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Connor Trinneer Flattered by "These Are The Voyages..."

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By GustavoLeao / 17:32, 3 July 2005 / Enterprise

The lateest issue of DreamWatch magazine, just out in the UK, features an exclusive interview with STAR TREK ENTERPRTSE actor Connor Trinneer (´Trip' Tucker'), in which he once again talks about the series finale, "These Are The Voyages...", in which his character dies in a deliberate act of self-sacrifice, defending the ship from a squad of invading aliens. Here are more excerpts from the interview :

"The writers have a responsibility to get us put into the web of the historical context of the STAR TREK franchise in general, and so they are bringing 'Riker' [Jonathan Frakes] and 'Troi' [Marina Sirtis] back." he said "There's a holodeck story and 'Riker' wants to visit with our crew, kind of slip in behind the scenes, in a sense, and get to know 'Trip'. I'm flattered that the last episode is kind of about me. I'm also said it is the last episode. But I thinks ultimately, the responsibility that [executive producers] Rick [Berman] and Brannon [Braga] felt they needed to accomplish was to make a connection to the rest of TREK history and to bring [18 years of STAR TREK] full circle.

To read the full article, get the latest issue of DreamWatch magazine at your local newstand.



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By: rumandchocolate (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:56:14 on Jul 06, 2005

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As opposed to Kirk or Spock. C'mon, surely there were better to tie this to the rest of the Trek universe. There was no tie here to the Star Trek franchise in general, only to Rick Berman's Star Trek.

It seems to me that the choice was to tie this to Star Trek on television.

In that sense, then their decision to tie it to TNG... using the Enterprise-D... makes sense. Not just because TNG was the launching point of that 18-year run... but because Frakes and Sirtis reprising their characters is more believeable than Shatner and Nimoy reprising theirs during TOS.

In any case, the episode certainly had a number of references to tie it to TOS: The episode featured an Andorian... a species (though seen and mentioned) not explored in any other Trek series other than TOS. The episode also returned us to "where no man has gone before." To say nothing about the Federation charter.

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This episode had nothing to do with you

See... conceptually I think this was a neat idea... and used the Holodeck in the way it was intended, rather than making it yet another run-amok story. I just wish it hadn't been done in the final episode of the series.


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Why does "full circle" only include Trek that Berman was involved in?

And why does "full circle" have to mean "an appearance by one of the cast members of TOS"? Can't Trek come "full circle" without that?



Don't get me wrong, the episode has some major flaws... notably in its mischaracterization of Trip: "Bring us Shran." "Gee... guess I got no choice but to kill myself!" But I disagree that the episode was just some way for Berman and Braga to diss TOS and just tout their own version of Trek... even Manny Coto liked the concept of this episode.

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RE: Is he joking? by RANDOLPHEA @ 10:16:10 on Jul 07
    RE: Is he joking? by rumandchocolate @ 10:40:32 on Jul 07
RE: Is he joking? by katefan @ 18:18:42 on Jul 06
    RE: Is he joking? by rumandchocolate @ 18:58:42 on Jul 06

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By: Cap'n Calhoun (Odo's file, contact) @ 01:29:03 on Jul 05, 2005

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There was no tie here to the Star Trek franchise in general, only to Rick Berman's Star Trek.

I take it the voice-over by William Shatner and the appearance of the NCC-1701 didn't count for some reason...

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RE: Is he joking? by McCoy666 @ 09:16:58 on Jul 05

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By: Hbasm (Odo's file, contact) @ 04:42:40 on Jul 04, 2005

This hostility towards B&B is affecting your judgment.

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There was no tie here to the Star Trek franchise in general, only to Rick Berman's Star Trek.

Interesting accusation. I've never heard that one before. ENT ends the modern era of Star Trek. The modern era began with TNG, and TNG was Roddenberry's show. I know, when he died. But TNG stayed Roddenberry's show, unless you consider it more a result of cooperation. Which wouldn't be an unfair thing to do. Anyway, Star Trek's popularity and ratings peaked during TNG's seventh season.

So "These are the Voyages" features a logical and appropiate tie-in with the rest of Star Trek.

You can't have it all - VOY, DS9, TOS - into one episode. That would dominate the episode and probably seem very confusing. This still needed to be an ENT episode, to allow each character to make a graceful exit.

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Frakes and Sirtis both looked terrible! In no way was it beleivable that these two were supposed to be the same age as they were during TNG.

I completely disagree.

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RE: Is he joking? by katefan @ 20:25:47 on Jul 04
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RE: Is he joking? by McCoy666 @ 08:31:39 on Jul 04
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