worf joined the dramatis personae ofStar Trek : Deep Space Ninein season 4 and begin a very popular love affair with Jadzia Dax ( Terry Farrell ) ; they finally marry but Jadzia died at the end ofDS9season 6 .
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sports fan feel the Worf and Troi relationship came out of remaining champaign starting with " Parallels " butTNGexecutive producer Brannon Braga told theStar Trek : The Next Generation Companionthat the writers had been seeding Worf and Troi since theTNGseason 5 episode " Ethics " . In theTNGoral history , The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Yearsby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross , TNGexecutive producer Rene Echevarria say the writers were consideringmarrying Riker and Troiat the close of the series . However , Star Trek ’s head honcho Rick Berman"didn’t like for the idea"and he"wanted to explore the Worf - Troi relationship" . Echevarria also noted that"the actors were not happy about it … Marina [ Sirtis ] has always maintained that Riker is her Imzadi . "
Marina Sirtis stay vocal about her dislike Worf and Troi ’s brief , Beauty and the creature - inhale dear affair . In a video interview , Sirtis [ viaYouTube ] did n’t moderate words when she explained,“I did n’t care the fact that [ Worf ] completely became un - Klingon - like when he was with Troi … He kind of became a p*ssy . “Sirtis also felt that the family relationship was"detrimental to his part " . In addition , Jonathan Frakes was also forthright about his displeasure that the Klingon stole Riker ’s lady ; the actor - conductor toldStar Trek : Communicator,“The Worf / Troi idea is just absurd ! It makes for great cloth at conventionalism but for tangible character development , I reckon it ’s ludicrous . "
However , besides Rick Berman andTNGexecutive manufacturer Jeri Taylor , who said that Worf and Troi " give us some very overnice second … It was unexpected … and I intend that that ’s good,“the histrion who did support the Klingon / Betazoid union wasMichael Dorn , who said,“They are a really cute twain . They are beauty and the beast … Worf is concerned in Troi because of the way she treat his son … and he ’s grown to admire and respect her , and of row , regard is a grown matter with Klingons . “Dorn also say fans at Star Trek conventions were enthusiastic to him about Worf and Troi and that his only regret about their relationship was that it"didn’t carry over into [ Star Trek Generations ] , so it ’s kind of wasted . "
For her part , Sirtis enounce she prefer Worf ’s relationship with Jadzia Dax onDS9 , which is something most Trekkers can agree with . Worf by all odds come across his match with the spiritedTrillStarfleet Officer , who was also Curzon Dax , the Federation Ambassador to the Klingons , in her premature life-time . In hindsight , Worf and Troi ’s relationship just did n’t sour and cease up being a foreign curiosity tacked onto the end ofStar Trek : The Next Generationthat did n’t have a payoff . Although , Worf and Troi are still remembered , perhaps not fondly , and Jeri Taylor admitted,“I in all probability got more antipathetical chain armour on that than anything else . "
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