By Chris Snellgrove
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There is a fair argument that no character from Star Trek has never grown more than Worf, who started The next generation As Flunkie and ended the show as a security chief whose decisions affected the whole Klingon Empire. Later, he was transferred to Deep Space Neuf and ended up getting married before playing an essential role in the events that saved the entire Dominion Federation. Ironically, however, the actor of Worf Michael Dorn hated the script of “The Enemy” because this TNG episode launched its development as a subsequent character by emphasizing how brutally the Klingons can be.
Michael Dorn did not like “the enemy”
If you have not watched the episode for a while, here is what you should know: Dr Crusher tries to save a dying Romula and discover that Worf is the only suitable blood that this foreigner enemy needs to live. However, Pass Always hate the Romulians for having killed his father and shocked the public and the other characters by refusing to make a donation, which has become a questionable point when the Romulian refused the treatment and crunched. Originally, Michael Dorn hated the script “the enemy” because he thought that making a donation to the enemy “was the honorable thing to do” and worried that people would consider Worf as a murderer “.
As recorded in Captain newspapers: Trek trips unauthorizedMichael Dorn initially disagreed with writers and producers behind “the enemy”. He was specifically bored by the way “the producers felt that worf became too human … Just a guy with a big head” and how they jumped on the “wonderful opportunity” to show that the Klingon “is not linked by the same moral as us”. As mentioned earlier, Dorn feared that the public to look at home to be turned upside down by the fact that his character is a dishonorable murderer serving on a ship full of starfleet Goody Goodies.
Normally, we differ a Star Trek An actor with regard to their character … like, who, who devilled could better understand Worf than Dorn, who played the character through three different programs and four different films in the franchise? In this case, however, producers were completely Correct: the whole attraction of worf is that he No human, allowing us to see various situations and characters through his own stranger eyes. Michael Dorn may have had his doubts, but Worf’s will to let a Romulian die in “the enemy” is completely consistent with Klingon’s culture and values ​​and gives us a great overview of this warrior race.
And for those of you who are about to attack us with your Bat’LETH aftershocks, you should know that the actor agrees with this evaluation after the exit of the episode. Michael Dorn finally admitted that “the enemy” did an excellent job to show us the different sides of Worf. Of course, he can like to drink prune juice and make the eyes of the moon against the stupid advisor, but at the end of the day, his character is too happy to let a Romulien die rather than to sink by giving blood to an enemy.
If we were to guess, Michael Dorn probably came to appreciate “the enemy” because it was the first really great episode to plunge into the culture of the Klingons, a race that had been bad guys to a note The original series. Later in this same season, we would have a scenario of Klingon Charnu on the father of Worf who sets up an entire arc for our favorite security chief and finally leads to a civil war in Klingon. We may never have had any of these beautiful stories, however, if the Tng Writers and producers did not put themselves in four to show how foreigner could be.
