Does Worf stink?

Klingoner verkar ha en lukt som vissa människor och utomjordingar finner offensiva.

• I DS9: Trials och Tribble-ations , Darvin (omedveten om att Worf är Klingon) beskriver dem som:

  "foul-smelling barbarians"

  Bashir och O'Brien försvarar honom genom att försäkra honom om att han inte luktar illa:

  O'BRIEN : Don't take it personally, Worf.
  BASHIR : I rather like the way you smell.
  O'BRIEN : Kind of a... peaty, earthy aroma.
  BASHIR : With just a touch of lilac.

• Soren verkar verkligen hitta lursas andetag ganska obehagligt i "Generations"

  

  novellering beskriver det mer detaljerat:

  The aging ship groaned and shuddered unceasingly -- and stunk of warm, wet animal, making him long for the pristine, silent corridors of the Enterprise...Klingons turning to regard him, his upper lip twitched faintly. They smelled the same as the ship; and though Soran had always believed himself an unprejudiced man, this particular species tested his limits.

• I Voyager: Prophecy , igen beskrivs de som en jordnärlig muskulös.

  NEELIX: Well, I've been studying the Klingon database. They're a fascinating people, very robust. And they certainly seem to appreciate my culinary skills.

  JANEWAY: Looks like everything's running smoothly.

  NEELIX: Ah, not quite everything. some of the Starfleet people have been complaining about the smell. Personally, I find it appealing. A kind of a musky aroma.

  JANEWAY: Maybe we can adjust the environmental controls to filter out the musk.

• Yeoman Burke tycker också att de luktar illa i Det oupptäckta landet

  CREWMAN #1: They all look alike.

  CREWMAN #2: What about that smell? You know only the top of the line models can even talk and...

• Deras fartyg är också ganska obehagliga luktar, åtminstone enligt McCoy i " The Voyage Home "

  McCOY: You'd think they could at least send a ship. It's bad enough to be court marshalled and spend the rest of our lives mining borite, ...but to go home in this Klingon flea trap...

  KIRK: We could learn a thing or two from this flea trap. It's got a cloaking device that cost us a lot.

  McCOY: I just wish we could cloak the stench.

Vi har känt från den allra första säsongen att Worf hatar bad. I konspiration finns det en utbyte av dialog som går som sådan:

TROI: Data, it's just not the same. Have you ever been for a real moonlight swim?

DATA: One can swim in moonlight?

TROI: How about you, Mister Worf?

WORF: Swimming is too much like... bathing.

Så vi kan härleda från denna linje av dialog som ja, Worf stinker.

Jag tror inte att Starfleet skulle tillåta sina officerare att springa runt ett Starship unbathed. Även Picard skulle nästan säkert inte tolerera en sådan övning.
Men det verkar som om Worf inte är glad i att bada. Kanske inte bada under långa perioder är något slags Klingon-test av "manhood".