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Sunday, November 03, 2013

Star Trek: a Worf TV Show? (Some Thoughts)

A few weeks ago, the Huffington Post released an interview with Wil Wheaton and Michael Dorn, who played Wesley Crusher and Worf (respectively) on Star Trek:  the Next Generation.  I recommend reading the whole thing, but for now, I'm only concerned with one quote from Dorn:
Business things got in the way in terms of the JJ Abrams movie coming out and CBS/Paramount and their relationship with JJ Abrams. I don't think they wanted to step on his toes by putting a new series on, but it's not dead yet. I've finished the script and hopefully someone will take a look at this and say "we can do this."
Basically, we're not that far off from seeing a Captain Worf TV show.  Let me say that again:  a Captain Worf TV show.  By "not far off," of course, I don't mean "next year."  This is Hollywood, after all, and even getting into talks with the studios still means you're about as far from production as we are from going to Mars.  Still, in production terms, that's a lot closer than "I've got the rights" or "I wrote something" or "someone answered my phone call."  In other words, yeah, we're really not that far off from a possible show.

The big questions are these: