TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

That depends: does this include inside the transporter buffers?

According to Lumo:

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.

\frac{176,000,000\ \text{ft}^3}{3.75\ \text{ft}^3/\text{person}} \approx 46.9\ \text{million people}

If we use the lower bound of 3.5 ft³ per person:

\frac{176,000,000}{3.5} \approx 50.3\ \text{million people}

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.)

Somebody call Randall Munroe.

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!

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

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

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.

What do you mean? An African or European Worf?

At least 3, probably more.

More than three.

525,600 klingons

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.

How many can you compact into just the transporter pattern buffer? 🤔