News The Worf Comedy thread

[F. King Daniel]

Most "out there" thing from
Kurtzman's contract extension is news they're toying with the idea of a Worf comedy series starring Michael Dorn.

This coming years after Michael Dorn's pitching of a badass Worf flying around kicking space terrorist's asses series.

Personally, that At Home With the Rikers idea Frakes once pitches sounds more fun to me, but that's cos I've always found a lot of Worf/Klingon stuff to be cringe TV. What are everyone else's thoughts? And would/should it be live action or animated?

 

[Cyrus]

They did get a lot of comedy out of Worf in TNG and DS9 so I see the potential.

The Worf bachelor party episode on DS9 was hilarious. Also funny was Worf delivering Keiko's baby, his reaction when he heard Keiko was pregnant again, Worf taking care of Data's cat,etc

 

[fireproof78]

Prefer no Worf. His comedy was very limited and difficult to do over a series.

I hope for a Starfleet Academy show, a Frontier colony show, and a JAG show.

 

[Roald]

It could definitely work! Michael Dorn can be very funny, and with a cast of characters that are very different to him it could be an ingenious idea. A bit like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, where Michael Dorn could be the Raymond Holt of a group of characters. I see potential!

 

[casey]

Prefer no Worf. His comedy was very limited and difficult to do over a series.

I hope for a Starfleet Academy show, a Frontier colony show, and a JAG show.

I like the idea of branching out to genres like that. I've often said both a JAG show and a Medical Procedural would have so much potential.

 

[Kelso]

I would LOVE a Worf comedy series.

Just have Alexander dump his own kids on grandpa Worf the way Worf dumped Alexander on his own parents.

 

[StarMan]

This news is about 4 months late, isn't it?

 

[The Wormhole]

I like the idea of branching out to genres like that. I've often said both a JAG show and a Medical Procedural would have so much potential.

Honestly, a Starfleet JAG, Starfleet Medical or even a Starfleet version of NCIS which I often see get suggested just feel too niche to be shows. And I can't help but notice, while the novels have done every possible twist for the Star Trek universe including West Wing style novels about the Federation government, a series set aboard a Klingon ship, legal drama with Sam Cogley, and time travel adventures with the DTI, they've never touched those subject must mean something.

Okay, while writing this I realized the Sam Cogley story probably isn't too different from a Starfleet JAG show, but the point stands for the others.

 

[Dukhat]

I have about as much interest in watching a Worf series, comedy or not, as I did about a Section 31 series. That is, absolutely none. Ditto a Sulu series, Riker series, etc.

Seriously, there are about 20 better ideas for a new Trek series than that. They already made a series about Picard that I thought was crap. No more, please.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Honestly, a Starfleet JAG, Starfleet Medical or even a Starfleet version of NCIS which I often see get suggested just feel too niche to be shows. And I can't help but notice, while the novels have done every possible twist for the Star Trek universe including West Wing style novels about the Federation government, a series set aboard a Klingon ship, legal drama with Sam Cogley, and time travel adventures with the DTI, they've never touched those subject must mean something.

Okay, while writing this I realized the Sam Cogley story probably isn't too different from a Starfleet JAG show, but the point stands for the others.

Set it on a Starbase and do all all of them on the same show.

 

[Quinton]

If Wagner's pitch and Dorn's vision(TM) met halfway, I'd bet we'd have either a terrific show or a terrible one. I'd take those odds.

 

[fireproof78]

Honestly, a Starfleet JAG, Starfleet Medical or even a Starfleet version of NCIS which I often see get suggested just feel too niche to be shows. And I can't help but notice, while the novels have done every possible twist for the Star Trek universe including West Wing style novels about the Federation government, a series set aboard a Klingon ship, legal drama with Sam Cogley, and time travel adventures with the DTI, they've never touched those subject must mean something.

Okay, while writing this I realized the Sam Cogley story probably isn't too different from a Starfleet JAG show, but the point stands for the others.

Medical is harder to do, in my opinion, just because it is both so niche and you have to come up with some pretty terrible diseases to counter the future tech. JAG is probably a similar niche style but I think it could be interesting from the investigative side.

Honestly, I would just take a starbase show that is dealing ships coming in constantly with various crises of the week, when we usually only see the Enterprise point of view.

 

[DarKush]

Not a fan of a Worf comedy idea. I would rather see some version of Michael Dorn's Captain Worf pitch, sans comedy.

 

[The Wormhole]

Just have Alexander dump his own kids on grandpa Worf the way Worf dumped Alexander on his own parents.

Ooh, I got it. After getting a medical discharge from Starfleet, Worf moves in with Alexander, who is now married and has kids of his own. It's basically your typical sitcom family fare, with Worf as the grumpy grandpa always giving lectures about honor nobody listens to.

Set it on a Starbase and do all all of them on the same show.

Okay, I suppose that idea has merit.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Okay, I suppose that idea has merit.

Get Dick Wolf to produce.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Are we jumping the gun in assuming that the series will be a comedy per se? The quote in the linked article describes the pitched concept as "incredibly funny, poignant and touching". A story/series can have humor without being in a comedy format, as all existing Trek has to some extent.

But I can't read the original NYT source, which might go into more detail, without a login.

 

[FredH]

I'd be a lot more interested in Michael Dorn's version than Wagner's, honestly.

 

[donners22]

Are we jumping the gun in assuming that the series will be a comedy per se? The quote in the linked article describes the pitched concept as "incredibly funny, poignant and touching". A story/series can have humor without being in a comedy format, as all existing Trek has to some extent.

But I can't read the original NYT source, which might go into more detail, without a login.

Exactly.

You could use those same words to describe The Sopranos or American Beauty, for instance, and neither is considered a comedy. In Trek terms, an episode like Someone to Watch Over Me comes to mind.

 

[FederationHistorian]

This coming years after Michael Dorn's pitching of a badass Worf flying around kicking space terrorist's asses series.

The Worf pitch was updated, actually. It’s looking at Starfleet from within the Klingon Empire as the Empire grapples with making changes to survive, and Worf is captaining a Klingon ship now as he’s left Starfleet. Although I’m sure that the original idea of Worf hunting down terrorists is still compatible with this updated pitch.

There probably is room for humor in a Worf show. But Wagner’s pitch was comedy. Totally different. Comedy seems more suited to LD, or a show revolving around the Rikers. Or even a show around the Ferengi.

 

[Quinton]

Are we jumping the gun in assuming that the series will be a comedy per se? The quote in the linked article describes the pitched concept as "incredibly funny, poignant and touching". A story/series can have humor without being in a comedy format, as all existing Trek has to some extent.

But I can't read the original NYT source, which might go into more detail, without a login.

I've been thinking the same, actually. Although Wagner's most well-known prior works, at least IMO, are "Silicon Valley" and "Portlandia." So I would anticipate comedy to be fairly high up there -- but yeah, it's unconfirmed.