Star Trek: 10 Life Lessons You Can Learn From Worf
3. Restraint, Restraint, Restraint - "Star Trek: First Contact"
"Were you any other man, I would kill you where you stand." That's one of the great Worf quotes from what has to be the most enjoyable Next Generation Star Trek movie. That's when Picard, in a state of obsessive denial, refuses Worf's suggestion of destroying the Enterprise to prevent the Borg from taking it. In doing so, he accuses Worf of being a coward. Yeah ... wrong thing to say to any Klingon, particularly this one. You ever have one of those moments when you know you've said the wrong thing to the wrong person? Like telling the boss in extremely colourful terms that his ideas sucked? This is when the little man inside your head should be holding up the little red flag of restraint to prevent you from saying that God-awful nasty thing that's been on the tip of your tongue all throughout that lunch meeting. Of course, driven by hunger and the sense of righteous indignation that this is YOUR lunch, YOUR time and someone better damn well tell him that before the line at the bank gets too long and now you can't make your credit card payment that you forgot to mail in last month! Yeah ... and now you're handling the junk accounts. Oh, and you were late coming back from lunch. Worf shows great restraint. He doesn't kill Picard, but by God, he's thinking it. Of course, if he did, how would he be able to justify the death of his commanding officer if he managed to get back to his regular time? Of course, Picard apologizes and all is forgiven, but imagine what could have happened if Worf didn't show some restraint? Dislocated Locutus? Wow ... try saying that five times fast.
John Kirk is a Teacher-Librarian and currently a History/English Teacher with the Toronto District School Board.
But mostly, John teaches Geek.
Comics, Sci-Fi (Notably Star Trek), Fantasy and Role-Playing and table-top games all make up part of John’s repertoire, There is a whole generation of nerds-in-embryo who rely on him to make sense of it all, to teach that with great power comes great responsibility, that the force will be with us always and that a towel IS the most useful thing to have in one’s possession.
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