Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Worf, the Klingon Punching Bag...
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Date: 12 Nov 92 06:40:22 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Spoilers must be in here somewhere for Rascals

In article <BxL1zz.HAE@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, myempire@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Matt J. Martin) writes:
> In article <1992Nov11.115038.3035@gdr.bath.ac.uk> ccspjs@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Pete J Suters) writes:

>>  It sounds like they're always covering up for the fact that THEY
>>ALWAYS LOSE, so it's no suprise to me that Worf is always being
>>beaten up, zapped and humiliated ... as he keeps on reminding us,
>>he's a KLINGON ...

>    Now wait just a damn minute!  There have been plenty of examples of
> Klingons kickning some serious buttocks.  For instance, and Klingons Kirk
> had to deal with always gave him a run for his money.  

Not really.  He beat every last one of them -- in less than an hour!  But
then, KIRK was a REAL Captain.  He didn't call meetings, like some wimpy
starfleet captains I know.

> Especially the one
> from STIII (Commander Kruge).  

Who?  Doc Brown from "Back to the Future"?  No way!  Kirk sucker punched him
and down into the ravine he went.  Kirk (who in no way speaks Klingon as
well as Jean Luc) then fooled Kruge's crew into beaming him up.  What SCHMUCKS!
Can't they tell a REAL Klingon from a fake one?  Would Scotty be fooled by a
Klingon trying to pretend he was Kirk beaming up?  No way!  

Klingons are not only weak, THEY'RE STUPID!!!  You'll notice that they LOST
2 Klingon ships WITH CLOAKING DEVICES to the Ferengi!  That's right, the
stupid FERENGI beat the stupid KLINGONS.  I rest my case!

> Also, the Klingons from the warship that Riker
> temporarily commanded were pretty robust.  

Riker kicked the 3rd in command's butt.  Some robust Klingon.  Even the
women Klingons scared Riker more than the men.  (Of course, THEY wanted
to have sex with Riker.  Obviously, women Klingon have no taste).

> Not to mention the very impressive
> tactics of the Klingon civil war 

Yea, the "3 Stooges in Space" or the "Klingon Civil War".  Moe Klingon VS
Curly Klingon.  Worf is the only one with enough brains NOT to fly into the
sun.  Sheesh!  Of course, he is STUPID enough to get "captured" in a bar.

>   And of course we can't forget the fact that in the alternate timeline 
> ("Yesterday's Enterprise") the Klingons had the Federation at their mercy.

Who Jean Luc?  Jim Kirk would have kicked them back across the neutral zone.
Not only that, but he would have FIRST gone into the time rift and kicked
the ROMULAN'S butts too and then COME BACK for the Klingons, if needed.

Jean Luc was too chicken to take on the Romulans and Riker paid the price.
Tasha Yar had more guts than Jean Luc!  I'd love to see HER in command
of the Enterprise.

>I suspect that they reason why Worf gets knocker around so much is because
> he's always to first one to go charging in while everyone else is still
> trying to figure out what's going on.

Yea, he's too stupid to figure out what he's gonna do.  Sheesh!  Get that
man some target practice.  He couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with
his phaser on maximum spread.

I did get a chuckle out of that Ferengi kicking him while he was down on
the floor.

And, NO, I don't take any of this stuff seriously.  It's a TV SHOW fer
Pete's sake.

Terry "Who the heck is Pete?" Wood
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