xalloutwarx Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 from http://www.trektoday.com/news/190306_01.shtml A year after Enterprise left broadcast, Scott Bakula (Captain Archer) says he believes that a new Star Trek series has already been proposed. In an interview with The Baltimore Sun about his starring role in Shenandoah onstage in Washington, DC, Bakula said, "I heard there are already plans for a new series in the works...when the dust settles, someone is going to say, 'Do we really want to let this, and all the money that comes with it, go?'" The 51-year-old actor added that he retains strong feelings for the series, though he is now singing the complex role of Charlie Anderson in the Civil War musical at a theatre famous for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at the end of that war. "I know it sounds silly, but it was a very emotional experience sitting in the captain's chair with all the crew around me," he explained. Even so, "I'm first and foremost a stage actor," Bakula admitted. "It's where I got my start...that is where I got my chops, and I've been fortunate to be able to switch into other areas." He believes that the success of Quantum Leap was "the biggest I've ever had" and enabled him to appear in such big-screen features as American Beauty. "I've made it a goal of mine to attempt to do as many different things as possible, to keep all my acting muscles in shape," he said. Shenandoah runs through April 30th at Ford's Theatre; the box office can be reached at 202-347-4833. The original article is from the The Baltimore Sun. (maybe a repost. i dont know, but maybe of interest anyway!) I know a lot of people want ST to go away for a few years, but personally i cant wait.. i want a new series DAMN IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabrood Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Since the fanbase is opposed to innovation it would be very difficult. The first thing the fans would do is checking the continuity for errors and looking for misplaced joints on the uniforms - called "nitpicking". Todays Star Trek fanbase is a bunch of nitpickers like the guy who pointed out 90+ mistakes in "Nemesis". Would you produce another show for such fans? I seriously wouldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I hope Bakula is right... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antipodean Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Since the fanbase is opposed to innovation it would be very difficult. Jeez louise, now I've heard everything... "it was the fan's fault" huh? Sheer bloody nonsense. For starters, I don't reckon that nitpicking is the defining quality of most dedicated Star Trek fans. Sure, there are plenty as muck around with all that, and sure they can be loud about it, but in the end, there's many many more of us who simply crave great characters and great writing set in the Star Trek universe. Secondly, the nitpickers make bugger all difference to the commercial viability of a future addition to the Star Trek Franchise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xalloutwarx Posted March 25, 2006 Author Share Posted March 25, 2006 hahah im sure there is hundreds of people that "nitpick" how the players play and the teams performe of your fave Football, Baseball, Basket Ball teams etc. does that make em give up and think "fuck i ent putting on a show/playing games for the fans, fuck em" see my point?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 The fanbase does make a difference, I think. Enterprise was basically getting slammed before it even came out and I think it did have an effect. No - a bunch of people having negative opinions isn't going to be the SOLE reason for Trek getting cancelled and/or not being resurrected but it's not going to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motoxjesse Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Yeah i agree, its bad writing and such that causes shows to be cancelled, i think enterprise was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 Also - Scott Bakula was clearly just mentioning a new series to get a plug in for his new show. LOTS of people will do that. But yes, I'd agree Enterprise chose the wrong time. If it had come out after DS9 instead of Voyager - it's likely that it would have enjoyed far better favour. Voyager was - whether you liked the show or not - a seven year bad publicity campaign for the Star Trek franchise. Given that climate, it's no wonder that Enterprise barely limped to four seasons. I think the notion that the first two seasons of a Star Trek show could be slow/boring etc. were probably the final nail in the coffin. If they'd started out with something like season 3, I think a lot of critics might have been silenced but two seasons of poor to mediocre episodes meant that they had plenty of ammo. I mean, you get a good first season - like Lost - and you can be pretty forgiving of a slightly more lacklustre 2nd season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 SNIPPET: Voyager was - whether you liked the show or not - a seven year bad publicity campaign for the Star Trek franchise. Given that climate' date=' it's no wonder that Enterprise barely limped to four seasons.[/quote'] So...now we're blaming Voyager for Enterprise's demise. OMG...WTF??? c4 :thinking: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jounin Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 A) if bakula is right, and i hope he is, I pray that the new one doesnt suck like enterprise did. Another failure could kill star trek for good. B ) HOLY CRAP!?? Bakula is 51?!??! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougthenut Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 I don't think Bakula was the best ambassador for Trek. I mean, he talks about keeping his acting muscles in shape, surely he would have to get them in shape first in order to be able to keep them in shape! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrimmer Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 I agree that Star Trek boasts a famously hardcore group of fans. However I do not believe that they are the cause of much of the financial sucess/failure of the last few movies/series. Although they are vocal, the real trick to making a seies work is that it also has broad appeal as well as appeasing its inherant fanbase. I think a lot of Enterprises problems were due to scripts and the direction of the series. It was simply on the wrong network and chasing the wrong demographic (the people that watched that network) It was in the wrong place, and at the wrong time. Even though it wasnt my favorite series, I managed to watch it every week, it wasnt the greatest, but it was good fun, and the last season touched on brilliant moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motoxjesse Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 Yeah i was tinking, really wat other "thing" has even half the size of a fan base as startrek, other then sports and religon. Its its own empire, i think is even bigher then Star Wars......wat ya think?........oh yeah dont bug me about the G.I. Joe fan base, we all have our demons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjones Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 TNG back in the mid 80's is what sparked the current Trek phase for most people - it was new, different and exciting. Now im not suggesting that DS9 and Voyager werent at times 'new, different and exciting' BUT they were basically a re-hash of the TNG show... with all things people (mass audience not just hardcore fans) get bored over time, and im afraid that this is probably what happened with 'Enterprise' and the current Trek phase. It just got 'old. Ive said this in the past and I stand by it, to re-launch trek they are going to have to do something different -as different as TNG was from TOS! It happens to most shows- the good & and the bad ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motoxjesse Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 so wat i think you mean is that in order to keep it alive they might have to do something like jump ahead a few hundred years or something like that, then maybe come back to the sisko and voyager? tho if they do.......no wait i just thought of something, if they were to start a new season, say it was set 100 years in the future, then after a season or 2, then they could bring back the sisko and finish the story, making them tie into eachother, i mean think about the possibilities of having 2 trek series in diffrent time lines. it would be so exciting that we wouldnt know wat one to watch, and it would get so mixed up that there would be no way we could get bored. am i ranting if so ignore this. but i think im on to something EDIT: has something like that ever been done before??, oh yeah it could work, the Sisko is in a non linier time now with the profets....bad speller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dizzyg Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 A) if bakula is right, and i hope he is, I pray that the new one doesnt suck like enterprise did. Another failure could kill star trek for good. B ) HOLY CRAP!?? Bakula is 51?!??! HAHA, sorry just reading the post now, im with you on point B, but not A at all, enterprise was pretty good, right up till then end of season 4 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 So...now we're blaming Voyager for Enterprise's demise. OMG...WTF??? It's not unreasonable, not (directly) a criticism of the show. It's just the fact that you had seven more years for people to get bored of the franchise. Berman cited franchise fatigue for the failure of ENT... so I suppose one could equally blame DS9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 So...now we're blaming Voyager for Enterprise's demise. OMG...WTF??? It's not unreasonable, not (directly) a criticism of the show. It's just the fact that you had seven more years for people to get bored of the franchise. Berman cited franchise fatigue for the failure of ENT... so I suppose one could equally blame DS9. Well HUMPH! I wasn't bored and there were a ton of others who weren't bored either. Berman can cite anything he wants - how about bad writing??? How about choosing Backula (who I enjoyed in quantum Leap) as the series lead??? How about using the same formula - namely, women with big boobs in tight outfits??? Voyager didn't kill the franchise - greed did! (IMHO). c4 :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vyperion Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I think what killed it was the reliance on the formulaic episodes to carry the series through (and the boobs helped too). When you add it up there were 21 seasons worth of Trek episodes behind Enterprise (7 seasons of TNG, DS9 and VOY over 14 years). Now that's a lot of Trek to handle. Eneterprise might have gone better for them if: 1) They waited a year or two after Voyager for people to catch up/take a breather - like a gap year where they break out and really plan what they wanted to do with the series 2) They stuck with the season 3 formula which held my attention especially as they got closer to the season finale. Even though I knew that Earth wasn't going to get blown up it kept me watching They need to try something different like they did with DS9. I saw some behind-the-scenes stuff on DS9 and most of them were along the lines of 'this'll never work' or 'it's too different'. They were wetting themselves over it and it came out shining. Instead of going with a Federation/Starfleet ship they need to switch it for some other race or alliance where the Human is the alien outsider and everyone works to a different moral code... wait, that's Farscape isn't it? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annika Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I would love to see a Voyager TNG series :D You know, starting with what happend to the crew when they got home and then skip a few years and then the kids of Tom and B'elanna and of Seven and Chakotay are in the new crew with Naomi as the captain :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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