Star Trek: Worf’s Son Alexander – Age Plot Hole Explained
Lieutenant Worf’s son Alexander grew up fast on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but his Klingon heritage can explain most of that mystery.
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Lieutenant Worf’s son Alexander grew up fast on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but his Klingon heritage can explain most of that mystery. Young Alexander Rozhenko – who took the last name of Worf’s adoptive human parents – was conceived in the second season TNG episode “The Emissary,” in which Worf rekindled his relationship with the half-Klingon, half-human Ambassador K’Ehleyr.
The gruff, traditionalist Worf wanted to marry K’Ehleyr after a night together, but she refused, and the couple parted on somewhat sad terms. K’Ehleyr would return in the fourth season episode “Reunion,” where she revealed she had given birth to Worf’s son, to the Klingon warrior’s shock. Alexander, who was part-human on his mother’s side, had little interest in being a warrior, and clashed with his stern father after K’Ehleyr’s death.
Despite the fact that “Reunion” took place only a little over a year after “The Emissary,” Alexander appeared to be about 4 or 5 years old when he made his first appearance; Alexander would also be recast in later appearances on TNG, appearing to be about 10 years old by the show’s fifth season. The fictional reasoning for this rapid development was that Klingon children simply age faster than human children. The real-world reasoning was a little trickier – child labor laws made working with a toddler in thick prosthetic makeup prohibitive, and the show’s producer’s found the original actor, Jon Steur, to be a little too gentle to portray Worf’s rebellious son, resulting in the casting of Brian Bonsall for the majority of TNG’s run.
This would not be the end of Alexander’s rapid aging or recasting, however. When Worf made the leap from TNG to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, he had a framed picture of a slightly older Alexander, played by Richard Martinez. Alexander would return in the flesh in DS9’s sixth season episode “Sons and Daughters” as an adult aged Klingon warrior, played by Marc Worden. Despite the fact he was a full-grown man who rebelled against his father’s strict ethos before awkwardly embracing it, Alexander would have only been about eight years old by the time he was serving with General Martok on Deep Space Nine.
The relationship between Worf and Alexander across two Star Trek shows was always a fraught one, with the young Klingon caught between his mother’s more progressive, humanistic intentions for him, and his tradition-obsessed, honorable father. The fact that he went from a precocious grade-schooler to a fully formed adult in less than a decade only made the relationship more dramatic and, in its own way, satisfying.
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