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ENT Consulting Producer Talks Possibility of 'Gorn' Episode in Season 4

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By GustavoLeao / 18:23, 13 September 2004 / Enterprise

The latest issue of Cinefantastique magazine, just out in the US, features an exclusive interview with ENTERPRISE third season writer and former consulting producer David A. Goodman. Here are a few excerpts :

"Is our fan base made up of Original Series fans or is our fan base people who want to see a slightly more realistic-looking show ?" Goodman told journalist Jeff Bond "I don't know that Rick [Berman] and Brannon [Braga] are the biggest fans of the Original Series; a lot of people on the staff are huge Original Series fans - Chris Black, Mike Sussman, Andre Bormanis, me, the special effects guys, the designers - and we pitch stuff all the time, but the story has to work."

When asked about the resolution of the third season story-arc, Goodman said "I think the Xindi thing is done, we may bring back Xindi characters but the aspects of that story are finished. I don't think we'll see an end of the Temporal Cold War yet, and we're trying to figure out a way to make the upcoming year as challenging or more challenging than we did this year. I don't know if we'll go back to planet of the week exploring because the yearlong thing worked well."

And what about the appearances of alien races familiarized by the Original Series in the upcoming fourth season ? "That's something we all want to do and it's certainly a strong possibility," Goodman says. "I spent a lot of time last year developing a Gorn episode because I thought that given what you can do with today's effects - if you think 'Arena', [Kirk] hits him with a diamond fired from a cannon, and he's just a little groggy. I mean, this is a great monster. Given what you can do with CGI and limbs that can grow back, I spend a lot of time developing this Gorn story that Brannon liked, but we didn't have time to do it. So I may dust that off. And of course it's important to establish that they never call it a Gorn and you're never going to know that this is what is encountered later."

To read the full interview, get the latest issue of Cinefantastique, at your local newstand.



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By: paustin (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:46:30 on Sep 14, 2004

i like the idea of the Gorn....i have no problem with canon being flexible for good stories.

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