How did the cast feel when Worf was made a regular?
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-"I understand your show could use some sexy."
"I am also disturbed that none of your characters seem to be at all concerned with extolling the health benefits of prune juice."
Aww. really? I'm watching "The Ship" right now, and the inclusion of an actual soldier does wonders for the ep.
Unlike Barbie of Borg, Worf didn't take attention away from the characters, which is to be applauded.
What he said.
I can't speak for the DS9 cast and I haven't read anything about it. But DS9 had a very large supporting cast of recurring characters, in many ways equal to the main cast. I can't imagine the addition of Worf would be any more unsettling than the additions of Garak or Brunt or Damar or Eddington or Bareil or Nog or Shakaar or Rom or Leeta or Dukat or Yates or...
I'm guessing the cast felt like manure. The crew was certainly elated.
In the DS9 companion a few members of the cast said they didn't know Michael Dorn was joining the show until they returned from summer break! Nana Visitor stated she was concerned that it would take away from screen time but that ultimately she thought it was a great idea and that she loves Dorn and that he brought a certain sense of fun to the set that hadn't been there before.
Yes, and René Auberjonois didn't know until he heard it from a fan at a convention!
You were in the cast of DS9?
I would imagined Kira's character was the most directly threatened by Worf, though in reality Dax ended up demoted from being the resident Klingon. I don't think she ever had her own storyline after Rejoined.
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I'm glad it ended up being this way, I bet the cast was too.
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I'm glad it ended up being this way, I bet the cast was too.
You know, you're right. I never really considered it from quite that point of view, but, while it probably seemed like Kira ran the most risk of being adversely affected by Worf's arrival, she ended up with some of the strongest material in the later seasons.
It was really Jadzia who suffered most because she became somewhat of an accessory to Worf.
To be fair, Jadzia wasn't really all that compelling as a standalone character. Sure, she had a few episodes where she shined, but she was mostly "royal smart person," "Sisko's old friend/mentor," and "person who flirts with everything that's sapient" before Worf rolled around. Becoming Worf's accessory isn't the worst thing in the world.
Yeah, I tend to agree, but the same can be said of Bashir for seasons 1-3 at least, as another example. The writers kept throwing stuff at him, though, and, while it's a bit of a mixed bag, at least one extremely cool thing resulted from it (Section 31).
Having said that, of course we will never know what would have happened if Jadzia's relatonship with Worf had not become such a focus for her.
In reality, there was probably never really much of a risk with Kira, because most of her stories don't really flow from her role in the crew, but rather from her ties to the Resistance, the Prophets, the Cardassians, etc. There's really not much overlap with Worf at all.
That's classic..
Worfs inclusion must have been a good thing for the ratings health of the show, right?
Worf's inclusion is what guaranteed I would start watching.
I don't even think Worf was written very well until later in his stay. In all his season four episodes he seems like a petty, dangerously impulsive manchild. They started to figure out how to write him better in season five.
The thing about Dax is, she had such an established personality it didn't really make sense to develop it anywhere. So she ended up being defined by her personal relationships and her comic relief.
I don't even think Worf was written very well until later in his stay. In all his season four episodes he seems like a petty, dangerously impulsive manchild. They started to figure out how to write him better in season five.
The thing about Dax is, she had such an established personality it didn't really make sense to develop it anywhere. So she ended up being defined by her personal relationships and her comic relief.
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