Worf in the TNG movies.

[WarsTrek1993]

Okay, I've just a few weeks ago watched all 11 Star Trek movies in order again, and have to ask, what do you think of Word being in FC, INS, and NEM?

Honestly, I don't think he should've been in those movies very long, a few minutes at most. After all, isn't he supposed to be on Deep Space Nine?

FC makes some sense (the Defiant), and it made sense to have him at the beginning of NEM (for the wedding).

But for the rest of the films, he should've been absent. Thoughts?

 

[Alrik]

This has been covered many times, but the only one that is really iffy is INS. FC, valid. Rescued by Enterprise. NEM, valid. Catching a ride to Betazed on Enterprise for the second wedding. INS...not so much.

 

[WarsTrek1993]

Alrik, agreed totally with INS. For that matter, shouldn't the Enterprise-E crew have been fighting in the Dominion War at that time?

 

[Mr Silver]

With Worf's appearance in INS, it gave them an opportunity to insert a little gag. When Picard asks what Worf is doing onboard, he doesn't get the opportunity to answer! For all we know, he could simply have been representing DS9 at the first contact ceremony.

 

[KarmicCurse]

I had been wondering what excuse they would find to have Worf back, and I thought it was brilliant that a reason was given, but we were just not privy to it. I remember thinking "okay I'll accept that dodge".

 

[Jon1701]

The reason doesn't really matter IMO. Worf was in TNG. He needed to be in the movies. Worf and Picard has dialogue - you can read it in the script (scene 28), but Geordi and & Riker talk over the top of it. Clearly the lines were meant to run concurrently, so it shows that the powers that be were not really that bothered about it.


They had to cut out the lines about Jadzia being a challenge, for obvious reasons...

 

[RoJoHen]

I just like to pretend that Star Trek is really "the story of Worf." The Enterprise was off having lots of crazy adventures without him, but we only get to see the occasions where he ends up back on the ship.

 

[Dr. Crusher]

Because of Worf's inclusion on DS9 and his history there, it certainly doesn't make much sense to include him much in the TNG films. However, the script writers were probably well aware that Worf was one of the more well-known TNG characters, probably because he WAS on two series, and they knew they had to write him in there both to complete the original TNG crew and to attract fans of the show and of the Klingon aspect of the show in particular.

 

[RoJoHen]

It makes just as much sense to include Worf as it does to leave him out. After Worf joins DS9, we see him on the Enterprise three times in, what, 6 years? Have you never visited your old co-workers after moving on to a different job? It's not like he was on the Enterprise all the time.

 

[cblmc1296]

Not knowing a whole lot about how Hollywood movie contracts work, this is really just a guess but I imagine Michael Dorn (having been a TNG series regular for all seven seasons) had some agreement with the studio that he would appear in any/all TNG films.

BTW, as I understand it from what dialog I can remember, in INS Worf was on his way to the "Manzar Conference" or some such thing and that gave him an opportunity to pay a visit to his old shipmates.

 

[Iamnotspock]

The reason doesn't really matter IMO. Worf was in TNG. He needed to be in the movies. Worf and Picard has dialogue - you can read it in the script (scene 28)

You can hear it fairly clearly in the movie too, if you listen for it. The gag works of course, because they're deliberately not placing an emphasis on Worf's reason, but it is there.

 

[horatio83]

Okay, I've just a few weeks ago watched all 11 Star Trek movies in order again, and have to ask, what do you think of Word being in FC, INS, and NEM?

Honestly, I don't think he should've been in those movies very long, a few minutes at most. After all, isn't he supposed to be on Deep Space Nine?

FC makes some sense (the Defiant), and it made sense to have him at the beginning of NEM (for the wedding).

But for the rest of the films, he should've been absent. Thoughts?

Dramatic necessities always weigh much more than continuity.

 

[Therin of Andor]

IIRC, Michael Dorn's DS9 contract specified that his participation in TNG movies would not be affected. Worf was also a very popular character. Many fans of TNG movies weren't watching DS9 on TV, so their expectation was that Worf would be in each TNG movie.