The Unproduced Star Trek Subsequent Era Spinoff That Influenced Picard Season 3

Picard‘s Worf, whom actor Michael Dorn compares to fictional Shaolin martial arts grasp Pai Mei, has truly been years within the making. In actual fact, Worf’s evolution goes all the best way again to a Star Trek spinoff pilot Dorn wrote and pitched for his character that by no means obtained made.

“I had written a screenplay or pilot the place it was a spin-off of the Worf character,” Dorn advised Slashfilm. “And a part of that was he has gone again to this planet, like a martial arts place, they usually taught him about meditation and what’s the mark of a real warrior.” Nevertheless, Dorn additionally advised Trek Film that regardless of utilizing that plot level, Picard season three represents a big divergence from the remainder of his concepts for a Worf solo sequence.

“Apparently sufficient, what I envisioned was fairly completely different than what we have now seen,” Dorn defined. “And so I must return and actually rework that entire pilot that I pitched.” In actual fact, he went onto say that primarily based on season three plot particulars he can’t but reveal, “they must throw out my concept, or my script, and type of like go off of what they’ve written up to now.”

When speaking to Trek Film in 2021, Dorn truly outlined simply how completely different his unproduced screenplay was from what we’re now watching on Picard season 3. Intriguingly, the script would have seen Worf attempting to save lots of the dwindling Klingon Empire from extinction.

“Mainly, the script I wrote was: As a substitute of trying on the Klingon Empire from Starfleet, we have a look at Starfleet from the Klingon Empire. And it has been happening for many years, the Klingon Empire simply can’t go on,” Dorn mentioned on the time. “It’s the Russians, mainly. They usually determine that they must both die with a sword of their fingers and go extinct, or change with the occasions and turn out to be one thing completely different. And Worf is the man that claims, ‘We now have to alter with the occasions, that’s the mark of a warrior.’”

In response to Dorn, the present would have seen Worf visiting completely different planets and societies throughout the the Empire as a type of diplomat throughout a time of nice upheaval in Klingon society.