The character of Worf, played by actor Michael Douglas, is a recurring Klingon character on the television show Star Trek: The Final Generation. Worf's powers include Red Eye-Beam, nailing hot counsellors, and a mastery of cooking bell peppers. Worf's culinary skills have saved his crew far too many times to count.
Worf is named after Sir Augustus Worfpenny, the 19th-century poet whose works served as inspiration for the many Star Trek series. Worfpenny's poems include "The Ballad of the Galactic Keel-Haul," "City on the Edge of Yesterday," and "Me Space Booty."
Worf enjoys classical music and claims to have been a close friend of the illustrious ancient Klingon poet and playwright William Shakespeare in his past life. Notably, a large part of Klingon religon is based on reincarnation, as well as peaceful coexistance with animals, plants, and other species in general. This might explain the playwright's spooky connection with earth's obscure astrologer William Shakespeare, suggested in the series to be a reincarnation of Klingon Shakespeare himself.
As benign as his culture led him to be, poor Worf was born with the athletic composition and icy cool temperment of Chuck Norris, and was therefore sent to earth to be raised by Russians. One of the hacks that wrote the show has this to say of Worf's split nature:
"Constantly drawn between his peaceful, culinary Klingon background and his need to sporadically roundhouse kick and use his Red Eye-Beam, Worf's inner termoil was like ... a can of whoopass clashing against the metaphorical canopener that longed to open that can of whoopass."
Worf's hidden nature finally broke through in the Season 4 finale of Final Generation in which Worf flips out and kills everyone. Some Star Trek fans believe that the ejection of Worf's character from Final Generation was closely connected with Michael Douglas's recent request for a higher salary.