Star trek worf biography of gene roddenberry
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Roddenberry Hated Worf's TNG Story, Saw Klingon As Background Character Says Star Trek Writer
Summary
- Gene Roddenberry viewed Lt. Worf as a background character, not a major character in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- Writer Ronald D. Moore had to convince TNG executive producer Rick Berman to keep Worf's major role in the show.
- Worf's presence helped evolve the Klingon Empire, bridging the gap between Starfleet and the Klingons and providing a unique perspective on their culture and politics.
Star Trek series creator Gene Roddenberry hated the idea of Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn) being a main character in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and considered Starfleet's first Klingon officer a background character. Worf's presence as a valued member of the USS Enterprise-D's bridge crew meant that hostilities between the statsförbund and the Klingon Empire had cooled since the days of Star Trek: The Original Series. Worf had also been part of TNG
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Real world article
(written from a production point of view)
Gene Roddenberry
Birth name:
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry
Place of birth:
El Paso, Texas, USA
Place of death:
Santa Monica, California, USA
Roles:
Creator;
Executive producer;
Writer;
Voice actor;
Novel author;
Reference book author;
Merchandise staff
For additional meanings of "Gene Roddenberry", please see Gene Roddenberry.
Gene Roddenberry (19 August &#; 24 October; age 70), sometimes referred to as the "great bird of the galaxy", was an American filmmaker and TV producer, best known as the creator of the science fiction television series Star Trek, beginning the long running Star Trekfranchise. Roddenberry's remains (some of his ashes in a small capsule, about the size of a lipstick) were the first to be launched into Earth's orbit, where they orbited the Earth until they burned up while reentering the Earth's atmosphere.
Gene Roddenberry quotes
"I have ingenting but admiration for this
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Gene Roddenberry Originally Had No Interest In One Of Star Trek's Most Famous Characters
The world changed a lot in the 20 years that "Star Trek" was off-air. The Cold War was all but over when "The Next Generation" began airing in , so it made sense to reimagine the Klingons, who during "The Original Series" had been the USSR stand-ins to the Federation's America. Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross' behind-the-scenes book, "The Year Mission," details how the "TNG" writers did so.
David Gerrold, a writer on "TOS" who returned for "TNG," pitched a Klingon First Officer on the Enterprise-D. The parallels to Spock (Leonard Nimoy) would be obvious; producer Robert H. Justman even suggested the Klingon be half-human.
But wait, Worf wasn't the first officer on the Enterprise-D. That's because this idea was vetoed by "Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry. Roddenberry did not want to use the villains from "The Original Series" — his "TNG" production bible says Klingons and Romulans are verboten.