Marina Sirtis Explains Why Worf - Troi Relationship Didn't Work in Star Trek TNG

Can't say I disagree.

Worf and Dax made sense, because Dax was more warlike and able to match him in aggression. The Dax symbiote knew Klingon culture, new Klingon weaponry and fighting styles, and Worf didn't have to level down to be with her because she was more of a warrior. She was formidable in a way which would appeal to Worf. There was a lot about her which Klingons would respect.

Troi was the opposite. She was empathetic, not a warrior, and Worf had to change to be with her, shedding a lot of what made him Worf. There was a tremendous amount in Troi that humans may respect, but not Klingons.

It just made no sense.

I absolutely agree with her take on this relationship. It felt forced and completely unnecessary. I have to admit, I was not a Troi fan at all. The first season was awful but got better after that. Troi was painful to watch. Marinas acting along with the terible scripts could have been the kiss of death to the show. Thankfully, what ever changed after season one saved it.

If Natasha Yar was killed off, we probably would’ve seen her and Worf become a couple. They were both warriors. 🥰

Our culture has become so pathetically politically correct that she had to refrain from saying beast to describe a made up alien character.

Is it bad that I dig Marina Sirtis way more here, how she is in this interview than I ever did in TNG?

What she’s not saying is…Worf wanted her to put her finger in his butt.

Once you go Klingon, you never go back. 🤣

Spot on. With Troi, Worf was trying too hard to act like a human husband instead of a Klingon husband. He wasn’t being true to his Klingon culture, which was really important to him - and so he wasn’t being true to himself.

The Worf / Troi relationship wouldn’t have worked long term - eventually the psychological cost to Worf of massively repressing his own Klingon nature would have built up the stress within him to unbearable levels, and he would have exploded into violence.

Worf would have ended up shouting at Troi, and maybe even hitting her. Given his Klingon strength, if he’d hit her she would have been severely injured at the least - possibly even killed.

Man is strong, gets girl. Man treats girl well. Girl gets "ick".

Dax wasn't just a beauty. She was a 300 year old - plus brilliant badass beauty.

Maybe it had something to do with klingons having 2 tools?

It's pretty cool that she watched DS9 like all of us.

Because Worf was awesome and Betazed should be destroyed.
Look at the Betazeds:
(1) Troi, pointless and annoying.
(2) Luaxanna, the worst character in all ST.
(3) Tam, crazy as a snake with an itch on its knee.
(4) Souter, psychopathic killer.

I wasn't expecting to hear Marina Sirtis use the word pussy as a slur.

Seeing Marina Sirtis say the P-word was worth this clip 😛

Worf has always been a Pussy!

The girls like their Klingons rough.

Well, she's an asari matriarch, he's a krogan warlord...it just wouldn't work out.

Worf has always gotten the shit end of the stick as far as meaningful relationships go...

The gentle empath and the violent Klingon were a ridiculous match. How could she be Worf’s idea of animal sex?

I asked her about the relationship and why and how did it end back 20 years ago and all she could say was that Michael Dorn growled after every kiss. I speculate that Michael Dorn lobbied to have a relationship so he could kiss the beauties.

I shipped Worf and Troi, but I can her point here and in other interviews.

It would have made sense if Lt. Riker stayed on board and wooed Troi, and pissed off Commander Riker. I would have liked to see the former clean-shaven, and the latter wearing a fake beard. But for some reason the showrunners decided there couldn't be interpersonal conflict, and it had to be wrapped up by the end of the episode, but then they brought him back to turn traitor on DS9.

I love the fact that Marina Sirtis in real life is brassy, opinionated and hilarious. Not at all like the Troi character.

It also showed worf had a heart and having a romance heart is strength!

Ugh. She hit the wall hard. This is Gold! She wants the big string alpha male to be more attentive, then immediately loses all attraction for him.

Before stp3

plus Klingon Johnson was just too van damme big

She’s spot on. However, no disrespect to Marina Sirtis, but Troi‘s taste in men throughout the show is questionable, to say the least.

Fun fact; did you know that Saavik and David Marcus were an item?

It was only put in the show for the weirdness factor.

She's right.

I prefer seeing Riker with Diana Troi their relationship seemed better, and they had more chemistry

I liked them in that alternate reality when they were married. A bashful Worf.

Not to mention it was gross and cringy AF.

He wasn't tall enough. 😅

She has got the weirdest accent in the world

Everybody knows she's Riker's girl anyways

Troy/Worf porn would have been a hit tho👍

Never made sense to me either, for exactly the reason she states. Remembering that Worf is 100% Klingon by ancestry struggling to remain culturally Klingon despite being raised by a human family, he has to abandon all of that to fit Troi's half-Betazoid template for a romantic partner. Echos of Data's foray into human romance in TNG: "In Theory".

It is because Worf had great taste, there were better options than Troi.

..... "He kinda become an Oooooosy"!...
LOL... She gets an Atta-Gurl for that!!
😂

i mean, acting like troi is attractive to any man is a hard task - shows what a pro jonathan frakes is

She's right
Dwarf was better with dax

Compared to other Star Trek actors, this woman has spent enormous amounts of time talking about her role in Star Trek and the other actors etc etc.
That astounds me for someone who played the most useless, worthless character on the show.
It would have been a much better series without her in it.

Should be pretty obvious: He'd rip her apart like a wishbone. I mean, she has to be able to walk around the ship in the morning... At some point, he's going to yearn for a real Klingon woman that can accommodate his entire rocketship and not just the upper stage.

She was beautiful in the 90's but everyone gets old

Hell of a look, in the morning lol❤

Even after biting her on the face??

The only person to call Worf a pussy and live to tell about it! ⚰️

Klingons get a knot during relations like dogs do. Most non klingon women are too fragile to handle them.