The Closest Thing To Star Trek: Legacy Is Officially Happening Thanks To Michael Dorn

Star Trek: Legacy may not have made it out of spacedock, but there’s an on-screen Star Trek reunion in the works that may be the next best thing. It’s all thanks to Michael Dorn, alias Worf from The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Picard, who’s making his feature directorial debut with a new science-fiction movie that boasts a Star Trek-studded cast.

The third and final season of Star Trek: Picard ended as a potential launch point for Star Trek: Legacy, a new Trek series that would have followed the adventures of the newly christened USS Enterprise-G. Ex-Borg drone and Voyager star Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) was on board as captain, as was Picard castmate Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) and Starfleet nepo babies Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers) and Sidney La Forge (Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut). However, thanks to Paramount’s subsequent corporate upheaval that saw it merge with Skydance and then Warner Bros., all future Star Trek projects ended up in the Neutral Zone.

Deadline reports that Dorn is writing, directing, and starring in the science fiction thriller Life 2.0. While it’s his first feature, it won’t be Dorn’s first turn in the director’s chair: he helmed three episodes of Deep Space Nine and one episode of Enterprise. Even more impressively, as he also starred as Worf in the DS9 episodes, he directed much of them while wearing full Klingon makeup and prosthetics. The film will star Dorn as a skilled operative stranded in deep space with only a holographic AI for company; when he’s joined by a mysterious companion, everything will come into question. Joining Dorn are a trio of Trek stars: Hurd, Marina Sirtis, and Dominic Keating. The film is set to be shopped to potential buyers by OneTwoThree Media at the upcoming American Film Market.

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Dorn played Worf, the first Klingon to join Starfleet; a member of the bridge crew on The Next Generation, he later transferred to Deep Space Nine, and reunited with his Next Generation castmates on Picard. Those castmates include Sirtis as empathic Betazoid ship’s counselor Deanna Troi. Hurd played Raffi Musiker, a former member of Jean-Luc Picard’s staff; she returned to service to aid him in Season 1 of Picard, and became one of the only cast members to appear in all three seasons. Meanwhile, Keating starred as Malcolm Reed, tactical officer on the NX-01 Enterprise, for all four seasons of the prequel series Enterprise.

Life 2.0 is in post-production, and will be shopped to potential buyers at the upcoming American Film Market. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

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