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Scott Bakula Says ENTERPRISE Was on the Wrong Network

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: Battlestar Galactica would have flourished on the golf channel | Report this post to moderator
By: Elara_Bern (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 15:03:02 on Jul 31, 2005

If thats true then why did the second Star Trek Series TNG flourish and dominate and become very successful from 1987 through 1994 and beyond, what makes good tv or movies is not souly based on the real world or what is happening in real life. TV and Movies is fiction and if its written well and done well people will flock to it. Star Trek original idea and creation from Gene is what made it have the appeal and success that it has all these years no other scifi TV show can claim what Star Trek has done as far as scifi TV history. Battlestar Galactica did not come back from its original series and have the success that Star Trek did. So I say the Star Trek original ingrediants still has weight, but only if effortr and is done well and supported, Enterprise did not recieve those from UPN, paramount, the question is why? If it had I think it would not have been cancelled.

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RE: Battlestar Galactica would have flourished on the golf channel | Report this post to moderator
By: Hbasm (Odo's file, contact) @ 00:22:40 on Jul 31, 2005

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let this great Trek universe adapt to a changing audience

Its not only a change, its a degrade. Which is why Star Trek should not follow the trend. Which is also why it died. Probably.

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about Action and Conflict.

You spell these words with upper case, as if they're some kind of grand thing. They're not... Besides, didn't ENT season 3 have enough action for you? If not, you should realise by now that its YOU who have failed Trek. But Trek has not failed you.

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as soon as you get "conceptional" your audience changes channels or dozes off.

Maybe. I'm horrified by the fact that higher intelligence is a dying concept.

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we keep demanding shows based on Gene's original concepts from the 60's.

Nobody is saying Star Trek should return to gogo outfits. But behind the superficial, visible things lies a spirit. This makes or breaks Star Trek. I judge any spin-off based on the spirit, in all its facets. Of course there are some areas where I don't agree with Gene Roddenberry. But the overal concept of a better future, a better humanity, well ... is the key to my heart. The more Star Trek embraces that idea, the better. If people consider that to be oldfashioned, they're clearly lost. Beyond any hope of recovering... And if that kills Star Trek, so be it.

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RE: Battlestar Galactica would have flourished on the golf channel by GreatCzarsGhost @ 15:50:55 on Jul 31
    RE: Battlestar Galactica would have flourished on the golf channel by Hbasm @ 04:22:12 on Aug 01
       RE: Battlestar Galactica would have flourished on the golf channel by GreatCzarsGhost @ 08:38:17 on Aug 01
          RE: Battlestar Galactica would have flourished on the golf channel by Hbasm @ 14:11:49 on Aug 01

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RE: Battlestar Galactica would have flourished on the golf channel | Report this post to moderator By: Elara_Bern (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 15:03:02 on Jul 31, 2005

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