Worf or Chewbacca?
Worf
shareI had to Google who Worf was. Not a Trekkie.
So Chewy is my choice. My reasoning:
1. From the little I know about Klingons, meh.
2. Chewy is furry, in a good way.
George Lucas created the Wookies with the intent of having The Return of the Jedi take place on the Wookie planet. To parallel the Vietnam War, Lucas wanted to show a technologically advanced culture being bested by a primitive culture; so he meant for the Wookies to be primitive and Teddybearesque. When it came time to do RotJ, Chewie clearly was no longer either--which is why Lucas created the Ewoks, who were only slightly better than JarJar Binks--but Wookies started out as being cute. Fucking Worf was NEVER CUTE. Mr. Worf was a quart of kick-ass topped with a hand grenade. And he was a civilized Klingon, reviled by many of his kind for seeking peace, when possible, instead of war at any and all costs.
So, Worf.
I hear Roddenberry initially planned the Klingons as a race of pretty alien goldfish.
How are you going to judge Chewie based on something Lucas scribbled in a notebook 40 years ago? The only Chewie is the guy who made it to the screen.
I base it on actual interviews that Lucas gave. The Chewbacca character evolved as the movies were made, and was no longer the naïf primitive that Lucas needed for RotJ. Initial ideas can and do change over time.
shareI'd have much preferred a planet filled with Wookies than Ewoks. I didn't like RotJ.
I prefer funny, incomprehensible, and furry to kickass topped with a hand grenade, whereas you prefer the latter.
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