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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: Battlestar Galactica would have flourished on the golf channel | Report this post to moderator
By: GreatCzarsGhost (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:38:17 on Aug 01, 2005

Nice clean uplifting stories are fine for Ophra but they don't usually cut it on prime time TV or at the Movies. Even so this is not to say that everything has to be a major downer type story. Just maybe a little more realistic. I think as much as we all love what Star Trek represents and depicts as the future of Humanity, we still realize that our future is very very likely to be different. ST is more like a fairy tale. A wonderful fairy tale but none the less, still a image of what humanity would be if it were perfect.

This again is why shows like Battlestar Galactica and I'll add Fire Fly seem to resonate more with the viewing audience. They depict mankind with flaws and true nobility in a very chaotic universe. Part of the problem with ST is that no one has any flaws. From the guy who empties the trash cans at Star Fleet HQ to Capitan Archer everyone is noble. Even most of the people who do bad things are frequently still in the end really doing something noble. Like the episode where the Transporter inventor was really just trying to save his son. When viewers and true Science Fiction fans smell to much sugar coating they know there will be flys in the mix as well. I will say this... The original series was the best at showing humankind in a way that current audiences would probably like.

And lastly.... ST need to stop having every problem created on each show fixed in the last 30 seconds by realigning the Framistat or diverting all power to the Deflector Disk.

So there!!!

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