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"Storm Front, Part I" Rushes Into Digital Future at Paramount Premiere, Plus ENT DVD Info

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By Steve Krutzler / 10:26, 5 October 2004 / TrekWeb Features

Manny Coto was in top form last night, warming up the crowd with friendly and funny responses to various questions about the creative direction of the show.

"We had a wild twist at the end of season three, and it necessitated a lot of elements that needed to be woven together. To kind of tell the end of the temporal cold war and launch into season four. By now a lot of people know I've quite a fan of the old series and wouldn't it be fun if we see a lot of touchstones from the old series. Starting with the Orions, and the Orion slave girls," which generated a bit of applause from the audience. "Let's hear it for the Orion slave girls!"

"What's most exciting for me now is this story we're telling that takes place on Vulcan and we're calling 'Vulcan of Arabia' and it's a sweeping tale that really kind of expands and deepens the Vulcan mythology," he continued.

Frazier asked about the other big news this season, the guest spot of TNG's Brent Spiner. What was it like working with him?

"Who?" Bakula joked. "Brent wasn't invited tonight?! Brent is a character, we had a lot of fun. He's a very irreverent soul and sort and whatever scenery -- I don't think there is any scenery left in that episode -- but it was fun!"

Asked about the topic of ENTERPRISE DVD sets, which have been rumored to be in the pipeline, Braga confirmed that he and several others involved in the series had just finished a round of interviews for the bonus features on the sets. He couldn't give a firm date on their release, suggesting perhaps May 2005.

"I heard a rumor of May 2005, I got the sense that they were wanting to get them out sooner than they had originally planned."

Coto then interjected humorously, "I've got some DVD copies... Let's talk afterward!"

Some of the audience members pressed Coto on what kind of special features are being planned now for the sets.

"They came and shot some home movies at my home! Without me knowing it, for a 'very special section' on the DVDs."

Coto continued when an audience member asked about William Shatner guest-starring on ENTERPRISE this season.

"Well actually, we have Frank Shatner! A wonderfully talented actor from Idaho, the fans won't be disappointed!"

The light atmosphere of the gathering continued when John Billingsley posed a question: "Does Dr. Phlox look so much sexier and hotter because of this? Is that a technological innovation? It really brings my sexuality to the forefront!"

When asked about the future of the franchise itself, Brannon was noticeably coy.

"[Nothing new] that I'm aware of. We're focusing on this show," he said. What about a feature film? "Again, not that I'm aware of. There's something in development -- I hear," he said to the audience's uproarious incredulity. "I've heard some rumors, but I'm not involved with it. There are currently no plans for another STAR TREK series right now, I can tell you that."

Coto's crowd-pleasing performance continued on the subject of DVDs when an audience member asked about whether the show might try to explain why ENTERPRISE and its characters weren't mentioned in any of the previous STAR TREK history: "We're actually going to be going back to all the original shows and remastering them [to remedy that]," he said jokingly.

"Storm Front" gets the season off to an adventurous start, tying up the loose ends of last year's "Zero Hour." While Archer is stuck in Nazi-occupied New York, the crew of the NX-01 intercepts transmissions indicating that history isn't quite right. There are plenty of Nazi-indulgent scenes, like the opener where a Nazi soldier reflects to a captive Archer how Americans always seem to win in Hollywood movies. He's soon recovered by American insurgents in Brooklyn, where he works to uncover alien interference in World War II. The crew of the NX-01, meanwhile, discovers crewman Daniels in bad shape and on his last legs.

Everything we've come to expect from a STAR TREK season premiere, it's a straight action-filled "what if" scenario that is clearly going to spend a lot of time explaining and wrapping up the events of season three. Nazi flags draped over the White House and grotesque aliens constructing weapons of mass destruction for the Nazis' benefit keep the plot moving briskly for what everyone hopes will be an entertaining season opener to draw viewers into the later episodes that will really highlight season four's uniqueness.

"Storm Front, Part I" debuts this Friday night at 8p on UPN. Just look for the channel not showing the second presidential debate.

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Must have been some change... | Report this post to moderator
By: J2M (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:11:40 on Oct 06, 2004

From The Digital Bits :

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we were watching the episode on a full-sized theater screen via a 2K DLP digital projection system.

If I remember correctly Steve, around 4 months ago, you were watching VHS copies of ENT a few weeks late, on an old TV set.

Now you get to see the episode before schedule, on a state of the art projection system, with the production staff and cast around you.

Talk about improving...! ;-)

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    By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:22:18 on Oct 06, 2004

    Well I wouldn't say my television image was ever very poor, but certainly this was an improvement for me personally! I also just got a 5.1 surround sound system to replace the long-blown speakers in my TV so everything should sound better at home now.

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      By: J2M (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:05:58 on Oct 07, 2004

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      Well I wouldn't say my television image was ever very poor, but certainly this was an improvement for me personally!

      More than that, watching the episode with the (almost) whole cast next to you and be able to chat with them afterwards must have been something !

      By the way, I'm surprised nobody brought the subject up (maybe someone has, and if so, I'm sorry to repeat it), but what about the opening credits sequence ? Has it changed ? Did they keep the song ?

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      By: JediFonger (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:58:25 on Oct 06, 2004

      hi steve,

      i hope you are referring to a REAL 5.1 surround sound system not one of those el cheapo few hundred bux ALL IN ONE boxes like Bose. and yesh you can hear a big difference. a truly 'minimal' sounding speaker system alone (just the 6 speakers alone) costs $1,000.

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        By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:08:41 on Oct 06, 2004

        No, I am talking about the cheap no-name brand on sale at Circuit for $94 so I could use my $100 gift card and put out no cash for it. I figure it's far superior to the blown speakers in my television set!

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          By: JediFonger (Odo's file, contact) @ 00:20:45 on Oct 07, 2004 | Edit History (1)

          not by far steve... not by far. ah well. most trek DVDs ain't mixed in 5.1 anyways though ent will be right?

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            By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 00:29:37 on Oct 07, 2004

            it's NOT superior to my blown speakers? could've fooled me! :-)

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              By: JediFonger (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:50:16 on Oct 07, 2004 | Edit History (1)

              nah i was just lamenting the fact that if you expect $100 to give you the same surround sound as your local cineplex or one of those home cinema demos @your local electronic store you will be sadly disappointed. also it's funny other people (not you) have spent $5k+ on big widescreen/plasma but just a coupla hundred to get speakers they can hear sound out of! that's crazy and insane if you really want that full and true cinema experience since sound is 50% if your media watching experience. yesh you have 5 channels of semi-directional sound vs your broken speaker from the TV but it just doesn't compare to fully dynamic ranged 'open sounding' speaker that is meant for true 5.1 experience =). i can tell you from experience myself that going from tv to 5.1 is one thing but going from cheap 5.1 to a 'minimal' quality set of speakers is truly awesome. many enthusiast will tell you their own home cinema RIVALs that of any of the local cineplexes because those big companies don't maintain their audio system very well cause they don't care. i can't tell you the amount of time i've been to cinemas with blown subwoofers/woofers and tweeters that just sound awful and distorted and you can hear the physical material pushing and pulling cause it's been broken but never replaced.

              perhaps not now but hopefully your wife (cause it's a wife issue now) will allow you to upgrade to a 'real' 5.1 surround sound setup. you should spend 60+% if your total budget on speakers alone cause they are the final step before they reach your ears.

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                By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:16:52 on Oct 07, 2004

                Honestly I'm not that big into home audio/video. I see big movies in the theater and lately find myself rarely watching movies from my DVD collection. TV is about all I watch and most of it isn't in surround anyway (news for instance). I'd much rather spend the thousands that some spend on that equipment on a condo, a house, a boat, trips, eating at nice restaurants, or any number of priorities. I like having a nice sound quality, but as long as it sounds good that's all I'm concerned with. In this case, my TV speakers are blown and I can't buy a nice expensive TV anytime soon so the $100 surround receiver and speakers did the trick.

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Aha! There we go! | Report this post to moderator
By: Dodgy (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:17:54 on Oct 05, 2004 | Edit History (1)

STEVE, HAVE YOU SEEN THE EPISODE???
STEVE, HAVE YOU SEEN THE EPISODE???
STEVE, HAVE YOU SEEN THE EPISODE???

What's it like? Please!


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    By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:32:09 on Oct 05, 2004

    Check out the last two paragraphs of the article. I'll leave the more detailed reviewing to O. Deus when the season gets underway. It's pretty much an action-packed plot-twisting episode, like most season openers.

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      By: Dodgy (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:49:51 on Oct 05, 2004

      Yeah, i read those two. But that is what i am concerned about. I am already sick and tired of Alias. Does it make ANY sense?


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        By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:59:25 on Oct 05, 2004 | Edit History (1)

        Sure it makes sense. It's a perfectly fine season premiere. The Nazi what-if scenario is fun to play with and the tie into the TCW is plausible and entertaining. But I think the meat of the season is going to start around weeks 3/4.

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no pics? :( | Report this post to moderator
By: NCC-1701 (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:34:37 on Oct 05, 2004

n/m


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By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:20:34 on Oct 05, 2004

Sounds interesting. I remember reading something on a digital media trade website from a couple years ago where the Trek production staff lambasted the technology and said that they had planned to stick with 35mm for some time. But of course, technology and time flies. ;-)

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Just look for the channel not showing the second presidential debate.

The debate is on at 9 pm ET. ENT is on at 8 pm ET.

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    By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:00:28 on Oct 05, 2004

    Not everybody lives on the coasts.

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      By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:17:03 on Oct 05, 2004

      This has nothing to do with "coasts".

      Does not PT run ENT at 8 pm local (which would be 11 pm ET)? CT runs ENT at 7 pm local. And when I've been out in Colorado for weeks at a time, I've noticed that MT would actually run primetime stuff at 6 pm local.

      The debate is at 9 pm ET or 8 pm CT or 7 pm MT or 6 pm PT.

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        By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:26:44 on Oct 05, 2004

        ENT may squeak by the debate for many, then. I think central is the only zone that runs prime time an hour early, so I would think there'll definitely be some areas of the country where the debate overlaps ENT.

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          By: David Henderson (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 14:09:23 on Oct 05, 2004

          > I think central is the only zone that runs prime time an hour early, so I would think there'll definitely be some areas of the country where the debate overlaps ENT.

          No, the Central and Eastern time zones show network programming at the *exact same time*. 8pm ET is 7pm CT. So Enterprise will be on at 7pm CT (8pm ET), and the debate will be on at 8pm CT (9pm ET). There will be no overlap.

          There will also be no overlap in PT, where network programming is delayed for three hours. The debate will be on from 6-8pm PT (9-11pm ET), and Enterprise will be on from 8-9pm PT (11pm-12am ET).

          The only confusing situation is in MT. Networks always say "8, 7 Central", without mentioning Mountain Time. They used to say "8, 7 Central and Mountain", which indicated that Central would get the show at the exact same time as Eastern, and Mountain would be delayed one hour. I have no idea whatsoever whether this is still the case, and since it takes a whole big process to try to view the TV Guide for a different ZIP Code, I'm not in any hurry to do research on it.

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            By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:39:13 on Oct 05, 2004

            I meant 7p as being an hour earlier than 8p. Yeah I don't know about mountain time. I would presume it'll air at 8p local and thus overlap with second half of debate??

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          By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:09:17 on Oct 05, 2004

          MT runs it an hour earlier locally (generally 7 pm local) or 2 hours different from ET. I have seen them run stuff at 6 pm local, which was nuts. I noticed that Denver had an ad for ENT's premier (only) scheduled for 8 pm local (10 pm ET).

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            By: MCCSaxman (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 15:11:45 on Oct 05, 2004

            As someone who lives in the Mountain time zone now, west of Denver in ski country. I am not sure when the Denver station will be airing Enterprise. According to the UPN website everything is as if they are not airing the debate. So if they aren't airing the debate it will be on at 7:00 MDT, however if they are airing the debate who knows.

            As for the time zone thing and when what is being aired, unless the program is live the Mountain time zone is aired starting at 7:00 MDT.

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              By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:28:42 on Oct 05, 2004

              Yes - the schedule over there indicated normally it's at 7 pm local rather than "8 pm" local, which to East coaster me was always weird because "primetime" was always defined as 8 pm+. LOL.

              I've spent a couple weeks in both Denver and Florissant (30 miles west and about 2000 ft higher than Colorado Springs). That was fun! Image

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