New Star Trek Series based on Mr. Worf

[Dryson]

http://whatculture.com/tv/star-trek-new-series-10-reasons-it-should-be-captain-worf.php

I think the name of the series should be Star Trek : Lost Empires or Star Trek : Defiant.

In addition, interest in what would essentially be tantamount to a TV remake of TOS (The Original Series) would likely wane over the long term. Fans have already seen what happens when Kirk and Spock venture out to explore strange new worlds, so it is probably better to get on with telling fresh, new stories (albeit with an established character at the helm).
It would also be better for the series to develop new characters and scenarios for a new show than it would be to try to re-create the big-budget feel of the Abrams-verse on the small screen.

Taking the Trek fans into the world of the Klingons more than TNG did would be rather interesting to say the least where we would learn more of the Klingon Empire's history through the eye's of an aging Mr. Worf who recants the history of the Klingon Empire to young Klingons and other Federation members.

 

[BillJ]

No thanks.

Star Trek, for me, is most interesting when it focuses on Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise. With a reboot, you can tell any story you like and their futures are once again wide open. Plus, there is less Star Trek featuring Kirk and Spock than there is featuring Worf.

 

[BigJake]

I wasn't delighted to see Worf brought on as stunt casting for DS9 and all due respect to Michael Dorn, I don't want to see a "Captain Worf" series.

The most simple reason is that Klingon goofiness was one of the things I came to like least about BermagaTrek as it progressed, and Worf embodies it. Also, much as I'm reassured that the Prime Timeline continues uninterrupted by the commercially-successful but artistically-dubious reboot, I'm not that keen to return to it.

I don't much care if it's Kirk and Spock, personally, and I don't envy any production that's required to reconcile the over-the-top silliness of JJTrek, but I'd be much more interested in seeing a new series that just cold rebooted the whole premise. After the Orci film, depending on Considerations, I think it might even be possible. We'll see.

 

[BillJ]

I wasn't delighted to see Worf brought on as stunt casting for DS9 and all due respect to Michael Dorn, I don't want to see a "Captain Worf" series.

It doesn't help that Worf is the single most utilized character in the history of the franchise. Quite frankly, I'm sick of seeing him.

After the Orci film, depending on Considerations, I think it might even be possible. We'll see.

I'm thinking there will be a reboot either way if the production agreements between Paramount and Bad Robot expire after the third film. Plus there seems to be some stress between the two companies. Unless it does quite a bit better financially than the previous two.

Money heals all wounds.

 

[BigJake]

True dat.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

No.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Not interested. Fortunately, this idea hasn't a chance of making it to the screen, except in Fan Film form.

 

[AirCommodore]

I think TNG is done. Michael Dorn is 61 and any chance for TNG offshoots is passed. I think a USS Titan show with Captain Riker would have had a much better chance of being made and being successful than any Worf idea. But the time for that was right after the last movies and the cancellation of Enterprise. It's now nearly another decade past. If they passed on Titan then, it wont be back now, let alone a Worf show.

If we ever see the 2390's in Prime Timeline again it will be something quite different, with lots of new characters, even while including some of the aging characters of past. The Next Generation is rapidly becoming the pensioner/AARP/Adult diapers generation. They had 15 years from '87 to '02. It was a good run. God bless them, but it's time to say good night. All good things....

 

[VST]

To think this would ever happen is just naive really, from a practical production standpoint.

TV series often survive on names, both in front of & behind the camera (or they make names of fresh talent). Michael Dorn is known only to a sci-fi subculture, he's not a major TV or movie star; he's also not a young man & like it or not, networks want to appeal much more to youth than the middle-aged Trek fanbase who loved Worf on TV. It wouldn't be a good series idea anyway but, practically, it'd never happen outside of - as has been said - a fan made production.

 

[AirCommodore]

The idea of a show with TNG/DS9/VOY members with some new people was an idea you could talk about 10 or 12 years ago. And a lot of people did talk about that back then. But now it's a little too late. Denise Crosby and Levar Burton were the youngest adult cast members of TNG and they are 56 and 57 yo now. DS9 went off the air 15 years ago, and the average age of its cast is 57. As far as VOY s concerned, even Garret Wang is 45. He should be a Captain by now. It's just not going to happen. Not just for age reasons. It's time for a new generation in the PrimeVerse, with some of the older characters making appearances.

 

[Dukhat]

http://whatculture.com/tv/star-trek-new-series-10-reasons-it-should-be-captain-worf.php

I think the name of the series should be Star Trek : Lost Empires or Star Trek : Defiant.

So after actually reading that article (10 reasons why a series about Worf would be "awesome"), several of those 10 reasons have nothing to do with Worf's character at all, and the other reasons could work just as equally well (if not better) with a character like Spock.

Either way, this will not be happening.

 

[Melakon]

I always thought Worf was a stupid name because it sounds like a place to tie up boats.

 

[SPCTRE]

I love TNG, and I love Michael Dorn, but TNG is dead. Hell will literally freeze over before this happens.

 

[Ryan8bit]

I like Worf and everything, but he's had enough time. Same with Kirk, Spock, Picard, Data, etc. Bring on some new characters.

 

[surak-toc]

A andorian main would surfice

 

[BillJ]

A andorian main would surfice

I'm more interested in the "human adventure".

 

[2takesfrakes]

Yes! As am I. More Humans in STAR TREK and less rubber heads and CG Images whose feet never seem to actually make contact with the ground.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Part of the mystique of Mr. Spock was that he was the only alien, the outsider, on a ship full of humans. He doesn't seem alien anymore when he's standing next to freaky-looking CG creatures.

I think TNG is done. Michael Dorn is 61 and any chance for TNG offshoots is passed.

DS9, VOY, ENT, and the TNG movies were all TNG offshoots. How many more do we need?

 

[VST]

While I do agree about the human adventure element, does it not make more sense that as the years progress in Trek, it more becomes the 'humanoid' adventure?

As in the Federation is growing, much like many forward thinking nations of our time becoming ever more multicultural, and as a result crews are now a mesh of all kinds of colours & creeds. Surely it feels *less* representative of what Starfleet is if their galaxy hopping crews in the 25th century & beyond are mainly human.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

While I do agree about the human adventure element, does it not make more sense that as the years progress in Trek, it more becomes the 'humanoid' adventure?

As in the Federation is growing, much like many forward thinking nations of our time becoming ever more multicultural, and as a result crews are now a mesh of all kinds of colours & creeds. Surely it feels *less* representative of what Starfleet is if their galaxy hopping crews in the 25th century & beyond are mainly human.

The audience is still only human, though. The question is, what will the audience be able to connect with profoundly enough in order to have a successful show. Worf isn't going to cut the mustard.

I doubt even Spock could pull it off. As popular as Spock has always been, he's still always needed to be framed by his relationship with Kirk.