This article contains discussions of suicide. Michael Dorn's surly Klingon Starfleet officer, Worf son of Mogh, is probably the greatest character innovation in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Geordi (LeVar Burton) is clearly an engineering nerd. And, yes, the taciturn, humorless Worf (Michael Dorn) is a nerd. Worf lost his biological parents as a child, and he was raised on Earth by ...