If you really squashed them in there, how many Worfs could you fit inside a Galaxy-class starship? Asking for my graduate dissertation for Starfleet Academy.
The Enterprise‑D’s interior volume is about 5 000 779 m³, which converts to roughly 176 million ft³.
If we treat a human body as having roughly the density of water, Michael Dorn’s mass (≈ 100 kg) corresponds to a volume of about 3.5 ft³ (100 L ≈ 0.10 m³ ≈ 3.5 ft³). Using a mid‑range estimate of 3.75 ft³ per person gives a convenient round‑off for calculations.
So, roughly 47 – 50 million “Michael Dorn‑sized” individuals could theoretically fill the interior space of the USS Enterprise‑D.
(Of course, this is a purely geometric exercise—real‑world considerations such as furniture, equipment, structural bulkheads, air, and the need for circulation would drastically reduce any practical capacity.)
In theory you could fit two if you did a saucer separation. (One gets the saucer, the other gets the stardrive.) In practice, they would still duel to the death over which one gets the battle bridge, which is obviously more honorable.
Assuming a spherical shaped Worf with a volume of 0.1 m^3^ and a spherical shaped Enterprise D with an internal volume of 5,820,983 m^3^ i get somewhere between 1 and 43,657,372.5 Worfs for the answer.
Depends on which Galaxy-class starship, and also depends on if the Worfs are standing shoulder to shoulder, vs. being stacked like a multitude of inert Data's
If not, then we can render the Worfs into a liquefied state and pour the Worf liquid into the star ship until liquid Worf comes pouring out the top.
And if we're really pushing the envelope, we can also pressurize the liquid and pack in even more Worf liquid until the star ship explodes from the pressure
Can we pulp the Worfs down into more of a Worf slurry and fill the Enterprise with that? We can give each of them a warrior's death first if we need to.
If someone worked out the fluidic volume of the enterprise and compared it to the volume of a well blended Worf smoothie. I bet you’d get your answer and horrify any LLM that helped get you there.
That depends: does this include inside the transporter buffers?
No.
They didn't rule out the agony buffer we're still good
What about all turbo lift shafts
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The LaTeX formulas make me chuckle so hard.
Somebody call Randall Munroe.
He solved this already. It was a mole of moles instead of a galaxy class starship of Worfs, but the science is the same. It's gonna smell.
One. Multiple Worfs would battle to the death, Highlander-style.
Just look at Riker. When his transporter clone showed up, they couldn't even coexist in Starfleet, let alone in one ship. And he's human!
There was no stipulation that Worfs be alive.
In theory you could fit two if you did a saucer separation. (One gets the saucer, the other gets the stardrive.) In practice, they would still duel to the death over which one gets the battle bridge, which is obviously more honorable.
There can be only one.
Assuming a spherical shaped Worf with a volume of 0.1 m^3^ and a spherical shaped Enterprise D with an internal volume of 5,820,983 m^3^ i get somewhere between 1 and 43,657,372.5 Worfs for the answer.
Sphere packing is hard and I suck at math.
Depends on which Galaxy-class starship, and also depends on if the Worfs are standing shoulder to shoulder, vs. being stacked like a multitude of inert Data's
Enterprise-D, naturally.
Nice
Are there any rules or parameters to follow?
If not, then we can render the Worfs into a liquefied state and pour the Worf liquid into the star ship until liquid Worf comes pouring out the top.
And if we're really pushing the envelope, we can also pressurize the liquid and pack in even more Worf liquid until the star ship explodes from the pressure
Considering starships exist in the vacuum of space, I expect the hull should be able to handle at least 1atm pressure differential!
Good news, everybody!
Haha, I didn’t mean in liquid form. I was thinking more in living solid form, as usual.
But Worf is 99% honour, which doesn't compress.
Can we pulp the Worfs down into more of a Worf slurry and fill the Enterprise with that? We can give each of them a warrior's death first if we need to.
If we tell them to fight the pulper, that's dying in honorable battle
If someone worked out the fluidic volume of the enterprise and compared it to the volume of a well blended Worf smoothie. I bet you’d get your answer and horrify any LLM that helped get you there.
At least 3, probably more.
What do you mean? An African or European Worf?
I... I don't know that!
More than three.
How many can you compact into just the transporter pattern buffer? 🤔
525,600 klingons
There was barely enough room for one.
Even on Deep Space Nine...
... He says having just moved his quarters to the Defiant.