{"id":19655,"date":"2012-08-27T11:44:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T18:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=19655"},"modified":"2012-08-27T11:44:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T18:44:32","slug":"dorn-the-next-generation-versus-deep-space-nine-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/08\/dorn-the-next-generation-versus-deep-space-nine-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorn: The Next Generation Versus Deep Space Nine Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19658\" title=\"DornWorf080712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DornWorf0807121.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Dorn<\/strong> found working on the set of <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> to be rather different than working on the <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> set.<\/p>\n<p>Dorn thought that when <em>The Next Generation<\/em> wrapped, he was done with Worf, but then he received a phone call from <strong>Rick Berman<\/strong> asking him to join the cast of <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em>. &#8220;I was surprised, very surprised,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;Maybe surprised is not the right word for it,&#8221; said Dorn. &#8220;I was so OK with it after I&#8217;d said I&#8217;d never get in the makeup again. I make a joke about saying, &#8216;Oh God, I&#8217;d never do it&#8217; and then they told me how much money I was going to make and I said, &#8216;Oh, OK. No problem.&#8217; But, really, the money never really entered into it. Rick just called and said, &#8216;Would you consider coming back?&#8217; I just said, &#8216;Yeah, sure.&#8217; And I don&#8217;t know why. Maybe it&#8217;s just because I&#8217;d already set myself up that we were just going to do the\u00a0 movies and there wouldn&#8217;t be any more makeup days. I already had my mind set that it was gone. When Rick called&#8230; I guess I was surprised that I said &#8216;Yes.&#8217; But it wasn&#8217;t like, &#8216;Oh my God, what am I doing?&#8217; It was more like, &#8216;Yeah, that sounds great. Let&#8217;s talk about it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dorn found the atmosphere on set to be very different on <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> than it had been on <em>The Next Generation<\/em>. &#8220;<em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> was more of what a set is usually like,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The <em>TNG<\/em> set was totally different. For some reason, we just really bonded with each other. I think it was our personalities just meshed. It&#8217;s not like we took each other&#8217;s personality. It was nothing like that, but the way that we were worked for us as a cast, definitely, and as people, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Deep Space Nine<\/em>, although each of the individuals are really cool people, as a cast there were definite separations. Certain actors didn&#8217;t hang out with certain actors. Other actors were bonded with this person or that person. Individually they were great and I got along with everybody. I still do. But it was a very serious and quiet set when I got there. Who knows what that came from? Probably that was from the captain. The stars usually dictate the way the set is. <strong>Avery<\/strong> [<strong>Brooks<\/strong>] is a very serious guy, and so I think they just took that [tone].<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I got over there, I was like, &#8216;Oh, my God, no. I can&#8217;t do this.&#8217; I was like, &#8216;If you guys want to be quiet, that&#8217;s fine when I&#8217;m not around. But when I&#8217;m around, let\u2019s have some fun.&#8217; It wasn&#8217;t like we were joking and doing practical jokes, but you just liked each other and you just laughed, and you made the experience a lot easier to do, especially with the long hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dorn is currently raising funds via Kickstarter for a romantic comedy <em>Through the Fire<\/em>. <em>Through the Fire<\/em> will feature some familiar <em>Star Trek<\/em> names; <strong>Armin Shimerman<\/strong> and his wife <strong>Kitty Swink<\/strong>, <strong>Nana Visitor<\/strong>, <strong>Robert Pine<\/strong> (father of <em>Star Trek 2<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Chris Pine<\/strong>) and <strong>Marina Sirtis<\/strong>. To contribute to <em>Through the Fire<\/em>, head to the link located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/akaworf\/through-the-fire-life-after-star-trek?ref=live\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Dorn found working on the set of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[4706],"class_list":["post-19655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-michael-dorn"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19661,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions\/19661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}