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Could TNG Stunt Casting Save 'Enterprise'?

Posted by timothy on from the vote-off-the-space-island dept.

Tycoon Guy writes "It seems Star Trek: Enterprise isn't about to go down without a fight. TrekToday is reporting that Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis will guest-star on the season finale of Star Trek: Enterprise, to reprise their Next Generation roles of William T. Riker and Deanna Troi. Hello stunt casting! The news has been confirmed on Sirtis' official fan site."

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  1. I remember by Raul654 · · Score: 2, Informative

    When TNG started, people were afraid it wouldn't suceed without having to bring back members of the original crew. And while it did eventually bring most of them back in some form or another (McCoy in the pilot, Spock in Season 4, Scotty in season 6, and Kirk in Generations), it spread it out so much that it was fairly innocuous. On the other hand, this is a blatant attempt to appeal to TNG's popularity to save what has been an otherwise horrible series.

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  2. They already did by Aexia · · Score: 3, Informative

    The temporal cold war arc was more or less abandonned at the end of the second season and tied up at the beginning of this season.

  3. Re:Wouldn't this require a time-portal thingy? by kyouteki · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, it was only supposed to run for 5 years. Except the original series only ran for 3 years. So, in essence, no.

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  4. Re:OK, give the show a chance by Matt+Perry · · Score: 2, Informative
    OK, give the show a chance
    I don't know about you but I gave it 76 chances. After that I decided I wasn't going to bother with the fourth season. Time travel is the last refuge of the uncreative. I can stand a few episodes of it but it's really been abused in this series.
    at least the new series has Hoshi
    What's that supposed to mean? Did they finally start doing some character development in the fourth season? That's my biggest problem with Enterprise; They haven't done anything to help me get to know the characters and care about what happens to them. Brannon and Braga have really ruined things.
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  5. Enterprise is looking good by Quantum+Jim · · Score: 2, Informative

    Enterprise is starting to look really good. I previously submitted a story - that was rejected :-( - about the next half of Star Trek: Enterprise. Trektoday reported that it will feature some exciting plots involving "Andoria, a Klingon moon, Romulan outposts, Romulan Marauders, Orion Privateers, Earth's Moon, Mars, a Constitution-class Federation starship and more. You'll see a live Tholian... and a Gorn." according to the show runner Manny Coto. Leaked mild spoilers also indicate that the Constitution-class ship is the U.S.S. Defiant, which re-appears in the two-parter episode titled, In a Mirror, Darkly. There have been beautiful pictures of the reconstructed set just recently posted too. As a hardcore Trekkie, I find it fascinating.

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  6. More TNG 3 Wesley by whippersnapper · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yea..I almost wish I could create some sort of subspace temporal anomaly and go back to the beautiful time of TNG. *sigh* A girl can never get enough of Mr. Crusher...haven't his balls even dropped? The only way they could save this enterprise crap is by cutting it off nice and clean, who can get the image of hairy Samuel Beckett in that dress (opening theme QL) out of their head anyway!

  7. somewhat offtopic, but: Stargate Atlantis? by ardor · · Score: 2, Informative

    How's that offspring doing? I can't watch it here in Austria, so I'm curious if its good or not. Oh, I've read about some of its episodes, but this stuff with the Wraiths sounds kinda lame to me. Am I wrong?

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  8. Possible BSG rank structure by mikeswi · · Score: 2, Informative

    "On the other hand, the order of battle for the officers goes lieutenant, captain, colonel, commander, which is not similar to any existing military force structure. It's a direct lift from the old show's character names: Commander Adama, Colonel Tigh, Captain Apollo, Lieutenant Starbuck."

    I think what they are doing is mixing Colonial Navy and Colonial Marines together without doing much to differentiate them.

    Petty Officer (navy) / Private or Corporal (marine)
    Chief Petty Officer (navy) / Seargent (marine)
    Ensign (navy) / 2nd Lt (marine)
    Lt (jg) (navy) / 1st Lt (marine)
    Lt (navy) / captain (marine)
    Lt Commander (navy) / Major (marine)
    Commander (navy) / Lt Colonel (marine)
    Captain (navy) / Colonel (marine)
    Admiral (navy) / General (marine)

    Of course that wouldn't explain why an old war hero and the commanding officer of a strike fighter carrier would only be a commander. That should be at least a Captain's billet.

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  9. I hate to burst anybody's bubble, but.. by XahXhaX · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.trektoday.com/news/180105_02.shtml
    That was linked in the previous Slashdot article, Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled? and instead of the 'Startrek cast to be fired in March' article it has the producers rebuttal that Enterprise being cancelled is just a rumor. Personally, I'll take their word for it over some anonymous guy on the internet anyday.