Star Trek: Enterprise
Summary
Star Trek : Enterpriseseason 4 ’s showrunner revealed his rejected design to toss off off Captain Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ) and replace him with a raw Captain . When the former Manny Coto took over asEnterprise ’s showrunner from Brannon Braga , the low - ratedStar Trekprequel had gotten a check of execution and UPN allow them a former time of year 4 pickup order . Coto , a die - voiceless buff ofStar Trek : The Original Series , plotted shipway to boostEnterprise , such as utilizing serialized arcs and delving more into fan service , includingEnterpriseseason 4 ’s lauded Mirror Universe two - parter , " In a Mirror , Darkly . "
In theStar Trekoral story " The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Years " by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross , Manny Coto revealed that althoughEnterprisewas"always going to stick with Scott"[Bakula ] , he had an estimation to kill off Captain Jonathan Archer and introduce a fresh Captain who would upend the crew of the NX-01 Enterprise for dramatic purposes . However , Star Trekexecutive producer Rick Berman disallow that program and stuck withScott Bakula asEnterprise ’s leading human being . Read the quote below :
We were always go to stick with Scott . I remember at one point we contend really obliterate Scott as a way to shoot a spectacular situation into the fourth season , where the characters now have to get used to someone steel - new fare on plank . This person would have a altogether different way of doing things and have a totally unlike mind-set , and so you would have Trip and the rest of the fictional character kind of butting head against this someone , whoever he or she might be , but we decided not to . It ’s a fiddling like the geological fault in MAS*H. I figured you could do the same thing with this ; start off with a character nobody liked , butting head , and they end up respecting him . That was one where Rick say no . It was a radical change , but I probably would have done it if we had known we were belong for seven seasons . We did n’t have to kill Bakula , he would have just been gone part of the time of year .
Star Trek : enterprisingness stick in young case to the prequel serial set a century before the events of Star Trek : The Original Series .
Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4 Found A Way To Kill Off Archer… In The Mirror Universe
The Mirror Jonathan Archer was doomed.
Star Trek : Enterprisedid kill off Jonathan Archer in time of year 4 , but it happened in the Mirror Universe . InEnterprise ’s two - parter , " In a Mirror , Darkly , " theMirror Universe Archerplotted to rise to power by steal the USS Defiant , a 23rd - century Constitution Class starship that both time go and crossed into the Mirror Universe . Unfortunately for Archer , his bid to become the Terran Emperor slipped through his grasp when he was betrayed by Hoshi Sato ( Linda Park ) , who installed herself as the Empress .
It ’s possible that Empress Hoshi Sato inStar Trek : Enterprise ’s twenty-second - century Mirror Universe lead to , and may even be the root of , the 23rd centurys ' Empress Philippa Georgiou ( Michelle Yeoh ) inStar Trek : Discovery .
Rick Berman was finally right to shoot down a programme to replace Scott Bakula ’s Captain Archer asStar Trek : go-ahead ’s leading mankind . After all , fan revolted when Commander Trip Tucker ( Connor Trinneer ) was killed off inEnterprise ’s hated series coda . A whole season of theEnterprisecrew dealing with a novel police chief , even if Scott Bakula now and again returned as Archer , would belike have backfired . The case in point for this was already inStar Trek : The Next Generation , and fans still loathe Captain Edward Jellico ( Ronny Cox ) , who interchange Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) as Captain of the Enterprise in the two - parter , " Sir Ernst Boris Chain of Command " .
Star Trek : Enterpriseis available to well out on Paramount+ .
beginning : " The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Years : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The Complete , Uncensored , and wildcat Oral History of Star Trek " by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross
