American actor (1939–2022), known for Goodfellas and Law and Order, who played Worf's human foster brother Nikolai Rozhenko in the seventh-season episode Homeward.
Paul Sorvino was an American actor, born in 1939, remembered as the mob boss Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas and as Sergeant Phil Cerreta in Law and Order. He was also a trained opera singer.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation he guest stars in the seventh-season episode Homeward, first shown in 1994. He plays Nikolai Rozhenko, the son of the couple who adopted Worf, now a cultural observer on Boraal II. With the planet's atmosphere about to fail, Nikolai defies the Prime Directive and secretly beams a village into a holodeck aboard the Enterprise, forcing Worf and Picard to help him resettle them.
Sorvino died in 2022.