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Dominic Keating: ENT Unlikely to Go Seven, But UPN Can't Shake "Poor Cousin" For Now

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By Steve Krutzler / 14:22, 7 June 2004 / Enterprise

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STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE actor Dominic Keating speaks this morning in a new interview with BBC Cult about his role as 'Malcolm Reed' and the future of his show, which airs its season finale "Zero Hour" in the United Kingdom for the first time this evening.

"It's a good finale - my girlfriend said she saw it in America a week and a half ago, and said it was absolutely terrific," Keating says. "I think it rounds off the season really cleverly, with a lot of action and adventure and suspense, and a lovely twist at the end that just makes you scratch your head and wonder at what you've just seen."

Keating says he and the rest of the cast grew nervous during this previous season, wondering whether STAR TREK was going to be abruptly cancelled.

"There was a time about five, six months ago when we were all on set with one another, and we were looking around at one another going, 'Damn, this might be it, on our watch'," he says. "So there was a period of time when I was rather worried. I signed for seven years, and they kept telling me it was going to be for seven years and it looked like it was going to be three and that was it. I was getting my head around the fact that I wasn't going to have all that secure work for the next three years, and the house I'd bought, and thinking, "Ooh, I wonder if I can afford that mortgage", so it was quite a relief when we did get the pick-up."

The actor says that the relationship between UPN's new management (since the merger with CBS) and Paramount Television has degraded, leaving ENTERPRISE in something of a quagmire. The BBC asked him whether he thinks the show will fulfill its original seven-year hopes.

"I would say no, unfortunately," Keating responds. "There's two arguments here. One is that Paramount has made a lot of money out of the show for the last seventeen years, and the back lot at Paramount is basically run on the back of STAR TREK. So without it there's a big hole there, a massive hole... The new management has been put in place at UPN to try and eke out a new demographic and bolster up failing audiences, and we don't fit into what they imagine. But in the same bracket we happen to be their number one drama. So it's a double-edged sword. As much as they'd love to get rid of us, they can't."

The actor further likens ENTERPRISE to a "poor cousin that came to dinner at the moment" when describing the show's current relationship with UPN brass. Keating also becomes the latest to suggest that ENTERPRISE co-creator and executive producer Brannon Braga may take a less involved role in the show's fourth season, with Manny Coto perhaps taking over as show runner.

"He's done it for about fifteen years and I think he's tired," Keating says. "It bodes quite well. [Manny Coto]'s got a good eye for it, and he's certainly a good writer, and with Brannon overseeing the whole thing, I think we could come up with something quite interesting."

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Not seven seasons, yeah. | Report this post to moderator
By: Hbasm (Odo's file, contact) @ 03:42:48 on Jun 09, 2004

Because ENT will go 8 seasons! Bring them on! And start an additional Star Trek series so we have 2 again. It would also be nice to resurrect DS9 as a series, just for one or two years...


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Nice candid interview | Report this post to moderator
By: mohap (Odo's file, contact) @ 20:33:52 on Jun 08, 2004

Rather than the same trite garbage we hear from all other trek actors with the exception of maybe Patrick Stewart on Conan Obrien show.


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    By: kzoodata (Odo's file, contact) @ 03:21:04 on Jun 09, 2004

    This is why I like seeing Brits on shows. They seem to more easily face the obvious and state the facts; the stiff-upper-lip heritage I suppose. And they seem to be better natural actors.

    Don't worry, Dominic. We want you guys to stick around for 7 years, and we know where the problems really lie. It's a mirror on life in the world right now, in a way. Everyone knows what's wrong and generally what to do about it, yet tptb seem utterly incapable of dealing with it.


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yay | Report this post to moderator
By: NCC-1701 (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:44:19 on Jun 07, 2004

I like a Star who can give a nice, frank, spin-free interview


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The "new" UPN demographic... | Report this post to moderator
By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:09:12 on Jun 07, 2004

It's interesting that I had been reading how UPN was slowly moving towards attracting a female demographic, along the lines of Dawn Ostroff's former job as head of Lifetime.

Yet when it comes to ENT, rather than broaden the demographic to include women, they would rather leave it swinging out there to remain with this fictious "male" demographic focus? Certainly TOS and TNG had a BROAD audience in order to pull in the numbers. I can't understand this idiotic "all or nothing" attitude with respect to Trek. It has always appealed to both men and women, boys and girls and now they have gone on a crusade to chase away the females, and won't even bother to try to embrace them instead - ie., be inclusive as Trek has always been about.

It must be the drugs they are taking. Image

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"He's done it for about fifteen years and I think he's tired," Keating says. "It bodes quite well. [Manny Coto]'s got a good eye for it, and he's certainly a good writer, and with Brannon overseeing the whole thing, I think we could come up with something quite interesting."

ANSWER: Um no, Braga has to go. This show is absolutely going in circles and is so twisted around that it doesn't know whether it's coming or going and the show-runners don't seem to give a damn. It is like they are biding time until their contracts run out in 2006. Meanwhile, they take the franchise down with them by this type of benign neglect.

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"If the season finale involves the re-built USS Reliant coming back in time to the 21st Century crewed by Moogie, Dr. Selar, Morn, Transporter Chief Kyle, and the Salt Vampire, then we'll know that Coto has gone too far." - tomba1701


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    By: cooper2000 (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:58:57 on Jun 07, 2004

    You could blame a lot of different things of people for the mess Trek but the number one thing that is wrong with the franchise is the writing and until they get Brag and or Berman out of there it will still be the same ol' fiasco.
    Sure, it's improved a bit. I pop in on it every so often but it's still very Bragish and that's the problem.


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    By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:19:14 on Jun 07, 2004

    It is ironic that the female demographic saved TNG from ratings extinction, yet 17 years later that group of viewers has been all but abandoned.

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      By: Deslok 2 (Odo's file, contact) @ 20:32:08 on Jun 08, 2004

      I think the real irony is that now that the show has improved, they're talking about not running it for seven years. So the choice is between seven years of boring ENT or four-five years of improved ENT.

      That doesn't compute!

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        By: katefan (Odo's file, contact) @ 21:29:25 on Jun 08, 2004

        Sure, the show has improved in some ways, but it is still lacking in others. Many of the characters aren't very well fleshed out (we didn't find out the Xindi Reptillian commander's name 'til what, five episodes from the finale? Way to really build up the bad guys and make me care about 'em, B & B. Give 'em nothing to say but "We must destroy Earth!" week after week and don't even both assigning names to them), T'Pol is still, well, T'Pol and is abused every season, and an all-too-heavy reliance on the gimick of time travel.

        Like many people have said, the show is supposed to be about the founding of the Federation but all that was put on hold for an entire season because B & B couldn't really seriously get around to it during seasons one and two, relying instead on alien-of-the-week episodes and gimmick episodes like the Borg and Ferengi. That pissed off a lot of fans and it's going to take a helluva lot more than just "improvement" to win people over enough to get them to come back.

        What's needed is 1) more attention to TOS and 2) Berman or Braga or both need to go. Then maybe you'll see some fans coming back. Unfortunately they've lost their sweet Wednesday night time slot. Fridays are going to be rough on Enterprise.

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        • I think UPN is trying to kill ENT and STAR TREK | Report this post to moderator
          By: Deslok 2 (Odo's file, contact) @ 02:45:32 on Jun 09, 2004

          Absolutely, I agree with you on many points. Perhaps I'm a little giddy with the prospect of one (dare I say, BOTH) of the killer B's having little to nothing to do with the show anymore.

          With all due respect, I don't think that B+B ever wanted to do a show about the founding of the Federation, I think that's what we were expecting but it would require too much attention to continuity and detail, not to mention a dash of creativity. I think that's too much to ask for from B+B.

          The improvements on ENT, while clearly not enough for most viewers who were disenfranchised by the franchise, are enough for me to have hope for the future of STAR TREK. I didn't expect the show to be able to do a complete turnaround in one season, it will take the rest of the run of ENT to undo the damage done during the first two seasons.

          However, I think that someone at Paramount has had a flash of inspiration, namely to produce a TREK tv show that simultaneously pleases the bulk of the fans AND makes revenue for the studio... gosh! what a novel idea.

          Here's to hoping that this will be the last STAR TREK series that either Rick Berman or Brannon Braga have anything to do with. They've done more harm than good when it comes to STAR TREK and it's time for them to put their belongings into cardboard boxes and plastic bags and vacate their offices.

          However, B+B are not the supreme villains of this piece, I think it's safe to say that the people in charge at UPN don't know the difference between their collective ass and a hole in the ground, and they use both interchangeably as a receptacle for their heads. It's strange, it's as if they're trying to kill STAR TREK, first with their idiotic suggestions as to what the show should have in it, their methodology for attracting female viewers (make TREK a soap opera with Trip + T'Pol's fling) and many more gaffes. One that I'm glad never happened was the suggestion that they add a boy-band like NSYNC to the show.

          If it's on Friday night, I may have trouble viewing it regularly. I don't have TiVo or a VCR at the moment and I work nights, especially Friday nights. Maybe they're trying to catch all the people who don't have a date (or a life) on Friday nights, but contrary to popular belief, not all STAR TREK fans are overweight virgins with bad acne and an inflatable Jolene Blalock doll. Paramount and UPN need to change their strategy if they want to build their network.

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            By: Cymro (Odo's file, contact) @ 22:34:58 on Jun 09, 2004

            Yeah, for one thing, the Jeri Ryan dolls are of much better quality and were designed to hold a Trekkie's weight ;)

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            Towering overhead both far and wide
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      By: Brikar (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:20:05 on Jun 08, 2004

      I was just thinking about that, and remembering an interview with, I think Piller, and he said he was incredibly surprised when the numbers were coming in saying how many female viewers they had, and that they kept going up.

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