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Enterprise executive producer Rick Berman this week laid out the plan for the show's fourth season at the Television Critics Association press tour. "We're going in new directions for the fourth season, and hopefully there's going to be a mixture of smaller arcs," Berman told the Sci-Fi Wire. "The first two episodes are going to be a small arc. And then there's going to be a single episode. And then there's going to be a three-episode arc. And there's going to be some levity, and there's also going to be some heavy subjects dealt with." The first arc, "Storm Front", parts one and two, will feature actor Steve Schirripa, whose credits include The Sopranos, Joe Dirt and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. "He plays a character in 1944," Berman told the web site. And in some UPN cross-pollination, Golden Brooks, the star of Girlfriends, will also do a stint on Enterprise. As for the much-discussed possibility of a guest apperance by William Shatner (James T. Kirk), Berman said the concept is still in development. But one thing is certain: if Shatner was to pop up on the show for a guest stint, he would be playing "an incarnation of Kirk". "He would not be playing another character," Berman said. Last but not least, Jolene Blalock (T'Pol) reportedly let it slip that her character "may find herself getting married in episode three," according to the Sci-Fi Wire. The identity of her husband currently remains unknown. |
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Brannon Braga Tuesday revealed the Temporal Cold War will be wrapped up in the two-part season premiere, "Storm Front". "Our intention is to resolve the Temporal Cold War once and for all," Braga told StarTrek.com at UPN's party during the Television Critics Association press tour. "It lingered for three seasons, and we would like to finish it off in grandiose fashion, and move on to new territory." The story arc has been a part of the series since the premiere, "Broken Bow", but took somewhat of a backseat during season three, which primarily dealt with the Xindi storyline. Braga said temporal agent Daniels and Silik the Suliban will return for what will "most likely" be their farewell appearances. "It's hard to say for sure, because we're so early in the season, but our intention is to be done with it." But that doesn't mean the shadowy Humanoid Figure, nicknamed "Future Guy" by fans, will be around for the big finish. In fact, Braga doesn't even know if we'll ever find out who he was. "We have some ideas about him — or her — or it. But we haven't settled on any one identity yet. It's still a question mark. The Temporal Cold War may resolve without Future Guy's identity being revealed." |
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Enterprise co-executive producer and showrunner Manny Coto Tuesday night revealed some of the stories he plans to tell this season. One of the first arcs after the two-part premiere will revolve around an ancestor of Dr. Noonien Soong, played by Brent Spiner (Data). But fans shouldn't expect the new character, Arik Soong, to be anything like his Next Generation counterpart. "This character is more of a Dr. Frankenstein," Coto told StarTrek.com at UPN's fall preview party during the Television Critics Association press tour. "He is not a benign individual. He has brought to life 20 embryos from the Eugenics era. So you have Soong who's leading a band of Khan Noonien Singhs, so to speak. He believes that genetic engineering was on the right track!" The storyline will span episodes four through six, perfectly timed to coincide with the crucial November sweeps ratings period. When these 20 genetically-engineered relics from the Eugenics era threaten to incite war with the Klingon Empire, Enterprise recruits Arik Soong to help Starfleet track down the renegades. Their pursuit leads them all the way to a never-before-seen part of space called the Borderland between the Klingon Empire and the Orion Syndicate. "What I really wanted to do this season is make the episodes that I as a Star Trek fan would have to see," Coto said. "You know, as a fan of the original series, if I heard that they were doing the Orion slavers and the Eugenics Wars, I would have to be in front of that TV." Later in season four, Coto said there will be a three-episode arc that will deal with a Vulcan civil war, a storyline that will explain the difference between the Enterprise Vulcans and those in later time periods. "Our Vulcans lie, our Vulcans are monolithic, our Vulcans are not pacifistic. What we've done is develop an idea: What if an individual appears on Vulcan who is saying to the populace that we have strayed from the teachings of Surak? This individual is like a Martin Luther. And he spawns a Vulcan civil war." Coto plans to draw explicit parallels between the 16th century Reformation in Europe and the events happening on Vulcan. "I'm equating the Vulcan High Command with the Catholic Church, which in medieval times strayed from the teachings of Christianity; similarly, the Vulcan High Command has strayed from the teachings of Surak. This individual wants to bring us back to those teachings, but it causes instability on Vulcan because he's preaching pacifism, he's preaching pure logic, he's preaching a return to the old ways." |
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| If anything what they could do is an arc which explains why the klingons are different in Kirk's time - that would make more sense!!! |
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But then you have the problem of Kang, Koloth and Kor - why did they look like 60's Klingons in TOS, and modern Klingons in the 90's? Best to leave this can of worms sealed :) |
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| If they did bring the Romulans into it then it is going to be odd that the Enterprise crew can never see them!!!! Kirk is supposed to be the first human to see a romulan!!!! |
| QUOTE (Angel @ Jul 24 2004, 01:33 PM) | ||
Doesn't mean that he can't see their ships though, which he already has done once ;) And, doesn't mean we (the viewer) can't see them :) |
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TRUE!!!!! |
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| Is T'Pol getting married? That's the rumour about the third episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise. Jolene Blalock mentioned at the press tour earlier this week that her character might be entering wedlock, and TrekWeb has reported that in the episode "Home", T'Pol's mother T'Las arranges a Vulcan marriage for her daughter. The episode, to be directed by Allan Kroeker, reportedly will begin production on August 4th. In addition to introducing T'Las - a role that TrekWeb reports the producers are looking to cast a well-known performer in her 60s - the episode shows T'Pol's husband-to-be, a Vulcan named Koss for whom casting directors are seeking a tall male in his late 30s. Both roles have the possibility of being recurring, though producer Rick Berman stated earlier this week that the third episode of the season would be a standalone. The Starship Columbia, another NX-class vessel, will also be introduced in "Home." Named for the space shuttle recently destroyed in a tragic accident, Enterprise's Columbia will be under the command of a character named Erika Hernandez, a former colleague of Archer's from Starfleet Academy. |
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The above is takem from the TREK TODAY WEBSITE |