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By Slaphappy

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"It would be an entirely new setting and an entirely new set of characters, and it would take place prior to any of the series, including ENTERPRISE

To quote another franchise "I have a bad feeling about this". I hope Berman misspoke. As much as I like ENT, I think it's clear that the prequel concept isn't really working. Why go even further back into murky trek pre-history when there’s such a wellspring of story possibilities in the TOS/TNG/VOY eras? Not necessarily involving those crews but at least the environment and timelines would be somewhat familiar to audiences and would be relatively simple to build a framework of a feature film around.

If they want to go with an unseen Trek time period, how about the time between STVI and TNG? It's relatively unexplored, but ripe with possibilities.

As for ENT, I think they'd have a chance to redeem themselves if they could use S4 as an opportunity to wrap up loose ends and establish a bridge with TOS. Perhaps the appearance of Kirk could serve this purpose. Heck, S4 could also serve as a build up to the film. With some clever writing and a few plot twits and turns they could even explain some of the questions that many have including:

Why are the vulcans such jerks?
Why does the ENT look/seem more advanced than even some TNG era ships?
Why does the show open with a cheesy pop tune?
Why do 24th century aliens keep showing up years before they are supposed to be discovered?

I could see both S4 and the Film swinging either way. They could make a real effort and make it really cool, or they could really blow it and end up with steaming piles of poo.

Either way it'll be interesting to see what happens.


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