Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Orions

For the first live-action appearance of any Orion in 35 years, Star Trek: Enterprise needed to go big or go home. In this case, big things come in big packages, all seven feet of them, as Star Trek's prior with pro-wrestlers continued. Towering over T'Pol in Borderland as an Orion Slaver was a man used to putting on a show.

If they go that high, you've got to go very low. There's no business like being kicked up in your business. In fact, everything about it was appealing for Paul Wight, aka (The) Big Show, who also happens to be a big Star Trek fan. As Wight told Trek Untold in 2022,

I was just so damn excited to be there, I don't even think I left [the set] at all. […] I just grabbed a box that would hold me and sat watching everybody work.

Scott Bakula and Jolene Blalock also tried to get Wight to sit in the captain's chair in between takes, but he refused, joking, "No, no, no. I'm not worthy. I can't do it". He did stand next to it, however.

As Wight also told Trek Untold, he was hoping to return as his Orion character before Enterprise's cancellation. Still keen to be a part of Star Trek again in general, perhaps the Big Show could join Becky 'The Man' Lynch in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy?