Worf, son of Mogh

Worf, son of Mogh, was born on the Klingon homeworld Qo'nos in the year 2340. He was named after his grandfather, General Worf. His mother, Kassin, was a master of the mok'bara art of fighting. He had one younger brother, Kurn.

In his Starfleet career he served on the USS Aldrin, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), space station Deep Space 9 and the starship USS Defiant before serving as Federation Ambassador to Qo'nos. He later returned to Starfleet, serving on the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E).

Early Life
By the age of six, Worf was already proficient with the bat'leth, a traditional Klingon bladed weapon. When his father and mother were given the task of rooting out a traitor on the outpost on Khitomer, Worf insisted on accompanying them.

Mogh didn't find the traitor in time to save the Khitomer outpost from being devistated in a brutal and unprovoked assault from the Romulan Star Empire. Worf was one of the few survivors. His infant brother, Kurn, was left behind on Q'onos in the care of a family friend named Lorgh.

The first vessel to respond to the outposts distress call was the Federation starship USS Intrepid. Worf was discovered buried in the rubble of his familys residence by a Starfleet officer named Sergei Rohzenko. Rohzenko spent much of his off-duty time with Worf, aiding in his recovery. After learning from another survivor, Worf's nursemaid Kahlest, that the boys life may be in danger if he stayed in the Klingon Empire, Rohzenko convinced his wife Helena that they should adopt the boy. (TLE novel: The Art Of The Impossible)

The Rohzenko's raised Worf on the farming colony of Gault and on Earth in the Russian region of Minsk, with their own son Nikolai. (TNG young adult novel: Starfleet Academy #1: Worf's First Adventure)
 * (Note on a slight discrepancy: Worf's First Adventure mistakenly gives Worf's brother the first name "Simon".)

Starfleet Academy
In the year 2357, Worf and Nikolai enrolled in Starfleet Academy. Upon arriving at the Academy, a Brikar cadet named Zak Kebron picked a fight with Worf believing that Klingons had no right to join Starfleet. Rather than expell the two students before they could even report to their first classes, the Academy decided to make the pair roomates, forcing them to work out their differences.

Worf soon joined a study group that included originally included his brother, and cadets Mark McHenry and Tania Tobias of Earth, and Soleta of Vulcan. Kebron later joined the group.

When the group was told that they were going on a training excersise on Prometheus Station, the cadets had no reason to believe that anything was amiss. The attack by the Romulans was entirely unexpected. The cadets, suddenly without a commanding officer, were forced to work together to save each others lives.

In the end, however, none of it was real. The real training excersise was not on Prometheus Station, but on an Academy holodeck.

The experience made Worf's brother realize that Starfleet was not the pl;ace for him, and he returned to Russia. (TNG young adult novel: Starfleet Academy #1: Worf's First Adventure)


 * (More from SA #2-3, Contamination, Imzadi 2, The Left Hand of Destiny, Diplomatic Implausibility, and others is coming soon.)