THE WORF CHRONICLES Exclusive: Michael Dorn Hopes CBS Will Pick Up His Script Focused On The Klingon Empire

THE WORF CHRONICLES Exclusive: Michael Dorn Hopes CBS Will Pick Up His Script Focused On The Klingon Empire

Having recently squashed the rumors that he would be involved in Picard, Worf actor Michael Dorn says he is hoping CBS will pick up The Chronicles of Worf instead. Find out more after the jump...

By LiteraryJoe - Jan 23, 2021 07:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Trek

Agent: Revelation is a new sci-fi film about aliens and super-soldiers, and was released yesterday on Digital. Starring in the movie is Michael Dorn, an actor best known for his legendary portrayal of Worf in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

While the actor has returned to the role in numerous Star Trek projects, the character of Worf has yet to be seen on Picard, the current series on CBS All Access. Rumors persisted for some time that there were plans to include him, but when we spoke with Dorn, he made it clear that he had never heard from the network at all.

Dorn seemed hesitant about returning for the role in Picard, but he isn't done with the character altogether. He has written and proposed a project called The Chronicles of Worf and has hopes that it could wind up as a potential companion piece to Stewart's Picard.

"I'm still hoping for Star Trek: The Worf Chronicles. A few years ago, I wrote a script, still sitting right over there about the Worf Chronicles, a show or a spinoff that is about Worf. And hopefully, people will talk to other people and get to CBS All Access, and maybe they'll do something about it someday.

I wrote this probably 10 or 12 years ago. And we got a lot of interest at one point, and then it waned, and then we got another lot of interest, and then it waned again. So, I haven't done much rewriting. It's been sitting there, and I think it's a great idea.

Instead of Starfleet looking at the Klingon empire, we are in the Klingon Empire looking at Starfleet. As you know, Klingons are very Shakespearian, very big. There are coups, and assassinations, and political intrigue, and all that stuff. And a lot of slicing and killing."

Hear all of this and more in the below clip from our chat with Dorn, and be sure to leave your thoughts in the usual spot. 

*This interview has been edited for clarity.*


 
Jim Yung, a rejected CIA analyst, has been exposed to an ancient 'dust' that transforms him into a super soldier that can communicate with aliens. When a secret organization works with him to discover why aliens have returned to Earth, the truth comes at a price.

Agent Revelation hit VOD yesterday.

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Desrow
Desrow - 1/23/2021, 7:24 AM
OFF:

R.I.P. Larry KING


SanFranLand
SanFranLand - 1/23/2021, 7:26 AM
Hell yeah. Worf!
ARMUS
ARMUS - 1/23/2021, 9:11 AM
I'd give a Klingon show a watch but it'd have to be the Viking like Klingons from the Roddenberry/Ronald D Moore era and not the watermelon head Klingons who dress like Queen Victoria and use magic crystals from the Kurtzman era, actually they better wait to make it until Kurtzman is gone.
ARMUS
ARMUS - 1/23/2021, 1:12 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - Agree completely.
dracula
dracula - 1/23/2021, 12:00 PM
If it happens, get Ronald Moore to showrun it. He made Worf cool, after he was just the guy for bad guys to beat up in TNG.
Mugens
Mugens - 1/23/2021, 12:33 PM
The thing about Dorn and not wanting to don the make-up, its really more of making it easier on him to wear. IF you remember before he agreed to come onto DS9 he requested that they do something about how long he was in the make up trailer. Evidently they were able to decrease the time enough so that he eventually did join the show. With the new techniques utilized these days, I'm sure the process to turn him into "Worf" would not be as onerous as it was in the 90's.

As for the "Discovery" era Klingon look, as much as I hated it and as ugly as it was since you only really saw it during the first season, very little at all during the second, and none during the 3rd, that is supposed to predate the TNG timeline so that should not be a factor going forward. At least one would hope.
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