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Do you think it was smart that Worf joined DS9?
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Considering I know more about Quebecois traditional music than most Quebecoises, I don't find it strange at all. (Indeed, I know more about American traditional music than most Americans.)
He'd already stopped appearing regularly on TNG by Season 5. I think he was only in a handful of episodes in that season. If the trend continued we'd have seen just as little of O'Brien in Season 6 and 7 so I'm glad he went to DS9 and became a regular character.
Thirded as a stroke a genius. Worf went from being the status of week guy and getting regularly beat up by aliens of the week to being a regular, growing, character.
If there was a downside to his growth it was his relationship with Alexander and the resolution of Kurn. Other than that, probably one of my favorite characters, next to Julian and Ezri.
I liked worf on DS9 I felt he fitted in better there than on TNG. On TNG he was just the Security chief who was always used as a measuring stick for the baddie of the week ie he got thrown around like a rag doll just to prove the enemy was a threat.
It would've been so much better if Dorn had just played a new, different, Human character on DS9, instead, because having Worf there really sucked. For one thing, the Klingoncentric episodes that followed his arrival were beyond caricaturish. It's like those making DS9 don't believe in the product, so, they kept dipping their ladle deep into the TNG well, to firm up ratings. At least VOY borrowed from TNG in a mainly thematic and Artistic sense. Though Tom Paris was based off of a TNG guest-starring character, that character was in all of 1 episode and hardly in it. DS9 was onto something in the first couple of seasons, it just lost patience with it, in favour of working things out. They just went with what was already proven and rehashed familiar characters and settings to sell itself ... as was grafting Worf onto an already full ensemble..
I completely disagree. DS9 took some of the best elements from TNG and expanded them while also bringing its own flavour to the table. To me it seems Voyager gave up its premise by the second episode and dipped into the TNG well a lot more often. The Borg basically took over the show from Season 4 onwards.
I disagree that Worf really had more forward development in DS9. Sure, he 'Learned a valuable lesson' a bit more but it didn't change his behavior in later episodes. Not any more than the discommendation arc. If anything his early development in DS9 rehashed it.
In episodes like Hippocratic Oath and Sword of Kahless he was just plain immature, not to mention his initial treatment of Ezri. But having someone act like an ass then learn he shouldn't act like an ass isn't real development unless next time he doesn't act like an ass to begin with.
In episodes like Hippocratic Oath and Sword of Kahless he was just plain immature, not to mention his initial treatment of Ezri. But having someone act like an ass then learn he shouldn't act like an ass isn't real development unless next time he doesn't act like an ass to begin with.
Worked for me. Worf had some of his best episodes on DS9.
The Borg's stomping grounds are in the Delta Quadrant, though. What's more, the Borg are constantly using subspace this and thats to appear anywhere, anytime, seemingly. And VOY held off on using the Borg, at all, until Jonathan Frakes' brilliant STAR TREK entry "First Contact" had played out. By the way, even the Next Generation movies had to shoehorn Worf into the storylines ... after TNG's series run, Worf's seemed rather superfluous to STAR TREK, but Dorn's struggling career had kind of forced him to milk the franchise for all it's worth. In recent years, in fact, Dorn's continued to push for Worf TV shows and the whole bit ...
As opposed to Picard, who can't get it on with Crusher except in a timeline that leads to the non-existence of humanity (and even then, the relationship does not last)?
We clearly got different things out of Star Trek when watching it. Different strokes.
I liked Worf in DS9. TWOTW,was a cool introduction for him and he gets alot of episodes where he flourishes. There's alot of good comedy with him as the hostile straightman. i.e the episode where announced to Sisko he'll kill Garak at the slightest sign of betrayal, lol
I think Kurn should've got a crack at a few more episodes and even seen him rehabilitated. I think Alexander was mishandled somewhat. I also like to idly speculate as to how the series would've had unfolded if Worf accepted the Chancellorship.
I think Kurn should've got a crack at a few more episodes and even seen him rehabilitated. I think Alexander was mishandled somewhat. I also like to idly speculate as to how the series would've had unfolded if Worf accepted the Chancellorship.
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