Why "Worf"?
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I would never offer a speculation as though it were fact. I recall reading it somewhere, though I can't find a reference to it now.
But it's kind of an old joke in fiction, like naming dentists Dr. Payne.
Crusher is a real surname, albeit not a common one. It never seemed strange to me, but then, I had a high school classmate named Tom Crush, and our county had a judge named Thomas Crush (I don't recall if they were related).
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Anything is better than the endless string of accented/apostrophized names we got as the franchise wore on.
Not sure I get it. A dentist named Payne or a lawyer named Crook are funny because those words are associated with those professions. Crushing things, even bones aren't something I associate with medicine. Maybe if she was Dr. Sawyer or Cutter.
Pharmacists aren't real doctors.
That did cross my mind, but was stuck on bone crushing.
The question I find myself asking more often is "Why Worf ... and Deanna?"
They didn't even have that many scenes together, as I recall. I always suspected that Michael and Marina pushed for this relationship so that they could have more scenes together, but that's not how it worked out. It just never made sense, it's always seemed kind of "slashy" to me, actually. That whole "Beauty & the Beast" thing ...
They didn't even have that many scenes together, as I recall. I always suspected that Michael and Marina pushed for this relationship so that they could have more scenes together, but that's not how it worked out. It just never made sense, it's always seemed kind of "slashy" to me, actually. That whole "Beauty & the Beast" thing ...
more precisely, in the novel a Klingon child's name may begin with any letter but when beginning their life's career, they change the first letter, those joining the imperial navy change the first letter to a "K" those in the Imperial Marines an "M" scientists, administrators and other similar jobs use an "A" as they grow in social status the honorific preceding the family name changes
The original idea was that Worf and Troi had a relationship in one of those alternate universes when he was skipping around them. After that, someone (I'd guess Braga) decided that for some reason they quickly needed to form a relationship before the show ended, even though for the last 7 years they'd shown zero interest in each other. Same thing happened with that Chakotay/Seven of Nine nonsense in VOY.
Why didn't Rodenberry want a Klingon on board? I thought it would have fitted with his vision of the future?
I'm under the impression that Gene wanted to distance TNG from TOS and one way to do that was to avoid using the same aliens. Had Nick Meyer not been so brazen and needlesome with his approach towards the STAR TREK movies in front of Roddenberry AND had the studio not been so enamoured with it, then I suspect that Gene would've probably lightened up about such things. The Original Series movies were out of his hands, now, which emboldened him to create a series which was as different as possible to it. And setting TNG nearly a century afterwards, this approach probably helped that alot, too. But yeah, Harve & Nick Meyer's always dissing him seems to have given Gene a TOS complex ...
I think it was also that Roddenberry at that stage in his life wanted to distance himself from things created by others and emphasize his own new creations. He'd gotten insecure about the things that had been added to the franchise by other people and didn't reflect his own view of Trek -- Harve Bennett's movies, Diane Duane's novels -- and it seems to me that that led him to want to downplay or ignore stuff that anyone else had created, even his collaborators from the original series. E.g. trying to decanonize the animated series, which was mainly D.C. Fontana's show -- even though Roddenberry himself had been granted complete creative control over TAS and had voluntarily entrusted it to Fontana.
And the Klingons were created by Gene L. Coon, while the Romulans were created by Paul Schneider. So maybe Roddenberry didn't want to use them because they weren't his. He wanted to create his own baddies, like Q and the Ferengi. And we all know how well the Ferengi worked out as archvillains...
I read somewhere that the reason Roddenberry wanted to avoid reusing TOS elements was so that he could create a series that he, rather than Paramount, would own. But I'm not sure that makes sense, because if he made it a Star Trek series at all, then it would still belong to Paramount. So maybe whoever said that misreported it. Roddenberry's judgment was severely compromised by drugs and illness at the time, but I doubt he was so far gone as to have forgotten how trademark law works. Which is why I suspect it was more about a personal sense of ownership.
And the Klingons were created by Gene L. Coon, while the Romulans were created by Paul Schneider. So maybe Roddenberry didn't want to use them because they weren't his. He wanted to create his own baddies, like Q and the Ferengi. And we all know how well the Ferengi worked out as archvillains...
I read somewhere that the reason Roddenberry wanted to avoid reusing TOS elements was so that he could create a series that he, rather than Paramount, would own. But I'm not sure that makes sense, because if he made it a Star Trek series at all, then it would still belong to Paramount. So maybe whoever said that misreported it. Roddenberry's judgment was severely compromised by drugs and illness at the time, but I doubt he was so far gone as to have forgotten how trademark law works. Which is why I suspect it was more about a personal sense of ownership.
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