Michael Dorn on Worf’s Zen Evolution

While Worf was never the ever grumpy type of Klingon Star Trek– to give him that push and pull between him People’s warrior culture And his place within Starfleet – the version we met now PicardLast season Taking this to a whole new level. But while the move may surprise some fans, it’s been championed by the man behind Klingon for a long time.

Now that we’ve properly met Worf in PicardSeason 3 – After he came like the Klingon cavalry to save Ravi from him Suspicious situation last week—we get his image of more like a wandering monk than the brooding soldier he could be TNG And Nine depths of space. Meditate, drink chapAmomile tea, he will completely chop off your head if need be but he doesn’t really want to. Worf, in a galaxy of chaos, has found a quiet center for himself.

And it turned out to be Michael’s center Dorn wanted the character ever since he started vocally defending her Worf popup display years ago. “I wrote a screenplay or a pilot where he was part of the character Worf,” Dorn said recently. /film On the development of personality in Picard. “And part of that is that he came back to this planet, as a martial arts place, and they taught him about meditation and what the trait of a true warrior is. And he really went above and beyond in that area, because it aligns more with who he is and his journey.”

Like I said, Worf is clearly still capable of harming people when necessary, but the evolution makes him incredibly frustrating Michel Hurd Raffy—a character defined much by her extreme recklessness and rage. “I told the producers, ‘Yeah, he’s still very dangerous, but he tempered that so wisely that his meditation and his teachings kind of added to his character,’ Dorn continued. ‘And they were very good at it.’”

It’s great to see that Dorn’s ideas for Worf over the years have finally made their long way to TV, just as he’s always wanted – and perhaps appropriately giving himself a sense of peace, lot in personal method He has too is found.

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