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Scott Bakula Says ENTERPRISE Was on the Wrong Network

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By GustavoLeao / 14:16, 28 July 2005 / Enterprise

The latest issue of STAR TREK Magazine, just out in the UK, features an exclusive interview with STAR TREK ENTERPRISE star Scott Bakula. Here are a few excerpts :



Regarding the show's cancellation, Bakula said "I would say simply that we've been on the wrong network for four years. That hardly ever happens, honestly. If you're on the wrong network you don't make it out of the first year. But because of a lot of history and positioning and, if you will, corporate synergy, we managed to stay alive for four years. That's good news, ultimately. We did manage to squeeze four years out of being at the wrong place. no one could have ever predicted the amount of upset within Viacom in the last four years, in terms of personnel changing and philosophies changing. There's just no way you could have predicted that all the people at Paramount who supported the show, who supported the franchise, would be gone, that all the people at UPN would have turned over a couple of times. We were trying to ride through all of that stuff. Timing is everything especially in television. We're a victim of that and at the same time, we got 98 hours of television out of it."

"There were elements in the pilot of a guy who was basically inexperienced and raw and a little bit of a loose cannon that I liked a lot," Bakula said about the 'Captain Archer' character "Then we got into an area for a while where he was awestruck. That worked and it had value, and I felt that near the end of Season Three and during this season we got into a maturing and a hardening and a toughening up of this guy."

"He was kind of unpredictable. I just would have liked to have had a little bit more of that. I'd like to have seen him more relaxed sometimes, maybe a little happier that he was out there in space exploring the universe, with no attachments to anything that was going on on Earth, going from one planet to the next. That didn't quite happen. We were very attached to the events of our world."

To read the full article, get the latest issue of STAR TREK Magazine at your local newstand



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RE: What the...!?!?! | Report this post to moderator
By: Hepkat (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:33:45 on Jul 29, 2005

I found Broken Arrow to be a major disappointment for several reasons, chief among them:

1) Vulcans behaving like judgemental, overcontrolling villains
2) sending an immature, unready crew into deep space
3) handing over Earth's pride and joy to some self-righteous, arrogant and prideful captain with an unhealthy and irrational grudge against the entire Vulcan race
4) sending out a crew into deep space who were obviously not trained in diplomacy or lacked basic COMMON SENSE.

I could go on and on, but suffice it to say, it was extremely difficult to identify with this crew or feel any sympathy for their plight and it was THIS disconnect which led to viewer apathy which eventually put us in the situation we are today.

The series was so unbelievable and utterly ridiculous from day one that anyone with half an ounce of common sense was left thoroughly unimpressed. Consider this, does anyone believe NASA today would send such an arrogant ignoramus on earth's most important mission?

Good riddance is all I can say and millions of fans agree!

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By: katefan (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:17:41 on Jul 29, 2005

Well, there were several other things.

1) Temporal Cold War. Oh great, more time travel. Like we didn't get enough of that already with TNG, DS9 and Voyager. More of the same. Especially bad, considering time travel was not supposed to be known about, according to Spock in TOS.

2) Phase pistols and transporters. Say, isn't this supposed to be a prequel? Awfully hi tech to be taking place a century before Kirk and Co.

3) Vulcans are assholes. Yeah, wonderful. And humans stink, too. Joy.

4) The Klingon homeworld is just five days from Earth...at warp five...

5) So farmers use plasma rifles. I hate to see the size of the crows and gophers that get into his crops.

This just from the first episode. Sure, it had some nice moments. Language problems, for example. But the positives were far outweighed by the negatives.

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To any sound of engines,
Ev'ry gull a seeking craft..."

Kate Bush, And Dream of Sheep

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RE: What the...!?!?! by GoodDogPorthos @ 11:10:17 on Jul 29
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