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Shatner May Return to Star Trek (Briefly?)
mfh writes "Apparently, William Shatner may return to Star Trek, after talks with studio executives for a cameo on the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise. Rick Berman did not disclose which role wants Shatner play, although I'm sure we'd all love to see Captain James Tiberius Kirk again, right?"
TNG spanned 7 years, in the beginning it was a bit different than how it evolved, but thats to be expected. Things like the ship and space battles were not CGI, but scale models... even effects like the transporter were low-budget. Levar Burton (Laforge) hosted some reading rainbow kids show on pbs and he showed how they did the transporter - silver glitter stirred in a glass of water, filmed and edited
Aha!
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There is an explanation for TOS klingons.
Tight budget and bad FX.
Fucking Andorians antennae didn't move in TOS though
Christopher Pike was the first captain of the Enterprise...
Setting his threshold to 5, Sparky eliminated most of the trolls on /.
This series jumped the shark on the pilot episode.
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*sigh*
Let me say this again--you probably missed the last four or five times I said it on
Enterprise is NOT a prequel to the other four Treks. It's the series that is latest in the timeline, we're just seeing it from a faulty perspective. The Federation won, conquered every threat they had, and achieved time travel--and we're seeing their latest conflict from a POV that we can better emphasize with.
I can sum up the current conflict for you, with oodles of spoilers, and you can tell me how creative you think it is.
A race of aliens, similiar to the wormhole entities of DS9, are using a network of spheres to alter our reality. The far-future Federation was more than capable of defeating these aliens, so the aliens have convinced a five-species "race" known as the Xindi that Earth is a threat, so that the Federation can be undone by a historical cascade.
To counter the Xindi, the temporal Federation alters the timeline by having the NX-01 not be destroyed, but rather explore the galaxy earlier than had otherwise happened.
As for your other complaints--Romulan Cloaking Devices have, IIRC, always existed as far as the canon cares (a few novels notwithstanding), the Klingons have always looked they way they look (a non-canon explanation from Star Fleet Battles is that the Klingons TV-Kirk fought were human/klingon hybrids), and the Borg were logical effects of the assault from First Contact.
Time Travel isn't an afterthought for Enterprise or a gimick. It's essential to the metaplot of the series, and it's easily as creative as TNG, DS9, or Voyager. (Moreso, even, considering that no one else has ever done quite this setup on TV.)
I mean, heck, they have the guy from Quantum Leap as captain--you don't think that's a little bit of a clue that time travel is important to the show?
Perhaps he'll be the Big Giant Head from Third Rock From The Sun
Heh, that had one of the funniest "in jokes" I've seen on TV, the episode where Lithgow et al. meet Shatner at an airport, and on being asked about the trip, he mentions thinking he saw gremlins on the wing. The other sympathizes "yes, that's happened to me".
Went over many people's heads, but then I'd seen both the original Twilight Zone episode and the TZ movie where Shatner (pre-Trek) and Lithgow (pre-3rd Rock), respectively, played the character that sees gremlins out on the wing tearing the engine apart.
-- Alastair