As a Klingon raised by Russian parents, the TNG writers believed Worf had an affinity with Chekov, but sadly, a team-up between them never happened.
Star Trek: The Next Generation twice attempted to feature the Star Trek: The Original Series character Commander Pavel Chekov alongside Lieutenant Worf due to the characters' shared Russian heritage. As an orphaned Klingon child, Worf was raised on the farming colony Gault by his adoptive Russian parents Sergey and Helena Rozhenko. 100 years earlier, Pavel Chekov was born in Russia, and he served on the legendary USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk .
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY As the adopted son of a Russian Starfleet officer, it's likely that Worf heard stories about Chekov's adventures on the Enterprise while growing up. This notion formed the basis of two potential storylines that would have brought Chekov into TNG and possibly even Star Trek: Deep Space Nine after Michael Dorn joined the cast as Worf in DS9 season 4.
The basis of the episode would be that something had happened to Worf which caused him to see Chekov in hallucinations. Presumably, there would be a sci-fi reason for why Worf saw Chekov in particular, and both of them would work to rid him of his visions. Koenig had finally come up with this idea after TNG ended, so it could have been adapted for DS9.
TNG Almost Did An Evil Chekov Episode While Koenig was working on his hallucination idea, story editor Naren Shankar was working on another Chekov episode for TNG's seventh and final season. This was a much darker story that would have given the TOS character a tragic backstory. In the unmade TNG episode, Chekov was a Federation ambassador who was helping to establish relations with a planet on which Chekov had previously been incarcerated as a prisoner of war.
Worf and Chekov would also have established a friendship based on their shared Russian upbringings and the stories Worf had heard of this legendary Starfleet Officer. The friendship between the two men would prove that, despite becoming a Starfleet traitor, Chekov was not irredeemable. Instead, he had lost his way, because his ordeal had made him bitter about being abandoned by Starfleet.
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