When it comes to Star Trek, Michael Dorn will obviously be best known for playing Worf, the Klingon Starfleet officer who debuted in The Next Generation and returned for four seasons of Deep Space Nine, all four TNG movies and Picard Season 3. Additionally, though, he also directed three DS9 episodes and one Enterprise episode, the latter being Season 1’s “Two Days and Two Nights.” Dorn was actually supposed to helm more episodes in the Star Trek series that premiered in 2001 and came to a polarizing end in 2005, but he was told a shocking lie involving lead actor Scott Bakula that put the kibosh on that plan.
The Worf actor recalled this strange turn of events while speaking with Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating, who respectively played Trip Tucker and Malcolm Reed on Star Trek: Enterprise, on their podcast The D-Con Chamber. Michael Dorn’s association with Enterprise came about from his participation in Star Trek: Nemesis, the final Next Generation movie. The TNG cast wasn’t originally contracted to do Nemesis, and Dorn “wasn’t very happy” with the script when he read it, particularly because Worf didn’t appear much in it. So that resulted in him making a specific ask during the negotiations to do the movie:
