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Excellent!!! No, Really, this is good news.
By Counselor Knight

I recently read Shatner's Movie Memories (again) and something mentioned in this autobiography is some of the movie writers were given an already ~GOOD~ SCREENPLAY to do a rewrite.

The screenplay was good but needed a rewrite to be better.

However, several times when the screenwriter would return after "tweaking" someone else's screenplay it would no longer resemble the GOOD screenplay it was.

The writer was told to fix what was there, but instead he decided to create a whole new screenplay based on his own ideas.

Of course the producers were outraged and asked someone else to take the original screenplay to do a rewrite.

The outcome ... Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The final writer took material already available and crafted it into an awesome movie.

My point being, when B&B decided to do a prequel it became obvious they wanted to make it their own. They forgot everything already established in treklore to produce ... Enterprise.

Maybe they wanted to make it "better" according to their ideals ... I don't know. But they seemed to have forgotten what Star Trek is. And they didn't want to have stories based on already established Star Trek history.

Coto seems to "get it". No one cared about the Xindi ... or some Cold War. There are plenty of stories to write about aliens we already know about, though some we've never met.

Maybe now we can meet them. See the Vulcan planet and other planets. Have more Andorians. Heck, give Archer an Orion slave girl for an episode ... I don't care as long as it is written well and based in the realm of Star Trek.

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