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| Jonathan Frakes confirmed this weekend that he and Marina Sirtis will be performing as Riker and Troi in the finale of Star Trek: Enterprise. During an appearance at the Eleventh Annual SF Ball in Bournemouth, UK, Frakes told the crowd that he and "his Imzadi Marina Sirtis" would both be in the final episode of Enterprise, according to fan reports sent in to the Trek Nation. Reports had surfaced late last month that the two Star Trek: The Next Generation stars would appear in the Enterprise fourth season finale after a post by an administrator on Sirtis' web site (story). A source confirmed that negotiations were underway, though Sirtis denied the rumours at a convention in Florida (story). In a recent chat at StarTrek.com, executive producer Manny Coto declined to speak about the finale, saying, "Rick Berman and Brannon Braga are writing it and if they want to spoil it I'd rather have them spoil it themselves! But I will say that it does not involve time travel. That's as much as I will say. And, it's a very cool story." Frakes and Sirtis were last seen as Riker and Troi in Star Trek Nemesis, when the two left Captain Picard's Enterprise so that Riker could take command of the USS Titan. The Enterprise series finale is scheduled to air on May 13th. Thanks to Mark Newbold and Dax X for their reports on the SF Ball. |
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| If Braga's writing it then I think we can expect the absurd :rolleyes: Good to see Riker again, it should have been in his own series. |
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well they should have done a series on the TITAN but I guess that was a little too obvious to do (pratts) |
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| The thing that intrigues me is that it has Frakes and Sirtis as Riker and Troi, yet doesn't have time travel, how will they pull it off? |
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Dunno but knowing the works of the gruesome twosome they will probably involve the Borg :lol: |
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| Executive producer Rick Berman said that he didn't think even a guest appearance by William Shatner (Captain Kirk) could have saved the Star Trek: Enterprise. Soeaking to TV Guide, which confirmed that Jonathan Frakes (Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Troi) would be appearing in the series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise, Berman said that Enterprise's doom was apparent last year. "The writing was on the wall," Berman told Michael Logan, "when UPN moved us to Friday nights and the network began skewing in a different direction." Once the low-rated network dropped its longtime strategy of targeting young males and urban audiences in favor of female viewers, Enterprise - whose audiences had dropped to an average of just 2.9 million viewers this season - no longer fit within its overall scheme. "I don't think an appearance by William Shatner would have mattered," said Berman, who believes that even luring more original series fans would not have been enough to keep the series from cancellation. Once again Berman said that the finale would be like a valentine to Trekkers, calling it "surprising — something we've never done before." Though the producer would only say that the finale "might" involve guests from a previous Star Trek series, Logan stated that Frakes and Sirtis had signed on to appear. |