“Star Trek: Enterprise” took place for four seasons between 2001 and 2005. A prequel took place in the 22nd century before Captain Kirk or the Federation, “Enterprise” also holds an embarrassing dishonor. It was the first series “Trek” since the original not to go to seven seasons and more than 100 episodes. (“Enterprise” barely missed the brand at 98.) This, and a first half not so stellar means that “enterprise” has a reputation as a black sheep. “Enterprise” did not do kill “Star Trek” – The film “Star Trek” by JJ Abrams was released until four years later – but it ended 18 years again “Trek” produced continuously.
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For the co-creator of “Enterprise” Brannon Braga, this break was not the worst thing for “Star Trek”.
“I thought it was time, [‘Star Trek’] needed a break, he needed time for people to want another show, ” said Braga to the STLV17 Convention. “Enterprise” was not the show that made people want, but it could have been. Season 4 of “Enterprise”, when the late Manny Coto took over as a showrunner, is generally considered the best in the series. During this aforementioned convention, Braga completed Coto’s work on season 4 and is the most critical towards itself. (Braga feels that he has personally botched the writing of the “Enterprise” series final, these are the trips … “)
“I think Manny had finally found [the] The voice of the show and season 4 should have been season 1, and I think the show should have continued, “said Braga. If” Enterprise ” had Following, what stories would they have told? Would he have supported the momentum of season 4?
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Several of the writers, including Braga and Coto, have shared their plans and locations for season 5 of season 5 over the years. There are enough details to get an overview of the season. Knowing these details, you can also see how season 4 of “Enterprise” was built towards season 5 without invoicing.
The end of Star Trek’s game: Enterprise would have been the Romulian war
Most of the plans of season 5 of “Star Trek: Enterprise” come back to a word: Romulans! Introduced into the classic episode of “Star Trek” “Balance of Terror”, the Romulians are a branching of the Vulcans who embrace emotion rather than logic. These are some of the oldest recurring “trek” bad guys, prior to the Klingons by a dozen episodes. The Romulians are also famous for their vessels on the theme of the raptor, their masking devices and their corresponding misleading nature and culture on the Roman theme. (Their native world adopted East Appointed Romulus, after the legendary founder of Rome.)
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“The balance of terror” has established that, a century earlier, the earth and the Romulians had gone to war. The conflict ended with a peace treaty, which created a neutral zone between the Federation and the Romulian territory.
“Enterprise” was placed on the moment when the Romulian war was waged. However, the Romulians are little “business”. Before season 4, they only appeared in the episode of season 2 “Minefield” as an enemy of the week. Instead, “Enterprise” initially focused on a story of “temporal cold war” on the factions that fight in time for future domination. The main bad guys of this were the stranger Suliban, led by a Silhouetté benefactor (and ultimately never revealed).
One of the Coto changes as a showrunner was to select the Romules to be the new overall antagonist of the series. A trilogy of episodes (“The Forge”, “Awakening” and “Kir’Shara”) revealed that the Romules had infiltrated Vulcan. The Romulan agents, allies to the corrupt Minister Vulcan V’las (Robert Foxworth), had pushed the Vulcan people and the government far from logic and to militarism.
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How the Romulian war would have started
V’las and its partners are specifically trying to trigger a war with the neighbors of Vulcan, the Andorians, which the company crew stops. Another arc (“Babel One”, “United” and “The Aenar”) presented Romulian agents using a masked drone ship to supervise other interstellar powers for acts of aggression. (For example, the drone disguises himself holographically as a Tellate ship and destroys an Andorian fleet.)
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It is clear where it was going. The Romulans, for a long time the isolationists, tried to ferment the disorders and the war among the main powers through the Alpha Quadrant. Then they were able to enter and conquer what was left. The four potential founders of the Federation – humans, Vulcans, Etoires and Tellarites – would have gathered to oppose the Romulians. Season 5 of “Enterprise”, then probably the seasons 6 and 7, would have equaled the Romuliers war and the Foundation of the Federation in the same event.
But there is also an obstacle that “the company” should have respected. “Balance of Terror” said that humans and Romulians have never seen themselves during the war, he was fighting with spacecrafts and everything. It was for the episode to make a dramatic revelation where Kirk and Co. Learn that Romulians are identical to Vulcans. But that would mean that, through “enterprise”, the heroes could never really meet the Romulian villains face to face. How would the show have managed or written around this? It is something that can only be learned to see the idea in execution, that we have never been able to see.
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Episode plans not made for Star Trek: Enterprise season 5
The writer “Enterprise” Mike Sussman had a daring plan It would have let the heroes meet at least A Romulan. He had the idea of revealing T’Pol (Jolene BLALOC), the vulcan on the “Enterprise” distribution, as a half-story. (Explained by his father being a Romulian spy.) The comments of Sussman give the impression that it was only his idea, but he was also convinced that “I could have sold [co-creator Rick Berman] and Brannon on it. “”
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It would also have been planned to link the Romuliens’ Cold War; The Suliban benefactor would have been revealed as a future Romulian trying to “trigger” (or change) the war. However, True Also claimed This Suliban master would himself be a future version of Captain Archer (Scott Bakula), so that this part is not settled in stone. But all the plans of season 5 of season 5 “Enterprise” do not imply the Romulians.
In more prefiguration by the federation, the plan was for the Andorian Shran (Jeffrey Combs) to go from a recurring character to one of the main actors of season 5 of “Enterprise”. Apparently, he would have joined the crew as a “assistant or advisor”.
Coto also had unused episode ideas for season 4Like the Foundation of the first Starbase base, and a two -part set on the floating stratos city of the original episode of the series “The Cloud Miders”. They could have easily reused for season 5.
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In addition to the Romulans, there was another major thread of season 4 of “Enterprise”. The two parts “in a darkly mirror” moved the frame to the mirror universe, where humans (or rather terrans) are expansionist conquerors and our heroes are vile backstabbers. If “Enterprise” had disappeared for season 5, the plan was to review the Mirror universe. Braga even said They discussed doing a entire The season takes place in the mirror universe. “In a dark mirror” is fun, but following completely different characters for an entire season would probably not have worked; The mirror universe works because it No The standard of “Star Trek”.
Writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens Also sought after To revisit the controversial episode of Borg “Regeneration”. The episode would have played with Alice Krige and represented the origins of her character The Borg Queen (originally revealed was a doctor of Starfleet).
The first two seasons of “Star Trek: Enterprise” had trouble because the show had no new ideas. But in season 4, it seemed that the people who made the show rediscovered their passion for “Star Trek” and these ideas began to flow. It is a shame that the show ended when people made him locked up.
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