On Star Trek: The Next Generation, nobody ever listened to Worf, their Chief of Security. For a Klingon warrior who was the head of security, he lost a surprising number of fights and seemingly never had his security plans heeded. The conceit was simple: if someone could beat up Worf they must be a badass, and if someone disagreed with Worf’s suggestions they could conveniently launch into a lengthy monologue on compassion and diplomacy and all that forshak.
The unfortunate outcome of these two writers’ room shortcuts was that Worf’s ideas were constantly, depressingly shot down and we had a hard time believing in his badassery when he so rarely got to bust some skulls. He should have at least been allowed to smack Wesley around, and then we could have a supercut of that instead of the two supercuts below.
The first video below demonstrates why Worf was the Charlie Brown of the Enterprise crew, and the second one shows him getting pwned in all the Worf Effect situations. But he had the flu!
[H/T: io9.]
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Being the Chief Security Officer on a Starfleet vessel had to be the absolute worse. Your department had the highest casualty ratio of anyone else in the universe, you were charged with protecting a ship full of people who honestly had no right in being out on a tiny metal saucer surrounded by an infinite expanse that was filled mostly with either soul-crushing emptiness or things that wanted to kill you, and even when you did run into a situation where your particular skill set was useful, EVERYONE ignored you because of their “enlightened” sense of ethical superiority, even though everyone else in the universe seemed to lack it (which if you really think about, just makes the Federation seem like delusional, arrogant dicks.)
But damn it all, if it mean you got to go on an away team with Commander Riker, it would have been worth it.
Worf was kind of the Meg Griffin of the Enterprise.