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LOL, Spiner- minor role in These are the voyages..; And to be in Braga's Threshold
Topic Started: Mar 25 2005, 11:57 AM (976 Views)
captain_proton_au
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Update:
Braga confirms the Forming of the Federation will be seen in the finale.

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After asking what percentage of the audience considered themselves Star Trek fans, Braga then asked, "How many of you don?t like me?"

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By Michelle
April 12, 2005 - 10:09 PM

Star Trek: Enterprise co-creator Brannon Braga said that he did not know how long it would be before Star Trek returned, but said he expected a new movie before another television series at an event where he was described as seeming relieved that his involvement with the franchise was ending. He also revealed that the final episode of Enterprise does indeed witness the founding of the Federation.

As reported by galleywest at the TrekBBS, Braga appeared at the Stark County branch of Kent State University, which he attended in the mid-1980s. After asking what percentage of the audience considered themselves Star Trek fans, Braga then asked, "How many of you don?t like me?" He reiterated his belief that Star Trek needed a break after inundating the airwaves with so many shows, pointing out that there is far more competition from other science fiction shows now. "Even if the next episode of Star Trek is the best episode that?s ever been made, it?s still the 701st episode of Star Trek," he said.

The executive producer said that he did not know which crew might feature in a future Star Trek, and the reported said "I got the feeling that he doesn't know and doesn't really want to know" whether the franchise will be reimagined like Battlestar Galactica or whether a new prequel or sequel will come next. He thanked fans for their efforts to save the show but seemed certain that Paramount's decision was irrevocable.

Of the Enterprise finale, "These Are the Voyages...", which Braga co-wrote with Rick Berman, he said that the episode looked at "the most important day in the life of this ship, which is its last day, the day the Federation is founded." He added that he felt such a storyline ended an era of Star Trek by bridging this series will the ones that went before, calling it, in words Berman has used in interviews, a valentine for the fans. He also admitted that some of the Enterprise cast members were not happy with the finale and its use of characters from The Next Generation.

Ironically, asked to name his worst episode, Braga chose Voyager's "Threshold" - also the name of his new pilot for CBS. He said that he believed extraterrestrials existed but had not landed yet, which is also the theme of Threshold.

The original item is at the TrekBBS. Braga mentioned the appearance on his web sit
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Craming the founding of the Federation into one episode? Pff. Good luck.
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Yes, it could have been done over a couple of years. But I appreciate the fact that it is going to be done at all. :)
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Well, i'm not so sure. It all seems a little rushed.
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I think in the right hands that a seven-year series, with the final three years dealing with that topic, could have done it justice.
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Exactly. That is how I would have one it. For all we know, that is what they could have had planned.
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Also wasting the chance for a good movie plot
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Sounds like Berman is making plenty of excuses for his and his golden boy's failure.

Sure, it has to be that Star Trek is tired and needs a rest, couldn't possibly be that YOU SUCK!!!!
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Dr. Noah
Apr 15 2005, 01:02 PM
Star Trek is tired and needs a rest

I dont buy that at all either.


BSG, both Stargates, Smallville, Farscape and other minor ones, if anything the reality TV bubble is starting to burst and sci fi is making a comeback
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That's what I don't get, Sci-fi is coming back, old series are on the way back in and there are several series that have gone beyond seven season, what is SG-1 on now, nine ? ten ?
It's not like they've kept the same crew and mission all this time, they have brought in loads of new characters, pushed ahead several years and increased tech in order to tell new and better stories. Yet at least in my beleif Star Trek has gone down hill over the last few years. The last season of Ent was good and maybe if that had been done from the start it might have worked. Trek only needs a rest because ithas beendriven intothe ground. Not worked too hard or for too long just driven nose first intothe ground.
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I essentially agree with that.

I think that the way Trek has been treated over the past few years a break is needed for the fan base to desire its return. People need to get hungry for it again.
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Mar 25 2005, 06:58 PM
Because DS9 proved that Behr and co were far better writers than they and they resent it.

Excatly. They could've made Enterprise a success. They studyed and checked whats been said and done. For example, if DS9 toom place before TNG and TNG already finished. They would've been careful, they would work in ways that Behr. Berman and Braga have been very jealius because he is respected by the fans for his work and dedication and making it work. He wrote it for the fans not to get expiriance, like B and B.
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Jun 24 2005, 06:08 PM
Berman and Braga have been very jealius because he [behr] is respected by the fans for his work and dedication and making it work.

I SERIOUSLY doubt that
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I don't, he was given a premise there is no way I could see working before the series started and made it worked while they had Voyager a premise there is no way I could see failing before the show started and well in my opinion and I know several other peoples it was less than stellar
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I pulled this off the web... I think it was on Trek Toady :)

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Though he denied creating intentional parallels with the events of September 11, 2001, former Star Trek: Enterprise executive producer Brannon Braga allowed that his new show Threshold makes use of ongoing public unease in the aftermath of those events.

"There's something in the blood right now," Braga told MediaWeek. "There can be no doubt that, even subconsciously, 9/11 is a thematic undercurrent in our show, for sure...[it] must be in the zeitgeist." The CBS series is about a group of government officials trying to stave off a possible attack from outer space while attempting to determine the extent to which it may have already begun.

Threshold, which features Brent Spiner (Data), is not the only fall show focusing on the idea of Americans facing nightmarish unknowns. In ABC's Invasion, a Florida community faces unexpected aftereffects from a hurricane, while in NBC's Fathom, scientists encounter mysterious beings from the abyss. "The media's motivation is to make prime-time hits," said broadcast negotiator John Rash. "But at a time of an undefined end to the war on terrorism...these shows may have tapped into the current American psyche."

CBS has created an official site for Threshold which has both a brief and an extended video preview for the series. "We've been waiting for a sign of alien life...the wait is over...you'll wish we were alone," announces the onscreen text while a scientist wonders, "Who are they? Why are they here?"

In the extended preview, a narrator says ominously, "An extraterrestrial ship has landed on Earth...now the government is calling in their top analyst." They summon Dr. Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino), called "the most important person on the planet", who declares after a crisis that leaves her bleeding that that they have just accomplished first task of Project Threshold: confirming extraterrestrial intelligence.

Spiner plays Nigel Fenway, a microbiologist described by Caffrey as former '60s radical who's "stubborn as hell." He discovers that a human affected by the aliens has had his blood cells altered and more - he can now survive being shot repeatedly - yet he is glad he was the only survivor of the first contact, because, he says, people weren't the same afterward.

A three-pronged symbol which recurs throughout the preview in cell structures and as a pattern formed by insects proves to be a graphic representation of alien biology. Although human DNA is based on a double helix, this life form's DNA is a triple helix.

Threshold will air on CBS on Friday nights this fall. In addition to Gugino and Spiner, it stars Charles S. Dutton, Brian Van Holt and Robert Patrick Benedict.



What is it with Braga? Can't he come up with original characters? But nooooo, he always has to do one stereotype or another. Hasn't he realized that most scientists are just average folks, not radicals, not people with odd abilities, just smart people. Period. I guess that's too boring for Braga.

Anyone care to take bets as to whether this will last a five week pilot, or will it commit seppuku during the first episode? The only reason Enterprise lasted as long as it did, with his "input" was because of the association with Star Trek. I don't think he can do anything else.

I just checked his web site... he still has those silly glamour shots on the home page. Sad.
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