Was 'Star Trek: Enterprise' A Miscalculation?
PLUS: Connor Trinneer doesn't sound happy about the series finale
How will "Star Trek: Enterprise" be remembered in the future? Will it be a loose cog? Will it be something that was never given a chance? Or will it be, as executive producer Brannon Braga said in a recent panel, a miscalculation?
"We thought it was cool to do something that was a little more primordial so we could see how everything came to be," Braga said during a "Philosophy of Star Trek" panel at Claremont McKenna College. "We also decided to make it much more of a character-driven show, because the show took place about 100 years from our time, we could deal with people whose reactions to things were more contemporary. That may not have clicked with audiences. We thought it was a good idea. It is possible that that was a miscalculation. I'm not sure."
With the series going off the air, Braga said he was unsure what the future would hold for Star Trek.
"I know that there's a feature film in development, I don't know anything about it, I am not involved with it, but I don't know when it might see the light of day," Braga said. "I have no idea. But in terms of television, I'd be very surprised if they even started talking about it for a long, long time. That's just my opinion. So I wouldn't expect to hear much about Star Trek for awhile. Though Star Trek will remain on the air, you can find it, you know, virtually all the series at any given time."
But Braga does feel science-fiction does have a future on television.
"It would be great to see someone like HBO do something where, you know, they only had to make 13 episodes, and they had two years to make them and they are just incredible," Braga said. "A really good show right now, if you are looking for something, is 'Battlestar Galactica.' It's an amazing show. And that's on the SciFi Channel. But I don't know what is out there."
Ronald D. Moore, the executive producer of "Battlestar Galactica," used to be a writing and producing partner with Braga on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and briefly on "Star Trek: Voyager."
"Star Trek: Enterprise" airs its series finale May 13. Jolene Blalock, who plays T'Pol on the series, already expressed disapproval. But now she is being joined by one of her colleagues ... kind of ... who recently talked about the last day of shooting.
"It ended at 2 in the morning," Connor Trinneer (Trip Tucker) told U-Daily News. "Everybody just quietly left. I was going to stick around and have a beer, but I had an audition in the morning and had to go."
Trinneer said that while he is "honored and touched" by the different fan campaigns to save the show, he said that it probably won't make a difference.
"It's all economics, you know? But fans got an extra year of the original series by writing in," he said.
And how about Trinneer's take on the series finale, "These are the Voyages ..."
"They did what they felt like they had to do to wrap it up," Trinneer said. "That's not a ringing endorsement, I know."
"Star Trek: Enterprise" airs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET on UPN.
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