For me anyhow, I think that is what makes his overall appearance seem different. EXPLAIN the differences within the canon. And I also agree for NEW fans it is easier if you start from the beginning and they dont have to worry about 3 centuries and 10 shows worth of canon to think about. As long as Star Trek is on the title, they will give it all a chance. By and large, people are not like this. Published Jun 14, 2020. I didnt mind the TCW concept, especially someone who likes time travel stories. It is distributed concurrently by Paramount Global Content Distribution on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories, and in Canada it airs on Bell Medias CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave. Picard streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S.A. Its a reason why Im happy Fuller is not there anymore, because I seriously doubt he wouldve changed anything even after the complaints. Our Privacy Notice has been updated to explain how we use cookies, which you accept by continuing to use this website. Frakes still holds the record on appearing on the most shows: DS9, VOY, ENT, PIC and LDS. Thats some kind of career jumping lol, The birthday collage above made me wonder: Is this new look the FIRST time weve seen Worfs ears? Hes on his own path. I was torn because I actually felt a little bad for him. I dont mind the TOS Klingons, but the DSC Klingons need to be wiped from history. Star Trek: Picard spoilers follow. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! Ill be happy if we never see DISCO Klingons again. Im pretty sure it was my feelings over Justice though. The museum itself is fun, and provides several nifty nostalgia hits. The older Alexander reveals that he has returned to prevent Worf's death after Alexander brought disgrace to their house by becoming a diplomat and pushing for peace. Star Trek legend Michael Dorn reflects on Worf's final act in Picard No one will ever pitch more complete games than Cy Young, no one will ever hold pro wrestlings highest title longer than Bruno Sammartino, and no one will ever make more appearances on Star Trek than Michael Dorn. He remains unfailingly truthful, loyal, and brave. Frakes . Star Trek Day interview with TrekMovie.com, An Alternate Captain Shaw Death Scene Was Filmed For Star Trek: Picard [UPDATED], Jonathan Frakes Talks Star Trek: Enterprise Regrets And Optimism For Legacy Spinoff, Watch The Home Of Star Trek Promo From Paramount+ Shown At Comic-Con, Podcast: All Access Assesses The Logic And The Laughs Of The Latest Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. (Also, the actors were all around Dorns age now but looked older). Because of Klingon warrior culture, Worf views his paralysis as tantamount to death and asks Commander Riker to assist him in Klingon ritual suicide. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), 2023 Macmillan | All stories, art, and posts are the copyright of their respective authors, Five Lesser-Known Sci-Fi Movies with Incredible Plot Twists, The Illegible and the Unchosen: Vajra Chandrasekeras. The closing moments of the series finale of Star Trek: Picard focused heavily on the legacy characters and their kids. To me, those Klingons will probably be one of the worst decisions they made in Star Trek and that is saying a lot. He is formally excommunicated from the Klingon Empire twice, and though both times he is eventually able to win back his citizenship, it takes a heavy toll on him. It would have been a fitting end for Jean-Luc Picard, sacrificing himself to prove to Soji and the synthetics what life is really about. Just more proof in my mind maybe no one should be making any prequels lol. Accordingly, a cast portrait released in June 1987 to promote the upcoming series did not include Worf. It's talk. Paramount+ QoSlIj DatIvjaj, Michael Dorn (today, December 9, 2023, marks the actor's 70th birthday)! I was under the impression that Michael Dorn was never gonna accept if the makeup looked liked Discovery Klingons. He really, really wants a new Green Lantern movie. Once the procedure is completed, Worf begins a long journey to recovery with Alexander's help. Warning: contains spoilers for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Dog of War #5!. Im crossing my fingers for next season though. Bro if Worf showed up looking like some Discovery/NuTrek freak of nature reject, I wouldve called out to all fans out there to find Kurtzmans car and burn it! I dont mind another prequel either because SNW is soooo good (but still prefer going forward)! They were just going to try to go for way to ambitious of a story stretched over way too long at a time when Trek was tiring itself out and on a network that was killing it self and they had way too many things going against it. And yet the Klingons we HAVE seen on the animated shows are the TOS films/Berman era Klingons again. Patrick Stewart Breaks Down 'Star Trek: Picard' Finale Shocker Its also a link between the two of them that might explain why the changelings are after Jack specifically. Its bad enough its another boring prequel but at least try to make it look and feel like it belongs in TOS. Picard smartly kept the focus on the personal dynamics between (now) Commander Ro and the fugitive retired admiral. One of the characters was Pai Mei, this martial arts killer, says Dorn. Now he can dodge ray guns.. ;D. I can honesty say I wouldnt have tuned in. He liked it so much he stayed there for 12 years, four of them as editor. I do want to see Klingons in the 32nd century, just as long as they are the real Klingons. There's a sort of cosmic rhyme to Picard becoming a synthetic himself. Im not some blind hater to all things NuTrek (wont lie though, pretty convinced I was going to to be after the first decade came and went. That was the problem. He seems notorious for being a control freak and doing everything his way and probably why he keeps bouncing from show to show. Riker, Worf, and Musiker beam over to Daystrom, using a workaround of the transport inhibitors that Ro left for them. By: TrekMovie.com Staff And then I finally watched it and yeah, immensely disappointed by the end. They are proof you can do what Star Trek fans want, differentbut the same. Riker is having serious trouble dealing with the new Zen Worf. As for Picard, season 3, it is still sticking to the contemporary format, ie, serialized story telling. And Picard has had more than a little experience with cybernetics apart from his artificial heart, he was also assimilated into the Borg collective in TNG, which made him partially cybernetic. Data wasn't the only android built by his creator: genius cyberneticist Dr. Noonian Soong (also portrayed by Brent Spiner). When Picard finally admitted to his crew that he was dying, the emotional outpouring took Picard and most of the crew themselves by surprise. Published Mar 23, 2023 LeVar Burton makes his return as Geordi La Forge, as Picard looks for allies who can help the crew of the Titan. Star Trek: Worf Is Finally Answering for His Crimes Against the Federation Well we saw how well that worked out lol. In actuality, no one parties harder than a band of Klingons after a glorious battle; Worf has simply never been invited. I love Enterprise today but to be fair its because with the exception of the cartoons and SNW I compare it to what we have today and in comparison it looks like Shakespeare lol. Plenty of Star Trek projects have attempted to recapture the magic of the original version of Khan (Ricardo Montalban) from Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan.Star Trek Into Darkness took that trend to its logical conclusion by reintroducing Khan himself in the Kelvin timeline, now played by Benedict Cumberbatch.Saddled with a ridiculous new backstory involving Section 31 and frozen people in . I mean Im pretty hard on it at times but I have defended it as many times as I criticized it. Im a 24th century fan first but would like it if they pushed it farther in the future with new characters and stories. (It was 1987, after all.) He doesnt look well over 100. Thats just silly. Wilford Brimley was playing a man with teenage grandchildren in his early 50s. And then Seven scrolls onto Voyager. Discovery just went way too far off the reservation for some fans and why the show has had the difficulty being accepted by a lot of them out of the gate. Its one of those things that validates the idea that you chose the right profession, Dorn says. Ive often said if it wasnt Star Trek, I would have thought of it as decent Sci Fi. I watched again a month ago! I know you dont like the new take on the Trek universe Picard has taken for the 2 seasons but personally i love both seasons and they are a worthy addition to the francise and to the history of TNG and VOY. So what?? I suggest you rewatch Blood Oath. When Worf and Raffi eventually teamed up, the two formed a fast friendship. And a new Worf action figure from Picard S3. Sure enough, in the show's second episode, Dr. Moritz Benayoun,Picard's chief medical officer on the USS Stargazer,confirms that Picard is almost fit to return to service except for the brain defect, which has degenerated to the point that Picard is living on borrowed time. Now its all about the past again (ie, nostalgia) and yeah, its mostly working. Not to split hairs and be that guy, but Worf didnt join the House of Martok at the start of season 4. Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered in 1987 with a feature-length pilot entitled "Encounter at Farpoint," but several of the elements introduced in that episode would prove to be only temporary. One of the things I really like about this season of Picard is that, while our heroes are definitely older, theyre not old. Further, Picard's experience will likely strengthen his relationship with Soji. . And then we later find out they dont even know who Future Guy is lol. Anyway, we all have our battles to fight; to open eyes and change minds. Soong built this older-looking version "with the wisdom and true human aesthetic of age. Its exactly why when Enterprise started, no one cared that they were sticking with the TOS films/TNG era Klingons because everyone understood this is what the Klingons simply were now. "Kirk's remains aren't skeletal. Currently unaffiliated with Starfleet, as a former Klingon Ambassador and current galactic legend, Starfleet has little power over Worf. People like Abrams and Fuller wanted to redesign the universe in their image, which is fine if people like it enough. But then I remembered all the times he said DS9 and VOY shouldnt even exist as shows so I had no sympathy for him because JJ trashed his show. Part of that is just that humans age better now than they used to thanks to modern medicine and a reduction in pollution and smoking, so (for example) Michael Dorn is in much better shape at age 71 in this season than James Doohan was at the same age in The Undiscovered Country. Most people who hated them didnt want the DIS Klingons wiped away completely so much as they wanted the classic Klingons acknowledged again. And yes, all in the same universe and in the 23rd, 24th, 25th centuries and beyond. It's called plot armor. My mother would be proud of me that I had a profession that Ive been at for the majority of my life. As her former intelligence handler, it means he also had access to her classified Starfleet file. Why change something that doesnt need to be changed? The same fan base that kept a franchise alive more than any other fan base in history ever has. They just didnt understand the fanbase they were talking to and now just a few years later those Klingons are all but wiped from existencefor now at least. In television as in sports some records are simply unbreakable. ;), That article proves why so many people working on that show were hacks. Image via Paramount+ With the sixth episode of Star. Im pretty sure Nimoy wouldve put his foot down if they gave his character such a drastic makeover after 40 years; even if Vulcans suddenly looked like Ferengis in the Kelvin universe. By the end of the episode, Doe has undergone the transformation fully and leaves the Enterprise-D to try and help his people. Anything else would be an insult. Yeah we still have hack Kurtzman leading it but at least he hired the right people who understands Star Trek finally. There's still a chance, however, that this is a misdirection, and that the head belongs to Lore. We get the answer this week, and its not what I expected at all. Doctor Crusher reluctantly agrees to help with the procedure, but during the surgery, Worf crashes and dies on the operating table. Star Trek Generations: Picard's Family Death Was Patrick Stewart's Idea And its probably farther than that. Sorry to hear you dont like it, but I think he looks really spiffy. Thats why I love LDS, it revels in that absurdity in a very clever way. ENT, Star Trek: Legacy, Star Trek: Picard, TNG, CBS/Paramount, DVD/Blu-ray/Streaming, Feature Films (TMP-NEM), Kelvin Universe, Star Trek Universe TV, Trek on TV, All Access Star Trek Podcast, Star Trek: Picard, Strange New Worlds. Now, Dorn has swapped his mekleth for a kurleth and glued on his bumpy prosthetic forehead once more to reprise the role of Worf in the final season of Star Trek: Picard, which reunites the Next Gen cast for one last adventure. Worf believes that Klingons dont laugh because he himself doesnt. He says back in the day he was using acrylics, now it airbrush. Dorm looks amazing in his black uniform and white hair. Picard season one was trying to be TNG: Logan and S2 was trying to be TNG: 12 Monkeys. I dont think I will watch season 2 ever again outside the first two episodes. Heres how it works. When he was a teenager Worf traveled to the Klingon homeworld and performed the Rite of Ascension to be able to take his place in Klingon society. You dont see anyone at Lucasfilm changing the look of Wookies or Jawas with their new Star Wars movies or TV shows just because they can. Luckily my Mom didnt mind. And I was a prequel haters too. STID managed to surpass both Threshold and TATV for me. Related: Star Trek: How Worf Became Enterprise Captain (& Why Starfleet Didn't Want Him). :). Star Trek: The Next Generation lit up his five year-old brain like a firework, ensuring hed be a progressive nerd for the rest of his life. The first season of "Picard" revealed that Data's consciousness had survived after all. They gave Worf white hair. You have to accept them for what they are, not only accept them but admire them, and all the negative stuff you leave behind.. But we know the Federation was around 8,000 light years wide in the 24th century. In Picard season 3 episode 6, "The Bounty," Riker, Worf and Raffi Musiker's away mission reunites them with an old friend, but how? But there it is. For reasons passing understanding, rather than take the one off Defiant, which is only a couple of decades old, they take the cloaking device thats more than a century old off the Bounty and install it on Titan. Other than time travel or a new Q coming in, I dont see a way of fixing it. Next: Star Trek: Picard Episode 8 Has The Best Scene Of The Series. In a bad place at the start of the season, what Worf did for Raffi in the finale helped her get her life back. Wow he looks great. Picard season one used some clever digital tricks to de-age actor Brent Spiner to look like he did in "The Next Generation" era, but the Data we see in "The Bounty" looks much older. Season 1 also set up her damaged family dynamic, setting the character on the path to making it right. So, she communicated with Raffi through Worf. Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Premiere Confirms Character's Off-Screen Death The problem with Discovery is its done a lot of loopy things even for Star Trek standards and when its all so serialized it stands out more versus a whacky episode you get on TOS or VOY that you can forget about in literally the next episode. But considering we now have 5 new TV shows, 4 of them takes place in known periods and one in the far future, I think they realized that A. Youre only going to get a certain number of new fans so kowtow to the old ones like you been doing for 50 years already and why we now have 50 legacy characters running around the new shows and B. that the Prime universe is what really keeps the fans invested BECAUSE of all that mythology and history you built up with it. Its bad enough to know he brought us such gems like white Khan, three year fratboy cadet turned starship Captain, MU Georgiou, incest Romulans, supernovas that can destroy the whole galaxy, more rando (and highly emotional) Spock siblings, warping from the Klingon neutral zone to Earth in 10 minutes, making Silly Tilly the XO and RoboCard. A weekly roundup of the best things from Polygon, By submitting your email, you agree to our, The final act of Worf, the Star Trek legend who deserved one most of all, Sign up for the And with that comes calm, and the ability to know that sometimes you dont have to kill. But ok lets see how it will appear in motion! And, finally, what did the changelings steal besides the portal weapon? But before too long, Picard is pulled back into the action. Again, people can try and convince themselves otherwise, but its not exactly a mystery why they have literally disappeared off Discovery since season 2 and has never made an appearance on Picard or SNW yet. How Worf Became Captain Of The USS Enterprise-E Before Star Trek: Picard . Why does he look so much older now? While Raffi may not have the fun of a swordfight anytime soon, she has a life that is full of much more love and connection than when the series began.
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