By GustavoLeao / 01:31, 28 August 2005 / Enterprise

"I realize the [ENTERPRISE] finale was controversial," former STAR TREK Producer Brannon Braga told Chase Masterson in an audio interview at theFandom.com. Braga spoke frankly about fan and cast resistence to the use of ST:TNG characters in "These Are The Voyages..."

"We made the creative decision to do a final episode that was a nod to all the STAR TREKs. And we wanted to look at ENTERPRISE through the eyes of future STAR TREK. And do something that we thought was very interesting in that regard. It was not everybody's cup of tea. I would be lying if I said that the episode was a rousing success. I don't think that the actors liked it. I think it showed in their performances that they weren't happy and that the episode suffered from that. It was a noble effort but I don't think it was quite as successful as we hoped. But I still stand by the concept. It was a good idea. But I can understand why the fans were upset. They wanted their ENTERPRISE and they might not have wanted to see other STAR TREK characters in there. Some people complained about the use of the holodeck. We thought it was cool. But then again we have always loved the holodeck. Some people think it had been overused."



"You know, it was not a happy finale. We did not want to be writing this. And Rick [Berman] and I were coming to a time where STAR TREK was ending a long 18 year run and we felt 'you know what, the whole franchise deserves something.' And perhaps we were misguided in thinking that, but it is what we did."

Asked if he will be inovolved in any future STAR TREK, Braga said "If it happened right now, no. I am busy with other stuff and I think I have given all that I can to STAR TREK at the moment but, in the future I don't know. I really don't know what I would do. If they even came to me at all. I am not sure that they would."

Regarding the death of Captain Kirk, which he co-wrote with Ron Moore for STAR TREK GENERATIONS, he said "In retrospect you wonder if it was exactly the way, was it done right? Was it as effective as it should have been? Captain Kirk died on a bridge. Should he have died on the bridge of his starship? There is a lot of stuff that I personally, I can't speak for the other gentleman involved, I personally would love to go back in time, like a STAR TREK episode, and redo some stuff."

Asked if a STAR TREK "reboot" similar to the new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA would work, he expressed doubts.

"First of all it's difficult to reboot STAR TREK. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA the original series was relatively, relatively speaking to STAR TREK, very short lived. And did not have anywhere near the fanbase that STAR TREK has. You can't just ignore STAR TREK. But you could certainly revamp it. But I don't think you can reboot it. And in the terms of the darker tones there are many, many people that felt that ENTERPRISE, for instance, should have been more like BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and been much, much darker and grittier. And maybe that is the way to go with STAR TREK in the future. I don't know. And I personally feel that one of the things that distinguishes STAR TREK is its positive outlook, so I happen to disagree with that."

When the news hit that ENTERPRISE was cancelled, a lot of the fans seemed to direct their anger towards Braga, Masterson posed. How does he cope with that?

"Well look, who can blame them?" Braga said "You gotta blame, you gotta point your, if you are indeed angry you are going to look at the person running the show. So its not surprising. It isn't a pleasant thing to think of yourself as to blame. There are other factors involved with STAR TREK loosing its audience appeal over the years. But I would be lying if I said... I will take my share of the blame creatively. It's almost impossible for me to sit here and say 'yes I did this that and this wrong.' And I am certainly not going to get on the Internet and look at what the fans have to think because that would be ... too painful."

You can download the full interview here.

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