Michael Dorn Confirms He’s Working on a ‘Star Trek: Captain Worf’ TV Series
Possibly a GOOD Star Trek series again? Oh man, I hope so!
Possibly a GOOD Star Trek series again? Oh man, I hope so!
Star Trek: Captain Worf
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Shush you!
At least you did not ask for the Kes Chronicles...[DOUBLEPOST=1346771695][/DOUBLEPOST]or Star Trek: Westley Has All the Powers in the Universe
At least you did not ask for the Kes Chronicles...[DOUBLEPOST=1346771695][/DOUBLEPOST]or Star Trek: Westley Has All the Powers in the Universe
Honestly Worf is the only one out of the original cast that could revisit his character and not look too weird or too old. Because he has all that make up to hide his age.
Well, beside Picard (except for being bald at 20 Stewart has some good genes and health habits.)
Well, beside Picard (except for being bald at 20 Stewart has some good genes and health habits.)
I doubt this will come of anything but...I could see it working, though I find myself skeptical. You'd need a very strong supporting cast to make it work, simply because the character of Worf is inherently somewhat...prickly. I think one good way to mitigate that would be to bring back Wesley Crush -HOLD ON WAIT PLEASE STOP PUNCHING ME! Allow me to explain! Here we have a character who was written as a huge Mary Sue back in the day, to the point of quitting Starfleet Academy at 22 in order to fulfill a "higher destiny". However, we next see him again at age 31 as an apparent Lieutenant Junior Grade in Starfleet.
Now let's forget for a minute the expanded universe explanation for why that happened, let's take it at face value. Here we have this character who was one of the most promising Starfleet cadets in history, an ensign aboard the fleet's flagship before even his first day at the academy. He subsequently quit Starfleet to go fulfill some kind of higher purpose than they could offer him...only to end up back in Starfleet in less than ten years. What happened? Possibilities:
Now let's forget for a minute the expanded universe explanation for why that happened, let's take it at face value. Here we have this character who was one of the most promising Starfleet cadets in history, an ensign aboard the fleet's flagship before even his first day at the academy. He subsequently quit Starfleet to go fulfill some kind of higher purpose than they could offer him...only to end up back in Starfleet in less than ten years. What happened? Possibilities:
- He did whatever it was he was supposed to do, and The Traveler dropped his ass back on Earth. Having gone places no man had gone before, done things beyond your average officer's ken, he now had to get back on with a normal life.
- He couldn't cut it. After a couple of years away from everything he knew, he broke down and came back. Whatever cosmic potential he had, he left it behind.
- The Traveler lied to him, ripping Wesley away from all he knew because The Traveler was lonely.
Not bad, that could really work. You would need to have some people for Worf to be prickly with/toward though. Half the fun is calming Worf down, or preventing Worf from creating an interplanetary incident, or explaining some incredibly complex ritual that Worf has to go through and watching the rest of the crew and/or random passersby get caught up in the ritual.
And with a series led by Worf, we would get a chance to find out what happened to a lot of our favorite characters from past shows. Like did Sisko ever come back to visit his family once in a while? How have the crew members of Voyager settled in since returning to Federation space? Things of that nature.
It all depends as well on what age we're talking about. What's the last time we saw Worf on DS9?
Putting aside that he was some sort of ambassadorial thing and had a more prominent position than just captain (coming back as something like Picard would probably be possible, commanding a "regular" ship would be a pretty fierce step back, really), this series could be placed 20 or so years in the future. TOS -> TNG was a huge gap with new technology, new habits, new power relations, new look. Another jump ahead, albeit smaller, might do the series good.
I don't see how Worf could ever properly work as any sort of "ambassador" for the UFoP as a Klingon, though. I love Worf, but this series seems like a good idea only before you start thinking about it, to me.
There's d be a fuckton of backstory to convey, both in regards to TNG as to DS9 - family, relations, power balance, character,.... I can see it now: Borg and Changelings turn out to be the same race separated by Time Travel (tm), Worf has to go back in time to prevent all this from happening, etc etc. Last couple of years of Star Trek have only spoiled what came before....
(Yes, I'm in the camp of Trek fans who prefer to pretend Enterprise doesn't exist as a show
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Putting aside that he was some sort of ambassadorial thing and had a more prominent position than just captain (coming back as something like Picard would probably be possible, commanding a "regular" ship would be a pretty fierce step back, really), this series could be placed 20 or so years in the future. TOS -> TNG was a huge gap with new technology, new habits, new power relations, new look. Another jump ahead, albeit smaller, might do the series good.
I don't see how Worf could ever properly work as any sort of "ambassador" for the UFoP as a Klingon, though. I love Worf, but this series seems like a good idea only before you start thinking about it, to me.
There's d be a fuckton of backstory to convey, both in regards to TNG as to DS9 - family, relations, power balance, character,.... I can see it now: Borg and Changelings turn out to be the same race separated by Time Travel (tm), Worf has to go back in time to prevent all this from happening, etc etc. Last couple of years of Star Trek have only spoiled what came before....
(Yes, I'm in the camp of Trek fans who prefer to pretend Enterprise doesn't exist as a show
)Well, it would be a huge shift in the overall universe, but one of the best ways to bring Worf back into the Starfleet fold would be to have the Klingon Empire officially join The Federation. Worf gets dragged back into Starfleet to captain the first ship off the line of combined Starfleet/Klingon design. Essentially, he's forced into the role of shining example during the change over. The drawback, of course, is that you'd have to pay for a lot of rubber foreheads.
Such is how it goes. Comics, video games, and novels are canon...until a film or TV series decides they're not.
Almost. There's been public statements in the past that all Star Trek novels are not canon. They may jive with it, but until something is mentioned in a TV series or movie about an event, anything in a novel is not canon explicitly.
No, this what happens in the original universe after Romulus gets destroyed and Spock & Nero get sent to an alternate past.
Last I heard, Sisko is still in the Wormhole as of Star Trek Online. But as always, TV and film are the most canonical.
I would almost think that the series would be more interesting if it was about Worf captaining a KLINGON ship. And yeah, there is NO way the Klingon Empire would ever join the Federation.
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Oh, you never know... Maybe Chancellor Martok and Worf got together, had some Rokeg blood pie and a few too many pin... err, bottl... ohwhatthehell, barrels of blood wine.
And the next morning: "I signed WHAT?!"
He has a railroad to run, Mr. Gusto.
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