Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology icon Michael Dorn exposes a lie that prevented him from directing Star Trek: Enterprise. Together with taking part in Worf, Star Trek‘s biggest Klingon, Michael Dorn directed three episodes of Star Trek: Deep Area 9 whereas additionally starring within the sequence.
Michael Dorn directed Star Trek: Enterprise season 1, episode 25, “Two Days and Two Nights.” Sadly, the comedic romp on the pleasure planet Risa turned out to be the one episode of the Star Trek prequel starring Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer that Dorn was employed to direct.
Showing on The D-Con Chamber podcast, Michael Dorn defined to hosts and Star Trek: Enterprise castmates Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer that he was lied to about why “Two Days and Two Nights” was the one Enterprise episode Dorn directed.
Michael Dorn reveals how his directing Enterprise was born from his negotiations to seem in Star Trek: Nemesis, and producers used Scott Bakula’s identify to deceive him. Learn Dorn’s quote under:
This took place, and curiously sufficient, this provides one thing to it, after they got here out with our final film [Star Trek: Nemesis], that was the film that we weren’t contracted for… And so, in our negotiation, and that is the details, I learn the script, and I wasn’t very pleased with the script. Primary… there wasn’t a lot Worf in it in any respect…
However they stated, ‘Nicely, what would you like?’ And I stated I wish to direct… And I used to be imagined to do three episodes of Enterprise… Three or 4… And it was my fault, as a result of… They stated, ‘Look, we’ll offer you one assured and three pay-or-play.’ And I ought to’ve stated, ‘No. Assure.’ And so, I did the one [episode], and so they paid me off for the opposite three.
[It was] extraordinarily disappointing, since you kinda go, ‘You imply I used to be that unhealthy?’ That they’re like, ‘We don’t wanna see him ever once more.’ It was simply horrible… After which additionally… my brokers known as them and stated, ‘Look, what the hell is occurring?’ They usually stated, ‘Scott Bakula hated Michael.’ It’s bulls***. In order that’s why they didn’t need [me directing more Enterprise].
When Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer expressed how Scott Bakula may by no means have stated that, Michael Dorn agreed and stated he talked to Scott about it years in the past:
Michael Dorn: You realize what, I had talked to Scott. He was in London at Patrick [Stewart’s] place, and [we] had a beautiful time. And I knew it wasn’t true. Scott [and] all people on [Enterprise], the actors, have been consummate professionals. There wasn’t ‘stuff’ occurring.
Watch Michael Dorn’s full look on The D-Con Chamber under:
As a category act, Michael Dorn did not identify who lied to his brokers that Scott Bakula supposedly “hated” him. Regardless, Dorn, Connor Trinneer, and Dominic Keating all know Scott Bakula personally, and so they agree that Scott would by no means have stated he “hated” Michael Dorn or used his clout to forestall Dorn from directing extra episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise.
Scott Bakula’s stellar repute is well-known all through Hollywood. Numerous actors and crews who’ve labored with Bakula have hailed him as a consummate skilled and a very good chief who cares about each individual in every manufacturing Scott works on. After directing Bakula, Michael Dorn by no means believed the lie that Scott “hated” him.
Together with being the one episode of Star Trek: Enterprise that Michael Dorn directed, “Two Days and Two Nights” additionally turned out to be the final time that Dorn directed any Star Trek. After Star Trek: Nemesis, Dorn wouldn’t return to the franchise till Star Trek: Picard season 3, when he reprised Captain Worf.
With 283 appearances as Worf within the Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology TV sequence and flicks, Star Trek: Deep Area 9, and Star Trek: Picard, Michael Dorn holds a document that may by no means be damaged. Michael Dorn may also be proud that his episode of Star Trek: Enterprise is likely one of the most entertaining outings of season 1.
- Launch Date
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2001 – 2005-00-00
- Community
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UPN
- Showrunner
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Brannon Braga
- Administrators
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David Livingston, Allan Kroeker, Michael Vejar, David Straiton, Roxann Dawson, LeVar Burton, James A. Contner, Robert Duncan McNeill, James L. Conway, James Whitmore Jr., Michael Grossman, Marvin V. Rush, Patrick R. Norris, David Barrett, Jim Charleston, Michael Dorn, Rob Hedden, Terry Windell, Winrich Kolbe, Les Landau, Manny Coto
- Writers
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Chris Black, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Judith Reeves-Stevens, David A. Goodman, Alan Brennert, André Jacquemetton, Brent V. Friedman, Fred Dekker, Ken LaZebnik, Maria Jacquemetton, James Duff, Jonathan Fernandez, Paul Brown, Stephen Beck, André Bormanis, Manny Coto, Michael Sussman, Allan Kroeker, Brannon Braga, David Wilcox, John Shiban, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Phyllis Robust, Rick Berman, Tim Finch
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Scott Bakula
Jonathan Archer
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