Worf in "Picard"
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I searched the webs looking anything on this and only found two old message board conversations, except they attribute the idea to Brannon Braga, and both refer to as so to "make Cochrane a love interest for Picard," but that doesn't work either, because the proposed love interest for Picard in an earlier treatment was named "Ruby," a local photographer.
I'm guessing it was just some info that got mixed up and repeated a long time ago, and isn't actually true.
The character in Metamorphosis is essentially a blank slate, and even if there were more to him, he's separated from the events of the film by centuries, and several life changing events. There's really nothing for FC to even be able to contradict. And if Cochrane had been played by Tom Hanks as originally planned, we wouldn't even have the age issue to complain about.
Bleh. I just realized something I wish I hadn't. Zephram Cochrane makes an appearance in "Broken Bow" (ENT) through an archived video recording made 32 years earlier.
Link to "Broken Bow" script here.
Forrest: When Zefram Cochrane made his legendary warp flight ninety years ago, and drew the attention of our new friends, the Vulcans. We realised that we weren't alone in the galaxy. Today we're about to cross a new threshold. For nearly a century, we've waded ankle-deep in the ocean of space. Now it's finally time to swim. (applause) The warp five engine wouldn't be a reality without men like Doctor Cochrane and Henry Archer, who worked so hard to develop it. So it's only fitting that Henry's son, Jonathan Archer, will command the first starship powered by that engine. (applause as Archer and senior officers leave) Rather than quoting Doctor Cochrane, I think we should listen to his own words from the dedication ceremony for the Warp Five Complex thirty two years ago.
Cochrane (on screen): On this site, a powerful engine will be built. An engine that will someday help us travel a hundred times faster than we can today. (as the officers take their bridge stations) Imagine it. Thousands of inhabited planets at our fingertips. And we'll be able to explore those strange new worlds and seek out new life and new civilizations. This engine will let us go boldly where no man has gone before.
2151 - 32 years ago = 2119 - 87 years = Zephram Cochrane was born in 2032! And, of course, they didn't even bother to make him look any older than he did in FC. So he didn't really age much in the 56 years from 2063 to 2119.
Note to Revisionists who want to make it look like continuity was perfect until Discovery came along: you're wrong! It wasn't. It never was. Sometimes there were slip-ups. Sometimes there were intentional changes. Discovery is no different and Picard won't be any different either.
Link to "Broken Bow" script here.
Forrest: When Zefram Cochrane made his legendary warp flight ninety years ago, and drew the attention of our new friends, the Vulcans. We realised that we weren't alone in the galaxy. Today we're about to cross a new threshold. For nearly a century, we've waded ankle-deep in the ocean of space. Now it's finally time to swim. (applause) The warp five engine wouldn't be a reality without men like Doctor Cochrane and Henry Archer, who worked so hard to develop it. So it's only fitting that Henry's son, Jonathan Archer, will command the first starship powered by that engine. (applause as Archer and senior officers leave) Rather than quoting Doctor Cochrane, I think we should listen to his own words from the dedication ceremony for the Warp Five Complex thirty two years ago.
Cochrane (on screen): On this site, a powerful engine will be built. An engine that will someday help us travel a hundred times faster than we can today. (as the officers take their bridge stations) Imagine it. Thousands of inhabited planets at our fingertips. And we'll be able to explore those strange new worlds and seek out new life and new civilizations. This engine will let us go boldly where no man has gone before.
2151 - 32 years ago = 2119 - 87 years = Zephram Cochrane was born in 2032! And, of course, they didn't even bother to make him look any older than he did in FC. So he didn't really age much in the 56 years from 2063 to 2119.
Note to Revisionists who want to make it look like continuity was perfect until Discovery came along: you're wrong! It wasn't. It never was. Sometimes there were slip-ups. Sometimes there were intentional changes. Discovery is no different and Picard won't be any different either.
So why not call it something else and make it original, rather than pretending it's anything to do with the original show?
He probably ended up like that because of the war. I imagine his theoretical work took place mostly before the war, so...
Because it’s a reboot inspired by the original.
And it has several things in common with the original. A fleet of refugees from 12 colonies, running from killer robots trying to find earth.
My god you never give up do you?
Not worth it.
No, not really. ENT was pretty terrible.
Does Worf hang out with the Scattula?
He would end up with a Bakula sandwich if he tries
That just reminds me of a particular scene of Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay.
Wait a minute... what the Hell are we talking about? Back to Worf.
Worf kicks ass, takes names, and sends Drex Son of Martok running to his mommy and daddy. I hope to see him in Picard. But if not, no big deal. They already have a kick-ass lineup. And Dahj kicks ass literally.
I'm actually watching some of it now. It's on Fridays here; our former Space Channel runs various Star Trek series every weekday, with 3 cycles of 3-4 episodes each day. Interspersed with these are Xena: Warrior Princess and a couple of other series.
So I'm slowly catching up, although I have no idea which season is being shown right now and don't really care. It's something to have on in the background. I still think it's a ridiculous show, but there's not much else on unless I want a steady diet of PBS (that's weekend fare).
He looks quite different in "Broken Bow" than he did in FC. He's wearing heavy old age makeup.
That's actually the exact same way I watched ENT when I went through the series in 2010. Just on in the background. Some of it stood out. Most of it was kind of just there. I don't get what people who like the show see in it, but I also don't think it deserved the kind of hate it got way back when. I just feel indifferent.
See what I said above. Shows how much I paid attention to the series or remembered.
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Eventually we'll all run into that one Star Trek series we don't like. It happens. The trick is to not act like a constant, total jerk about it like some people do...
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But still better than <fill in the blank generic> police procedural of the day.
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